What a week! Well it started out wonderful with a great
package from my beautiful Grandmother. In it she set lots of goodies and some band
aids- to which I thought, ‘‘She must think I have blisters, luckily I don't, I
won't really need these'' (foreshadowing) but all the same I enjoyed the
package.
We had a good first half of the week, finding a few new
people to start teaching and helping the members prepare for 18th- Chile's
independence day. It is bigger than Christmas here. We spent 2 mornings baking empanadas
with an Hermana for her business. We made something like 70 of them. They are
time consuming little things. But SO good.
In the streets we saw lots of kids playing with these
wooden dradel type toys called Trumpos. We ask a few what they were and they
told us they are traditional toys that they play with around the 18th. Me and
my comp bought some to give them a try and they are so hard! You wind them up
with a string and throw them at the ground and they spin...well that is what
they are meant to do, but all the little kids are pros. We need some practice. On Thursday we had an earthquake here in Chile! No worries it was very far from me. About 400 miles or so. The craziness is that we felt it here. It did no damage but it shook us up a little. I think the most annoying thing about it was that is distracted our investigators and they wouldn't focus after that. We were actually giving them the 'kill' speech during it (that we aren't going to keep visiting them) I thought it was ironic that it happened during the earthquake.
On the 18th it was a pretty good day. No one let us in. But we expected that with the holiday. We were allowed 2 hours at the church activity and that was really cool to go and see all the youth dance the traditional dances of Chile. They are really serious about that here. We also went to the Plaza, which was set up just like the fair. It was really neat.
The 19th was probably the most boring day of my mission.
No one let us in again and we walked all day. Holidays have their ups and
downs.
We were walking past a park and I had the great idea to
go down the slide (to break up the walking) it was one of those really old
metal steep and tall ones. It was a lot of fun until I fell at the end and
ripped up my tights and my knees. I put those band aids to use from my Gram.
That is what I get.
Well I think that is just about all you want to know
about my week.
Love ya!
Besos
Hermana Saunders
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