Sooooo last night we got the oh so waited phone call to hear about transfers, we were all CERTAIN that Hna.Broadhead would be transfered out since she is now done with her training, we went to members homes to say good-bye, and ate a TON of food (empanadas, choripan, mmmm) But as usual the changes were what we least expected. La Hna.Broadhead is staying and I´m leaving!!! I couldn´t believe it! I´ll be going to Renca aka the hood with all the flaites and will be with Hna. Ireland who came into the field with me from Utah and Hna.Hernandez who I have no clue who she is cause there´s more than one Hna.Hernandez in the mission hahaha but she´s colombian so she should be legit! To top it all off I´m going to be a Sister Training Leader! It´s basically like being a Ditrict Leader but for sister´s, I´m in charge of a group of 17 Sisters including 2 sisters in Robison Crusoe Island which is also part of our mission and I have to do exchanges with them, teach them some of my skillzzz, inspect their housing and learn a lot from them. It is going to be a lot of crazy fun!!! I´m excited for this new chapter in the mission but sad that it came so soon, I really wanted to stay in Curcavi another 2 transfers AT LEAST! I stayed up will 1 am packing and this mornng we had to be in the office at 1pm so I visited 2 members to say my goodbyes and my converts, Jose Miguel and Enrique y Victoria. It was seriously the hardest thing ever. I was trying to be strong and optimistic and keep it under control, but when Enrique started crying I just couldn´t hold it in anymore. I just hugged Victoria and bawled my eyes out and we all cried together. Leaving a sector behind is harder than leaving home on the mission because at least you know you´ll see your family again, but you´re never going to see the people you serve on the mission again and it just breaks your heart. The bond between a missionary and their converts is so special and it´s perfect, because both have sacraficed everything to follow Jesus Christ.
In other news, this week was pretty crazy, we had to go to Santiago twice so Hna.Broadhead could get her carnet done, we stayed over Hna. Stanger´s apt which was so fun cause she´s super cool and like one of the girls! haha! We also stayed there thanksgiving night with the sisters who were finishing their mission and going to the temple the next day and Hna.Stanger made us a special thanksgiving dinner with chicken, potato casserole,palta and bread so it was thanksgiving Chilean style, we made due with what we had, but it was still very special. Thanksgiving isn´t celebrated here but there was a family in the ward who lived in Utah several years and so they had us over for a special thanksiving lunch and made turkey and mashed potatos with gravy! It was soooo goood! We were super grateful, they put a lot of time and effort into making it special. We also had some fun activities this week to pump up the embers for ward conference, we handed out Liahona´s with the young men in the neighborhood and invited people in the community to our activities, we had a ward FHE and Enrique our recent convert directed the FHE and did such a great job!!! Then on saturday we had out BIG activity por la obra misional, and we had a dessert competition! We decorated all day, and at 7:30 the members started pouring in. There were all types of desserts, cakes, fruit cups, chocolates, fruit taco, wontons stuffed with jelly, the members got super creative! Us 4 missionaries were the judges and we had a special guest judge, a non-member who is the friend of a member and she´s an expert in culinary arts and made the whole thing super legit! The grand prize was a completada (chilean hot dogs) and everyone had a blast! Another recent convert of the other sisters played the guitar and sang to entertain the crowd meanwhile everyone ate and then we had a spiritual thought at the end with a tree of life we made out of tree branches and hung candy off of it as the "fruit". It was all a big success! Then yesterday we ended the week with Ward Conference, Enrique y Victoria got confirmed and the patriarch confirmed Victoria so it was very special. They were sooo happy! We had a full class in Gospel Principles and the stake leaders congratulated us for our work. Even though my time in Curacavi has been short I know that I did my part in bringing others unto Christ, the ward had never had so many baptisms in so little time and the Lord has truly blessed us and guided us to his chosen vessels that were ready to accept this gospel. The happy part is that it´s not good bye forever! Curacavi is one of the areas I´m over so I´ll be back to do exchanges, YAY!!! Well until next week!
xoxo,
Hna.Ibarra
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