April 8, 2014
Hey sorry I wasn´t on yesterday, there was a crazy storm
here and we weren´t allowed to leave the pension. Hermana Strickler and I had a
great time though, we made some weird looking tortillas and wrote lots of
letters whoohoo aren´t you so excited!
Well what a great week! We´ve had many adventures in the
rain but don´t worry we are still alive! I´m doing great. And Hermana Strickler
and I are getting along really well. It´s so great being with her. She is
always helping me to be a little better and we are doing great on making goals
to improve ah I love it so much! She helps me a lot accomplish everything that
we need to or want to accomplish. We have a lot of baptisms to get ready for!
We were a little worried, so we made a plan to help every single person reach
their date. Now I know that we are going to do everything that we can to help
them reach their date and if the date ends up falling, it´s not because we
didn´t give them the help that they needed. But none of them are going to fall,
so it´s all good! I´m super excited to help these people make a covenant with
their Heavenly Father and come a little closer to him. We had a great time at
General Conference! I love General Conference! It definitely inspired Hermana
Strickler and I to try to be more EXACTLY obedient. I´m excited to apply the words of the apostles and prophet in my life this week and see the miracles
that come from following the Lord! I loved how many people testified about how
God is with us in every single difficulty that we have. And its so true! Last
week we wanted to buy something similar to peanut butter to make peanut butter
jelly sandwiches, but we couldn´t find the fake peanut butter! We were walking
home very sad when suddenly, I felt that we should go into a different store.
It was this tiny little thing that didn´t have hardly anything and we´d never
been there before, but sure enough, they had the copy cat penaut butter! It was
so cool! Definitley just yet another testimony that the Lord is in the details
of our lives and that He loves us and is willing to help us with even the
little things that are important to us. Haha and this week our ward mission
leader was talking about how he would change the words to the backstreet boys
songs to help people wake up to go to church ¨Leventarte yaaaaa¨ haha so we
decided to try it out....but with hymns! We went from investigators to less
actives to members, waking them up with hymns to get ready to go to conference!
And they did! It was so great! Even though it was rainy and the streets were
full of water, there were a lot of people that were willing to brave the strom
and trust in the Lord to protect us. We took a bus together to Roca (about an
hour away) to listen to the conference broadcast in a church there. And we got
to listen in English on Sunday! Miracle of miracles! AH it was soooo great to
hear them speak. Definitely reaffirmed the importance of teaching these people
in their language, it´s so much more powerful when you can understand
everything. And then right after we came home from the night session, the rains
came down and the floods came up! The Lord had definitely been holding back the
storm for us. It was such a blessing. What miracles did you see this
weekend? I hope you have a great week!
And that you can feel the Spirit as you take the time to remember the birth and
resurrection of our beloved Savior this week! (is easter this week?) Have a
great day!
Hermana Albright
These pictures are of the crazy rain storm that Neuquen has been experiencing! The missionaries had to stay inside on the day of the worst rain, and most businesses were closed!
These pictures are of the crazy rain storm that Neuquen has been experiencing! The missionaries had to stay inside on the day of the worst rain, and most businesses were closed!
March 31, 2014
Hola hola hola!
Third transfer in Huergo! Whoohoo I´m excited! Not going to
lie, I am also very nervous. I have never planned a baptism before, and now we
have 6 baptismal dates to get ready for. GAH! I hope that I´m worthy to listen
to Spirit at all times and that I don´t ruin any of these wonderful people´s
desires to draw closer to God and that they can enter into the waters of
baptism and receive all the blessings that God is waiting to give them! The
less actives here are really growing stronger too! A lot of them are so close
to fully returning. Just a little bit more! I´m excited to be able to help them
a little bit longer and maybe be able to see them accept the light of the
gospel in their lives once again. Our young women class is going great! But it
made me realize, we have many more young men and no young men class. So thats
the next project! Probably more a project for the elders here though. We had 44 in church last week: wohoo!
Hermana Strickler and I get along really well already! She´s
got a little problem with a cough, but we got her medicine today so hopefully
that´ll be taken care of real soon! I love having some one that understands me
so completely, it is so great serving with her. And she is such a great
missionary! I´m going to learn so much this transfer. We just need to keep speaking
in spanish and not english and then we will be undefeatable! Satan get ready
cuz here we come full force!
ok so this week we had correlacion misional and as we left,
elder candia locked the door to the church...and he locked it so good nobody
could get back in! we were all super worried because church was in two days,
but luckily presidente was able to find someone on saturday to come and change
the locks! And just in time for an amazing day in church!!!! The elders had
their first investigator come, and we had less actives and an investigator!!!
Whoohoo!!!! Miracles!
Also this week was lots of adventures! Our poor duena....so
as hermana dubon left, our toilet handle that makes it flush broke. And as
hermana strickler came in, the floor drain was clogged and leaked water ALL
OVER the pension as we showered, and even went over into our duenas house! So
she helped us with that, and then about an hour later, we were cooking and the
fridge cord got melted and shortcircuited the apt. Oh goodness! So hopefully
that was the end of our adventures in the pension. Luckily, we are still alive!
Don´t you worry family!
Anyway, I´m having a jolly good time here in Huergo and hope
that you all have a great week!!! Don´t forget to go to Conference!
CONFERENCE!!!! WHOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I am soooo excited for conference! General
Conference! We are so blessed to live in a time where we can so easily listen
to the voice of the prophet and apostles and learn the Lord´s will for us. I
hope you all enjoy it and live the message that touches your heart this week!
Stay strong!
Hermana Albright
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