Chillin' in Chile: Just another week in CCM

So this as been a strange week. i feel like i've come to a standstill and my spanish hasn't improved at all. then again with what everyone tells me it won't make much a difference how much spanish i know because Chilean spanish is so different. like my teacher says every day "you will suffer". gee thanks i feel real good now. haha. and not only that but the other day he's telling us how there's 2 words for suffer in spanish: sufrir and padecer. we ask the difference and he says sufrir is more dramatic. he's definitely been using sufrir when telling us we're going to suffer so its gonna be a bad kind of suffering ;)

the weeks are all starting to blend together so i don't really know what happened this week. my life in a nutshell: breakfast, study, study w/ teacher, lunch, TALL (online language program that everyone hates), language study, gym, dinner, study w/ teacher, bed. everyday. except sundays which are definitely my favorite cuz its movie night (aka nap time ;)

i sprained my toe... and the elders got way too overly concerned and literally forced me to go to the doctor... over a toe... how pathetic. he told me what i already knew and said to take a bunch of medicine and not play any sports for 2 weeks. yup, i didn't listen to a word he said. its a toe for goodness sake. i ain't giving up my last 2 weeks of v-ball. and why the goodness would i need to take 3 ibuprofen for breakfast, lunch and dinner over a toe?! but its all better now, this happened last week so no worries. my toe's fine...mostly.

yeah so i got some stuff from the temple to send you guys and guess what? i'm not allowed to send pkgs here. great. guess you'll be getting it in a couple months. sorry lize, its a super belated b-day present. or maybe i'll just turn it into your Christmas present ;)

its been super quiet without tanner and all my stalkers around. it was super hard to say goodbye to then and district 4B that i was super close with.

i rescued our elders the other day. we're eating dinner and suddenly it dumps rain. the streets were flooding cuz it was raining so hard. so the elders are just sitting around waiting for the rain to pass (wimps) but we had to get to class and they had gotten in trouble for being late the day before. so my companion and i run through the pouring rain to our classroom. our elders thought we were insane. we were drenched within seconds. we're running full speed and i take one step on the tile in the building and totally wipe out. so we grab a bunch of umbrellas from the classroom and run back to get the elders. then when we get to the elders and they realized that the hermanas ran through the rain to save them their pride was hurt so most of them wouldn't even accept our umbrellas. wow. guys and their pride. everyone thought we were insane. but i love the rain, it was fun. except for the fact that i was freezing the rest of the night. luckily we have a blanket in our classroom so i huddled up in that the whole night.

it kills me. so everyday we sing an opening/closing hymn for class. the elders are so tone deaf (most of them) so i bust up laughing everyday during the song. you know it must be bad if i'm saying this cuz i don't have much of an ear for pitch. so one day we're singing and i start laughing cuz how bad it was. hermana parkinson was singing alto so i didn't realize i was the only one holding the melody. so i stop singing to laugh and suddenly you couldn't even tell what song they were trying to sing cuz it was that bad. haha its so painful to listen to.

so the elders in my district are the annoying younger brothers i never had. this is a new experience for me. love them all to death but they mess with me 24/7. they somehow manage to twist everything i say to mean something else. i dug myself into a really deep hole when i mentioned its hard not to have physical contact with guys (meaning it was hard to say goodbye to all my friends and not be able to hug them). yup, i guess i could have worded that better cuz they would not let that one go and everytime i tried fixing what i said i just dug myself deeper. this is a pretty common occurence. they're very good at manipulating what i say to mean something else. but they're great. its a party.

anyway, i love you all! i have less than 2 weeks left at the CCM (how weird is that?) so if you want to send me a letter (which i know you all do ;) then send it to my address in Chile.

Hasta luego!

~Hermana Hebdon la segunda