O sea....

21 August 2018 

(pronounced oh sayah)

A coordial Henlo to all.

Good news and bad news. The good news is, I understand a little bit of spanish these days. The bad news is that I now think in spanish, and It makes hard to talk english good. Also today is P-day and i’m free according to the flesh, so Imma do what I want. Please prepare to set your internet device to espanich. (That’s gringo for spinach.... I think.....it’s really........Not.)

[Hint: until we post the translation, copy and paste the following text into Google translate.]
Hola, como estai?
Esta semana, tuvimos muchas cosas muy bakanes pasar. De hecho, vamos a ver muchas otras cosas geniales que vienen. por ejemplo, mañana vamos a Los Ángeles para participar en una capacitación. Vamo Chile.

En la semana que paso, tuvimos mucho éxito, hay una señora que dijo que quiere ser bautizado. Mich. Adelante no ma. Aparte de esto, sigamos normal trabajando todo el dia todo los dias... obvio.

Yo he estado pensando mucho recién en la oración, y como se relaciona a la humildad. Cuando queremos una respuesta, solo hay que pedir, cierto? pero... que pasa cuando no queremos la respuesta? Dios todavia va a darnos una respuesta? Bueno, también estaba pensando mucho en el Libro de Mormon, y como realmente, el libro de mormon puede cambiar las cosas. Es tan freaking verdad ese librito. Tiene de TODO. en serio, hasta negocios y empresas, medicina y amor. Tan bueno. Lo único que yo no he encontrado aun en el libro de mormón es los deportes... pero... ¿guerra cuenta no mas? ¿que piensan?

Ya po, pero realmente estoy agradecida porque yo he visto muchos cambios en mi. Si he aprendido una cosa de la misión, es que la misión no cambia nada, ni segura nada. Cristo cambia todo. solamente por la expiación estos cambios son posibles.

Hey, talking of Cambios, we’re gonna know our cambios tomorrow, que loco cierto? Hermana Cepeda and I should be together si o si, but you never can tell what with modern revelation and all.

Stay tuned. :)

Nos vemos, que esten super bien, po Hérmáñá Báér alguien me presto su gorito y me puse flaite. jaja, perdona me mama. :)) 

I've just sucked one year of your life away...*

*[Title refers to this moment in Princess Bride] 

Except that it didn’t suck that bad..... There may have been some tears, but the good kind. With lots of salt.

How does that make you feel? All I can say is, has it been that long already?? And I feel like yes and no.....

Day to day life in the mission is long and many times tedious, but overall, I think it’s pretty okay.

This week:
-We worked in the Sector Curacautin and found what we like to call una buscadora, or someone who is literally just waiting for someone to share the gospel. Literally she said, Oh wow, I’m going to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. It sounds like it’s really something I’ve been looking for.
And we said, "Probs true dat. Give it a shot or whatevs. Also church Sunday if you want." and she said, "Great, I’ll see if I can find a skirt."
Awesome. We’ll just wait to get the baptismal invitations. It’s good to know there are people who really are looking for the gospel. Also.... The Book of Mormon changes lives and answers questions. I promise you, and I do mean YOU!

-My compy was much sick this week. Good news is the area book is in ship shape.

-We just keep plugging along. good times. Weird.

NEWS: we will be helping with the temple open house! I will 100% be in Concepcion in the temple the 18th of September....... so if anyone wants to mosey on down south and take some hermanas to lunch y’all know where we’re at....;) Nah just kidding. pls don’t.
Just do it for the nice missionaries in your own wards.

That is all. See you in 6 months. Crazy.

 Hermanerm Baer 2.0

- a big little guy.

Flamy. Is that english I see??

Words. Words. Words.

[The title could reference this.  Or this.  Or maybe even this.]

¿Hola, como estai? 
Bien, po, y tu? 
Bien gracias a Dios. 
. . . 

-Conversation in the street with any given Chileno. Always.

This week we worked for a long time. But that’s okay. Then we went to CONCE and partied with disculpe, learned from Presidente and Hermana May. Que rico el jugo... na, I’m just kidding - it was awesome and I learned a lot.

 It also rained a lot. like...... A lot.

Someone once asked me about some turning points in my mission. For me, I had a compañera who was just sa dang REAL. She was so straightforward, but also loving and really hardworking. My companion, unlike the others I’d had, was quick and cheerful to say that she didn’t understand or didn’t know everything and had faults, and so I felt that a lot of the pressure to be perfect went away and I could ask for help when I needed it. Also, a lot of really crazy things seemed to always happen with her, so we were always doing weird things that put us in situations that I was never expecting. But this taught me really fast that I had to be myself and also look for the guidance of the spirit because I can do a lot of hard things, but only the spirit can help me do what I need to do as a missionary. I also kind of realized at that point in my mission that I can work really hard and be really stressed about the insanity, or I can work really hard and not worry as much about what will happen Also, I discovered that the people who are looking for the gospel are going to find it, and if they really want to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized, they’re gonna do it, dain it! So.... I’ll do my part to invite everyone, and God through the Holy Ghost will help the people who want it make it happen!

So... my mission changed when I learned to chill a little, I guess.

This last Cambio as well taught me to finally like the mission. I had companions that I really loved, but I never loved the people or (dare I say it??) Chile.... gasp. But last cambio, I had some amazing experiences in my sector that taught me to really enjoy the mission and love Chile for and a pesar de los debilidades o cosas que todavía no entiendo. (I can’t remember those words in English??? SOS  [Despite the weaknesses or things that I still do not understand.]) It was hard to leave Tolhuaquita. . . and be just in the other half of the pueblo. tan cerca... tan freaking lejos. jaja.

But the good news is I’m fine.

The work is good.

Thanks for reading so many words.
Serve yourself to some fotos.

Red sky in the morning.... something something...

Did we already say that Bruno got baptized?

Mary Poppins?

These boots weren’t made for walking...