Gone Chile!!

Hola Familia!

Well, today is totally awesome! We made it from Atlanta to Santiago and arrived in Chile this morning around 9:30. We made it through customs, finally, and met up with the Elders who drove us to Rancagua! It is beautiful and no one speaks English! Haha, not really, we got to the mission home where there were 10 Latino missionaries who were also new today. I tried speaking with the other three Hermanas and we got our points across most of the time!

My president is awesome and so is his wife. They are the sweetest people. The first thing my Mission President did before he interviewed me was give me a big hug! I love them already. We ate lunch at the mission home but first we were given our trainers. I was able to talk to all the trainers before we found which one was my companina and I loved them all! They had us all blind fold each other out in the front yard of the mission home and gave us all animals. We had to make the animal noise and wander around and find the person who was making the same noise. That person was our trainer. I love my trainer!

I counldn't have asked for anyone better than her! Her name is Hermana Dutton and she is from Utah! She has been in the field for almost one year and she is just so sweet and awesome! I think that we are going to accomplish some great things!

We just got done teaching my first investigator, Miguel. It turns out this was his first lesson as well. It was awesome! I even contributed some and of course I recited Jose Smith's First Vision in Spanish! The spirit was so strong, it was amazing! The thing is, I can't understand anything Miguel or his member friend who was there, were saying at all. When my trainer speaks in Spanish I can understand but they mesh all the words together and speak so fast, so i just look at my trainer and she fills me in on whats going on! 

I love it, though it was a beautiful day with no rain, I have an amazing trainer and our new investigator now has a baptismal date!!! So, what I'm trying to say is I love being in Chile and I love that I get to be a missionary.

The house I live in is this little two story house, but I get a shower with a tub and even a washing machine! My trainer said that they just barely got it and before she was here she washed her unders by hand, but we still have a member doing the rest of our clothes! Haha, just kidding. The Lord provided a way for me do my own laundry. I live with two other Hermanas. MY area is called Graneros it is just north of Rancagua and it always smells like chocolate and sweets because there is a chocolate factory in the middle of the town.

Here are some pictures. I will tell you more later! love you all have a good week!

                                   This is my trainer Hermana Dutton!!

                               This is the group of missionaries I traveled with.

(Received: January 25, 2012)