Chillin' in Chile: Well that went fast

This week flew by! the first couple days felt like months and then this week felt like a day.

so first off, shout out to Eliza, Happy Birthday on Sunday! party hard for me! i miss you a ton!

i forgot to mention in my last email that elder bradshaw (who's in my district) is my 2nd cousin. random fact.

saddest day of my life: finding out i'm not allowed to play ultimate frisbee with the elders. i'm way too upset about this fact. do you know how hard it is for me to sit there and watch them play and not be allowed to play? and no hermanas are good at frisbee so its not even worth suggesting to play with them. i can't play cuz its a "contact sport" are you kidding me?! at least they don't think that volleyball is a contact sport. but with me any sport will become a contact sport. i'm way too competitive.

i actually was limping all last week becasue of our crazy v-ball games. I played some serious v-ball with tanner and his district last p-day and we're planning on playing some more today. Then we've been playing a bunch of sand v-ball as a district. I dive way too much. and i got taken out be 3 elders. 2 of them landed on my leg weird when we were jumping to spike the ball, and once i was racing an elder for the ball when it got hit out, we reached the ball at the same time, both running full speed and completely collided, he had tried to kick the ball but accidentily kicked my calf...hence the limp.

so i've discovered my biggest weakness is my competitiveness. 2 of the elders in my district were playing ping-pong and when i told them i wanted to play winner they laughed at me! Little do they know Andrew trained me this year. they're going down!

so there was a sudden sickness that spread like fire through the MTC. My companion woke up feeling sick and then on our way to breakfast she threw up. so i took her to the infirmerary and there was already a bunch of people there. i think there was something like 70 reported cases the first day. Tanner and basically his whole district got it and were out for 2 days. i consider myself super lucky i didn't get it, cuz my companion and roommate got it. i have an immune system of steel!

the other night we were having a super spiritual district meeting, elder Sandstrum was saying something and accidentily called me "elder hebdon" haha it was so hard not to burst out laughing and ruin the moment. he realized his mistake and is all "sorry hermana, you're just one of the bros" so now i'm known as either Bro or hermana elder. thats what my whole district calls me now. but i'm ok with this, they seriously are all brothers to me. we've gotten super close

so spanish....i feel like i'm not improving at all. the other night i woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back asleep because i had our stupid spanish lesson running through my head and i was fustrated i couldn't remember the words. so i layed there all night with spanish running through my head. and i feel like i'm slowly forgetting english...

so the first couple days this week i wasn't getting anything done and i think it was because i was trying too hard to do everything at once and suddenly be a perfect missionary. i was so frustrated with myself becasue I felt like i was failing. but then we had this super spiritual district meeting where they told me exactly what i needed to hear: they talked about how it takes time, i thought that my whole mindset would suddenly change as soon as i became a missionary. well big surprise: it didn't it takes time and a lot of work. i just gotta do my best and it'll come.

me and my companion completely failed our discoussion with our new fake investigator. she was trying to bible bash and by the time i asked if we could finish our message she said she was out oftime. she gave us notes after and apparently the only thing we did right was pray at the beginning and end. fail. apparently in 15 min we're supposed to get to know the investigator, gain their trust and invite them to be baptized. how is taht even possible??? i have yet to find out.

i'm terrible, it was a nutella kind of week. so yup, nutella peanut butter toast for breakfast and dinner everyday. my life is happy (except for the fact that they didn't put the nutella out this morning. sad day for me)

I got a letter from lindsey!!! totally made my day :) 1st real letter. you guys've gotta pick it up, you're slacking ;) haha, there's one elder in my district that is literally the only one who gets mail. like elder vanpelt in the best 2 yrs. lindsey's letter was half in spanish though so it took a couple hours to read. hahah oh by the way, i need lindsey's address please and thank you.

Well, what's going on at home? how was Andrew and Jenny's move? they settled in ok? and everyone else? do we know if its a curtis jr or a mindy jr yet? how's mindy doing? well i love you all!

~Hermana Hebdon la segunda