Hola
hola hola! este es bien!!
There was a Haitian guy in Monumento who only knew how to say that
in Spanish, so we always used to say it, jaja!
First thing to tell this
week is that the Christmas choir that Hna Woodward put together finally started
performing! We performed three times this week, twice in the feria, once on the
corner of a university, and once in this gigantic park in Santiago called Parque
O Higgins. I’s like the equivalent of central park! The first time, in just two
hours we got 80 referrals! The second time also, the third time 70, and the
last time a grand total of 115 referencias!! Wooohooooo!!! I love singing in
these things. Funny story though, we have this piece called "Peace, Peace!"
and it’s all slow and pretty about peace on earth. As we started singing it on
a college campus, all of a sudden, the carabineros (police officers) SWAT
TEAM parks their van in front of us, and a whole bunch of officers jump out in
all of their gear, with these gigantic full body shields, and they start
running up and down the street. Nobody could keep it together, jajajaja. I
was in tears, I was laughing so hard. Luckily, it’s a short piece. When we
got through it, we all just started laughing and we went to look what had
happened. In Chile, we are having lots, and lots, and LOTS of protests, because some police officer in the south killed a
mapuche (mapuches are the native people here). Anyway, the protests are really
scary because they let off these bombs that don’t really do anything bad but
they smell terrible and they hurt your eyes really bad (I think it might be
tear gas but I don’t really know what that is sooo). Anyway, it was a small
protest happening nearby but not anything too scary, don’t worry. :)
Also, this weekend, we had a wedding and a baptism planned! In the
end, only the wedding happened. Hna Miller and I felt impressed to have their
baptism not so close to their wedding so they can focus on the promise they’re
gonna make with God :). But the wedding was a total success. The only failure
was that I didn’t get a pic with the bride and groom because I had to leave early
to go sing! But I left my camera with my comp so she took pics!
And the bad news as far as the baptisms goes is that.... I won’t
be there!!! because I got transfers :/ This cambio, I’m going to be back
in Esquina Blanca, which is the ward right there in the office, and my comps
will be Hna Retamal (Chilena, who I already spent all last cambio with, and who
suffers from her spine, though nobody knows what she has, she was supposed to
go home but the area won’t let her for another three weeks) and Hna Ramos
(BRASILLLLL and I have always wanted to be her comp, we’re like
BFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFS. She has a herniated disc, and will probably be going home
this cambio! :( ) but yeah, I’m stoked. I really, really love both of them and
we are already good friends! Anyway, we are going to be in the office like full
time, all day every day I think because both of them are worse off than I am ha-ha
:) But they both have such good attitudes, it’ll be fun! The other fun thing is
that, the two APs are from Brazil, and one of the two secretaries is too!! I’M
GOING TO LEARN SO MUCH PORTUGUES! Last cambio, I finally made some serious
progress on my Creole, so now I’ll be able to keep that up and remember that Portuguese
I’d learned.
Love, Hermana Stanley
Referrals!
Christmas Choir
