Hermanamarie Olsorno: April 18, 2016 Carpool Tunnel and Spiders

Hi family!

This will probably be the shortest email I write. When I was in Punta Arenas, the cold caused an arthritic carpool tunnel (I know that's not how it is spelled, I just like saying it that way :)) in my right wrist, and so any time it gets ''cold to the bone'' outside, my hand locks up and the most functioning dedo is my pointer. Writing in my journal was pretty tough, so I started writing in left hand, thus, thanks to the mission, I'm practically ambidextrous.

Anyway, it's pretty chilly here in Chile and I didn't wear a coat to centro.... and my left hand and pointer finger are doing all the work. Therefore, short(er) email.

This week was a blast, as always with Hermana Segura. She'll be going home on Wednesday. That's odd! I'll miss her. Up until now I still don't know who my new companion will be. We had two more intercambios this week. One of them was with Hermana Hull, from Santa María California. She's been in Chile for a month and is the granddaughter of Hermana Segura (her daughter's daughter, or the missionary that she trained is training.) It was really fun and we ran into two very peculiar men in separate instances haha I'll try to connect videos instead of trying to type out an explication.

Then on Saturday we went to Purranque, a town an hour away from Osorno because an hermana had been sick all week and they had stayed in the house, so we went after lunch so one of us could stay home with the sicky (I say that with all the love of my heart) and the other companion could go out and get some work done in her neglected sector. It was neat to see how the Lord takes care of the work in the mean time because the few appointments we went to the investigators finally decided to be baptized and with lots of animo!

Rahue has a ton of spiders! We were showing our mamita a picture of some of the spiders the other day and our papito freaked out and said, ''THOSE ARE THE SPIDERS YOU KILL EVERYDAY??!!'' We said, ''Pues...yes.'' And well, we found out that all those spiders that live in our house are called Rincón.

(Mom's note: the most dangerous brown recluse, according to Wikipedia). They hide in clothes, shoes, corners, couches, blankets, pillows. And if they bite you, their venom goes straight to your kidneys, they shut down, and you die in 8 hours. In the month I carry being here in Rahue, I've seen 3 deaths on the news from these spiders. Little did I know we were LIVING IN A NEST OF THEM. So these past few days, we've raided our adorable little house to the maxcore (as 14yearold Ammon would say). So that's fun.

Hermana Segura goes home this week! That's so weird. ...I think I already wrote about this part. Yeah I did.

I'm drawing blanks. Too much happens in a week. haha

I love you all!

Oh! Last night we called Francke and Hermana Gardner told me that yesterday Victor got set apart as the Young Men's President and Juan Carlos as his first counselor!!!!! QUE FELICIDAD!!!

What's even greater is that yeeeeaaarrs ago, Victor and Juan Carlos were devout Catholic priest buddies. And now they are working together in the Francke ward. AH!

That's all I got for now. I'll try to send some pics. They are just going to be really random. If you want an explication ask me and I'll respond next week. :)