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Temblores y tribulaciones

Buenas tardes mis amiguitos!

To explain the first part of my title, I experienced my first lil earthquake here this Sunday.  I woke up in the middle of the night to our apartment shaking for what felt like forever.  Literally scared the CRAP out of me and I couldn´t fall asleep for the rest of the night.  During church that morning, another temblor happened and everyone flipped!  So that was the highlight of my week.

To be honest, this week was so hard.  We had 3 people with fecha (a date to be baptized) at the beginning of the week, but now we only have 1.  It was so disappointing and sad watching people that had testimonies choose not to be baptized anymore!  In addition to that, things have not been going too well with my companion again so that doesn´t help too much either.  Luckily we had intercambios this week so I got to spend a day with Hna Canales, who is one of my good friends, so we got to talk a lot, which made me feel a lot better.  This is the last week of the transfer, and I wouldn´t be suprised if my mission president put me with a new companion that I´m friends with to help me out and have someone else finish Hna J´s training, so stay tuned to see what happens next week!

Thanks to everyone for all the emails and support, it means so much to me.  I love you all!

Hermana Harris

Pics:
- We always pass this graffiti and I finally took a pic by it (it says eyes super chinese looking, smile super big)
- Intercambios with Hna Canales!  In her sector there´s a restaurant that sells oreo pizza.  Not dessert pizza, but normal cheese pizza but with oreos instead of pepperoni on top.  Actually was super yummy jaja!
- Had to document that I finally ate my first encebollado (fish soup)!  My new favorite food - and if you know me you know I hated fish before the mission!
- Our zone is doing a musical number for a cena navideña in english.  We had to write these lyrics to the First Noel for them according to how they read in spanish...  I crack up every time.
Had to document that I finally ate my first encebollado (fish soup)!  My new favorite food - and if you know me you know I hated fish before the mission!
 Intercambios with Hna Canales!  In her sector there´s a restaurant that sells oreo pizza.  Not dessert pizza, but normal cheese pizza but with oreos instead of pepperoni on top.  Actually was super yummy jaja!
 We always pass this graffiti and I finally took a pic by it (it says eyes super chinese looking, smile super big)
Our zone is doing a musical number for a cena navideña in english.  We had to write these lyrics to the First Noel for them according to how they read in spanish...  I crack up every time.

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