Hi, I´m on for today. I´m doing a little bit better but lots of crazy stuff is happening. How are you guys! I miss you! This week has felt a little bit surreal. One thing that I forgot to tell everyone is that my lisp is completely gone, thanks to learning Spanish! I´m greatful for the small miracles I´ve seen so far in my mission.
Mom! To answer your questions: To get around Santiago, we walk in our sector. To church, to investigators houses, and to contact. We ride buses occasionally when we need to go to the office or appt. which seems to be quite a lot lately. Also, there´s an underground metro system that we use a lot to get to farther places in Santiago.
Umm we eat in the members homes for Almuerzo every day. We never eat dinner or cena, because they don't have it! Sometimes we eat a really late snack with members or investigators. Like 9 o'clock or 10. It´s called once (own-seh) and it´s what they eat instead of dinner. They eat tons of pan. Tons of chicken. Tons of carbs. It's a miracle I'm not gaining weight. I´m actually looking really good because I´ve been working out super hard. Getting up early to do insanity and lots of pushups/crossfit. It´s the most consistantly I´ve ever worked out in my life.
Yeah, the ward members are awesome at helping. The ward mission leader seems to be really good. I wish we could get more members to join us for lessons, but it doesn´t happen too often. Everyone is very kind though! Not cold at all!
And for weather, it hasn´t gotten too cold. A few mornings have been a bit brusque, but nothing that good ol´ Elder Nickerl can´t handle. Plus I have like 4 blankets so that helps!
We´re teaching quite a few people, but it doesn´t seem like anyone wants to progress too much. I´ll tell you something about the people here in Santiago. They are all SOOO friendly and super willing to talk. But you can´t get them to commit to save their life. And if you can get them to commit to do something (read, pray, go to church), 9 times out of 10 when you check up on them, they haven´t done it. So in that aspect, the work is very challenging.
I´m a little worried because some huge changes are happening in my area--and I'm pretty stoked right about them. And I´m hoping I can be much more motivated and much happier in the upcoming weeks. I´m really gonna try the hand of the Lord and put my faith in him and try my very hardest to work. Next week is actually transfers but, today, I'm in Las Condes (the sector with the office) and today was actually my transfer: I´M WITH ELDER MILLER!!!!! We´re super, super stoked! So yeah, I´m writing with Elder Miller right now, and shortly after, we will be heading back to Chayavientos B (my sector and Elder Miller´s new sector)! So we´re going to be working our butts off because I barely know the area and he´s never been there so he doesn´t know it at all, and we´re probably gonna get white washed (when you lose all your contacts and investigators, generally when something like this happens). But anyways, so Elder Miller is now District Leader in our sector!
Love you!
Jared
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