Hey fam and friends!
How is everything going back in
gringolandia? That is what the members say when they are talking about the
united states, like "how is the food in gringolandia? what is your
favorite thing to do in gringo landia?" etc., etc.,.. Here in not gringo
land everything is going pretty well! We are having a problem with
investigators keeping their commitments and their appointments.. .literally
every single appointment fell through this week :( boo.. but we still found
ways to find and teach our people! No baptisms yet..but I am working on that ;)
We had some funny things happen this week so at least I was laughing a lot.
funny thing #1... So there are five of us that
live in our little ghetto house... the other group of sisters is a trio. Okay
so we played a joke on one of them and we pretended that the president called
to say that we had changes. Hna Gonzalez told Hna Perez that she was going to
be changing to another companionship in a different sector because the
companionships there were having problems and some people needed to be switched
around.. Then they made up that her companion was going to be this one girl
that is really lazy and a super bad missionary and that she yells at members
and all that sort of thing. Hna Perez was freaking out and was really sad that
she was leaving Pirque... Finally Hna Gonzalez gave her a letter and said this
is for you for your goodbye.. the letter said like sorry this was a joke. Hna
Perez freaked out and we all laughed forever... The best part was her reaction
:)
#2... So the other companionship was
contacting this drunk guy on the street, and he went to give Hna Tax a kiss
goodbye (its not wierd it is the culture here), but we are sisters so we can't
kiss guys goodbye. Hna tax said Oh we can't sorry. Then the drunk guy said like
"why not? Jesus taught people to love one another and he gave
kisses." Then Hna Tax said... "Yeah I know but remember when he was
resurrected and he wouldn't let anyone touch him until he went to heaven? You
can't touch me." At this point Hna Tax was like hiding behind Hna Gonzalez
and she looked up to Hna Gonzalez and said "this is part of lesson two
right?"... I wasn't there but when they told us this we all died
laughing... some cheesy missionary humor for you...
I don't know why everything seemed funny this
week! It was good though :) Also this week I had the goal to not say "I'm
tired" outloud, and to try to not to even think it in my mind. I only said
it 3 times, and I feel like it really helped me feel less tired. Seriously I feel
exhausted every day, and sometimes I can't even keep my eyes open I am so
tired! I am going to try to do the same thing again this week, and see if it
helps me again.
As far as weather goes.. it is still freezing
here! But today was really warm :) I hope that that is a sign that it is going
to warm up! I didn't even wear my coat today!!
We got to meet the newest group that just came
in from the MTC... there were so many gringos! I talked to one of the girls and
she was like "Oh! you are sister Sommerfeld.. I have heard a lot about
you!" I was nervous at first because usually that isn't a good thing, but
she reassured me that it was all good things that she heard. She told me that
the Mtc president and his wife say hi.. made me smile :) Also I guess some of
the girls in their group read my blog to get an idea of what it was like here
in Chile... Hope I didn't say anything wrong! ha ha!
Sorry about the disorder of this letter... I
just say what comes to my mind!! Oh yeah so I might get glasses... I have to go
to the eye doctor and find out.. I haven't been able to see very far lately and
things are blurry... don't know why my eyes would suddenly get worse.. but
hopefully if I fix my eyesight it will help with my migraines... Im going to
get hipster glasses for sure ;)
The food is the same. I am getting fat! Means
I need to start excercising in the mornings so I don't come home looking like
the michelan man!
I still sound stupid when I speak Spanish, but
hopefully that will keep improving! I feel more comfortable talking to people
though.. so its a good thing!
Uhh yeah.. sorry don't know what else to
update you on!
Love you all!!!!
XOXOXXOXOXOXOXXOXOXOX.. X.. O....x
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Hermana Hai Hai
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