Yo Tengo Mi Mama!!

Zona Activity Day--my fave!

Hola!!!

Wowow what a happy thing!! I was not expecting letters this week! I thought you'd be out in the middle of Timbuktoo, but here you are! Thank you for writing me! 

I LOVE Las Condes. It's so big, I feel like there's so much to discover (aka people who are ready and WAITING for the gospel in their lives heheh. Gonna find ya!!) Everything here is awesome! Hermana K is awesome. Fabulosa. Bella. Humilda. Maravilllosa. Gordita y peluda. Finito (she came up with all those attributes fyi). Really, though, she is amazing. I love her so much. I feel like crying that there is no chance of having more than this transfer with her since she's going home:( But it's okay because my next one will be great too. Plus, she's from Viña del Mar, which is an hour and a half away from here, so she's planning on coming back often!! The apartment is tiny--bien chicitito, but it makes it easy to clean!!!! It's nice and cozy and perfect for missionaries. 

You ask what it means to be an STL so here it is: my new responsibilities are to visit the hermanas in my zone and also do exchanges with them. We've already visited two companionships and they're both training companionships with a few little problems, but nothing too big. My Spanish is good, except for when I'm trying to talk to people on the phone. I don't understand anything! I think a lot of how I understand is by watching people's mouths, but I can't do that over the phone, dangit! Other than that, it's coming along!! People are a little shocked when I speak decently in Spanish because my hair is blonder than ever and I'm about as gringa as you can get, hehe. Gotcha!!! Sneaky, eh?!?

I see my zone every week, but only because we have our district reunions all in the same chapel. We have one zone conference and one zone activity (it was today!) every transfer (6 weeks). Something that I really love about President Morgan is his testimony of the Book of Mormon. And he loves to talk about it. He can apply it to everything and everyone. And that is such an example to me because I am trying to do the same!! I want to be able to find the answers for myself and for those who I am teaching, and I can feel my ability to do that growing here on the mission. I'm very grateful to him for that. 

I really like the list you are making of how to be a good leader. Just look at all the things we learn from the hard things that we go through!!! I love looking at hard experiences in that light. It makes them less of a sad memory and sometimes it even changes them into funny or happy ones!! MILAGROS!!

Not much else to report! Just know that I'm happy and always smiling!!

Love you all!

Hermana Siebach

PS- someone tried to adopt me this week, but I said, "Yo tengo mi mama, pero gracias!" Silly Carol! I'm faithful, mama, don't worry!