...I'd like to start this letter
out by telling you what it means to be serving in Cachapoal. Our
building is in el centro, which is great, because we're really close to
everything. Internet cafe, food, the chapel. We're also the closest to
the oficina de la misiòn, which is great because we get our
packages/letters relatively fast. We also have a HUGE sector...twenty
minutes en micro (bus) to get to one part of our sector named "Olivar"
(I love that place.) It's really fun, because we get to work in a LOT of
different types of areas...we've got the city of down-town Rancagua,
we've got some shacks, we've got really rural areas, suburbs...it's
quite the sector we've got.
We also live in the same building as the Comisarios,
Secretarios and Asistentes. That means we've got to watch our
behavior...(just kidding. We're always good...but they actually
straight-man it up when they think we might run into them. Never know.)
That also means that at the end of every transfer our apartment turns
into "Hotel Cachapoal"...we have people staying with us over night for transfers, or people who are headed home to their houses, or people with
medical needs (the mission nurse lives in our sector, too,) etc. I
actually like it usually, because I get to know a lot more of the
missionaries, and sometimes I get to see my friends from old sectors,
etc. But one of the harder things is seeing the missionaries die. It
puts my mission into perspective...we always ask them how they're
feeling about going home, and almost everyone says they feel really
contradicted...like...they would stay in the mission for another year if
they could. For me, I love the mission, and I can't really imagine
having to leave yet, because I have another year here! (Lucky me!) But
it reminds me to keep enjoying the mission and to work really hard every
day so that at the end of my mission, at least I can feel like I did
what I could and that God is pleased with my work.
I say that because...CAMBIOS. It's the end of another six
weeks, and we got the cambio call last Saturday night. Hermana Kenney
and I were pretty uneasy, because we knew she was going to leave.
(Gringos never stay together very long.) And........drum roll,
please.............WE are staying together!! I honestly was absolutely
shocked. I thought for sure she was leaving. That means I'll probably be
in Cachapoal for a while, because now it's almost guarunteed that
she'll leave next transfer, so I'll have to stay at least one more so
that they don't white-wash our sector (...could happen, but I doubt
it...)
ANYWAY, we are super excited! We have an Hermana with us right now who is dying tomorrow,
so we're working in a little trio for the night. But we are going to
start this cambio with a bang! We want to have a lot of success in these
six weeks, so we're really going to keep working on helping our
investigators progress! Even more!
The other day we got stopped by TWO different people asking us
if we'd come teach them in their house. We went by one of them, and
it's a girl our age (19) who has a two year old daughter and is living
with her boyfriend. She is very interested, and we hope she will keep
progressing!
We're also working with a young man who is 17 years old. He's
very VERY active in the Catholic church, but he's been coming to church
with us for the last month. He's integrated with the youth, he's reading
the Book of Mormon, but he hasn't committed to baptism yet. Last night
we had a lesson with him where he said that he knew that this church was
true. He said that he felt it in our last lesson, and that the last
time he walked into our church, he heard a voice that said that this
church was the true church of God. If all this is true, we are very
confused why he won't get baptized...but we are going to work with him a
little more, to see what we can do!
I'm really sorry, but I didn't have much time this week to
write...President needed us to go to the mission home to pick up the
hermana that's dying tomorrow,
so it took a lot of our P-day time, but I STILL LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH
AND GOSH DARN IT KEEP READING AND PRAYING AND WRITING ME LETTERS PLEASE I
MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH!
Love, Hermana Thomas
Better letter next time. I promise.
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