Two Short Holiday Letters

This week has been interesting, my comp was called as a sister training leader, so we will be doing divisions every week and we will have lots to do with meetings and stuff!!

There was a temblor this week!! Dont know how to say it in english... mini earthquake? SCARED THE CRAP OUTTA ME.  Seriously I was terrified.  We were sitting at the table and I was writing in my journal and the table started to shake and I look up at my companion, she saw how terrified I was and to calm me down (because two of the other hermanas were screaming in the other room) she told me to count to 20 slowly and if it didnt stop we would get somewhere more secure, so we sat still at counted to 20 it stopped at like 15.... freak though I was soooo scared!!! I cried... wow, you dont realize how fast something like that can just come on! And you never know if its gonna be something little or something devastatingly huge.  Luckily it was small, and Im fine.  

Well, I got the flu this week.  That was no fun.  Me and my comp decided we would rather be out in the heat with people slamming the door in our faces than have to stay inside any more because someone is sick.  

I got the other package mom! Hermana Mckinley wrapped it and she said she saw the stuff that was for me and my comp and its all taken care of haha

I got my cases! I havent seen them because they are wrapped but all of the hermanas in my apartment said they are GORGEOUS, I saw my companions cases, they are way cool, so Ill show you on christmas!

Ive decided that this is going to be a super different christmas but because of that it has to be the absolute best christmas.  I was so touched to see how much Heavenly Father blessed me this week. I was kinda down last week, missing you all and missing Christmas and seriously it was like every day a member or investigator did something to make me feel so loved and I realized that out here baptisms or no, I am making a difference in the lives of these people, I love them and they love me.  This is going to be the best Christmas of my life and I cant wait to talk to you guys!!!

With love, Kyrstin Millett

Well, it was fun to talk to you guys, I was freaking out before hand because I didn´t want to get all homesick and it was hard to say goodbye and everything but in the end it was great.  Biggest miracle was how I felt afterwards.  (And I don´t mean this as an offense to you guys because I love you and miss you all) I hung up, looked at my comp, wiped my tears off and thought oh well lets go.  We walked back to our pension and when I walked in I felt home.  I was like yess I´m hooooommmee!!!!! Haha I seriously felt like, well just talked to my fam.... theyre the same..... I´m not missing a thing.  This is my home and I have work to do.  So we got all our stuff in the apartment and went to work and I haven´t felt homesick since! Miracle.  Seriously I was DYING before Christmas doing everything I could to just not feel homesick and now I feel GREAT.  I LOVE it here I really do.  I feel like I got all the negative stuff out with you guys (Sorry) and now I just feel good.  I love these people, they are my second family and I sure as heck don´t know what I´ll do when Ill have to leave them.  So yeah all is good.  

Glad you guys got the packages too!!!! haha hope they liked it all and hope you liked the pics, the next time I send my memory card I´ll try to take some more videos to say hi or something

So this week we went to pirque for pday, that was an adventure... so sorry I have less time to write because we were traveling forever.  But it was interesting to see a different part of my mission the CAMPO  it was so nice and peaceful, there weren´t cars every second, it was quiet, there were mountains and trees and dirt and fields and a whole bunch of stuff we don´t have in the middle of the city.  But I was talking to hermana Jennings (Nick and Jackson Emerys cousin, the one that was in the rich sector El Golf for 11 months then sent to pirque out in the boonies) and she is having a ROUGH time.  She fainted the second day in the heat and their branch is a mess which makes it really hard to work with.  It made me first of all so greatful for the WONDERFUL ward I work with that literally dedicates almost every lesson to missionary work and greatful for such wonderful examples of good attitudes in my mission, she has such a good attitude even though she is having the roughest time in her new sector.  It was super fun to go visit them today!!

For the weekend before christmas we went caroling at a bunch of different houses in a different sector of pocuro each night, it was amazing to see how each one of the people we visited reacted differently but they were all grateful for the opportunity to remember the true meaning of Christmas... definitely organizing that with my next ward next Christmas!

Then on Christmas eve we went to Ingrids house which was nice!! For Christmas we ate in the pension for lunch because it got cancelled.... good ole rice and ketchup (surprisingly really good) then we went and ate with Luz Maria, Cleber, Cecelia and their families.  I love them all so much and it was AWESOME to see them all together on Christmas!! (I bet cleber posted pics on FB so if you aren´t friends with him add him!) And mom I tried to teach Family History!! We went to go try it with Benjamin (Luz Marias son, that is friends with savannah on facebook) but we searched and searched and NOTHING, then we found out the problem, almost NONE of it has been indexed!!!! So we downloaded indexing and I taught him that! Haha I told him about how fun and simple it was and we pulled it up and we were like WHATT!?!?!?! In Chile its like a long document that you have to read through to find out the information, not just a chart or a list but paragraphs in spanish about the burial and everything..... not so easy.... not so fun.... no wonder no one has indexed the Chilean records!! So we did a bit and then we had to go, the crazy thing was I came back a few days later and his mom was like, WHAT THE HECK DID YOU TEACH MY SON!! I thought she was mad... but then she went off about how he hadn´t touched the xbox in days and that all day instead of sleeping or doing other less useful things he just indexes and indexes.  Haha I was pretty happy.  Good ole Benja he decided that if he couldn´t find his family because it wasn´t indexed that someone had to start somewhere and he seriously hasn´t stopped since!! Love this family.  

So, super sorry but I don´t have a ton of stories for you and I don´t have a lot of time because of our adventures today and because I needed to send pics one at a time haha but I love you all, hope you have a good week!!

Kyrstin Millett

P-day adventure to Pirque

I never see streets that are empty of any traffic

 Grammy's Christmas Package

 Christmas Morning with the Hermanas

Christmas eve dinner with Ingrid and Hermana Thompson (Ingrid is a member that is like our second companion, and hermana Thompson is the mission psychologist) and me with all the stuff I got. SOO MUCH STUFF.  Thanks to everyone seriously.  My apartment is going to get sick eating nothing but candy for the next year.  So great