Wow this week has been the most eventful week of my life! So many cool experiences, and new adjustments that’s for sure! I was able to make it Chile without Any major problems which was really nice! I was able to meet my mission leaders which was super amazing too! I had a blast this week and had some crazy adventures!! I I am going to now give a few points of what happened this past week!
• I was able to make it to Chile and eat my first meal of non CCM food hahah
• I Met my trainer and he is the best! We get along super well, and he’s been a missionary for a long time so he’s got a lot of experience which us a huge blessing!
• I got to my area which is called Los Aromas, and it is basically just a strait up hill with a million houses which is the best for missionary work!!
• I was finally able to meet the famous dogs of South America hahah they are rabid monsters hahaha they just want to eat everyone! I was able to learn the technique of throwing a fake rock at them and they run away
• I found out that Chile only eats lunch and not dinner so I’m basically starved everyday hahah, but the lunches are amazing!!
• I helped an old man shove his earwax and mold hearingaide in his head while it didn’t even fit and it was a weird situation to be in hahah, basically it’s a long story but he just walked up and asked for help and I tried my hardest and nothing was working hahaha and then a second later I looked back and he was just smoking a cigarette with the hearingaide just hanging out of his ear hahaha
• The Spanish is basically impossible understand hahah, everyday does get easier with trying to understand but at the beginning it sounded like reformed Egyptian hahah
• We had some crazy comments by all the locals! They say we’re from either the CIA, Germans, Russians, or that I looked Chilean, so basically I look like I’m from every country hahah
• The roads here are named after every Country so technically I’ve visited the whole world!
• We went into the poorest part of our Sector and it is called El Sauce, they are basically just a huge group of immigrants and homeless people thag build their own homes and legally they can live there and be residents if they live on the land for 5 years or something like that! So there’s a ton of Haitians, Colombians, Venezuelans, and then old homeless Chileans! It’s a super fun town because they just play African music and there’s little kids playing soccer and it’s so fun!
• There was a guy singing mariachi music in the streets which was so cool! The whole town basically comes alive on Saturday night
• There’s crazy gang cowboys riding horses in the street! They speak a crazy language that doesn’t sound like Spanish and they try and kiss anyone they see, they call you over in a weird language and then they try and kiss you which is very weird! They almost did it to my companion hahah
These are just a few points from this past week! There’s a lot that goes on but these are just a few highlights! Anyways I’m very excited for next week! It’s going to be a blast! I’m excited for the crazy adventures that next week brings!! Anyways I love yall and I’m thinking about yall everyday!! Nos Vemos!!