It’s gotten nice and CHILE here. I wear my
coat every day, but not necessarily all day, ha-ha. In the afternoon it can
still get kind of warm. I still don’t know why or how, but the bishop’s wife
somehow ended up with bags and bags of extra clothes, like a whole carful
(literally the whole entire car) and she let us pull out whatever we wanted, so
I’ve got lots of sweaters now. BLESS HER.
I spent 7 hours straight today on my feet
waiting in a big long line here in Santiago, trying to get my visa. At six
months, we have to go and get our visas, and it can take up to two or three
p-days. All day. Waiting in lines. It’s like Disneyland minus the fun. But I
was my hnas from the CCM (MTC) so that was kinda okay. It means I’m literally
just dead right now. In the end, the office always closes at 2, and right at 2,
but we got up to the door but we had to leave, so we didn’t even finish the
first step and there are three!! But we got an appointment to do it tomorrow so
that’s good. I don’t know how much you know, but Chile is a very diverse pais
(country), because the economy is good. We have a TON of haitianos,
venezolanos, peruanos, y colombianos. Especially here in Santiago. Well, the
government just changed the rules about visas, and now a whole bunch of people
are illegal and are gonna get kicked out. So people have been frantically
trying to get their visas. That makes getting our visas wayyyy more
complicated. Not complicated, just longer.
We had a good week. We had 3 people in la
capilla el domingo (at the chapel on Sunday). I’m sorry, sometimes it’s just
easier to communicate in Spanish. Maria Angelica who will be baptized al 19 (on
the 19th), Valentina (otra niña de 9 años que es hija de menos
activos, another 9-year-old girl who is less active) and Moises, a 27-year-old
Venezuelan who lives with members. Also super cool! It really was a good week!
This week we went to contact a reference that we had gotten, and the lady wasn’t
home, but the son says, "puedo yo atenderlas?" and were like, ....uh
if you want... yaaaaaaa. As we said the closing prayer he cried. So SWEET. It
was a good week!
I love you and I’m super excited to talk to
you in a few more days!
Love,
Hna Stanley
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