Hermana Katie Griffin

  Puntos de una semana muy chaotic!!  -conf de líderes: it was very good. Elder Kearon and his wife spoke in English and the APs had to translate to Spanish. Elder Kearon spoke about a lot of things but one of the things I loved was his emphasis on the word of wisdom and treating our body like the temple that it is. Especially with exercise and eating right! But what marked me a lot more was his wife's talk. She talked about comparison and how we shouldn't do that. We are a team in the mission and it's not about who's better or who's baptizing more or who's got better numbers or who's a leader. She said the race is against SIN not against each other! We're a team, working to serve the Lord and love His children, and that's it. I loved it, and it reminded me a lot of my favorite byu devotional... here's a link ;)   https://speeches.byu.edu/ talks/j-b-haws/wrestling-with- comparisons/ -boda: our friends got married!!!! I made them a wedding cake! E...

Me and compi and our cute faces  Hi,  Accidentally hiking a mountain Yet again I am amazed and horrified by the velocity of time. I've said this a million times in my mission, but it's like one week lasts two seconds but one day sometimes feels like 3 months. We're already halfway through the transfer and we're already almost at the end of the month. It makes absolutely no sense, but anyways here's what happened this week:  •wedding and baptism prep: this Friday our friends are getting married!! But unfortunately there's a conference that day and I asked for permission to skip it but president said I need to go to the conference. So I'll be in antofagasta. But I'm gonna make the cake beforehand a leave it with my comp to take care of!! Hopefully it'll be fine. It's been a little stressful but really awesome to see so many people chipping in time and resources and lending clothes and decorations so that this wedding can be a success!! We're al...

Me and my chilenita    Hi,  A quick little run down of this week:  We climbed a mountain: I complained the whole time but I made it!! Afterwards we got sushi and they said the sushi would be 20 minutes, but it took an hour and a half to arrive, we had all just climbed a mountain and were super hungry, so when it arrived a brief prayer was said, and then... silence. For 10 minutes. And then the sushi was gone, just like that! 160 pieces with 8 people haha. 10/10 would sushi again  This dog that just randomly jumped up on this bench we were sitting on while we were waiting for lunch  Mateo: this 17 year old that we're teaching who is possibly only interested in a 13 year old from our ward instead of the gospel...but we had a super powerful lesson with him on Tuesday, and he didn't come to Church but only because of an emergency. He could get baptized this week but he doesn't want to. He won't tell us why.  Exchanges! First with Hermana Maureira. She's ne...

  Hi,  It's been a really good week! I feel like it's been two years since I got a real p day but hey that's show biz right? In fact, today wasn't even really restful AT ALL, because the zone leaders decided it would be a good idea to climb a mountainnn... it was cool, but it killed me and my comp haha. Maybe next week I'll try and send a picture of the mountain, cuz guys it was huge, we almost died basically. Well, no we didn't but it was a lot of climbing and I think my legs are gonna hurt all week.  Random events that happened this week because I'm not feeling like putting them in order necessarily:  -onions ---> we had lunch with my favorite member who like requires that we eat all of the excessive amount of food that she gives us. I had warned my comp about the portion size beforehand so we both ate a very light breakfast and had lots of room in our tummies to eat all the food she gave us. The elders had no such warning, and were struggling to finish...