HOLA MI FAMILIA!!
The past three days have been the craziest, worst, and best
days of my life. I only have about five minutes so I´m just going to give you a
quick summary. Also the keyboards are in Spanish so this is kinda crazy haha.
OKAY. So my flight from Seattle to Atlanta was awesome, I sat by a really nice
pilot in the exit row from Belgium and I spoke French with him!! He was so
nice. He has a son named Charlie and he´s from Nashville. He looked up all my
flight info with his pilot internet on the plane and showed me where to go in
the airport when I got there and showed me that my flight was delayed forty
minutes (IF ONLY) I got there and while i was going up the escalator to the
gate i ran into all the other missionaries!! It was so fun and happy. We then
got on the plane about 40 minutes later and sat on the plane for about 3 hours
before they told us to deplane and take our blankets and pillows because we
were sleeping in the airport since the pilot timed out. We were supposed to
leave at 9 the next morning. All of the missionaries are AWESOME. There were 15
of us and i love them all. We called ourselves the Atlanta Georgia Airport
missionaries because we ended up placing two books of mormon haha. ANYWAYS then
we explored for a few hours before laying down to try to sleep (i slept about 2
hours, everyone got very little) and then when 9 am rolled around we were
delayed delayed and delayed until 1 and then our flight was canceled. so we
stood in aCRAZY long line until we finally got rerouted thru Peru, but half of
us would have a 17 hour layover there and the other would have 9 and our flight
was leaving in 30 minutes!! But we should have known, that flight got delayed
for forever too. SO we got to peru, we all slept on the plane but still all only
a couple hours and then the other group left at nine, leaving me, elder
albernoz, elder hansen, elder gardner, and sister evans there for 12 more
hours!!! so we were like HECK NO, there are so many other flights to santiago
there has to be room somewhere!! so we talked our way into getting on the 12:15
flight, six hours earlier than we expected! it was awesome. but then when we
got to the airport, we realized that we should have just waited because all of
our luggage was lost and we had no way to call the mtc and travel office to let
them know! thank goodness everyone was so nice and let us use their phones, and
then these two sweet member ladies talked in spanish for us and stayed with us
the whole time until the taxi came! then i went to the mtc and took a shower
and SLEPT. haha now its morning, we ate breakfast which was cereal with yogurt
and hockey puck bread and manjar! delicious. i am in a trio with hermana
frandsen and hermana bluth, and there are two other latinas in our room! i get
to stay in the actual mtc, not the house thats about 5 miles out called
alcantara. the ccm is BEAUTIFUL, chile is amazing, and i love it here. the
temple is literally 10 feet from where i sleep and i´m just so happy. While the
50 hours were crazy and horrid, we bonded so close and there were angels every
step of the way. we always happened to be with chilean members, even in
atlanta. i am so glad that heavenly father heard our prayers and helped us make
it to the ccm safely. anyways, i love you all, dont worry about me, i am
totally fine and very happy here!! my pday should be on monday or tuesday, so
email me sometime before then.
ADIOS!
hermana hansen
