Hola from Chile!!!
I absolutely love it here!! It rains and is chilly most
days, as it is winter time here, but that basically like home haha. There are
palm trees and the CCM (MTC, which is the training center I am at for those who
do not know) is on the temple grounds. Which I do not know of any other MTC
that is like that, but it is absolutely amazing and powerful. We get to explore
Santiago today! I am so excited. We have a lot to do and I am excited to
interact with the people!
My companion is Hermana Knight from Oregon! Which is awesome
because we are both already use to the weather here! She also has 5 to 6 years
of Spanish classes to, which makes it easier practicing.
Holy moly is the gift of tongues real!! We already have 2
investigators and have taught them both twice already, completely in Spanish.
It can be rough, but the 20 minutes we have with them each time go by so
quickly! There names are Ivanna and Hector. We love them!
I love the culture and the life and the food and especially
the people! We are learning to quickly and so much!
My teachers are Chilean natives that are so patient and
kind, their names are Hermana Volpi and Hermano Rosas. Seriously, the people
here make me want to cry because I have so much love for them. I adore them all
and love learning here.
My roommates all speak Spanish, which makes for more of an
intense immersion experience. Two of them are from the states and two are from
Guatemala and Colombia. It is so cool to see so many people from different
places united together here!
Santiago itself is huge and there are palm trees everywhere!
I love it haha.
I am so excited to keep learning and to keep you all posted
on my experiences and adventures down here. I will try and write more next
week!
I love you all and will try and respond to you when you do
write, when I can. It is crazy trying to get all the emails I want to write
into the hour block we have!
Love you all!!!
Love,
Hermana Eibert
Mom,
I cant figure out this keyboard, hence the bad writing. The
first week is good. P-days will be every Wednesday while I am here and we have
our one hour of email time at 9 am to 10 am. Which is 6 to 7 am your time.
Things are fantastic! I know everyone said this would be so hard, but I haven't
experienced really any of that yet.
My companion is Hermana (Jessa) Knight! She was the one I
found a couple days before leaving, the last sister I found going to Rancagua.
She is from Salem, Oregon and is awesome! We get along so great and the Lord
really knew we would be the perfect match. She has about the same Spanish
experience as me which is nice because a lot of the other missionaries in my
district have limited Spanish and we have been having to help them a lot (which
has been great).
THEY HAVE MANGO PINEAPPLE COOKIES HERE. I feel like you
would love them. However, most of the time we are guessing what were eating and
what the package includes as literally everything is in Spanish. But the food
is fantastic!!! It is so good and fresh, and the Native Chileans say its not
even close to how good the real food is.
I look at the photo album every night right before climbing
in my bed. I have got the schedule down and am learning so much and it is
great. I don't feel overwhelmed like some other missionaries.
We get to go to the temple today, later this afternoon for
the first time and I am excited. It is beautiful and there are so many palm
trees. Also, the CCM (MTC) is on temple grounds. I don't know if that is the
case for any other MTC, but it is so COOL. We literally look out our windows
and the temple is right there. We walk the temple grounds 24/7. There is a
little chapel next door that we attend devotionals, classes and church for. We
all have to right a five minute talk in Spanish every week, and every week
during church they pick 5 to 7 of the missionaries to speak. I made it this
week without speaking haha, but one of my roommates spoke.
There are 6 of us in
the room, 2 natives, from Guatemala y Colombia (Hermana Bustos y Hermana Rodas)
and they are so sweet. Their companions are Hermana Olsen and Hermana Waldrip).
They are all on the 3 week program so they will leave in a couple weeks and
Hermana Knight and I will get the newbies. Which I am really excited about
because my friend Amanda from my ward in Utah will be in that group. It would
be awesome to have her in my room potentially. Which is totally possible
because the CCM is at max capacity right now with 40 missionaries, and a good
chunk of them are 6 week programmers, and we all flew together from
Atlanta.
I didn't sleep on the plane cause it was a plane. Really
uncomfortable, but it was okay. They fed us two meals on the plane, dinner and
breakfast, which were surprisingly good.
I love my district. They are crazy and fun and out of the 10
of us, 8 are going to Rancagua. There are so many missionaries this time going
to Rancagua. Maybe 10 sisters total, and at least 4 or 6 guys. It is so
fun.
Presidente y Hermana Brady are so sweet. They have an older
daughter with down syndrome named Annie that they call their third companion.
She is so sweet and is at every meeting talking to us and trying to help. They
are wonderful people.
I absolutely love it here. It is cold. Freezing and rains
most of the time, but frankly nothing I am not use to. No heat really in the
buildings, so I wear my coat almost 24/7 hahahaha.
Love you!!! I am going to try and send out an email from
that group list too, so look for that. And I will try and send the like two pictures
I have if there is time. We are only allowed to take pictures on pday within a
limited time frame, which i think is weird, but whatever.
Love you!
Love,
Hermana Eibert
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