Monday, January 6, 2014

The Best . . . 1 Year!



Welcome to 2014 people.
Did you know that I will spend every second of the year 2014 as a full-time missionary in Chile? Pretty cool, no?
I'm ready to have the best year of my life, and we've already started out pretty well! New Year's Eve and New Year's Day were normal work days, with supposedly the same schedule. We had a little mini-celebration from when everyone finished planning until 11:20 (it was like 15 minutes long) so that we could still go to bed on time. It consisted of guacamole I made the day before, a little bit of food our neighbors gave us, and whatever random Christmas food we still had lying around. Then we were so tired we just went to bed.

It was pretty hard to sleep on New Year's eve, though. At midnight everyone goes outside, honks their car horns and does fireworks. That's more or less how we celebrate at home. The thing that's different is everyone starts enormous bonfires all over the place. It was actually kind of scary . . . doesn't seem like a very safe activity for a bunch of drunk young people to be doing. The good news is that our house didn't get burned down. 

New Year's day we did service in the morning because everyone was sleeping. The New Year holiday was less productive than Christmas Eve, which was kind of a surprise for me. But we had a good time just working like normal. I feel weird when we do too many fun things because it's kind of hard to get back into the missionary mindset. Wow, weird, I'm starting to talk like a missionary. Before you know it I'll be back at home saying "When I was in the mission . . . " (we constantly joke about that here. Someone only has to say "when I was ____" and we start laughing). 

Today we had a great zone activity. We walked to a tunnel here in Tomé. The last time we walked to a tunnel it was really really far away and I got really sunburned and it was terrible. But this time was better. Plus we went to eat after at a great Churrasco place in Tomé. 

I hope this less-than-exciting weekly letter has been all that you hoped and dreamed. Hope you're all starting 2014 with as many great and reachable goals as I am!

Love, 

Hermana Glazier

Photos:
                                                                                      New Year's Eve "fiesta"

                                                                     With Ana and her stellar Christmas tree
                                                                 Remains of a bonfire in the middle of the street
                                                Last lunch with Hermana Suárez and the De La Concha Marko family!
                                                                                           Chillin in a tunnel

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