SENIOR COMP, OUT-OF-CONTROL FIRES AND CHILENO FLAITE
February 1, 2017
Dear Family,
This has been my second week in my sector with my junior companion. Things are neat. We're trying to do what we can to help the members in this ward and bring more people in but it's quite the 'toughy'. We had a interview with President and he was pretty dang cool! We're gonna be having them now every 6 weeks rather than 3 months! It's gonna be so cool! We also get zone conferences every 6 weeks which also used to be every 3 months. We have one tomorrow, actually, and over there I should be able to pick up my package because it wasn't there on Monday.
One of the funny things President pointed out in the interview was his indifference to whether or not the chapel closes. He pointed out that, for the majority of the ward, the new chapel would be the same distance or closer and it's a much nicer chapel. (Our current one's pretty lame.) He even mentioned the chapel might not even be able to hold 80 people which was funny because it was totally true! It could barely squeeze in 80! We'll keep working though! (If we keep the chapel we could probably write that movie!)
Being the senior comp is neat but sometimes frustrating due to the youngness of my companion. I gotta work pretty hard to memorize all the streets and such and also lead the majority of the lessons. But it's swell. We're doing weekly activities in the chapel now and the next one is a Taekwondo night! I'm getting so hyped! It's been a long while! The two other elders in my ward have 2 investigators that are taking tae kwan do. They're (and probably I, as well) are going to teach it.
In reference to the out of control fires and bad air: That's happened once where president sent a text saying "yo, don't go work during these hours" and we were like "ok" and that was it. He does also say that we should try to go work in the non-afternoon hours... The air isn't that bad but it's also hot so I guess the two or something. I'm just doing my thing and staying out of the heat during those hours anyway cause it's wicked hot out!
Lots of love!
-Elder Sierra
Here's a recording of a returned missionary reading verses from the Book of Mormon using Chileno flaite. For those of you who already speak Spanish it's the slang dialect that urban youth use to distinguish themselves allí.
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