Today we had cambios. President says I am to go to Tomé and be companions with Hermana Vieda. Hermana Martinez (who I lived with in Chillán) is also in that house, and she will be finishing the training of Hermana Frandsen's companion from last cambio, Hermana Gamboa. This will be the first time I live without gringas since Hermana Fajardo and I were alone together for those five weeks in San Javier. However this time it is not 50/50, but three against one! I am a little worried about that. I can teach a lesson and communicate just fine and stuff, but I am just not very funny in Spanish. But I hear that Tomé has hills (good for getting in shape after flat, flat, flat sectors my whole mission) and ocean! I have yet to see the beach here in Chile except from afar during mini-cambios in Penco and Lirquen. So that will be fun.
Hermana Frandsen and Hermana Chavez are going to be companions, as now all the Sister Training Leaders will be in companionships, just like Zone Leaders usually are. I can't believe how good they have it. They were my first and second choices for companions and instead of being with me they are going to be together. So unfair! We were surprised to learn that in Hualqui not only are they NOT sending elders this cambio, despite having made all the arrangements with lunches and the new house and everything, but they are also closing my sector and having just one trio of hermanas there. Hermana Razeira will be joined by Hermanas Martos and Meyer, and Hermana Call is getting sent to Collao to open a new sector with her new Sister Training Leader companion, Hermana Oldroyd (they were companions in a trio in the MTC along with my "hija" Hermana Holland, so that's interesting). Also of note is that this cambio I am becoming a GREAT-GRANDMOTHER in the mission. Hermana Lyons ("daughter" of my "daughter," Hermana Morán) will be training! AAAAAH! I am SO OLD!!! I will not be able to take any more pictures of myself during the mission because now my hair is all white and I am all wrinkly and gross.
Sorry about all that cambio talk. I know it is probably super boring for all of you, but I find it absolutely fascinating, the way these things work. I always want to know as much as possible about where everyone is every cambio. Probably my propensity for gossip feeds that need. But I think that being curious about cambios is one of the more acceptable way to appease my gossip monster, so it's a healthy outlet, at least.
Today was a really hard one because I had to send Hermana Haymond home. She has been pretty sick over the past couple of weeks and after a lot of prayer and many blessings, she and her family and her stake president and President and Hermana Arrington decided it would be best for her to go home and get better rather than try to stick it out here. They took us with them to the airport. It was sad. And super stinky. But I am looking forward to hearing about how she progresses in the Harry Potter books once she gets home. The "Very Important Vocabulary Words" that Hermana Call and I have been trying to teach her haven't been sticking in her brain very well yet. So far the only one that has stuck with her is "muggle." Probably because, unlike me, she is one. It is because of that that wizard vocaublary is just harder for her to grasp, I think.
Anyway, lots of other stuff happened this week, I am sure, but I can't think of anything else to write about. Except that this ciber is playing really lame techno music. I wish I could shut my ears off.
How did it go last week with the commitments? We are going to finish Alma this week - hurrah! Helaman kind of bums me out, but it is exciting to get there, right? So KEEP ON READING! And also, watch this awesome Christmas video: The Nativity I could watch those things all day long.
Wellp, gotta go now! Hope all y'all have an awesome week!
Lovelovelove muchly,
Hermana B
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