& this is my Post-it note...: April 2014

This week was super good! We found a couple awesome people that have a ton of potential! I am super excited to see how it ends up with them! One day we were contacting in an area that is one of the sketchier parts. While we were there, we met a guy named Claudio. He is crazy and just wanted to talk about the states with us but, as we were walking out of the area he said. You are our friends now. If anyone tries to mess with you, i´ll just punch them! hahaha that was pretty funny! Also, as we were walking out of the area, I had my first
encounter with a scary dog! It started barking like nutso and then nipped at the Hermana sainbury...hahaha we started screaming like crazy. In the moment, I was so scared, but now, when I look back, its super funny.

This week, we also went out to the little village of Valle Maria and brough all the other missionaries with us so that we could contact the WHOLE town! It was awesome and so much fun!

Easter was awesome! Its always interesting, because in the states we sing Easter hymns like 2 weeks before Easter and the same with songs for Chrsitmas. But for here in Argentina, its really not like that...haha It was just a normal Sunday and regular talks...It made me a little sad that people weren´t focusing on the Savior a ton... In the afternoon me and Hermana Sainsbury made a super awesome lunch and then we left to go to a house of a Member to do an easter egg hunt with them! They dont do those kinds of things with Easter here, so it was super fun to show them how its done!!!!!!! I loved it! They had so much fun too! We shared a lesson before and then we let them hunt for the eggs!

Also, this week I realized how catholic this place is haha. The week before Easter, the Catholics dont eat meat, only fish. So, we were in the grocery store on Friday getting some things for our lesson and the easter egg hunt, and then decided to buy some meat for our Sunday dinner. Man, the looks we got. hahahha we had about 3 dozen eggs and a package of meat. We werent the biggest fans in the grocery store that day...haha.

News about transfers! I´m heading out of Parana`. I´m heading to a place called Esperanza. I dont know a ton about it, and my companion is a Latina so that should be fun!

A steak we had last Monday!

All of us in Valle Maria

The view from the bus on our way home

Decorating eggs for the Egg Hunt!

April 7, 2014

Oh conference. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. It was quite the adventure here in Argentina. The first sesion was super good. They let us missionaries watch it in English so about 8 of us missionaries were squished into the bishops office watching it on the computer. It was awesome. The 2nd session: We had a investigator who was supposed to come. We took the taxi to her house and her dad came out and started yelling at us. That was fun...haha. It was a good thing Elder Hollands talk was just about 2 hours earlier.... :) haha. So because we didnt have an investogator there we went out and worked.

Sunday Morning: we got to the church early and had lunch with the Elders. Then we got ready to watch conference. It started at one and the people who were in charge to start it up came at 1...haha and of course it wasnt working so they had to pull out the computer from the bishops office and watch it in the hall. It was such a cool thing to see. All the saints from the stake like sardines in a can listening to the words of the lord. It was hard for everyone to hear and to get the message, so us missionares decided to offer a prayer. We knelt in a circle and one of the elders offered one of the most heartfelt prayers I have ever heard. It was so powerful. The satelite continued to not work, but we had faith that god had heard us and that he would help us be able to hear to the word of the profet in a way that EVERYONE would be able to benefit and acyually hear. During the break of conferences we had a baptism of one of teh daugters of a member in the ward. As we were eating and talking, we heard the conference turn on, like the in between messages! GOD ANSWERED OUR PRAYERS!!!!!! The members were able to watch in an atmosphere where they could learn and feel the spirit. It was really good!!!

So, today we are going to watch the 2 sessions that we missed.

April 14, 2014

This week was super good! We had Zone meeting on Tuesday and then ZOne Conference on Wednesday. They had asked everyone to prepare a talk on Dilligence and then they were going to pick a natvive who was trying to learn English give a talk in English and then someone who was trying to learn Spanish speak in Spanish. I was the lucky person chosen...haha it wasnt too bad and I´m getting over my fears of talking in front of people haha.

There is a Less Active Family in our ward. When Hermana Telfer was here, we tried with working them and we could see their progress, then in time, they got busy and we honestly kind of forgot about them. WHen Hermana Sainsbury got here, we tried to see them, but just never made the time to do it because its like a 30 minute busride to get there. So, the other morning we both just felt like we needed to go and visit them. We got there and had a really good lesson with the Mom of the family. We closed with a prayer, and then were starting to be on our way, and she asked us if she could tell us something weird that happened. We told her yeah for sure, tell us! She told us that that morning she had been praying and asking God what he wanted her to do. She didnt know if she should keep trying to return to the church or just drop it all together. She asked him to just send her a sign. AND THEN WE SHOWED UP. I know that this is a typical missionary story, but it made me so grateful that me and Hermana Sainsbury were listening to the spirit. Also, I was able to see that god loves ALLLLL of his children. He sent us to answer her prayers. It was such a cool experience.

Random Thoughts:

I am addicted to chocolate milk. Its so good. In the states I wasnt a huge fan, but now. WOW. Its heaven. The milk comes in bags here. Its kind of weird haha I just buy white milk and then pour in the mix. Its super good. I frink like 3 glasses a day.

I hit the middle of my mission this week. Its crazy. I kind of freaked out a bit, but then I really thought about it and I`m pleased with my work so far and I´m ready to take on another 9 months.