Earthquakes and English

This week I got to feel my first earthquake! And to be honest, I was awesome and not scary at all. It was super small and just shook my building a little bit during companion study. My companion and I were pretty excited. 

And we had a pretty sucessful Noche de Hogar this past week! A lot of people came and we learned about eternal families! We are promoting this upcoming one and hopefully we'll get some more investigadors there. 

This past Thursday my companion and I went on intercambios to Pocuro, which is the ward with the temple in it. I actually got to do a temple tour with Hermana Andersen with a primary from another ward. They were so sweet and cute. If I never get transferred into Pocuro, at least I've done a temple tour!

Because me and my companion always try to talk in Spanish, our English is getting worse. I have realized that more and more because we have a couple people who are from the United States and Australia in our ward. And occasionally they say Australian words that I don't understand. We had lunch with an Austrailian family, and occasionally they will say a word like "mince," "vegimite," and other words they use that we haven't heard. We got to try some Australian food, which I never thought would happen in my mission. I also get to teach Spanish because of the families that don't speak Spanish and want to practice with us. We were thinking of starting an English/Spanish class because of the number of people in my sector that don't speak Spanish. 

There are also a lot of people from Haiti that are moving to Chile to work. I've ran into a couple of them and contacted them, and its actually super hard because a lot of them have been here for a little time and are learning Spanish. And they don't know any English. With one contact, he was actually translating what he was saying and what I was saying in his phone. But from what he understood, he wanted to learn more! Too bad he doesn't live in my area, but I am sure wherever he is there are great missionaries. I would want to start learning French, but I think Creole is a little different than normal French. Which is funny because some people have told us we have French accents (and apparently we look French) when we speak Spanish. 

Have a great week!

Hermana Reed