August 15, 2011 - Letter

Dear Mom and Dad,

 

I am glad to hear that everything is going so great! Okay, first things first, a run down of the pictures. I don't remember which ones I picked or in which order...There is one of a bunch of Hermanas, this is all the Hermanas at Zone Conference, Hnas Freeman and Collette (my Punta Alta Hermanas) with thier¨hijas¨, and Hna Salas and I. Unfortunately it was the only picture we actually got to take at zone conference. There is also one of me washing my hair outside in our patio area. That's right folks, we still have no water with which to bathe!! So we are washing our hair outside where there is warm water, and then quickly quickly showering with the freezing FREEZING water! There is also a giant wagon here in SAO. Don't ask me why, I don't know. But we went to go take pictures with it! And why you may ask are our head cut of in one? It is because a very nice, but very drunk man took it for us. Then when he walked away we took more, with our faces. Ha ha.

 

Okay, your questions. There isn't as much mud anymore. It has been a pretty warm dry week. We´ll see if that sticks around or not, we are starting to get to spring and so the weather is going to be a little crazy for a while. I only wear my boots when its raining. Christian is doing great! He is progressing and looks like everything will turn out for his baptism for the 27th. And, the highlight of the week (drum roll please) Norma and Roberta came to church yesterday! We are so excited! She is really quiet, but from what we know about her, we think that she liked it, Roberta has been before, and she really really enjoys it. We are hoping that things will be able to continue and that they will be baptized September 3!!!

 

Okay, now the week! This week flew by. We were only able to work for a couple of hours on Tuesday before we went back to the house, ate lunch and went to the terminal to catch our bus. We were really nervous about being late, and we still hadn´t heard from the elders where we would be staying the night, and our phone stopped working!! Our bus turned out to be an hour late, but during the ride, the phone worked long enough that we could figure out where we were staying! We made it into Bahia about 11 at night, and President and Hermana Detlefsen picked us up and took us to their house. I love staying the night with them, it is so fun to be in a family setting for a little while, and Pres and Hermana are so great!

 

Wednesday we had a really great zone conference, where I got to meet the hijas of Hermanas Collette and Freeman, and I had a great surprise! Michelle was there! Michelle is a member of Barrio Atlantida, and she is a really good friend. The Punta Alta Hermanas invited her and it was really fun to be able to talk to her and see her again! The conference went really well! After the conference, the elders went to go buy our tickets for out return trip, and we found out that we wouldn't be leaving until eight thirty. Which meant that we wouldn´t be getting home until two thirty am. Talk about gross. So we went to work in one of the areas of the elders until it was time to catch our bus.

 

Thursday as always we had planning, so that took up a good chunk of time, and then the next thing we knew, the week was gone! And now we are halfway through this transfer! How crazy is that? How fast three weeks can fly! I am really enjoying my time here in SAO! Herman Salas is pretty great! I am learning alot! Oh, the really cool thing about Zone Conference is that I understood things! And I was able to participate! All in Spanish! And, some of the elders were dumb and were speaking in English, even though Hermana Salas was there (it is really bad manners to do that), and I was able to speak in Spanish anyways! I can communicate in another language! That being said, I have a long way to go until I am fluent, but I can communicate! I will take every small victory I can!

 

Also, I got bit by a dog this week. Don´t worry, it didnt´t break skin or anything, but I have a really cool bruise. Needless to say, I am scared of the dogs now. Everyone tells me not to be scared because dogs can tell when you are scared, but I don´t know. I wasn't scared before and I got bit, and now I am scared of them and they are staying away. How crazy this mixed up world is! But seriously, dont´worry. I am fine.

 

Love you!!!

 

Corinne