Soooo... After spending all of 4 weeks in this ward, I'm being transferred! I'm headed to a little town called Llanquihue. President Obeso called us last night to talk with Hermana Marinho and he told us that he needed to make a few changes in Holzapfel. So Hermana Marinho is going to be senior companion (that's how they say it in English, right) and is going to have to teach the new missionary in the sector all about the area. I'm going to be headed to Llanquihue where I will be finishing my companion's training. She has been in the mission for about 2 months now. I'm super excited because I know she's going to have lots of energy to work and to learn and I know that I am going to learn a LOT too!!
So, as many of you know, this week was 18 de Septiembre which is a huge holiday here in Chile in which there are a LOT of drunks in the streets all week long and we had the pleasure of talking with lots of them! One of them was yelling "¡Rubia! ¡Rubia!" which pretty much means "Blondy! Blondy!" and following us as we walked by very slowly because of Hermana Marinho's bad knee. The good news is that drunk men also walk very slowly because they almost fall over every other second and they get distracted super easy. So after a little while of walking, he gave up and started following another lady who was walking by. But the bad news is that Mamita Edith (my mamita from collico) saw us walking and began running after us to talk to us and was yelling "Harvey! Harvey!" sooo this drunk man learned my name. He started following us again and he then was yelling "Harvey!! Harvey!!" He obviously thought... hey... it worked for her so it better work for me too! Hahaha soo funny!
As you also might have heard, there was a huge earthquake in the north of Chile this week. It was pretty scary because we heard about it when it happened and they sent out a tsunami warning in our area. Hermana Marinho always says that she just knows that something is going to happen here in our mission because she can feel it so I was a little freaked out. Our leaders called us and told us that we had to prepare ourselves just in case something happened and we had to leave quickly in the middle of the night. So, we decided that we wanted to be extra prepared so I made bread real quick and we made some hard-boiled eggs and put it with a bunch of other food and all of our other emergency kit things in a backpack and packed our backpacks with the things that are most important to us like our journals and cameras and our leaders also told us that we had to sleep in our work clothes (skirts) so that we could be ready to leave at any moment. Hermana Marinho and I even did our make-up so that we wouldn't be too ugly if anything happened. haha sooo obviously, nothing ended up happening but it was super fun getting everything ready :)
I hope you all have a great week!!
Hermana Harvey
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| Chilean flag with my companion! |
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| Cueca! Chilean national dance!! We saw a lot of Cueca this year!... It was hard to take pictures so sorry they didn't turn out very well. |
So happy your area wasn't affected by the earthquake! And now you know how to pack quickly and what you want to take - you
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