Wow, i can´t believe you´re all home soaking up the sun and swimming in the pool everyday. Its great to see pictures of you all. I´m glad you´re enjoying your summer.
as for me, i´m down here in pure winter. It literally rained every single day this week. So i found 3 jackets in our house so every day i just had to change jackets because i´d return home soaking wet every night and there´s no way to dry our clothes. Then yesterday i realized that i had gone through all 5 of my jackets and every single one was soaking wet. So now i´m left wearing wet jackets. We had been super lazy and preferred suffering through the cold than make a fire for the last 4 weeks. but when we realized making a fire was the only way to dry our clothes we set out to start our fire. And our fireplace had a bit of a malfunction...if that´s possible...the smoke decided to come out of any place possible besides the chimney. So i´m throwing windows and doors open in the house becuase i couldn´t even breathe cuz the house was so full of smoke, (i don´t know what my companion put in the fire but it was nothing but smoke) so as i´m worrying about this fire, my companion´s calmly getting ready for bed and as i tell her that we needed to put out the fire or we´d die from smoke in the middle of the night she´s all ¨die from smoke?¨and laughs in my face as if i´m completely ridiculous and know nothing. and i´m all, ¨uhhh yeah, hermana its the smoke that kills people first, not the flame...¨ bueno, i´ll let her believe what she wants. haha. so anyway, finally we put the fire out but know i believe our house will ever smell of smoke.
Random fact, so when i went to osorno the other week we had a mini devotional and on presidents orders we had it in english (he´s super focused on helping the latinos learn english) so as i´m sitting there listening i was just thinking of how terrible english sounds, for the elder who was talking said like literally every 2 words. so i´m thinking i never want to switch back to this language that sounds terrible because everyone says the word ¨like¨ way too much. then i realized as i was talking how many times i say the word ¨como¨ when i talk in spanish (the equivalent of like) and now i´m just convinced that its just us gringos that have the strange need to add pointless words every 2 seconds as we talk,
We went to Chiloe this week!!! 4 hours in a bus and 30 minutes on a ship! cuz Chiloe is an island! its so pretty there! we stayed there for 3 days and did our exchanges with the sisters. so the first day in the morning when we wake up, we turn on the lights and suddenly the light explodes! shattering glass everywhere and leaves us in pitch blackness. hahah. so the next 3 days we studied like Joseph Smith, by candlelight. but i discovered there´s a good reason i don´t use candles too often, i have way too much fun burning stuff and playing with the wax. at one point when i was talking with the hermanas i was holding the candle and got way too excited as i told this one story and the next thing i know i dumped the wax down my black skirt.... no matter i only need it for 6 months more
well, this week wasn´t exactly the best week of my life.... We went on divisions on saturday with 2 members, so i went with Camila to visit Daniela. My companion told me not to leave her house until we had a date for her baptismal interview. but as we start teaching her and reviewing all the baptismal questions she literally had doubts about every single one. her brother who was a member but now attends the evangelic church told her the book of mormon is a lie and all that good stuff so now we´re back to square one and she´s questioning everything. i seriously did everything possible to help her feel her desire again to be baptized and to resolve her doubts. But as we kneeled down together to pray so she could ask if Its all true and she should be baptized, after the prayer we sat in silence for 5 min. i asked how she felt and she just responded ¨confused¨ so we testified and left the commitment to pray. But i couldn´t set a date for her interview if she´s obviously not ready.
So leaving that lesson, feeling as if i failed and just wanting to cry,i decided crying wasn´t going to help at all. so instead of crying camila and I ran through the rain, splashing in all the puddles. By the time we got to the church to find my companion and end the companion split we were thoroughly soaked but happy.
and there´s my week for ya. I still have faith that Daniela´s gonna be baptized, just not Aug 1st. but in the next few weeks sí.
i love you all! have an amazing week!
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