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Hola Familia, 

well i can´t say i´m extremely happy but content at least.  I wasn´t expecting transfers at all. and i was not prepared for that.  we´re crawling in bed last night when presidente obeso called us.  I´m off to Libertad in Puerto Montt, in the same zone where i was before. I´m going to be Hermana leader.....i don´t know what president is thinking. a sister leader? is this a joke?   so this consists of being in charge of a bunch of other sisters, going on exchanges with them 2 or more times every week and such.  I honestly don´t know how i feel about this.  i´m grateful for the opportunity to serve in a leadership position and help the other hermanas but i don´t know if i`m qualified for this.... oh and my new companion is hermana davila, she was my hermana leader in puerto montt. she´s a machine. i´m excited to work with her but to be honest she scared me when i was in puerto montt. haha

So Hermana Valdebenito (stefy) is off.  she called me 5 minutes ago as she left for the airport. So Lindz, she´s in your hands now. take good care of her, she´s very special.  We got permission to go see her be set apart yesterday. so we spent half the day with her. it was a special experience cuz she´s the only member in her family and i have alot of faith that now, for stefy´s example her parents are going to be baptized soon.

Interesting story of the week, we were knocking on doors the other day when suddenly i heard a heart breaking cry.  so i went in search of this and found a new born puppy, abandoned under an abandoned house.  its freezing cold and it was a death sentence to leave this puppy there.  so we used this puppy to get some new contacts, asking if they knew to whom he belongs and everyone said that he´s a street dog.  so i thought i was fed up with dogs but i couldn´t very well leave this puppy to die. so we brought him home (yes i know there´s a rule that says we can´t have pets but....)  we found a family who wants him but they´re traveling until tuesday. so for the past 2 days we´ve had this puppy in our house. she´s adorable but she need to go, she crys half for half the day.

wow so yesterday we´re sitting in sacrament meeting and as they´re passing the sacrament the hermano bends down and asks if i could do a special musical number. uhhhh what?   so i couldn´t very well argue during the sacrament so  i said yes.  so without any prep time i chose a number and sang for sacrament meeting. can´t say it was my best but hey, at least i did it.

so yup, my life. saying goodbye to everyone´s gonna be the biggest challenge. i already packed this morning (biggest struggle of my life, i don´t understand how i have so much stuff if i keep giving stuff away....?)

well love you all! pray for me this week.

-Hermana Hebdon

I'm old!

My plan failed, apparently Hna Santillan before she left told my mamita my b-day so i guess i´ll be celebrating it after all.  and the elder´s mamita was about ready to murder me if i didn´t tell her when my birthday was so i caved.  but luckily its only those 2 familys that know. 

I can´t believe i´m turning 20. i refuse to believe it. haha, but i guess i´ve already accepted the fact that i´m old.  i was knitting the other day and when my companion asked me when i learned how i was all, (without realizing it but in a voice very thoughtful), ¨oh, when i was young...¨.  and then yesterday i gave another talk in sacrament meeting. so normally i plan exactly how i´m going to start my talk but for some reason i was not prepared for this one.  so i sang a special number with elder vega, finish the number and walk up to give my talk.  as i get to the pulpit i realized i had no idea how to start.  So the first thing that came to my head was some memory from a few years ago.  so i start  ¨When i was young...¨ and everyone just started laughing at me and the lady behind me is all ¨and what are you now?¨  

So my companion´s been going to therapy for back problems, after the first 2 days of therapy her problems were a bunch worse.  so then yesterday we helped familia Fuentes chop wood.  so my companion´s there chopping wood and i´m all ¨this is probably the worst thing you could do for your back.¨ well guess what.  we got home and she´s all ¨dude, all my back pain is gone, i´ve never felt better!¨    so i guess chopping wood is better therapy than going to a doctor...

So  familia Fuentes is my favorite family here. its the only complete family i´ve taught here and they´re hilarious. i´ve never laughed so hard before. i feel like i´m home when i´m with them, all their brothers and sisters and dad joking around and such.  and then yesterday the oldest son whips out a guitar and starts playing himns while i sang.  It just made my life :)

Well i feel Lindz with this soccer thing, we´ve been walking a ton but no one lets us in cuz they´re all watching soccer!  but hey, at least there´re actually people in their house so we can contact them.

Dad, i think the best thing you´ve sent me have been those earplugs. i have to use them practically every night or i can´t sleep.  i´m about ready to murder Butch the second.  i don´t know how, we´ve tried everything but somehow he always enters in our gate and at 3 in the morning barks and barks and barks. it drives me insane. and i think our landlord who lives in front of us is about ready to kick us out because this dog keeps following us home.

I don´t understand how its not snowing. when its this cold rain should not be able to exist, but no, its raining and its freezing cold.  lovely.  but i´m surviving.  its not as cold as Utah can get but just the fact that there´s rain is throwing me off.

mom, we definitely don´t have ipads in this mission.  its the traditional walking and knocking on doors mission. (for which i´m thoroughly grateful cuz i´m not a big fan of technology)

whelp, thats my life.  we´ve found some good new investigators and i´m excited to see what happens there. but we have transfers next week. i don´t think we´re going to have any cambios but you never know.

i love you all!

Stuck in the house.

Mom, i´m sorry i fail at writing. haha, i´ll try to write more, but last week my mind was dead, i´ve been sick with a bad cold and its affecting my mind.  

Honestly my animo has descreased a bunch this week.  we had to go to the hospital for some problems hna sarceño´s been having with her back and skin and we were there ALL day long. it was terrible, a good time to just sit and figure out my life (literally i sat in the waiting room for 2 1/2 hrs just thinking about my life and what i´m going to do after my mission)  and then the next day we went to therapy for hna sarceño´s back and the next day we couldn´t leave the house cuz hna sarceño couldn´t walk.  I was bored out of my mind.  At the beginning of my mission i would´ve given anything to have a day in the house and now all i wanted to do was get out and work.

