Hello Everyone,

     Well......we have had lots of new experiences this week! First off, we accidentally had alcohol.....first time ever on the mission....of course! We were in an ice cream shop called Bon and the nice man gave us ´´a new flavor´´.  Well that new flavor sure did taste good until he pointed at the sign and it's a picture of an Irish Cream bottle! Well that was quite the scene as I spit it out into the trashcan. And the poor ice cream kid was so confused as he tried to explain to us that it only has a little alcohol.....the next new experience was that I accidentally lead us into the equivalent of a party at a bar at 9 o clock at night. I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A PARTY GOING ON! But yep, that happened as well...   

     Today we had a funny moment when we went to an activity to watch polar Express (interesting in Spanish by the way).   We were in normal clothes but we were early and no one was there yet so we went to a Colmado to buy a snack because I was hungry. We started walking and came to a puddle type thing,  and my dear sweet companion does not want her normal shoes to get wet. So I was in crocs and had to piggy back her across the 5 feet of water.   All is well and goes according to plan and we get to the Colmado and now we are returning and come to the same puddle and so obviously we do the same thing. All goes according to plan again until my companion turns around and says hi to who? Yep the ZONE LEADERS......but it's cool, they just thought it was hilarious that they happened to be behind us and us not know it, so they just saw the whole thing.......Well that's all for this week! Merry Christmas everyone! I love you all!  I'll TALK you to guys next week! =)

Love,

Hna Carey 

Hello everyone!

     So first week of training done! Woo hoo! It is so fun and I just love her, she is so sweet! We had some incredible lessons this week that were all just completely by the Spirit! We have just seen miracle after miracle this week and we have been so blessed! 

     So....funny things...it was weird to realize that I speak Spanish this week.....because my daughter is still learning and she is asking me questions  and so it was weird to remember like oh yeah, I used to not understand these people, but now it is easy and just normal. And she just asks me "what did they say?" and I think,  "wow, that seemed so clear," and it's funny because I realized this week that I finally speak Spanish and understand pretty much everything! It was really funny! 

     Also Hna Blanch was getting out of a ruta and shut the door after she got out, but the person behind her was also getting out! Not hard or anything but she couldn't even really apologize to the lady so I had to apologize to the lady....it was funny. But what is a daughter without her mother?

      My embarrassing moment for the week was when we were walking home at night with some recent converts and I thought it was a nice night, so I was saying goodnight to people and then we came upon a house with tons of people outside, so I thought it was some kind of party or something. So I said buenos notches to like a group of 20 people, and Jose looks at me and says Hna Carey no! Someone died and that's a funeral!   Yep..........that was pretty embarrassing....well those are the highlights of the week we have a Christmas program tomorrow with the zones and mission president and everyone so I'll let you know how that is! Love you guys!

Hna Carey

Querida Familia,

     Well, I officially have a daughter in the mission! Yay! Ha ha.....that's scary, but it´ll be good! So we had a Dominican Thanksgiving and it was way super fun! The person whose house we went to lived in the US for 25 years so he made us turkey (but still all Dominican)! It was so good! So it doesn't even feel like the holidays!=) I think that´s a blessing though! =)

      I went back to Santiago for a baptism! Yay Mellisa!!!! We were teaching her when I got transferred and now she is baptized! It was so cool to see everyone and visit a couple other people! But other than that it´s been a pretty calm week.

      I'm officially training someone and she's super cool.  Her name is Hna Blanch and she is from Missouri. I was really nervous on Sunday about training so I got a blessing from my DL and it said a lot of comforting things and so I feel a lot better. =) I am still scared, but better nonetheless. Anyways I love you all and hope all is well! You guys are all just the greatest! Love you!

Hna Carey