¡Hola Familia!
Guess what? I´m
back in Chillan! It´s great here. One of the really great things is
that this house that we live in here is part of an apartment complex, and the
gas is a CENTRAL LINE. That means that we NEVER, EVER run out of gas
(which is how we get our hot water, so you can see how it might be
important...)! It´s pretty awesome. Something else awesome is that
there is a cancha (or soccer field) just down the street from our house where
we go running in the mornings. It takes about five laps around the cancha
to run a mile. Much easier than the 40 laps it took to run a mile
out in the yard in San Javier or the 100 laps it took to run a mile in
the living room and kitchen in Cordillera. It´s a little weird just
walking everywhere now, instead of riding a bike. But my feet don´t hurt
too much yet!
Probably the most
awesome thing about Libertador is my companion, Hermana Moran. She is
from Ecuador, but she lived in Santiago for three years while her dad was a
mission president there and then she studied at BYU for three years before
coming on the mission. Her English is really great, and we take turns
reading aloud frpm the Book of Mormon in our respective languages during
language study. She is really special. I don´t really feel like I
am training her at all - rather that she is training me! She is really
sensitive to the Spirit and she has a lot of faith that the Lord will provide
for us if we are obedient and hard-working. And she is a really great
example of exact obedience, I would never get away with breaking a rule even if
I wanted to now that I have her for a companion, just because she is so
dedicated to being exactly obedient. And she loves to offer singing hymns
to people as a way to get into houses, so that is something else that is pretty
great.
We live with two other
Hermanas who also work in the same ward as us, Hermana Miskin and Hermana
Phelps. Hermana Miskin is from southern California, "cerca de
Mexico," and has been in the mission about a month longer than I have.
She has been in Libertador my whole mission - I met her my first P-Day
out here in the field and since then she´s had four different companions.
Hermana Phelps just got here on Tuesday from the MTC. She´s from
Minnesota and graduated in graphic design from BYU-Idaho. She makes me
really remember my early days in the mission, as she had to learn Spanish in
the MTC as well, only she had three weeks less to practice! They are both
awesome and living with them and sharing the ward with them is going to be
great.
Anyway, the ward here
is HUGE! I have never seen so many people in a Chilean Sacrament Meeting
before. I haven´t yet had a chance to meet very many of the members, but
it seems like the bishopbric is very dedicated to helping the mission work move
forward in the ward, and they are very protective of the sisters.
Our zone has eight
sisters, and our district has six! Our poor district leader, it´s his
first transfer as district leader and they gave him SIX hermanas! But he
is doing a very good job. Hermana Miskin just got called to be the
"leader" of the hermanas for our area, which means that she will be
making arrangements to do mini-cambios for training purposes. We are very
excited about this because the elders get to do mini-cambios all the time and
they say they always learn so much and have such great experiences and it has
been a long time since the sisters have been able to do this, so we are really
looking forward to the chance to learn from other missionaries.
Anyway, that is pretty
much everything there is to know about my new sector! In other news, my
bike crash wounds have pretty much healed and I have yet to take pictures.
I am so disappointed in myself. It was just such a spectacularly
awesome crash and now how am I going to be able to remember it properly?
But it is healing, so don´t worry yourselves about that!
Also, this morning I
finished reading the Book of Mormon! Wahoo!!!! It´s so great.
You should all read it.
Your commitment this
week is a continuation of last week´s, because I am just so in awe of how
amazing and how important the Book of Mormon is. If last week you set a
small goal to start reading, I encourage you to evaluate your progress and set
another goal to do a little more. If you didn´t start yet, START NOW!
If you didn´t meet your goal, try again. I am serious about this.
It´s IMPORTANT! READ THE BOOK OF MORMON EVERY DAY!
I love you all.
Have a great week!
Lovelovelove,
Herman
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