3/17/14
Hola Familia y Amigas,
So I am now in the
little town of Bulnes about 30 minutes from Chillan which is a big city. I am
about an hour to an hour and a half from Concepcion. I am in Chillan
right now and we are going to go to a market to look for all of the coolest
souvenirs and stuff in Chile. I guess this market is one of the best in
Chile. Better than in Concepcion.
Anyways Bulnes is so
so different from Hualpen. Hualpen was so busy all of the time and loud
and rich. And the ward was like 140 people which was really big.
Here in bulnes it is so tranquilo, and calm and the sky is so so
gorgeous!! I can actually see the stars and the moon has been gorgeous
recently! Ahahah!
Also my comp is Hermana
Phelps, she is 24 and she is from Wisconsin and has a little over a year on the
mission, The exact same as Hermana Taylor and Najera. haha Also another
insanely crazy similarity of all of my comps even Hermana Weller is that there
dad has had at least one other child from a previous marriage. All of
them!! That is not a common thing folks. It kind of freaks me out, but is also
really cool!!
So here in Bulnes we
don´t have a ward, it is only a branch and is super small. I counted only
40 people in church yesterday, really small. We pretty much run the
church. All of the members are not super strong. Even the really strong
faithful families have gone off the deep end at times and stopped coming.
I guess the president of the branch was really tired a few weeks ago and
even he didn´t come to church. It is crazy and a lot of the branches out
here in the country are only held together with a few members and the
missionaries. Also to prove this, me and the other new missionary we
assigned to give the talks for our first weeks in the branch. They really
are the best welcoming party!!! haha Well that was my first real talk in
Spanish. It was like 10 minutes I think and it was really good I think!
At least Hermana Phelps said it was. It was actually almost easier in
Spanish because my Spanish is so slow that I only have to prepare a 5 minute
talk in English and then when I say it in Spanish it is magically 10 minutes!!
Yeah! I talked about Enduring to the End! I based it off of lesson
3 in preach my gospel and the talk in this past conference by Richard J Maynes,
which is my favorite talk of the century by the way!! So you should all
go read it! Or listen to it for Family Home Evening! That is your
homework this week.
Oh and Dad asked how
my apt. is. It is bigger than the last one, but like all missionary apt.
in Chile, it smells so awful! Also it is just the two of us in the house,
but last cambio there were four, so there is so much junk and nasty food that
they left behind. So gross!! I really just want to take a blow torch to all the
nastiness in the house! haha
So our mission right
now is baptizing so many 17, 18, 19 year olds right now that are wanting to go
on missions themselves!! It is crazy!!!! Valentina who is 18, who is getting baptized on the 29th of Marzo.
(Pray for her). She asked me the day she left, if it was possible for her
to go on a mission in the future. I was like "UMM...YEAH!!!!"
And then here in Bulnes, Nataila who was baptized on the 9th of March is
19 and she is planning on going on a mission. And we are teaching a 16 year old
boy right now, Rodrigo, and a 16 year
old girl, Camila. And they are not just normal people we teach, they are
incredible!! Incredible!! Camila accepted a Challenge from young woman’s
to apply the atonement in her life this week and she went and she with 3 of her
non member friends about the gospel and the atonement!! ahah she is great!!
And I have heard of so many other missionaries in the mission baptizing
youth that want to go on missions!! Just think if we all baptize just one
youth, our missionary force will double in just one year!! Hastening of the
work? Yeah I think so!
So I will end with the
most embarrassing story ever!! This is just to remind you all how dumb
and blonde I am. I am a missionary now, but I am still me. haha
So last week, I was downloading a picture from the conference we had
last week. The email had three different pictures with everyone in the
mission. And at the same time I was still sending you guys pictures, and I
wanted to add one more, so I click reply to all and then sent the picture
thinking I was sending it to you guys. Two seconds later I realize that I
had replied to all to the email that was sent out to every missionary in the
mission!! That is 200+ people!! I went bright red!! It was just a dumb
picture of me at the zoo and now everyone in the mission has it. As I left the
cyber a few of the other missionaries were like hey I just got a picture of
you, I don’t really know why. Then they would just laugh, I got quite a few
response this week with question marks and comments from my friends. In
the end everyone just got a good laugh at how dumb I am!! Yeah this will
go down in mission history. Even the assistants got a kick out of it!! haha
yeah! Why was I born blonde? hah jk!
Love you guys so much,
and have a great
week!!
Xoxo Hermana Corbett
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