Waterproof Coat Improves Quality of Life

How are you all doing? I am good.  Except my fingers are cold and it is hard to type fast...noooooo!  It has been sunny this week.  Which means it has also gotten colder.  It makes it really hard to get out of bed in the morning when it is 4 degrees (Celcius) in the house.  Because then I have to get up and start the fire with our green wood that some very inconsiderate person sold to us.  (I wanted to use a different word there but it didn´t seem appropriate as a missionary). It might be because I am a gringa, but I think it is because all of his wood is terrible...he sells green wood to the other missionaries too.  Argh:(  The good news is I bought a wonderful, warm, waterproof coat for...140 dollars I think.  It is AWESOME.  AND WATERPROOF!  Did I mention it is waterproof?  Lots of coats say they are waterproof and aren’t actually waterproof but this one is.  

It is getting hard to write to you people in English.  I have to translate some words in my head from Spanish to English...sigh...But when I am frustrated I talk in English...it is funny.  Yesterday at church we called one of our investigators to confirm that he was coming to church and then he told us he wasn’t coming and then when we hung up I started mumbling about the excuse that he gave and Hermana Núñez was like, "Uh, Hermana Wood?"  And then I realized I wasn’t speaking Spanish...sigh...

This week we visited one of the members who was one of the first to join the church in Puerto Varas.  His wife died a few months ago (the first funeral we planned) and he’s been in Santiago with his daughter ever since.  And now he’s back and he is living with one of his grandkids who is not a member and who has received lots of missionary discussions.  I wanted to go and teach the plan of salvation and subtly find out when his grandson is home so we can come teach him.  The problem is this beloved member is practically deaf and there was nothing subtle about it.  The good news is I think all of Chile must have heard us teaching the plan of salvation and we’re expecting all kinds of new investigators to show up at his door:)  Then he came to church 2 hours early and we had just finished up with a meeting and he wanted to wait in the room with us...how do you tell a near deaf man that you can’t be alone with him while there are other very spiritual and important meetings going on in the room next door?  We didn’t...we just took a really long bathroom break...poor Hermano:(

Brett, I AM SO PROUD OF YOU RIGHT NOW.  You can put that on the blog mom...everybody should know Brett is a genius...in Calculus...We´ll pretend the World History thing never happened;) I am practically in tears. (Editor’s note: Brett scored 5 on the Calculus AP test—highest possible.  He scored 2 on World History—2^nd to lowest possible.)

Ok bye I love you:)

Love,

Lexie