December 30, 2013

¡Hola Familia!(Hi Family)

Another year is coming to an end, and I am pretty sure I haven't gained any more wisdom or experience. But here I am anyway.

So I really have to write for almost 2 weeks, but I will try and keep it brief.

The farthest back, about 2 weeks ago, we discovered that we could put a bunch of Mormon messages onto our pen drives and use these in most peoples houses. And so we did, and it has been awesome. Especially for Christmas. We got to share some of our favorite Christmas videos. Especially my favorite of The Piano Guys with the song "O come O come Emmanuel" ¡Super Bacan!(Super Cool!)

Y super chistoso aqui en Chile(And super funny here in Chile). Durante el tiempo de Navidad(During the Christmas season). Cada persona(Each person) that we visited, gave us food. So we had a lot of food. And everyone here loves pan de Pascua(bread of Easter, or Easter Bread)which is pretty much just fruit cake, but it’s not black like the brick stuff that is in the states. So, we ate a lot of that. And there is so much fruit! We got a whole bag of cherries one day, which were so good!

And then guess what, Saturday the 21st. I felt my first earthquake. When it started I could hear it first and it sounded like a big truck. But then we saw the tree start shaking and we knew it was an earthquake. It was louder then I would have imagined and only lasted for a little bit. They say that there are always more earthquakes around Christmas time, but no one knows why. Who wants to research for me!?!

I think I already told the story about the child throwing up so we will just move one from that. El 24 de Diciembre, tuvimos almuerzo con los matrimonio misioneros(On December the 24^th, we had lunch with the married-senior- missionaries). And the day before while we were fasting we helped Los(the) Walls prepare all the food, which was totally American, good times.

The next thing that happened was changes. I am still in the same place but my compañera Hna. Welch se va(my companion, Sister Welch is gone). Eso es muy triste(that is very sad). Mi compañera ahora se llama Hermana Cox(my companion now is called Sister Cox), ella es de Idaho, y es super bacan(She is from Idaho and is super cool).

Ok cool story. So as many of you might know, I recieved my patriarchal blessing en español(Spanish). And the very last part of my blessing makes it my responsibilidad(responsibility) to one day read the blessing in the language it was given. Well the other day, guess what I did. That’s right, I read it in Spanish!!

It’s crazy how much our lives can change in just a short time. But really all the changes are from the Lord, and many times they are very hard, but we simply just have to trust our loving Heavenly Father and keep moving forward.

I hope that everything for your Christmas was grand and that your new year’s is a smashing good time.

This first picture was taken in the train station right before Hna. Welch left, and yes I cried.

Second picture is when I opened the package from home, yes I got a sock monkey, his name is Tanner and he is so cute!

Third picture is of a little box man that we found at a members house, we shared a few scriptures with him too.

¡Les Quiero Mucho!(I love you all so much!)

Hermana Monsivais