Random fact, we returned home one day soaking wet (it rains every day now) and i needed to dry my leggings so i could wear them the next day. so i put them next to the gas heater and started studying, next thing i know i smelled smoke and jumped up to find the source, only to find my leggings fried with a huge hole.  there goes my one piece of happiness in this cold weather. hahah

So everyone thinks i´m from Germany right? so the other day we´re knocking on doors and this guy walks by us and is all ¨you can´t knock on this door, the people here are evangelicos¨ so i responded to this guy and began talking to him and he suddenly starts speaking German, i tried explaining that i´m not German and couldn´t understand but he just kept talking and then asked me a question and when i couldn´t reply to his question because i didn´t understand a word i at least understood his abrupt goodbye in German as he turned and stomped away. hahah

One thing that´s super frustrating is the fact that there are a million versions of the bible. haha, so we´re teaching this adventista and she´s super insistent that we have evidence for everything in the bible.  So we´re trying to explain the Book of Mormon and she´s all ¨where does it testify of the book of mormon in the bible?¨ So Hna Sarceño turned to a scripture in the bible that says something along the lines of ¨and there are other books that direct the word of God...¨  so myt companion has this investigator turn to and read this scripture in her bible (which is not our version of the bible)  and she reads aloud ¨and there are no other book that speak the word of God, there is only one¨.   and the investigator looks up and my companion is all ¨oh..its uhh...different¨  hahaha, well that failed.

so yup, that was my week.  i love you all!  (mom, is 3 paragraphs good enough for you? ;)

-Hna Hebdon la segunda

My mamita made this! (and is teaching me how to make things like it :D 

this is a normal day of proselyting.  at least the dogs are listening to our message  (ps there were 2 dogs behind me when i took the picture too

Not much to say.

Hola!

So not much happened this week..... 

dad to answer your questions, yes, hermana Sarceño is talkative. very talkative. haha. but she said the other day that i was talkative too so we´re just kind of in a battle during the day of who can tell the most stories and talk the most. haha.  but at least we´re never bored when walking from place to place :)   she´s from guatamala and is super short hehe. 

stefanie´s going to go to the lima peru MTC.  she´s supposed to find out when she´s going to leave today! :) but most likely in july sometime.

Mom, that would happen to you guys. haha to be seated next to mackade on his date. hahaha

random fact, dad, i printed out that picture of grandma and grandpa hebdon you sent me and when my companion saw was all ¨what´s that¨ so i told her they´re my grandparents. and she´s all ¨they´re your grandparents??? i thought they were famous actors or something¨   :) it made me smile, i have beautiful grandparents :)

well we´re walking a bunch. the people here are all super kind and love to talk but when it comes to the gospel they don´t want anything to do with it...  but we´ll keep on searching, there´s someone here that´s ready to accept it.

i love you all! Tenga una buena semana!

-Hermana Hebdon la segunda

If I die.....

Hola Familia!

well we enjoyed 3 days of hot water and we´re back to our freezing cold showers.  lovely.  i´m surprised my shower hasn´t starting spitting out ice or snowing on me cuz this water isn´t a normal cold, its ICE cold.  i´ve officially gone 5 weeks with cold showers.  i guess i´m starting to get used to it.

winter is coming and i´m so excited (not).  i couldn´t sleep at all last night because of the rain and wind.  our roof is nothing but a thin piece of tin so we can hear everything.  i couldn´t sleep cuz it sounded like our roof was going to randomly fly away.

So i´m more than halfway done with my mision so i decided to get rid of half my stuff.  Stefanie (the girl who´s going to chiclayo) is leaving in a few week and has nothing  so i asked a favor of her, seeing that my problem is fitting all my stuff in my suitcases so she came over and picked out the clothes she wanted, so hopefully next time i have a transfer it won´t be so hard to pack :)  (but Hna santillan left a bunch of super cute argentinan skirts so i have new clothes too)

So the other day we´re sitting in the kitchen eating while listening to hna sarceño´s music.  we´re listening to this super spiritual music from the church when suddenly the song changes and its a song from maroon 5 (aka, a super popular band) and i´m all ¨what the goodness hermana why do you have this song?  and my companion´s all ¨why, its a song from the church....right?¨   hahah, apparently she copied a bunch of music from other hermanas and because they´re all in english she can´t understand them but just trusted that they were church songs.   so now we have a bunch of music from maroon 5, f.u.n and owl city that i need to go and delete.  but it killed me, i do miss my music....

If i die Eliza will inherit my belongings.  I seriously am going to die from samonela.  My companion has NO idea how to handle raw chicken and while cooking it probably touched everything in the kitchen with her chicken-covered hands.  then after witnessing that i open the fridge the next day to find the chicken on the top shelf, not covered at all, with the salad and strawberring on the shelf directly beneath the chicken.  i had a good talk with my companion after that.  but it didn´t help much cuz that day she cooked the rest of the chicken and when i started eating it realized that it was completely raw in the middle.  So, if i die, i love you all!

Random fact, i´m learning how to knit!  its a super cool talent that everyone has here and i´m now determined to learn.

miracle of the week:  i talked to Pancho, a recently reactivated member, the other day a ton about serving a mission, he had a ton of fears about leaving and didn´t really want to go.  so we had this super deep conversation and 2 days later told me that he opened his mission papers and is now super excited to go :)  he´s going to be an amazing missionary, he´s been through so much and has grown a ton from his trials.  

well i love you all so much! have a great week!

-Hna Hebdon la segunda