CONFORT!

Ah, familia. I can´t send pictures this week. SO much to tell everyone. First of all a call to repentence for BLOB LEBARON. Get me your address. I have a letter for you. Second order of Business. Mom, a brother in my Ward needs you to send him Pictures of a Ward building, Ward activity, historic places, Salt Lake and other Pictures like that so he can teach a class on how the church is the same in all places. He teaches on Sunday, so you need to do it STAT. Thank you so much! His email is fonluis_@hotmail.com. Somebody help her with that.
Shoutouts: Liz, Jess, Katie. Every time I eat a fiber pill, I think of you. Happy birthday AAAASSHLEY! I love you and thank you for your letter! Uncle Bob, Bette and Bubba, Katie THANK YOU for your emails. I LOVE THEM. Dad, thank you for your letter--I love your talk about the Liahona. I was reading in Nef. 17 and in v. 14 is says AFTER ye have arrived in the promised land, ye shall know that I, the Lord am God and that I, the Lord, did deliver you from destructionñ yea that I did bring you out of the land of Jerusalem. I love this scripture because the Lord didn´t say, and EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, you will know that I the Lord and leading you by the hand. We need to have faith. Mom, you are incredible and I´m so excited to get the newsletter! I know you are package happy, so while you are in this state, I´m going to ask for one more! I need TIGHTS (black and nude)...lots of ém...I wear one or two pair every day cause it´s freezing and they are expensive down here. Also a colorful scarf would be nice to spice things up and some big, paperback himanrios (hymn books) would rock because every time we want another one, we have to call Santiago. Careful with the candy...I weighed in today and it´s not looking pretty....maybe some diet pills next package. 

Okay, now that shout outs are over, I have some news. In my interview with President he said there would be a chance that Camino Real (my sector) would change to Elders when Hna. Alvarez left...We got the news yesterday that indeed it is changing...BOO! So sometime today prez is going to call and let me know where I¨m headed next! It´s sad because I don´t want to leave, but exciting because it´s like Camino Real was a little gift. Last night I imagined what it would be like if I were STILL in the MTC and laughed. I´ve learned more out here than I would have ever learned in a year at the MTC... Loved it, but I´m so happy to be here.

More news, for letters (in envelopes...you dont have to send them pouch style) and packages..send them to:

Hna Bourne
Casilla 7-0
Orsono Chile

Simple, no? They are sure to get to me. Wow, this week I had my first intercambio. Nobody knows why we had this intercambio, but we changed with another companionship in another zone (I have a feeling it´s because I´m headed there) in Osorno. I had an awesome experience with Hna. McClellan. I learned to just speak. My language is actually progressing quite nicely. I can understand most everything now and people can understand me. Hna McClellan gave me more responsibility than I´m used to, but I was able to do just fine. We commited a couple of eternal investigators to marriage AND baptism. It was amazing. I missed Hna. Alvarez, but I learned that I´ll be just fine with whatever comp I´m assigned to next. I´m enjoying being Junior comp for now because I don´t have to think about or be responsible for every single little detail...but I´m learning.

Funny happenings:
A lot this week. We were quite ill all week and continue to be so. We can´t sing hymns in the morning anymore because we die of laughter because we sound so bad, we have a lot of trouble sleeping because of aches and congestion, and we are exhausted, but happy. We think we have sinus infections slash allergies slash fleas. Well, I KNOW we have fleas...
In the house of the mamita, I heard gangster´s paradise, started rapping, remembered I was a missionary, and sang a hymn to myself. Tiff, I love you.
I am officially native. I can successfully fend off any perro (mangy mutant dog)that barks my way. What you do is turn around really fast and crouch and pretend like you´re going to pick up a rock to throw at the perro and it runs away. Seriously, there are more perros than people and they are all dirty and mean.
I ate curanto. At the ward activity, we sang (I played the piano for them) about curanto (a mixture of clams, mussels, sausage, and chicken), and then we ate it. Gross. 
Any young woman can be known as ¨la tia¨. It means äunt¨ All the young women call me ¨tia¨and it´s adorable. I love it.
Everyone in Chile is late. Well, at least all of our contacts in the street are late to something...LIes obviously. NOthing down here has EVER started on time. LIke right now, I´m in downtown Osorno, and the missionaries that planned this big asado at the church at 12:30 are sitting right behind me, chatting. It´s 12:48. Nice.
My favorite one is the story of confort. People, whenever I don´t know a word in Spanish, I use an english equivalent and pronounce it in spanish or add -o or -a at the end. Usually it works...however. Dun, dun, dun! We were in a lesson my first week and I was bearing my testimony about the Spirit. I said ¨Hermana, yo se que el Espiritu Santo puede darle confort por toda su vida. Es un bendicion hermosa¨. I thought I said Sister, I know that the Spirit can give you comfort for the rest of your life, it´s a beautiful blessing. WRONG. Consuelo means comfort. Unbeknownest to me, ¨confort¨ is the most widely used brand of toilet paper in Chile. Luckily it was my first week and only my comp could understand me. She told me after and died laughing. How sweet would it be though if the spirit really could give us confort the rest of our lives...without price. I wouldn´t say no!

Family, friends. I just love you. I love Osorno and can´t wait to see where I get sent on Wednesday. Hna. Alvarez is having a hard time saying goodbye to the mission. I´m having a hard time saying goodbye to my sector...and I was only there for 6 weeks. The gospel of Jesus Christ is real. No doubt in my mind about it. OH yeah, one more funny happening. Mom and Dad, my ipod was on shuffle the other day and what song should come on but ¨turn around¨, that lullabye you always sang to us. I had a feeling of just overwhelming love for you guys. Thank you for your prayers, letters, packages, support. It means so much and lifts me up at the beginning of every week. 

Ps- dad, your idea is awesome. The wording was hilarious and I died in the colectivo reading what you wanted to do...it reminds me of your water feature. DO IT! Did you ever get my letter to you? Hna Alvarez really is great and doesn´t need anything.

pss-JAMES I really want to know how the interview went and how its going with this chick! What the shrapnel.

psss-Katie, you leave so soon for israel. WOW. Read preach my gospel chapter 3 before you go. I´m serious. LOVE YOU!

Wow, I love you all. Bette and Bubba, thanks for reading the blog. I love to hear from you. Gma and Gpa Bourne, thanks for everything as well. I don´t deserve the family I have. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVEL OVEL VOELVOELVEOVLEV CHAO!
Hermana Bourne