So i had to bear my testimony in church last week...it went pretty well but after this guy comes up adn tells me there´s no umms in spanish, it confuses them. i didn´t even realize that i say it a bunch. thats gonna be a really hard habit to break.
i stick out like a sore thumb here (which doesn´t make any sense cuz its not like sore thumbs are very noticeable now are they?) but anywho, with bonde hair and blue eyes people spot me from a mile away. some people stare me down as if i´m some alien. one member who we were havaing lunch with was asking my companion if my hair was real. haha. oh and my companion is always saying she´s super glad i can´t understand teh people we pass on the street...i don´t know how i feel about this....
so spanish is hard. i never imagined it´s be this harad. i´m understanding more, i can get general ideas when someone´s telling a story (at least i think i´m understanding what its about, either that or i´m just making up what i think they´re saying) my companion always does most the talking and by the time i´ve thought of something to say the conversation has changed. they talk so fast, my mind only works so fast in spanish. the people we meet with look at me like i´m some lost puppy. ...(actually thats a bad comparison cuz there´s a lot of real lost puppies around here and no one looks at them twice...) anywho...
it was kinda a chill week. the dieciocho is a huge holiday here. its their 4th of july. but they celebrate it like thanksgiving. i´m so stuffed full of chilean food! fried empanadas are my new favorite food. so the culture here is sweet. we kind of got 2 days off this week because of the hoiday (they celebrate it on teh 18th and 19th) and so many people drink a ton we weren´t allowed to be out on the streets much or visit with non members. so on teh 18th we relaxed at member´s houses adn the next day there was a huge ward party.
everyone loved showing/telling me more about chilean tradtions and such adn theyd ask about american culture. dude, our culture is so boring. they asked what our typical or traditional food is and i´m all uhhhh hamburgers? do we have a certain food taht is signiturely american?
K, chilean culture....they have teh cuecar dance in which they wear really unique pretty dresses. for food they have empanadas (tortilla-ish idk how to describe it with meat adn onions inside like a calzone), alfajores (plain tasting cookies with manjar (carmel-like substance) in the middle) they ahve this really good salsa-like stuff taht they eat on everything adn then this weird dessertish dish taht consists of rice-like stuff with a cooked peach adn juice (i don´t like it very much...)
so it rained almost every day this week. big surprise. completely opposite of lindsey´s situation. puerto montt is apparently the rainiest city in the mission. i feel like i´m adjusting to the climate here though, i think i just froze teh first week from the shock of going from mexico´s summer to chile´s winter. either that or i´m just getting better at keeping a fire going in our house.
oh so random story, yesterday we´re walking down the street adn there´s this huge puddle and i´m in my rain boots so i´m all why not? so i go to step in teh puddle and who knew but there just happened to be a hole in teh ground right where i stepped. so instead of the 4 in of water i was expecting i got a foot of water. surprise!
random fact, the people here are so intruiged with our family. my companion found out we´re all members along with grandparents and great grandparents and how our whole family´s served missions and she tells everyone and they all are so intruiged and find it amazing.
k, so i´m sorry lindsey for ever making fun of how many mistakes were in your emails. i understand now. i´d always ask why didn´t she use spell check? well guess what, the computer is set for spanish duh, so it marks every single word as wrong. hahah
anyways, i love you all!
love, Hermana Hebdon la segunda
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