so, here i am again with zero time to write, and WAY to much to say (our zone activity went long again today). so here are a few highlights to hold you over till next week:
-zone activity: we had a mexican fiesta! ok so sort of...we ate some mexican food at least! we cooked tortillas with chicken, guacamole, salsa, and tomatoes. it was sooooo delicious. it was funny how much it reminded me of home, because i´m not even mexican, but still...it was a taste that i haven´t had at all since i´ve been here. then we had homemade cookies (with peanut butter m&ms!!!) and ice cream. i was very happy. the bummer is that this was our last zone activity together! we´ve really become a family, so it´ll be really hard to leave and start over in another zone, but i´m sure it´ll be great too.
-changes: i´m leaving my sector for temuco, a sector about an hour to the south! i´ll be in the center of a big city (it really does remind me of boston in how busy it is with all of the cars and the noise and tons of university students). also, i´ll be in a TRIO! there´s an odd number of hermanas for now, so there´ll be 3 of us in one tiny, tiny house in the city (i´ll have to send photos next week, cause it´s seriously SO small) this was all VERY unexpected, because my companion had found out she was leaving, which typically means that the other one stays, but NOPE! we are both leaving the sector so another hermana can train her new companion here in tolhuaca. which also means that we have to leave tons of notes and instructions and make sure everything in the house is ready for the new hermanas because everything will be new to them (like it was for my comp and i when we opened the secor 3 months ago!) super uncommon, but that seems to be how things go so far in my mission experience, so it works for me. it is sad though because i just hadn´t been preparing myself emotionally to be leaving, so it´s all really abrupt. but the baptism really was the best way to leave the sector.
-interesting side-note: the sector that i´m going to just happens to be where SERGIO is going to university!! yep, i´m following my very first investigator to college! i´m super excited to be able to contact him again and help him continue to progress.
-oh yeah, so...I HAD MY FIRST BAPTISM YESTERDAY!!! actually, we baptized TWO jovenes (youth? young ones? haha don´t know how to translate). john and carlos were baptized and confirmed right after church today, and it was so so so so so great. the service went really well, with lots of participation from the members, and i got to sing too! hna miller and i were a little nervous because we are both leaving right after they got baptized, but with all of the help and support we saw from the members, we know that they will be well taken care of. one of the best parts of the baptism was when the grandma (who was sealed in the temple, but has been inactive for several years) got up unexpectedly at the end and started balling as she bore her testimony that her and her husband were going to return to the church because they were able to feel the spirit so strong at the baptism of their grandkids, and were reminded of why they were baptized in the first place. it was a really sweet experience. i was so proud of the work that hna miller and i did to prepare these boys for baptism, but even more that we were able to help reactivate an entire family! such a blessing from heavenly father. (my companion has my camera right now with the photos of the baptism, and i´ve got to get off the computer, so the photos will have to wait till next week. sorry!)
lots of love :)
hna wright
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