hi hi hi hi!!
So many things are happening in YoooTAH and Chile...hard to know where to begin! How is everyone?? Sounds like everything is Greeaaat! Mitch- soak up the experience while you got it! and good luck leadin your comp around the sector! You'll be great! Also, learn all the native Spanish that you can! That's so awesome! Clint & Rach, looks like the Father's day gift is up to you this year...do me proud :) (let me know if tears come) Jed- word on the street is that you're gettin cozy even in sacrament meeting...you know all those years of analyzing the burton boys and the girls they brought. Just be aware that there are quite a few eyes looking at the back of your head. Care-feeee. haha. Curt...way to make mom so happy by pulling out those fitzers. and try not to get too muscley. Also, the classes you signed up for sound good. Let me know how they go for ya. As for Dad- good work with your talk!! Send me a copy. I'd love to read it! Good luck with Y.C. be sure to clean out the mouse doodoo in the tub before you let anybody in the bathroom of the cabin tho. Mom- I tried to email earlier today so that you wouldn't have to check the inbox so many times:) haha no, but really, thanks for sending the medicine and worryin about me. Hopefully I'll get them in a couple of weeks. And the lailacs look beautiful! Plant those flowers beautifully for me :)
As for the earthquakes..I've felt quite a few little ones (Hna. Sieverts says that Chile has got Parkinson's...poor ms. Deem...I can see how it could be..) No need to worry though! This past one was pretty strong though. Of course, it happened Sunday morning at 6:30. So when we called all our investigators Sunday morning to wake them up for church (yes, it's quite the weekly process) they were already awake, but they couldn't go to church since there had been an earthquake (?) Thank you Chilean logic. But really, everyone has really strong, really terrifying stories of what happened during the big earthquake a year ago, and so when things that happen that remind them of it, they get really stirred up. The people that did come to church (those that understand that it's the surest and safest place to be when those types of things happen!) were all talking about it.
As for the weather, it's gettin pretty chilly here in Chile. ahaha...never gets old. Actually, I think my fingers are going to break off right now it's cold enough here in the internet cafe. We're bundled up pretty good and we walk really fast to keep us warm. Most every house has a wood burning stove to heat their house. We're actually lucky that both Nicko and Family Vergara love to keep their houses warmer than Grandma and Grandpa Child...so we soak it in while we can. The leaves have pretty much all fallen, and we're hittin the mid-winter months.
As for the crazy, random things that always seem to occur in my life, this week there was more than a few.
-Hna. Sieverts slipped going up a muddy hill right as a person answered the door of the house we were contacting. Needless to say through our laughter we couldn't even talk to them. haha
-we walked past a random small store and the old man sitting outside of it started talking with us. We asked him his name, he started to answer with "Ma" but then stopped and said we already knew him. Thinking it was probably the other hermanas, we guessed that his name was Manuel (DING DING, 2 points) and then he asked who his sister was. Another guess was the only member we knew in the area, no lie, Flor de las Flores is her name. (DING DING, another 2 points) He started chatting and gave some pesos to the store owner, and the next thing we knew it we were given 2 cokes and a nice little chat. This was done while a man with very large spurs and shaps and a legit cowboy hat was trying to calm his horse by us on the street.
-Hna. Sieverts wrote about another story to her family, she says:
"me and hna child are walking home, and there is a very very homeless, drunk man, with one hand down his pants waltzing around on teh side walk of a fairly populated street. so we are walking and i see that he sees us adn starts moving toward us and i really don{t care for drunk men without homes with hands in there pants, so i slowly start moving away from him until i am literally walking in the middle of the street, hermana child didn{t seem to catch on. So, he starts walking towards us and we slowly move away but hna child didn{t she stayed on the side walk where the hand that was once down the pants (sorry this is so gross is was just SO funny) takes a SWING at her face! Luckily the girl is number 3 of 5 children and the ONLY girl, she dodged his ..punch?? and we just kept walking. This was so funny for lots of reasons. 1, it was middday. 2, there were a ton of people watching and no one reacted at all. 3, we just kept walking like nothing happen, and about 30 steps letter both about passed out because we were laughing soooo hard. It was very very very strange."
Mom this is not to worry you, but to build your confidence in your daughter. She was made for this country since birth.
Besides all of the crazy, funny things that are happening, we are working hard to find new people, working hard to take care of the people that we have, and working hard to improve ourselves as missionaries. There are so many amazing things that happen everyday, but only if you attribute it to the Lord, and only if you are doing your part. Repentance really takes a lot of trust in the Lord, and real, lasting change is only made possible through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. How important these two incredible gifts are, so that we can use our gift of agency to receive all of the blessings our Heavenly Father has just waiting for us.
I love you all so incredibly much and I am so happy that you are all alive and well and enjoying the MF life!! Send my love to the ward and to the crew! Also, pops, you've got a letter coming for father's day, so keep your eyes peeled! I LOVELOVELOVE you!!!!
xoxox
Hermana cheeeeeld
picture: fleas=pulgas. pulgas=my best friends at night and during the day.
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