Maggie left the MTC on February 26 at 3:00 a.m. and after a five hour lay over in Miami, FL she boarded a red-eye arriving in Chile the next morning. She and the other newly arriving missionaries slept a little at a local hotel, and after interviews and orientation she boarded a bus for bumpy red-eye ride to her first assignment in the city of La Serena.
She met a girl on the bus who turned out to be a daughter of less-active church members and happened to live in her new area. Maggie and her companion, Sister Megan Smith (a Lone Peak grad), have been teaching her. She has a baptismal date for next week.
Maggie loves the warm beautiful weather, the scrumptious fruits and veggies, and she is developing a taste for Chilean rice. Maggie is amazed how many strange sounding Spanish words can come from those Chilean lips sounding just like gibberish. However, she is thrilled that when it is important to understand what is being said she understands perfectly!
There was a problem with the plumbing so Maggie and Sister Smith resorted to filling the baptismal font with the fire hose.
Monserrat's baptismal day with her parents, Maggie, Sister Smith and a member of the ward. Maggie and Sister Smith had Easter dinner with Monserrat and her family.
Maggie loves the warm beautiful weather, the scrumptious fruits and veggies, and she is developing a taste for Chilean rice. Maggie is amazed how many strange sounding Spanish words can come from those Chilean lips sounding just like gibberish. However, she is thrilled that when it is important to understand what is being said she understands perfectly!
There was a problem with the plumbing so Maggie and Sister Smith resorted to filling the baptismal font with the fire hose.
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