Courtney's Week #59

 

 

Well, I have good news for everyone! We all survived el 20 de Mayo! There was a huge scare here about how the world was going to end or at least there was going to be a huge earthquake, but there was absolutely nothing that happened. I think in about every one of the lessons that we taught in the last few weeks they all asked about May 20th and what was our opinion about what was going to happen. It was a little bit ridiculous how scared everyone was. But, it did motivate my companion and I to put together our 72 hour kits that we are supposed to have. 

So everything is going well here in San Francisco, it is so funny to think that my ward is called San Francisco, but just so that you guys understand where the name came from--here in South America the Catholic church had a lot a lot of influence over the government and stuff like that for a very very long time, and so usually in just about every sector that I have seen there are usually about 12-15 streets with the names of all of the saints or santos from the Catholic church. So our church meetinghouse is located on a street called San Francisco, Saint Francis. Pretty cool, right?

So as far as the Obra Misional, things are going pretty well right now, this sector is a lot different from other sectors I have had because it is a little bit richer, but not really, it just means that everyone has bigger houses and they have to work a lot more to pay for their bigger houses. Then in reality they are never in their bigger houses. So point of the story, almost all of our appointments are from 8 pm - 10 pm. So it is like 2 hours of super awesome lessons after a day full of just searching for people to teach. But we should have a baptism this week of the son of an inactive member. So that will be really great. 

So I have some super awesome pictures to send you guys. Last week for Preparation day we went to the Catholic Cathedral in Santiago it was super awesome, it was a little bit sad though to see all of the little confession stands that lined the walls though. Well, love you all! 

Hermana Evans!