December 11th.

Ok, so another week has flown by here in Osorno. Crazy. On Tuesday we did intercambios, I was with Hermana Baum in Ovejeria. Their house is gigantic. Seriously. It has two floors, 3 bedrooms, a kitchen, a full size bathroom, a living room, and an alarm system. I felt very pampered. Hermana Baum confirmed that we live in the 2nd to worst house she's seen. So otra vez, as long as I don't go to Rahue, it can only get better. It's not so bad though, I'm kinda used to it. I really missed our sector when I was gone. Ovejeria has a lot more campo, it's not as much of a city as our sector is. We have a LOT of people we are teaching. Sadly, none of them are really progressing, but we're doing a lot of teaching and finding nuevos. Everyone in our new zone is really cool. Next week I think we're all going down to a vacation house that the senior couple serving here owns, so that'll be fun.

Today Ilse (Elizabeth's mom) taught us how to make empanadas. Hopefully I will have time to send the pictures, they turned out really well! Mine were a little deformed, but they still tasted good. If I do get to send pictures, the little girl in the kitchen with me is Esperanza, Elizabeth's niece. Patricia (her mom) is really excited about the Gospel and asked us to start coming by later so that we could teach her too when she gets home from work. All three of them came to church last Sunday! I think there's another picture of Viroska and I, she's a member from Rahue that likes to come and work with us. Notice that she is in regular not-super-warm clothes, that's because it's summer, yet I've worn my coat everyday since I've been here, ha. We're in the Christmas chorus for the stake. The performance is on the 19th, and there's another one in the plaza  downtown on the 21st. The director asked me to be the stand in for the soprano in a quartet, so it'll be fun to learn a solo part in a week... in Spanish. I'm excited though, it'll be great.

Love and miss you,

Jamie