¡FAMILIA MIA!
¿Como estan? Wow 6 more weeks under my belt in the
mission! Talk about crazy! So I have a new companion!!! Her name is
Hermana Hincapié and she is from Colombia. She is super cute and super,
how do you say in english, 'animated'? I think we will make a great team
and she is going to really help me with my Spanish. She speaks a little
English as well, so when I don´t know something she fills it in for me.
Before changes I was so nervous because I am left in the sector to be in
charge, since my companion doesn´t know anyone and she doesn´t know our
investigators either. Wow, I am really feeling the weight of my
calling right now. It makes me nervous because; yes, I can understand
better and talk a lot more, but I still can´t communicate like I would
like. Such is life and I will learn really quickly. I just have
feelings of inadequacy, but I am trying to get rid of those as well
since I truly am never
alone and especially in this work. The Lord won´t leave me alone to
do anything by myself. Its just a little intimidating--ya that's the word.
Its really intimidating, but I do know that I am going to learn A WHOLE
BUNCH!!
Ok, Mom, so don´t worry I am working on the recipes. I just have to go
back to this one lady and she is going to give me all the recipes that I
want. The thing is that the recipes will be in different measurements
but I will leave that up to you to figure out!! :) It might be a grand
adventure, but you have a while to practice up for me. Sounds like
everyone is pretty busy once again. ¡QUE BAKAN! (it is like ´that's
awesome´) And grandpa´s got his tomatoes a'growing! Well hopefully next
year he will have some good ones too because right now I think I eat
tomatoes everyday and mom you might die after reading this, but I might
miss eating tomatoes sometime in the future or be soo sick of them I
hate them worse!
Well, this last week was a pretty good one. Hermana Dutton has been
in Graneros for the last 6 months so it was a shock for a lot of people
that she was leaving and we had to visit lots of people this week. We
did have a baptism planned for Sunday but it fell through. It was for
Cristina, the one who is afraid of water. We had a practice all set up
and everything for her but she was sick and then was afraid to be
baptized without the practice. SO this week we have another practiced
planned, and we are really going to work with her to get her baptized
this next Sunday. We also have 3 other people with baptismal dates which
is really cool and 3 more who are really close potentials. Unfortunately we only had one of our investigators with fecha in church
yesterday.
10:00 a.m.church is really difficult for people in Chile. It's not
like the states where everyone just jumps in their cars, people have to
walk ways and I think this discourages them a lot! One
of our investigators actually told us that she knows she will receive
blessings if she goes to church, but she is just lazy! Haha, Oh man I
love these people so much and I get so frustrated with them at the same
time. Just come to church!! :D
We have soo many really good investigators right now I hope that I
don´t leave anyone behind! This is what makes me the most nervous! That
I will forget one of our investigators or that I won´t lead the sector
like I should. I think my new companion is going to be really good for
me. She only has a little bit of time in the mission too, like two more
changes than me, but we both just want to work really hard and get
things done.
Funny story: (mom you will enjoy this) yesterday was my
companions last day and so everyone wanted to see her and say
goodbye. Well, this means that they all made food for us. I just want to
tell you what I consumed yesterday--For lunch at 2:00 we had pastel de
choclo, soup, salad, and bread. Except I received like three people´s
portions worth of pastel de choclo ( its like a corn hot dish). I ate so
much at lunch I was in major pain! I was still in pain when we went into
our sector at 4:30. Then like an hour later we ate completos, or hot
dogs chilean style (super good, I'm never eating them like before ever
again) and the people made us eat 2. You would think that I had a choice,
but not here. After that we went to another house an hour and a half
later and ate pasta with some weird sauce on top. I almost didn´t make
it through without gagging. I was sooooooooooo FULL! Today I haven´t
eaten like anything because I am still full! Chileans
are a lot like you mom, they want to share there love with you through
your stomach. Reminds me of home, but I can´t keep it up it is always
going to be like this!!
Well, I love you all! I am soo glad that everything is going well for
you guys. I haven´t gotten your packages yet, maybe next week. Oh, I
forgot to tell Grandma Lois that my package was broken into and whatever
she sent me that was from Spain or something wasn´t in the package.
That kinda sucks, I hope it wasn´t something really special! Such is
life, I guess!
¡Les amo mucho! Estoy animada a hablar con ustedes en el futuro. No
sé que va a pasar, si yo puedo llamarles o si yo puedo usar el Skype.
Pero bueno. Que le vaya bien siempre!
con mucho cariño,
La Hermana Thacker
(Received April 16, 2012)
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