First week in Paine

President and Sister Harris

My new companion and trainer Hermana Lyons 

Well, Hola!

Let me just start off by saying that these were the CRAZIEST two weeks I have had in my mission yet. 

We had Thanksgiving in the CCM and that was super special, they had cute decorations and all of the '"American" food they could make.

We are all leaving the CCM today.  

Then on Tuesday morning I had to say goodbye to my new family I had made in the CCM. It was really hard I'm not going to lie. Then we headed for Rancagua!! It was about an hour and a half drive in a sketchy bus that was so hot. But we finally made it and President Harris and everyone was waving at us and welcomed us with open arms which was really nice. We met all of the trainers and the assistants and had a couple classes and our interviews with President. Then we got our companions. My Companion is Hermana Lyons, she is really really nice and helps me a lot with my spanish and anything else I need. Then we went to our house and it was so stressful trying to unpack and get all settled and it was hard to accept that for the next 12 weeks this is where I will be living. 

Saying Goodbye to President and Sister Brady.

The days here feel like years, but its okay. 

We met some of our investigators and that has been fun, we also have met almost everyone in the branch which is not that many. It is a really small branch. Everyone is really nice and welcoming. I can understand basically everything everyone says to me but I can not really respond which is really difficult for me.

We had many lessons and also some family home evenings with some amazing families. I have eaten some pretty weird things, like for a dessert they like to have a dried peach and some wheat and soak it in peach juice and drink it. Literally the grossest thing I have eaten since being here. 

We have an investigator named Jaqueline and she is so hippy! She is all about peace and love and so we asked her what she learned from the folleto about Joseph Smith and she was like "oh he felt a lot of peace" and my companion was like "well yes but what about the fact that Heavenly Father and Jesus came down from the Sky and appeared to him?" and she was just like "yeah that happened too" she is really hard to teach  because her mind is everywhere haha. But she has great potential. 

Our Christmas decorations!

On Friday night we were running late to get home we were really far away from home so Hermana Lyons started running so I followed and since they have a lot of earthquakes here the ground is really uneven and well, I FELL, it was terrible. This man tried to help me and I just stood up and kept walking really fast and I started to cry and Hermana Lyons asked "what hurts the most?" and I said "my pride" haha well really I just have a bruise on my hip and scraped my hand but hopefully that was my crazy fall for the mission. 

Have a great week!

Love Hermana Jepsen