Mom,
well this area is pretty different, but like everything is within 45
min of each other so it cant be thaaaaaat different. But its very
different. Like pocuro was all big buildings, hospitals, universities,
rushed people, single people, rich people, giant ward, giant sector.
Sotero is like all houses, nothing commercial, middle class (chilean
standard which is different than USA standard), families, community
feel, drug deals and drunk people haha. Ive loved both sectors but this
one is quite a bit easier on my poor heart. We teach loooots of people
and its really great. It has had far less baptisms than pocuro though,
Its had a looooooooong period of member problems, chueco (disobedient)
elders, then kinda lazy hermanas that just visited the same 3 or 4
families, etc. So this place is ready for some change. the good thing is
that recently sotero B had a white wash (two new hnas came at the same
time) and they just dropped the old stuff and worked super hard to find
new people and change things and now that the two sectors are combined
there is soooooo much work to do and so much potential. People often
look at this sector as a bit of a dud sector, but I LOVE it here. I dont
believe that for one second. Me and my comp have been feeling that we
need to fast more, so we are gonna fast more, and keep working and I
know we are gonna see a lot of success, it will be great to get things
back up and going in this ward. I for reals LOVE this sector :) VERY
different from pocuro, I loved that too but I looooove being here.
Well,
this week we had the mission leadership meeting... no clue what the
name is in english, in spanish its concilio de liderazgo. It was a great
meeting! Then we had zone class and my comp and I talked about leaving
behind fear and having faith to baptize.
I
went on divisions with hna Nuñez (she lived with me in pocuro) it was
fun going to her sector and working with her, there were also lots of
AWWWESSSOMMEE things that happened here while I was gone. I am so excited
to help all of the people here in this ward I know the work is just
ready to explode, so please pray that it will keep progressing like it
is and that my companion and I will have the energy and strength to keep
up with the work! My companion has really bad back problems and its
really hard for her when we have days where no one answers almost all
day (which happened like 3 times) but she is probably the most obedient,
fun, hard working, and positive missionary I know so she really does a
great job of working hard, its just really rough for her on days when we
are drained of energy (which happens fast with all of the meetings and
traveling we do)
This week we have like a different meeting every day. Im really excited to learn lots!
Not to freak you out but also it
would be great if you could pray for all of the missionaries safety
here :) I guess today a bomb went off in the metro station (close to
where we were and a few people got injured, they set off a few in the
other metro line a few weeks ago too....) so yeah we will be traveling
in the metro like every day this week so all prayers would be
appreciated :)
well I gotta go but I love you all!
Hna Millett
PS. could you send me thebrownsugar cake recipe? (and what is bisquick made of mas or menos?)
PPS
yeah mal Sept. 18th is a BIIIIIG thing here. People already have all their
flags out, doing asados, inviting us over (several weeks in advance) and
yeah looots of things. But before the 18th comes 11 de septiembre.
Thats where all the protests and power cutting and craziness starts....
yipee! Happy 1 year in the Mish!
Pictures:
more pics with my comp
with hna altamirano and her newbie at cerro san cristobal (a big hill in the middle of santiago)
at an investigators house
we made chocolate chip cookies :)on the cool tram train thing that took us up the hill
a panoramic view of the city
on the cool tram train thing that took us up the hill
The Peace Picture reminds me of Katie.
my tag and santiago
us with hna bohman(hna ortons old comp)
These pics over look my old sector. Some silly pics
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