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Mollie #65 - Villa Obispo, Chile - Made Burritos for Zone, Saw Hermana Lattin, Climbed over home fence
February 3
Hey all,
Happy birthday,
Mich! You have official been promoted to the age of a quarter.
So what
have I been up to?
Well, today we planned and cooked for the zone activity. We
made homemade burritos. I made refried beans from scratch, which was a first for
me, but they turned out really yummy. Canned beans are really cheap in the US,
but here they are 5 dollars a can. So you cook the beans, and then mix in sautéed
onion, add salt to taste, and quite a bit of water. Stick it in the blender
until it looks right. If it is watery add more beans.
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The
activities were fun. We played water games, did a scavenger hunt, and constructed temples
from spaghetti noodles and gummy candy.
Other
things we have been up to this week include knocking a lot of doors, which is
always interesting. We have been looking for new people as a focus of our mission.
We got a
new mission leader named Spencer. He just got back from serving a mission
in North Chile, Santiago North, I think. He has a lot of great ideas, so we are
going to see how it goes. We have a couple of activities lined up already.
My companion is starting to adapt to the mission routine, which is nice. We can walk faster
now and talk to more people. This week we have Return and Report for the new
people. So we will be taking a bus up to Concepcion.
We also did intercambios this week, which was fun
because I got to spend a day with Hermana Lattin. I just love that girl. She
just feels like California.
Thank you
Bowman y Pop-Pop y Aunt Mary for the shoes and the sticky notes and the makeup - but
especially for the shoes. I love them and some of my old ones were getting a
bit ratty.
Funny story
so the other day the other sister accidentally stole our keys along with their
own. We, dressed in our missionary clothes, had to climb and jump a six foot fence to get out and into the house. My
companion was in a pencil skirt and didn’t find it nearly as funny as I did. We both got
scraped up a little, but it was totally worth it to be in the house. Even if we
had to climb through a window after climbing the fence.
One focus I
have been working on is gratitude. We know that a prayer with God is like a
conversation. And it is or at least it feels like it. We express gratitude and
we ask for things and we talk about our day. Gratitude is easy in a prayer but
we don´t express gratitude nearly as often when we talk to others. Just a
thought.
Love you
all lots,
Hermana Bowman
PS. Check if you have a letter from Hermano Quesada. It was a video for Riley for his birthday.
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