Courtney's Week #28

So, guess what! You know those cultural celebrations that they always show in between the sessions of general conference where all the people dance and the prophet comes and stuff like that, I was in one!! Here in Chile they have been planning a huge celebration to celebrate 50 years since the Chile Mission was created. It was so cool, it was in a huge soccer stadium in our mission and all the missionaries from the missions Santiago West, Santiago East, and Viña del Mar and then of course my mission too. It was so cool and the whole stadium was full of people and like the whole historical department from SLC was there, which I thought was funny because they didn´t speak Spanish. They did a whole bunch of dances from the culture here and everything, it was so cool. The only downside was that the prophet didn´t come. All the Chileans were pretty bumbed about that. But as missionaries we had a part in the program and everything.

 

So my companion's and I are still trying to adjust to the whole trio thing. I wasn´t happy about the whole trio thing in the first place, but then President called the day after cambios and asked if I would be willing to serve as senior companion so after that I kind of had to change my attitude about things and try to pull our companionship together. Hermana Hadlock is kind of having a hard time, I feel so bad for her, but it has been pretty hard on her to be in a trio too, she started to withdraw almost completely, but now we are working on that too. But yeah, how cool is that, Hermana Sampson is Stephanie McKeachnie´s cousin, how weird.

 

One thing that I have really noticed this last week is that the Lord really is helping me with my Spanish. For a while now I have been able to understand pretty much everything, even the people who talk super fast, and I can also say pretty much everything I want as well, but I was having serious problems with the accent. A lot of people had a really hard time understanding me. Especially because of my ´r´s. They roll all of their r´s and they also have double ´r´ that you are supposed to roll even more and I had pretty much come to the conclusion that my tongue was just not made to roll, but I have noticed lately more and more than I can do it, but its really weird because its like I don´t feel that I am actually doing the talking; I feel as though Heavenly Father is helping my silly tongue. It´s been pretty cool.

 

Well, I am out of time for this week, but I love you all.