I got the package last week!
It`s perfect and it came surprisingly fast. I forgot how awesome Archie McPhees
is.
The package helped make up for how long
of a day it was on Halloween. When we were doing our planning, we realized that
we have nothing to do. So the entire day we just contacted on the streets and
didn`t have a single person who was even slightly interested. Halloween here is
over shadowed by the anniversary of the evangelical church and they are
generally very "in your face" people. So out in the streets was
probably not the smartest place to be.
I`m getting to the point with my
Spanish that I can express most basic ideas but it`s still really bad. So
people no longer think that I’m just new, but that I’m stupid or just bad at Spanish.
I have had 2 people in the past couple of days tell me straight up "wow
your Spanish is really bad." They aren`t wrong but it turns out that their
are a lot of people who are just racist. And it`s not racist in the joke making
way but there are people who genuinely hate us as if we killed someone they
loved. I`m starting to understand what people yell at us in the streets and
interesting how that is socially acceptable.
People point with their lips here. they
pucker up then point their face in the direction of interest.
To answer some of your questions, we
write emails in a "cyber" which is a room with a bunch of computers
in it and you pay by the minute. My companion is Elder Cannon, from Utah. I
have no idea where I’m going to be for Christmas. I could be in a big city, I
could be up in the mountains. I`m hoping that I stay here in Lota for Christmas
because I already know all the Ward members. And they are cool.
Speaking of, there is someone in our
Ward who is studying environmental law which explains enough about her. She cooked
us a vegetarian meal, showed us these cool teas and talks about all the cool
places to go bike camping. It reminds me of home.
We found this guy the other day who
might be the coolest Chilean. He went to Santiago to make it big with his
grunge band and did just that. But he got swallowed up in the lifestyle and
before he new it, he couldn`t even play music because he was killing himself
with drugs. So he stopped, gained 60 pounds back, packed up a bag and the
equivalent of 50 dollars and walked south for a few months. Now he`s back and
is trying everything he can to become a better person. And that is exactly why
we are here as missionaries. To help people have the tools that
make that a lot easier.
For pday today we went to Concepcion
again and bought stuff. I think next week we are going paintballing in an
old Factory.
All right, that’s all I have this week.
Love you guys!
Elder Thompson
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