Week 51: People dying left and right!!

9/15/14

Hola Familia y Amigos,

So this week has been crazy fun and just plain crazy.  So this past weekend we have heard of like 10 deaths in Penco.  It has just been a little weird.  5 of them were members of the church or family members of the members of the church.  And then the other 5 were just when we were contacting in the street and people were telling us they were heading to a funeral or coming back from one.  One couple told us they had just left one and were on their way to another.   A little bit weird of a weekend. haha  And then also on Saturday it was the Day of Service for the Church in South America.  So half of the mission went to a HUGE cemetery here in Concè.  We mainly cleaned out all of the dead flowers and threw them away.  It was a little weird but cool to see a little bit of the culture of Chileans in how they treat their deceased.  They have like a three day program when someone dies. The first day is the viewing, the second is where they have a time to talk about all the memories, and then the third is the actual funeral and when they go to the cemetery to bury them.  It is kind of cool but long. 

Also we dressed up two little cousins in our ward with our scarfs and missionary badges.  Are they not so cute?  haha

Also we went to the beach (two blocks away) today for a zone activity.  We played volleyball and made hamburgers. The elders brought the oven from their house to the beach.  Yeah a little extreme in my opinion, but it all worked out great!!  haha And I collected some shells and sand for you mom and dad!!! 

So yeah that is all that I can think of for this week!!  It sounds like everything is going great!!  Loved all the pictures mom!! 

I would love to hear from all my long lost older siblings though!

  

LOVE YOU ALL!!

-Hermana Corbett

p.s. Oh and this week on the 18th is the "Independence Day"  of Chile!! AND IT IS HUGE!!!  I will send a million pictures next week!!  It is going to be so fun!! I already have had a cueca dress made for me and we have been practicing the cueca (the national dance.)  So fun and elegant!  And I am going to get so fat this week because they just feed us Empanadas left and right on 18 de Septiembre. yeah!!!!  Viva Chile!!