July 7 and July 14

July 14, 2014

MUNDIAL! so the people here all leave after the games to party in the streets together it is absoulutely crazy! But super fun.

Argentina Independence otra vez? Another patriotic holiday! I don´t know what the difference between this and the other one is but this activity was so great! We had sooooo many less actives and investigators come!!!! No lie, there was more less actives and investigators than there were active members. It was so cool! We are seeing a lot of miracles.

We also had interviews this week! So fun! We asked Presidente Lovell about the rules in a trio just to be sure that we are ok. He said that we are like the queens in chess....we can do whatever we want! (this is a dangerous thing to tell someone like Heidi!) Whoohoo!

We have also started putting in practice inviting multiple families to noches de hogar! President suggested that we incorporate this to create more love and friendship in the ward. On Friday we were visting a member who is a single abuelita and asked her if she could hold a noche de hogar in her house and she said yes!!! And then gave us a list of people that would be great to invite, one of them being a family of less actives! So we invited them the next day and they were so excited about it. It was so great I was not expecting them to react so happily! Tonight is going to be so fun!

Have you had any great experiences with family history? We have been visiting another single abuelita and working with her on her family history. When we started, she decided she wanted to go to the temple this year. She has a special needs son that comes with her, so she would need another family to come with her and help out and said their trip would be mostly free! So we got the word out, and now a family that used to be borderline active is preparing to go to the temple with her to be sealed together! They have changed so much and are now reading their scriptures, praying, and having noche de hogar constantly! It is so amazing to see the miracles in these members lives.

Hope you all have a fantastic week this week! Look for the little miracles in life and you will be surprised by how much you find!

Hermana Albright

July 7, 2014

Happy fourth of july!!! Hope you all had a great week and lots of fun with fireworks! We celebrated down here and even got our peruvian companion to dress up with

us! Super fun. And we had zone meeting that day, so i got to spend another fourth of july with the great Hermana Stanley! That was super fun! Good times. The next day, Argentina showed us how you really celebrate country pride. Argentina won their game to go to the semifinals in the mundial and they were all partying it up! It was so cool! When Argentina wins, everyone leaves their house decked out in Argentine gear and with flags or blankets to wave and they make a huge impromptu parade down the street Honduras! Everyone young and old cheers and honks their horn and waves their flags and celebrates for a couple hours. Its acutally pretty impressive. We have to to avoid some streets for a good while, but otherwise its fun! But dont worry we{re super safe! One of our favorite primary kids and a young adult have been teaching us selfdefense moves every opportunity they get! Haha so we are ready to protect ourselves if ever needed!

 This week we moved apartments!!! Our new apartment is sooo nice! Its clean, with running warm water, the drains work, and its closer to all the members and stores! So great! We had a great time moving and met a ton of nice taxi drivers! So that was our main adventure for the week.

One day we went out with a new member, Fabian. We never used him much before because he{s a guy, and Hermana Allen is a little scared of him hee hee. But I asked him to come out with us to an investigator that I thought was a little creepy to protect us, and the investigator wasn{t there. So Fabian says Hey I have some people here you can visit! It was so great! He gave us three referals and went with us to one of them, a cute little old less active lady! He was so nice and bore such a strong testimony. And the next day, told us that he talked to one of the other referals (also less active) and they want us to come and teach their daughter and baptize her! Now that is member missionary work!!!

How have you shared the gospel this week? I{d love to hear about your experiences with testifying through your words or actions!

I know that this church is true and that Christ is at the head of it. With Him as our guide, we have nothing to fear! I hope you all have an amazing week!

Hermana Albright

Exerpts from online chatting:  luckily i{m in an area where it doesnt snow a lot yaaaay but yes in other areas it is definitely snowing a ton. this week it hailed and rained here but mostly the wind is the most frigid.

and the office is helping with the visas theres just oa ton of procedures and missionaries to do  ya we maxed out a couple months ago and they stopped sending missionaries here but now everyones going home so they have been closing areas