Called to Serve: Chile Rancagua : Week 6: Curico, Companion, Cold

31 July 2017

Hola familia y amigos!

I am currently in a place called Curico. My companion and trainer is Hermana Tapiero and she is amazing! I am learning Spanish really fast, literally. Chilean Spanish is sooo fast. People tell us it will take a couple months to start understanding everything, so I am not extremely worried, but my companion is from Colombia and speaks a lot slower, which is good for learning.

Hermana Eibert and Hermana Tapiero on 25 July 2017

Our assigned area is very big as it is usually has 4 missionaries, and now there is just us two. We have bikes and we bike a lot. I think I am quite the sight for the Chileans here, me in a skirt or dress on a bright blue old bike desperately trying to avoid packs of dogs and cars zooming by. Haha, its really fun.

It is also FREEZING here. And no heating systems at all anywhere. So I live in my coats. Multiple coats. But it is better than the extreme heat at least.

I love, love, love my zone, district, companion, the ward, all the people here! They are so kind and sweet and welcoming. We also have had so much success in teaching and serving people this week. We have 8 investigators and all 8 of them attended church with us this week. 3 of them are Haitians too, and their Spanish is limited. I use a little bit when communicating with them too! It is crazy how many Haitians there are here!! I might end up having to learn Creole too!

The Chilean are funny people, which is very fitting for me. But when they are pulling my leg or just trying to mess with me it is easy to play dumb right now and pretend I can't understand them. But I feel incredibly blessed with how much I can understand and communicate.

This week with our investigators we've been serving, we have focused on sharing the fact that we all have a unique and true identity.

We are all children of a God, our Heavenly Father, who loves us all individually and perfectly. We have our spiritual identity. Something I have been pondering on this last week is the idea of spiritual DNA. I don't know if that makes sense completely, but I think with our souls there is something that recognizes truth and eternal truths ring true.

I loved the video, you should all go and watch it, called Our True Identity, by Dieter F. Uchtdorf. It is amazing.

I love you all and thank you so much for your prayers, thoughts, and emails. Have an amazing week!!

Con amor,

Hermana Eibert

ps. Please forgive my grammar and English in general; it is difficult with a Spanish keyboard and the qualitiy of this keyboard is not great.... hahahaa!