My
Spanish is getting better!! Wanna know how I know? I can barter prices
(or however you would say talk people down in price...) in Spanish now!
:) Which takes a lot of talking and understanding what is going on and
the money system and everything. So it's pretty exciting! :) We went to
these shops that they have here with a bunch of memorabilia types of
things and I had lots of fun bartering :) It's called Angelmo if you
want to search it on google to see where I have been :) Oh and my sector
that I work in is Valle Volcanes if you want to look that up and see
the streets that I walk on a daily basis :) We also go down to Pichi
Pelluco at times to visit a few investigators down there who are women
who live alone so the Elders can't visit them. We have to go down the
"questa" in order to get to Pichi and that isn't all that bad but
getting back... It's a little tough haha We also have to go down and
back this... hill (i guess the questa is just called a hill in English)
to get to church each Sunday. So we probably go up and down this questa
about 5 times a week sometimes more.
This
past week has been a lot of walking in a LOT of rain! I haven't been
bringing my camera around with me because it has been raining so much
that even with a covering for my backpack I am scared that it would get
wet! So I don't have any great pictures for you this week. It's funny because at times there isn't really all that much rain but we will be
walking in it for hours so we are COMPLETELY soaked. I actually find it
pretty fun. I love the rain! Oh!! We saw a double complete rainbow
when we were walking the other day!! It was beautiful!! Wish I had had
my camera to take a picture but now you're just going to have to believe
me that it was beautiful :)
We
got a... referencia... from a girl about our age who was baptized just a
couple months ago and is starting her papers to go on a mission!! She
is so awesome and super sweet and I can tell she is going to make an
AMAZING missionary! The reference (I think that's the word in
English... or referral? Yeah... that sounds right... referral) that she
gave us is her older sister who is I think 23 and she is amazing as
well! And she is really receptive to the things that we are teaching her
and she told us that she has seen how happy the church has made her
sister and that her sister told her about her experience with how she
prayed and asked if these things were true and she received an answer
that everything the missionaries had been teaching her was true! And
Paula (that's our investigator's name) said that when she heard this all
she could think was "wow!" Even when she was telling us about her
sister´s testimony it was really powerful! So pretty much we have lots
of investigadores de oro ahora!! (golden investigators right now)
I
am sooo happy out here!! Just a little scared because today we find out
if we are being transferred... AHH! But most likely I will be in this
sector for a good 6 months because Presidente Obeso is making a lot of
changes and one of them is that we will be in our sectors for a lot more
time. Which is great! But also means it will be a lot harder to leave
the sectors because I already LOVE our investigators and I don't know
how I am going to be able to leave them! But I am so thankful that I
have been able to meet so many amazing people and feel the spirit so
strongly from each and every one of them!! I am so thankful that I am
here because I am having so many wonderful experiences and really
learning and growing every day. I have learned soo much about myself
while I have been here and I am just really learning how to grow in my
faith and to be a much better person.. The mission is truly a humbling
experience but in a great way! In the mission, it is easy to see all of
your strengths and weaknesses so that you can build upon your strengths
and strengthen your weaknesses. It's great! :) I have never been so
close to the spirit in my life. Now I truly understand that the Holy
Ghost can truly be our CONSTANT COMPANION! It makes sense now! I can
feel it! He is with me in every moment to lead me and to guide me and I
now cannot picture my life without this gift. I am so thankful that I
was raised in this gospel so that I can know of the blessings that we
can receive and the peace and the joy that comes with the knowledge of
this gospel!
I love you all so much!!
--Hermana Harvey
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