Bueno

Well it was great to see and talk to you guys on Christmas, sorry for the technical difficulties, but it all worked out ok in the end.   and sorry that i can´t really communicate in english anymore.......Mom really i beg you to change the date of my homecoming talk. there is NO way that i´ll be able to talk in english in church 2 days after i get back. it will be the most embarrasing thing of my life.......if you want me to give my whole talk in spanish. great, i´ll do it without hesitation.

I really said all there is to say on Christmas....so, 

Feliz Navidad to those who i didn´t see on christmas, i hope you enjoyed celebrating that special day.  Thanks for all the gifts/cards, i love you all so much!

Andando en un trio.

well, life still is just as crazy as before.  haha, i thought it´d be a bit calmer this week but...no.  Chile and its strikes.  So Hermana Sambrano left on Tuesday, so we were gonna be in a trio for 2 days while we waited for the new companion of Hermana Talimatasi who was gonna arrive on thursday.  we had everything worked out, that we were gonna work in Coyhaique in my sector one day and the next in Puerto Aysen and then go pick up the new greenie who´s coming.   Well, It just so happened that the day she was gonna arrive, Chile´s airlines entered in a strike. So, pobrecita new companion got stuck in Puerto Montt.  So we´ve been in a trio all week long.  Its actually a lot of fun being in a trio, all the lessons are 3X more powerful haha.   but its been super hard to work in our sectors. we were in Coyhaique 2 days and Aysen 2 days.  then for Saturday and Sunday we were gonna run into a bunch of problems cuz we both had important appointments and had to bring people to church the next day.  So, i got permission from the APs to stay with a member.  So Rocio became my companion for 2 days, she´s already working on her mission papers so it was a great experience for her to be a missionary for 2 days :)    

We still don´t know when Hna Talimatasi´s new companion´s gonna arrive, apparently the strike ended but now they´re so backed up, we´re just hoping that its before Christmas. 

yeah, so Christmas...we actually don´t have much planned.....i actually have no idea what we´re gonna do. hehe (way to plan ahead eh?)    

Ok, so, On christmas day i´m gonna call you guys on Skype (i believe mom´s skype) at 6:00pm CHILE TIME (i´m not gonna do the math, you can figure out what time that is in Utah.)  So be ready!  (lindz, i hope you´re ready to be my traductor ;) hehe   btw, i´ve been practicing my english this week, there´s a million tourists here!

i hope you enjoy your Christmas! I love you all tons, Talk to you soon!

-Hna Hebdon

Quick trip to Puerto Montt

Well, this week flew by, we didn´t have a moment to stop and think.  i´ll admit i´ve been a bit stressed just by the fact that my companion leaves tomorrow and my new and last companion arrives.  I know all will be fine, but honestly i´ve come to love Hna Sambrano with all my heart.  She was a bit different from my other companions and i for that we´re best of friends instead of just companions. It may sound strange, but we fought like Emma and I do, and for that, those rough moments that we had to work out, we ended up being stronger than before.  I´m gonna miss her a ton. :/

So we traveled to Puerto Montt, which completely exhausted me, traveling there and back, i just want to sleep today haha.  but it was great to be back in puerto montt.  But it was interesting too, being back there made me realize how blessed i am to be in Coyhaique. haha, i love puerto montt, but i had almost forgotten how many people bug us on the street.  Coyhaique is a lot more tranquilo.

the Conference was amazing, exactly what i needed to gain the animo to finish my mission strong.  (it was amazing but filled with way too many embarrasing moments, i was not in the right mind, only things like that would happen to me when i´m in front of a general authority, i´ll tell what happened when i get home, its too embarrasing to tell in an email...) 

I got to see Gina!!!!!!   Her son Franco is gonna be baptized on Christmas day!  It was so great to see her, and to see she´s still strong in the church.

I think the other reason i´ve been so stressed this week is for all the information the members told be of what´s happened in my ward there. Some very strong families are passing for very hard trials, it was just too much to hear. :/

But on the bright side, i saw my friends in Puerto Montt and enjoyed spending time with them :)  oh, and I saw Hna Sarceño in the conference!!!!! she´s doing great, she sends her love and Thanks for the packages and everything you´ve done for her :)

So we returned from Puerto Montt on Thursday and had to quickly plan the baptism.  Alejandro and Izidora were baptized on saturday by their grandpa who is Patriarch.  It was so special, izidora looked like an angel in her white dress :)

Well, i hope all is well! Wish me luck this week with my new companion (hna Caldera from Guatamala!)

i love you all!

-Hna Hebdon

Why is it never easy.

Wow, with every baptism, there´s always something that happens!  So, we had the baptismal interview for Alejandro and Izidora yesterday.  So, our District leader (who, i´m sorry, but always gets under my skin)  gave the interview, finished, signed all the papers saying that Alejandro is ready to be baptized.  well, that night he calls us telling us he thought a bit more about it and that Alejandro (only 10yrs old!) isn´t ready to be baptized cuz he hasn´t read very much in the Book of Mormon.  So he´s telling us to put his baptismal date for next week.  well, normally i´d be ok with that, BUT, alejandro´s grandpa who is patriarch already bought his plane ticket and is coming out in 2 days only to baptize Alejandro and my companion finishes her mission this week.  So i explained the situation to the elder, telling him that its a bit complicated to change the date and that the last thing we want is for his family to be annoyed by this inconvenience and change the heart of his dad who also is investigating the church.  The only reason this elder had was that Alejandro hadn´t read much in the book of mormon, but yes has the desires, yes knows the lessons and everything.    Good grief, i didn´t read the book of mormon until i was 14!   So we talked on the phone for 1 hr, me giving all the reasons why he should be baptized this week and not next week.  (it honestly is the fear that his family would be offended and we´d lose a whole family in the church cuz his dad and 2 siblings are also investigating the church).     so anyway, we finish this long and unsuccessful conversation and milagrously right after we hung up the AP called us for something.  so we asked him and he told us that Alejandro is gonna be baptized this Saturday, that we can´t deny him the opportunity to be baptized only cuz he didn´t read more than 1 chapter.  THANK YOU APS!!!!    yeah, so that´s my rant for today. thanks for listening.  haha,  its just been a really stressful week if you didn´t notice during my rant.    

but all is good in zion!   Tomorrow we´re off to Puerto Montt! It should be good for me to take 2 days to recharge.

well, i love you all! Enjoy the holidays!

-Hna Hebdon