Hello Everyone!

      So this week was funny! I think that our house has seizures.....the lights are having serious issues! Have you ever painted your nails in the dark with the lights flickering? No? Well I sure have! That was so funny! Every time the lights went out I had to wait for them to come back on again then hurry and do the next nail before the lights shut off again! That was an experience!
      Then we had an emergency from a member this week! He called us and told us that we had to get to his house in about five minutes and so we practically ran there! And what was the emergency? CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love cake so much!!!!!!!! They had thrown a birthday party and had leftover cake quipes bolas de yuca y empanadas! BEST EMERGENCY EVER!!!!!!!! Ahhhahahhahah. I love my people! We even got goodie bags! 

     We had zone conference as well and the area 70 was there so that was super great! My companion chased me down in the the rain yesterday, so that was pretty funny! Man, walking all day in rain sure does take it out of you! But it's a nice change from the NEVERENDING HEAT! IT IS SO HOT IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!! But its okay! Who needs the cold!?!?!?!?!?! 

      I went on an intercambio this week with my sister leaders and we were in a lesson and their recent convert was asking about really deep doctrine and the sister leader told me that is was my turn to take the next question.  I didn't know the answer so I had him look up a scripture in 1 Nephi that says something along the lines of "I don't know the answers to all things, saveth that God loveth his children." Haha the convert sure got a hoot out of that and just laughed and laughed and laughed! Anyways those are the highlights of the week.

I love you all! 

Hna Carey:)

                                          eggs, tortillas and ketchup for lunch

     Well, today sure sucked! I flooded my house and my money went missing! I DID NOT LOSE IT! IT WENT MISSING I SWEAR! So I had to take out the $50 you just put in and I am so sorry that I had to take it out! I'm looking for the money and I honestly have no idea if I'll find it. It might just be gone.  I flooded the house filling up tub things because the whole city of Santiago is having water problems. We have not had consistent water for days. Well water usually isn't there at night which is normal, but it's been going out in the daytime too, so I flooded the house.  Not a a big deal because that is how they clean here, but it was a pain to clean up.  I am so sorry I didn't lose the money, it is legit GONE.

      And I sure am having the hardest time learning how to budget because we went like 3 days last week without food. It's just the pricing is so screwed up here. You can live on the missionary budget if you only buy rice, eggs and yucca but if you want anything normal like peanut butter the prices are jacked up because it's from the US. I'm so sorry! 

      Ummmmm............not much else has happened this week.  We have a pretty frisky investigator who was a freca(flirt) with the elders in front of us.  It was actually really funny!!!!! She left the Elders pretty scared!

      Mom I hit 7 months!!!!!!!! 11 to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And yep I've learned a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:) My companion and I are just trying to figure each other out..........Oh!  We ate fried tortillas with scrambled eggs and ketchup! It was gross!........But it was lunch.......:) um..............yup...............I have some awesome Christian music!!!! Daniel would be SOOO  jealous!!!!!!! We had 29 lessons this week and 9 less actives and 7 investigators at Church this Sunday for the primary program!

     BYE MOM I LOVE YOU! SOOOOOOO MUCH!

Hello,

     So this week.....I decided that cats are gross. We went to a service project where cats were in a lady´s house and they just pooped everywhere. It was special....=) Only my cat is not gross, I love her! Also, we had a zone dinner and that was super fun! We had to cook for 18 people and the president and his wife in our house! That was crazy!

      I got to be with the mini missionary a lot this week which was way fun! Funny experience! So she saw a Rubiks cube and just got so excited that she wanted one and so I listened to her talk about her ¨cubito¨for 3 days and finally we went back to the store and she bought the cube and we went back to the house and she was playing with it and all the sudden I hear "öh no! mi cubito! Se rompio, mi cubit!¨She´d only had it for 10 minutes and it had completely fallen apart! I laughed SO hard! And for about 20 minutes she just sat there trying to put it back together! Aw poor thing!  She eventually  fixed it.

     Then, we had to go into the city for a meeting and we went to McDonald's for lunch which is pretty high class for a missionary here, I kid you not.  We had to cross the street to get there and we were crossing like Dominicans, which is pretty much just jay- walking and there was a barrier in the road and we didn't realize it because we were talking. So we´re standing next to the barrier in the middle of the road when the traffic starts and we have to climb up on this ledge so that the traffic is 4 ft away from us instead of 3 ft. And then we´re just trying to figure out what to do and the mini missionary starts to climb the little fence in her skirt! And then Hna Navas follows her! And I'm there in a pencil skirt that doesn't allow for climbing over freaking fences! So one of the strangers selling something comes and grabs my hand and helps me over the fence! It was a tad bit crazy, but fun!

      I HAVE A NEW COMPANION FROM COSTA RICA AND SHE WAS IN MY GROUP FROM THE CCM!

Anyways I love you guys!

Hna. Carey

Leah and just the mini missionary

Matching yellow

      Mom,

      So.........I'm gonna tell you something but you have to promise not to freak out.=)   I got to go to the hospital! But not for anything major.  They just send everyone to the hospital for anything!  It was for my eye! It got a million times worse!  But I'm getting better now!  They gave me a FREAKING IV! Yea, I was a little stressed about that and it made me cry and then the nurse asked me in her broken English "you is baby?...... Then be quiet!" But it is okay now.  I told her she was mean and then we were friends afterwards.=)

     I don't know what's wrong with it.  It has just been infected for a long time and they gave me and anti inflammatory in the IV.   They use IVs for everything here but I guess they do work faster. Yup that was mean of her, I'd just gotten stabbed by a needle and then she told me to be quiet!

     I  didn't do a letter, but i just told you the most exciting thing that happened this week! I was in a 3rd world hospital! Whoo Hoo! Also I bought a giant ball bigger than my face this week and bubbles! 

Love,

Leah