Courtney's Week #30

So just to let you guys know, I had to buy floss a few weeks ago here, and it is four dollars for a little thing of floss! I couldn´t believe it. Also pads and tampons cost a fortune here. They sell the pads in packs of five! And the latinas don´t usually even know what a tampon is. Its crazy!! Also the deodorant sticks are like the little travel ones that you find in the travel aisle and they are more expensive then the double packs would be in the States. Uugh! Sometimes I think the Chileans just don´t take care of their body and thats why all of the hygenic things are so expensive.

 

Anyways, thanks so much for the pictures!! You guys are awesome.

 

So I forgot to answer last week, but about your question about Halloween. So they do celebrate Halloween here, but its just kind of started up within the last few years, so its not really a big thing. Nobody really decorates and well, I´m not entirely sure yet, but I don´t even think they will go trick or treating. Also funny little fact, they can´t celebrate Halloween today because it is on the records as Dia de los Evangelicos or Evangelists Day, so they made tomorrow as Dia de los muertos or Halloween. I just think it is funny, because they don´t even really celebrate anything, everybody just wants to get more days off work to go to the beach. I do think its funny though they that they have a holiday for the Evangelicists, and its even funnier because people ask us what we will be doing for the holiday; why would LDS missionaries celebrate the Evangelicist religion? But I will definitely work even harder today and maybe we can baptize a whole congregation of evangelicos to celebrate.

 

This week was pretty good, well actually our numbers went down a lot this week and I´m still trying to figure out why. We dropped a few more of our investigators, so now we´re pretty much starting over. Also I´m a little a bit ticked off because we taught a lesson to an old man a couple weeks ago and I accidentally left my extra hymn book, but we haven´t been able to find him since. He´s not really a golden investigator, so normally it wouldn´t be a big issue if we couldn´t find him again because he didn´t really have a ton of interest, but I really want my hymn book back, so everytime we are close we stop by and never opens the door. Funny though--It kind of reminds me a little bit of when Nephi broke his bow and his family all complained though, because ever since I lost my hymn book my companions have been complaining about how hard it is to share, but they lost their extra ones too. I just think its funny, but the problem is I don´t know how to make a new hymn book like Nephi made a new bow. I´ll ponder that this week.

 

So that´s about all that I have for this week.

Love you all!

Hermana Evans