May 26, 2014
Happy Independence Day! For Argentina at least. We had a
super fun ward party on Saturday to celebrate! Full of food! And we were
blessed enough to steal an amazing member from the activity for a couple hours
(because it lasted all day. Argentines love to party!) so that was great! We´re
finding lots of new members but they are ALL OVER the area and our area is
HUGE! Literally, this area is just a small part of this city and just this
little portion is bigger than huergo i think. It´s so crazy! Lots of fun things
happened this week! We had zone conference on thursday, I love zone
conferences!!!! And Hermana Stanley is in my zone here! Whoohoooo!!!!! Sorry no
pics :(
One day we studied language study at a members house because
we didnt have time to return to our pension. She had the brilliant idea to bring
her granddaughter over to read us her fairytales!! They have all the same
fairytales here it was so cool! We learned so many fun words! (cenicienta is
cinderella, 7 enanos is the 7 dwarves of blanca nieve, sirenita is the little
mermaid, etc). So that was fun. Also, we finally learned how to make ranch
here! That was a happy happy day! But it was really garlicy whoops...
Then on friday we had intercambios with the hermanas
lideres! They are so fun. I went to their area with one of them. It was so
cool! We had a lot of lessons in the church, which was awesome because the
spirit is so strong there! And because i got to meet some great people! One guy
walked in for his baptismal interview and he was just shouting ¨¨THe day
everyone has been waiting for!!!! The most exciting day of all! Don Jose is
getting married and baptized!¨¨ And he just¨had this huge smile on his face it
was so fun! He´s the zone leaders investigator. New member now! And then one of
our lessons was super cool. It wsa a recent convert, and he couldn´t really
talk because of an accident he had. He could basically say sí or no, or try to
grunt. But he was so happy! We talked about how our weaknesses can be turned to
strengths and then we gave him an assignment of doing family history and performing
the saving ordinances for his family and he was just so excited to begin!!! It
was so touching to see this man who had so many hardships in his life, and he
was still able to find so much joy in life! He was definitely a great example
to me to never let your situation get you down.
I hope you all have a great week and remember dory´s advice!
When life gets you down, you know what you got to do? Just keep smiling! ;) or
something like that.
SHOUTOUT to my wonderful grandpa Vern!!!! Happy birthday
Grandpa! I love you!
pics: the other hermanas in the ward at the independence
celebration
landscape shot from part of our area! I´m getting lots of
muscles climbing this hill everyone got together to play
monopoly but we´ve just been chilling and writing letters My new area is good. No chacras though so
thats sad :(
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