I find it very strange that I am not in cultural shock right
now because I have only been here for three days, and it is quite different
than home. I am in the city, but a more poor part of the city where there are
lots of stray dogs and apartments with clothes hanging out the window. I love
it though! It is the heat of summer so i am getting comfortable feeling gross
and drinking lots of water haha If i didn´t have a way to check the date, I
would never know it is Christmas time.
The members here are great, and we always have a place to go
for lunch, which is the big meal of the day. Equally so, my companion is great!
Her name is Hermana Vargas and she is from here in Chile! She lives in a town
that I forget the name of that is south of here. She knows quite a bit of
English which is nice, and she has only been out in the field for 4 months so I
think we are both learning more or less. Our relationship is like any
relationship, it needs work. As you can imagine, there is a little bit of a
language barrier, but we can usually get by it when I perform some very unique
dance moves to get her laughing or when she makes me our very nutritous dinner
of tom ramen with lots of cheese hahahah It is great.
Since we have been here, we have taught only two lessons
which is less than preferable to me because I love teaching, but our
investigadors are great. And by teaching I mean bearing my testimony because I
don´t have the ability to actual teach yet. Anyway we are teaching two sisters
who are 15 and 13 and they are so cute and kept asking me to sing Justin Beiber
in English for them and kept wanting to play Simon says and then laughing every
time it was my turn! When I left middle school, I never though 13 year old
girls would be ever be intimidating to me again... boy was I wrong. Our other
investigador is a 14 year old boy named Bastian. We were contacted by his
mother because she was looking for a way to help him with his drug problem so
she is encouraging the lessons a lot. He has a baptism date, so hopefully he
will be able to follow through.
When i got here all the missionaries told me not to worry
that I would pick up the language eventually, so I am SERIOUSLY relying on
that. I don´t know what language they taught me in the CCM but I swear it was
not the same language they speak here. I get confused when someone asks me
where I am from or how old i am... Chileano Spanish and Mexican spanish are too
very different things. I honestly just walk down the street saying Hola to
literally everyone and smiling because I know nothing else! It´s all right
though hahah Surprisingly I haven´t gotten frustrated yet, I just kind of laugh
at how ridiculous I must look haha
I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!!
Hermana Bever
The members here are great, and we always have a place to go
for lunch, which is the big meal of the day. Equally so, my companion is great!
Her name is Hermana Vargas and she is from here in Chile! She lives in a town
that I forget the name of that is south of here. She knows quite a bit of
English which is nice, and she has only been out in the field for 4 months so I
think we are both learning more or less. Our relationship is like any
relationship, it needs work. As you can imagine, there is a little bit of a
language barrier, but we can usually get by it when I perform some very unique
dance moves to get her laughing or when she makes me our very nutritous dinner
of tom ramen with lots of cheese hahahah It is great.
Since we have been here, we have taught only two lessons
which is less than preferable to me because I love teaching, but our
investigadors are great. And by teaching I mean bearing my testimony because I
don´t have the ability to actual teach yet. Anyway we are teaching two sisters
who are 15 and 13 and they are so cute and kept asking me to sing Justin Beiber
in English for them and kept wanting to play Simon says and then laughing every
time it was my turn! When I left middle school, I never though 13 year old
girls would be ever be intimidating to me again... boy was I wrong. Our other
investigador is a 14 year old boy named Bastian. We were contacted by his
mother because she was looking for a way to help him with his drug problem so
she is encouraging the lessons a lot. He has a baptism date, so hopefully he
will be able to follow through.
When i got here all the missionaries told me not to worry
that I would pick up the language eventually, so I am SERIOUSLY relying on
that. I don´t know what language they taught me in the CCM but I swear it was
not the same language they speak here. I get confused when someone asks me
where I am from or how old i am... Chileano Spanish and Mexican spanish are too
very different things. I honestly just walk down the street saying Hola to
literally everyone and smiling because I know nothing else! It´s all right
though hahah Surprisingly I haven´t gotten frustrated yet, I just kind of laugh
at how ridiculous I must look haha
I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!!
Hermana Bever
