So this week my stomach had its first rejection of the food and water here. I am actually not sure if it was the food, but I did eat a very very mysterious lasagna Saturday and then I was up all night throwing up. Yesterday we had ward conference and so we had to be at the church at 8. I told my companion how I was sick and she was very concerned but I was determined that we were going to leave and be good missionaries. This was not the best idea ever. We ended up leaving the church before sacrament meeting and I threw up in the street on the way to our house. I was in bed for the rest of the day. Today I am feeling better, I only have a little bit of pain in my stomach. Right now my muscles hurt more than my stomach. They are really sore because I had chills all day yesterday. But no worries mom, my latina companions kept forcing drugs on me of who knows what orgin. All I know, is that these drugs do not have a direct translation into English. One that my companion makes me take every six hours hits my stomach like a rock everytime. I tried really hard to remain sleeping so I wouldn't have to take it, but she woke me up for my dose. Hopefully my body will be able to heal itself quickly regardless.
So Funny Strory. This week one of the families in the ward was sealed in the temple. The entire ward went to Santiago for it, even the youth went and did baptisms. The relief society wanted to have a little mini-reception waiting for them when they returned from the temple, so they asked us if we could decorate for the activity. They said they were planning on like 40 or 50 people. The members had been complaining that we don't serve them enough so this seemed like a good opportunity to fix that. They told us that they would have all the stuff ready for us when we came on Saturday. When we went to the chapel to do the decorating, all that they gave us was two tables, 3 tablecloths, 15 baloons, and about 20 feet of blue streamer. Oh and the tables weren't big like the tables in our chapels, the tables were big enough for maybe 4 or if you are lucky 6 people. This is all that they gave us!! Oh the balloons from the relief society president were white and gold, and then one of the other counselors was supposed to bring the streamers and more balloons. She brough the 20 feet of blue streamer and like 3 pink and 4 orange balloons. Who brings these colors for a reception? It was an adventure. Pretty much we did the impossible, we created more tables by bringing all the little tables from the classrooms and we made homemade white streamers. Oh and for the finishing touch my companion stole a 5x7 picture of the Santiago temple from the Primary room and put it in the entrance. It actually was pretty good for what we were given.
Funniest part of this story, all the food that was there were 2 cakes and 1 mini-package of saltine-like crackers. This is not sufficient for 40 people, but I just assumed that they had invited Jesus to the reception and he was going to bless (and multiply) the food. We left to go to our appointments for the day and the bishop called us, he asked us how the chapel was, and I told him that we worked a miracle, but then he asked us if the food was sufficient, and I told him no. He said that we needed to ask for money from someone so that we could buy french fries (which they eat like a meal) for all the ward. I told him no, that the missionaries have rules prohibiting such things such as begging for money. No, my real excuse was that we can't purchase things after 6 o'clock, because it is a rule, and besides that, we had citas that we had to go to. Who asks the missionaries to buy french fries for the whole ward? Apparently somewhere along the lines of communication it became our responsibility to do the whole reception, and so it was our fault that there wasn't enough food. Anyways, the ward didn't get back from the temple until 9:30 at night, and so no one was super hungry and everything turned out okay. But it was quite an adventure. We made a point to make sure that we had things to do all night so that we could not go to the actual reception because we did not want to hear criticism, but apparently everything turned out okay.
So as far as missionary things, oh President is starting to make changes to the rules. The biggest change that we've recieved so far in my opinion is that the Hermanas will not be doing intercambios twice per change like we used to. It's only through direct assignment from president. This is a little bit sad because I like intercambios, it's really the only opportunitiy we have to learn from others. But oh well.
Not a whole lot happened this week in the work, but we taught more lessons and had more nuevo investigadores. Woohoo! This sector is a little bit more stiff than others. They have only had one baptism in the last year, but in two weeks we are going to have 5! Yeah! We're working hard and everything is going great.
Love and miss you all!!
Hermana Evans
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