January 9, 2012

Hola,

This week started off with a normal P-Day and then when we were about to go to work our zone leader called us and told us that on Tuesday all of the missionaries in the mission would be spending from 7am-6pm cleaning their pensions (apartments). They told us that if we needed anything to buy anything so that we could clean we had to do it Monday night. So we went back to the store and didn´t end up having anytime to work in our sector Monday. Tuesday we spent from 7am-7pm cleaning our pension, I spent the WHOLE day cleaning the kitchen, yeah it was that dirty, also we did really deep cleaning. We had a little bit of time to work at night. Wednesday, Hna. Verastegui and I went to the offices for some medical issues for her and then we returned for zone class. Wednesday I was feeling overloaded with responsibilities. I was worried about our investigators and not being able to visit them so much but even more than that I was really worried about Hna. Verastegui and what I could do to help and support her. Thursday we had to travel again and we went to another chapel in our mission to meet with Pres. Laycock. Hna. Verastegui had an interview set up with him to talk about her health issues. In the interview she decided that she would go home to try and recuperate. Honestly I suggested it to President as well I don´t think that she´d be able to get better walking as much as we do each day. I thought that she would go home in a few days like maybe today. However the office elders called us at 11:30pm Thursday and told us that the assistants would be coming to pick her up Friday at 8:30am and she would be going home on a flight that day. It was very quick and we spent until 2:00am packing her things.

so...

Now I am in a trio with the other Hermanas. Hna. Castellón from Nicaragua (again) and Hna. Mancía from El Salvador. We have changes in two weeks and we´ll see what happens, but until then it´s just us three working in our sector. I´m not going to lie it´s been really nice to get out and work for the whole day. It´s really sad that Hna. Verastegui had to leave because the mission really is so fantastic but I know that this is what´s best for her. I killed my daughter.

This morning the three of us decided to go hiking in the mountains in our sector and we were able to hike to the top of a hill where we could see most of Santiago it was AWESOME!!!!

I love you all so much and I hope you are all doing well.

 Hna. Howe