first off, mom, you are a miracle worker, thanks for helping with this i know it will mean the world to Hna Sarceño. I´ll try to get her email but i don´t exactly know how cuz she only has 4 names as part of her email and i only know her nickname and last name....so its a bit of a problem.... so maybe letters will be a bit more effective for now...?
second off, Chile won the American cup!!!!! whohoooooooo!!!!! (sorry lindz ;) haha, but presidente gave us permission to watch it, how sweet is that, so we got to watch the final soccer game between argentina and chile. i have to admit, watching a soccer game isn´t nearly as intense/fun as watching a football game, but hey, it was still cool. funny fact, that morning i woke up and excited for the soccer game i decided to wear chilean colors. so i´m walking around in red white and blue and we go to leader council and all the gringos are talking about how its the 4th of july. haha. so at least i was being patriotic without realizing it :)
well i´m repenting that i was so pesado last week. i wasn´t expecting transfers at all and i didn´t want to leave my beloved Collico. but now i´m back in puerto montt and i´ve never been happier!
transfers were crazy as always. Monday and tuesday were filled with running around saying goodbye to everyone. my heart broke. i hate goodbyes. the people in valdivia are special. i love them all so much :/ the hardest was saying goodbye to Pancho, he became a brother to me the past 5 months.
i didn´t sleep very much my last 2 days there we were frantically packing, writing notes to the people i didn´t have time to visit and cleaning the house. i slpet 3 hrs my last night there... and so transfer day arrived adn i was expecting it to be the worst day of my life. well turns out it was opposite of what i was expecting cuz i got to see so many old friends.
so in the bus terminal in valdivia i got to see elder medina (the elder who decided to stay on his mission because fo what i said to him) and he told me that he had 2 baptisms this last transfer adn 1 more person is going to be baptized in 1 week. it was a sweet moment when he told me that none of that would´ve happened if it weren´t for me and what i said to him that one day. i can´t even express the joy of seeing the fruits from 1 small act of talking to that and helping excite him for his mission.
so then i talked the whole bus ride to puerto montt to 2 elders who were with me in the MTC. then in puerto montt we had to wait all day in the terminal for the other hermanas to arrive. so as i´m just sitting there concentrated on writing a letter suddenly a voice next to me filled with a ton of energy (like always) in english with his spanish accent says ¨well isn´t it just a great day!¨ i was so startled i jumped 2 feet, and looking up i see elder gomez chiquitito, elder dominguez, elder hard and... Hna Parkinson!!!!! (all from my old districts) i´ve never been so happy! turns out that Hna Parkinson is in my zone so i´ll be able to go on exchanges with her. so then immediately after that i hear a confused voice behind me say ¨hna hebdon???¨ and i turn around to find Marcela, my mom/best friend from puerto montt. seriously this day was just too good to be true. i´m so happy to be back in puerto montt! (i´m in the sector next to my old sector so i have a feeling i´m going to see all my friends :)
so yeah, now my new area....first off, i don´t remember why i remembered hna davila super serious and such, perhaps its jsut cuz the last time i saw her in puerto montt was when we had some problems in the zone and she´s the one that told president and got everyone in trouble.......but she´s amazing. we´re going to make a great companionship, she is a really hard worker adn knows hwo to work effectively. she´s from argentina and a great singer! i´m so excited to have someone to sing with again. so then my ward is huge compared to valdivia. there´s 150 something compared to the 30 in valdivia
dad, i´m to be more than prepared to climb mt olympus when i get home. my sector is nothing but giant hills! and climbing them 10x a day, i´m soooo sore (the incline is worst than the mt olympus trail) but i feel great cuz now its actually exercise to walk around the whole day. mom those new boots you sent me have officially saved my life! my other shoes wouldn´t be able to handle walking up and down these rocky hills.
on friday we went to a leaders counsel. it was all the ZLs and sister training leaders (there´s only 12 in the whole mission) i´m actually really excited for this assignment i wasn´t expecting it or wanting it for that matter but now to work so closely with all the other missionaries is gonna be great.
well i love you all so much!
sorry if i don´t have time to respond to all the personal emails cuz this is a novel and i´ve left myself no time. but know that i appreciate every email, letter and package. i love you all!!!!!
-Hna Hebdon la segunda
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