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| Katie and her new companion, Hermana Risco |
Some big changes here this week. First of all, I had cambios! They called me Monday night, and I already kind of knew. My time had come. The next day we went to Guayaquil, and after waiting for a very long time, I found out where I was going, and I was so excited, because I´M NOT IN SANTA ROSA OR CUENCA!!! POR FINNNNNN!!!!!!!! I am in a town called Catamayo, which is about 30-45 minutes west of Loja. Loja is sierra as well as Cuenca, and even though I had heard that it isn´t as cold as Cuenca, it still was reasonably cold. I knew that Catamayo was in the general region of Loja, so I thought it would be chilly there too. Welp I was a little mistaken there. It´s so strange, because I know I´m in the sierra but I feel like I´m in the coast: it´s super hot and sunny, there are tons of bugs (I have so many nasty mosquito bites), and I got a crazy sunburn my first day. I guess it´s at a lower altitude, and is in a valley, kind of like a bowl, and the sun just comes straight down here. But Saturday a thunderstorm randomly kicked in, with lightning and everything (it was so cool!!); it´s been raining off and on ever since. It´s actually raining right now, and I thought it was going to be sunny again...oops.
The other exciting thing is that I´m training! The cambio (or transfer period of 6 weeks) having started over again last week, I got sent to Catamayo to finish training my current companion, my first hijastra (stepdaughter). My companion is Hermana Risco, and she´s from Iquitos, Peru. This is her second cambio in the mission, so she´s only been here in Catamayo and the mission for 6 weeks. I was a little anxious when I heard that I was going to train, but then I got here and realized my companion is so pilas that I practically don´t have anything to worry about. She´s super great, always stopping to talk to everyone we see. I think this will work out fine.Love,
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