We got the view but not the smoke.

Well i´m still alive despite all the volcanos erupting around us.  this one was actually super cool, we were walking back from los arbolitos (the village of people in the middle of nowhere)  and i saw this huge mushroom cloud of smoke.  it was so cool!  But unfortunately i couldn´t take a picture at that perfect moment because we were contacting someone (i was obviously very focused on this contact......)  we discovered later that I saw the volcanic eruption right when it inicially exploded.  we didn´t know it was a volcano until later that night.  but turn out its volcan calbuco, the volcano that i visited my last week in puerto montt only 2 months ago.  not scary at all...  but somehow the ash hasn´t hit us at all.  i don´t understand it really, the ash has hit santiago, buenas aires, punta arenas,  basically all the cities super far from the volcano but hasn´t hit the 3 cities closest to it. but hey, i´m not complaining.

oh, before i forget, so mothers day, i have no idea when i´m gonna call, so yah, i know thats a lot of help.  i´ll let you know next week...  when is mothers day exactly.....? the second week of may right?   

Patricia came to church!!!!!!!  all 3 hrs! :D   i couldn´t believe it.  seriously its so hard to get people to come to church this is the first golden investigator that i´ve seen come to church.  thanks for all your prayers.  It seems like a dream, after disappointment after disappointment every sunday it doesn´t seem real.  She´s progressing a ton and truly wants to be baptized :)

So with that, the bad news.....our other investigator victor who also was progressing a ton and i was thoroughly conviniced was gonna be baptized leaves tomorrow for the north of Chile to work for who knows how long. :/   so we´re continuing on with the faith that we´ve planted a giant seed that will continue to grow.

Oh wow, hardest thing of my life....teaching in english.   We had intercambios on tuesday so i went with Hna Palma to her sector.  it was inspired really because it was my turn to stay in our sector but the Hermana leaders said they felt i needed to go to their sector.  And it turned out to be a day of english.  We helped the kids of  2 different families with english and then taught a lesson in english.  there´s this girl from wisconsin living here and going to school.  This lesson ridiculously hard and spanglish.  I literally was praying for the gift of tongues so that i could speak english. it was just plain incómodo. 

I figured out why everyone asks me if I´m from Germany. yesterday we´re walking down the street and see this blonde girl waiting for the bus so we went over to talk to her. she´s my twin but German!  

You know you´ve worked hard when you and your companion fall alseep during daily planning session and wake up 20 min later sprawled out on the ground....

well its been a great week, i love you all a ton! take care :)

-Hermana Hebdon la segunda

this was our view.  this was 1 hr after i first saw it, by this time you can´t see the whole mushroom thing like i could at the beginning but hey its still cool.¨I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun..........¨