October 8, 2012

so, once upon a time, aka a week ago sunday, i got bit by a dog (as i had mentioned last week). i went to the hospital and they cleaned it out, but didn´t say anything about getting vaccinated or anything, just to observe the dog and come back if anything strange happened at the site of the wound...uhhh ok thanks...haha. i called hna martinez (wife of the mission president, who is in charge of everything health-related), and she said she´d find out if i´d need to get a rabies vaccine. RABIES!!! i couldn´t believe it. everyone that i talked to told me that i needed to get the vaccine, and couldn´t believe that i hadn´t gone back to the hospital to get treated. i wasn´t all that worried about it at first, but when the whole world tells you that you most likey have a disease, it starts to get to you. i kept trying to get in contact with hna martinez, but she didn´t answer until yesterday, so pretty much i went a whole week wondering whether or not i had rabies...ugh.haha. luckily hna  martinez said that if i hadn´t had any symptoms for the first 24 hours, i don´t need the vaccine, which is why she hadn´t called me back. phew. crisis averted. nice to know that i won´t be coming back home as a werewolf or something...

general conference, of course, was AMAZING!!! of course, the big news is that the youth can now leave on missions at 18/19 years old! many of the young single adults here in pitrufquén will now be able to leave within a few months instead of waiting another 1-2 years! also, one of the young women who´d just turned 19 a couple days ago felt the impression to serve a mission, even though she´d never thought about it before! she started balling during the session, and said that she felt a peace knowing that the lord was guiding her to this point, where she could be willing to follow his direction. it was a great experience.


i wish i had time to talk about all of the things i learned and felt from conference, but it´ll have to wait until next week, because i´m almost out of time! also, a  miracle of the week, one of the investigators that hna nelson and i had found in caupolicán, shirley (the 20 yr old who is a cashier in a supermarket) got baptized on friday, and paulo baptized her! i was so excited when i heard, because i´d been able to teach and get to know her, and now she´s a member of the church! love it :) scriptures of the week:
john 17:3, john 14:27, john 13:34-35

this life is to get to know christ, our savior, and to follow his example. as we get to know him, we love him. as we grow in our love for him, we want to obey his commandments. his primary commandments are to love him, and LOVE OUR BRETHREN. that is why i´m here on this earth: to be an example of christ in showing love for others as he would.
gotta go
lots of love,
sophia