Oh my goodness, where to start. Well, I am sure that you already noticed, but today is Tuesday, not Monday. Yesterday we had cambios,(transfers) but I had another absolutely crazy cambio. How it works at least in my mission is that the Sunday of cambios all the missionaries return to their houses half an hour early and give their numbers of the week as fast as they can through the district leaders and zone leaders. The first zone and district to report their numbers, recieve their cambios first. That is, if president is ready. We recieved our cambios in a fairly timely manner, at 11:45 pm. We knew that my companion, Hermana Martinez was going to leave, and our prediction was that I was going to stay and direct the sector. This was correct, origanally. My cambio was to stay in my same sector in Los Andes and my new companion would be Hermana Hadlock. I was super content with this, I was also very excited because the other Hermanas that we shared the ward with were taken out and a super awesome elder was going to train a newbie. I was super happy and content.
We woke up and traveled to Santiago with the other missionaries in the zone that had cambios. When we arrived at about noon, Presidente Essig, who usually isn´t actually present during cambios pulled me into his office. He told me that he recieved a phone call from the states and because of this there was a sister that he needed to work with and asked if I would be willing to change sectors to a open a sector (this just means that both me and my companion are new). He told me a little bit about my new companion, Hermana Hadlock and told me how she was having a hard time in the mission and would need lots of animo (encouragement) and gentle encouragement in order to stay in the mission, and how because of this a lot of the responsibility of the work and of her well-being was going to fall on me. Then he asked if I would be willing to do this, thanked me for my willingness and told me I was a great missionary, and directed me to the Pensionist for a map to my new sector.
We had to wait for a long time at the office for the other Hermanas to arrive so that we could get the keys to the house and the cellular for our sector, and then my new companion and I traveled back to Los Andes to pack my stuff, then returned to Santiago to my new Sector. We ended up arriving at 10:15 pm to our new sector and house.
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| Me and Heermana Hadlock |
So information about where I am, well, I don´t really know much. I am in an area of the actual city Santiago called San Pablo, my sector is called Los Mares. It´s about 20 minutes in a taxi from the center of Santiago. It seems fairly tranquilo, and I think I will like it here a lot. My new companion, Hermana Hadlock, is from Mesa, Arizona. She is 21, from what I can gather she is generally a shy person, and graduated in Family Science at BYU. She has only 2 more cambios in the mission than me, or 5 months total in Chile. And I think our Spanish is about the same, scary thought. I think this is because she is a shy person and so she does not talk as much and so it is hard for here Spanish to progress, but I´m a little bit worried about this, but it will be great. My spanish made a huge jump in the six weeks I was with Hermana Martinez and now I can pretty much understand most everybody, except the old people who don´t have teeth. And I can communicate what I want to say after people get over my horrible accent.
So exciting news, about what happened with the family that I told you about the other week. The bishop is very very interested and concerned in the progress of Larissa and her family. She had an interview with him and she is now working on a divorce and remarraige with the bishop, (this is a very long process in Chile). But the bishop was very very thrilled and has a lot of hope for their situation, under his advisement we baptized three of her kids Sunday, Salome (11), Wladimir (10), and Tomás (9). It was so awesome. The ward hasn´t had a baptism in a very very long time, and it was really cool to see the ward pull together for the baptism and to embrace this family over the past few weeks. It was super super awesome.
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| Chileans have a really hard time smiling in photos, not sure why, but I promise every one was happy. |
Oh, so Hermana Martinez, who studied psychology and things like that, made the connection that my skin on my face starts to peel really bad when I am stressed or am nervous and I think she might be right. This does not make me super happy, because my face was pretty much falling of entirely for our baptism and also during cambios, she told me she can´t wait to see the pictures of my wedding. Uuggh. Oh well. Just in case you are wondering, my face is doing pretty well today, I am really exicted for the opportunities that have been entrusted to me.
Well, I love being a missionary. I feel as though I am progressing so fast. Oh I am officially completely trained now. I now longer have to do an extra hour of studies, so that is another thing that I am very excited for. Being a missionary is the absolute best, you are guided and protected 24/7, and its so cool, I am starting to notice the drastic difference when the Spirit leaves, whether it be because of contention, music in the collectivos, or whatever. It is a profound difference. Point of the story, always live to be worthy of the Spirit!!
Love you all!
Hermana Evans
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