Fall

Hello friends and family, 

We have been walking a lot this past week. Some citas have fallen through so we have in turn called people and explored our boundaries a bit more. And we have had more adventures trying to find people's homes! The maps we have don't have all the names of the streets, and all the streets have names that range from names to astrology signs. So we have been slowly filling up our maps with missing streets

The nice thing about it is they are usually grouped together. I now know where the streets with famous old literature is and authors names (Dante, Inferno, Hans Cristen Andersen, Hamlet) dancing streets (Macarena!) and I have seen some others in other sectors that have names of states in the USA (Oklahoma, Missouri, but sadly not Hawaii and Utah). Also a major freeway in our area has the name of President Kennedy. People really like him in Latin America. Other names are probably other famous people in other countries. 

And there has been a lot of rain since winter is coming closer! It started to rain on Friday and didn't stop until Monday. It hasn't been very strong but it has affected the city. One of the big rivers here, Rio Mapocho, overflooded which caused most of the city to shut off the water. My companion and I thought we weren't going to have water so we filled up every container we had with water to prepare for the worst!...but it turns out that our building had a tank and we were fine. But it flooded in other parts of the city and some other people in other sectors didn't have water (I don't know if they still don't). My sector is a little more prepared so I think everybody in my ward was ok.

For P-day we had a zone activity were we went to the president's house, ate food that we had all prepared and played some games! It was pretty fun. We shaved balloons and also put shaving cream on our faces and threw trix cereal at our companions. Actually my companion threw it at me and I was the one with the shaving cream. 

Love you lots from Santiago!!

Your sister,

Hermana Reed