Hope everything is going well where ever you are and whatever you are doing. First things first. I am safe and well. Also my preparation day is on Tuesday and I don't have a set time to write so if you want to write me you should probably do it Sunday orMonday because I don't know when I am going to get to a computer.
It has been a week out in the mission field for me and a week of a lot of walking and trying to find where we are. My companion, Hna. Velasco (from Colombia) and I are in a whitewash area, which means to those of you who don't know, that the area is both new to us. We have been studying the area book a lot and meeting investigators and getting to know them. My area is called Cristobal Colon and its big, according to my companion. I don't know much about other parts of my mission yet so I'll take her word for it.
The people here are so awesome and really nice once you start talking to them. Because I'm in the city, they usually keep to themselves. They also love to talk, and once you ask them a question you are sure to get a pretty long answer because they want to tell you exactly what they think about it.
Its really nice, at least for me. There's a metro and a milgro (or a subway system and a bus system) that is just down the street from our apartment. There are a lot of trees and parks and a lot of tall office buildings and apartment buildings. I'll add a photo when I can, to give you an idea. A lot of the houses are really nice and a lot have grass and beautiful flowers. It reminds me a lot of home, except everything is in Spanish, the streets are a little narrower or wider, there's more buses, and there is actually a lot more towering buildings here than in Salt Lake. Our church building is nestled in the midst of these huge buildings, its little spire trying hard to reach as high as it can go.
Today for p-day my companion, two other sisters in our apartment, and I went to an interactive museum and it was really fun! I understood most of it, expecially since science words in Spanish are very similar to ones in English, like 'celebro' means 'brain', 'mineros' means 'minerals' and so on and so forth. They had a earthquake simulator so we got to feel what it would be like in an earthquake. They also taught how Chile is very prone to earthquakes and what to do if you felt one. So I am ready just in case a big one happens. They also showed how their buildings are built to resist earthquakes, so I got to learn more of that.
General Conference was this past weekend, as many of you probably know, and it was the best! I got to listen to it in English, which was great because not all areas in my mission have that opportunity. There were too many good things that were shared and I really liked all the talks so I can't really say who was my favorite.
Hope everybody is doing great! I love you all!
Hermana Reed
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