Hermana Katie Griffin

  Helloooooo Hermana Griffin and Hermana Tommy right before transfers Guess what happened with CAMBIOS!!!  You probably guessed wrong- I certainly did!! I'm.... STAYING in CALAMA...... but in the other hermana sector.... with Hermana PEREZ!!!!! WOOOOO IM SO EXCITED!!!  My original expectations were one of two things- 1) I stay in my sector and get a new compy, or 2) I go to somewhere far away (because everywhere is far away from here- the next closest city is 3 hours away!!)  What this means: probably, I'll be in Calama until like right before or right after Christmas. But also anything could happen. But I didn't think this would happen!!! Here's the thing, I've been living with Hermana Perez for like a month and a half now and we're like BFFs, have been since like the day she got here. I LOVE her. She's from Urugay and doesn't speak any English, so my Spanish is going to be significantly better by the end of this cambio I imagine (and my English signifi...

Holiiiisss Time is SO WEIRD  If you had asked me a week ago how close I was to 4 months I would have said super far, I just finished three months... but I hit 4 months in 3 days    Anyways -Monday we went on this weird hike by a river so that was fun... but I have a funny story about that night  So. We were at our friend, Yade's house having once upstairs and chillin, and Yade was like we need to get drinks, so we went down to the almacen right outside her house like less than a block... but downstairs, her dad (who's like in his 70s) was being taught by the JEHOVAS WITNESSES??? And we've been teaching Yade for like 4 months, so to see JWs there was so wacky. We just looked at each other and laughed as soon as we were out of ear shot of them. I wonder how they felt, randomly teaching this old dude and then the "mormons" come downstairs. This is the same family who had two girls get baptized last week, so yeah overall, ridiculously funny.  -Tuesday we had a prett...

Holaaaa, I have no idea how it's possible but here I am very close to done with my training!!!!  This week was crazy and a lot of stuff happened as usual so ya know here's the wrapup haha  -Tuesday we did some good old door knocking, aaaand as usual, no one answered except this one old lady who was super católica and didn't want to talk to us   así es la misión!!  We also had completos in centro and bought these really stupid looking dog stuffed animal things as prizes for our activity on Wednesday and I think that was about it, at least that was worth writing about!!  -Wednesday we had consejos and it was really good, one elder bore his testimony so strongly and the spirit filled the room... aaand then a different elder sucked the spirit out by complaining for 10 minutes   but anyways I was feeling pretty good about life and we had this  little  Facebook challenge thing that went pretty well.... but then that night we got news that the ...

Hello there!  This week was a lot of things, mostly good things...  -Tuesday  we  had a pretty normal work day, and  we  worked with our two niñas who got baptized on Sunday!!! There are a bunch of things  we  had to get ready for that so the week was pretty well based on that.  -Wednesday  we  got completos :)  also  the niñas passed their baptismal interview wooooo!  -Thursday is literally not even worth writing about. But in the evening  we  traveled to  antofa  for zone conference and stayed overnight in their apartment. It had a really pretty view of the ocean.  -Friday  we  had zone conference and it was pretty good! I'm definitely understanding more Spanish all the time, which is nice because the more experienced you get, the less mental energy it takes to listen to people talk, but with that being said, it was definitely still exhausting to be listening to Spanish all day. Th...