Week 75 - Limay

This week was awesome! thank you all for your prayers! 

We were teaching Jonathan, Yanina, and Erik this week (and jonathan and Yaninas daughter, jenifer. She is six) Jonathan and Yanina went to a baptism this saturday and they LOVED IT! When they looked at the font, Jonathan said, oh thats where well be" and she say "when we get married fisrt!" Theyre awesome and Yanina and Erik went to church yesterday! Theyre awesome! And Yenifer is so sweet! She loves church and puts on a dress whenever we go by to get them for church or baptisms or activities! So keep on praying for them that they can get married as fast as possible! 

Also, we have a family of 4. the daughter, azul, is a member. The parents (Julio and eva) and their 8 year old son  (Benicio) are not but have known lots of missionaries. They just need to act. They read the scriptures and all, they just need to get married an baptized, so please pray for them too. 

Then, we have agustina, the grand daughter of a member. She agreed to baptism yesterday and will be baptized on the 7th. She is 14. So, please pray for her too! 

I love you all! thank you for all of your support and love! 

Also, just so you dont think our mission life is sunshine and rainbows, yesterday we visited oscar. He is an investigator that has been to church a ton of times, read the entire book of mormon and STILL does not believe in any of it. His son, Evaristo, is very interested in the gospel and also has been to church many times. He is looking for a read answer, but he just moved to a different stake (reference for some other elders) and we went to visit oscar one more time just to see if he would change. We testified VERY strongly. The spirit was very present and my testimony of the preisthood and the importance of baptism was confirmed with every word we said. But, he just kept on saying that the preisthood and the holy ghost were the same thing, despite him admitting several times that it wasnt, he always went back to the fact that he recieved baptism and the preisthood when god healed his leg 30 years ago. It was a tough lesson and sad to leave him. We might pass by once more to see if he does the commitments. 

Anyways, Have a good week!

I forgot! 

Yesterday at abuot 7 in the morning, our downstairs neighbor showed up. She stumbled out of an old white car along with two other half-dressed girls and two teenage boys-- all intoxicated. VERY SAD. very funny. They were all SO drunk. They afterwards blasted music (we could not keep ourselves from noticing that they were new miley cyrus and taylor swift songs) and kept on drinking downstairs. Good stuff. Poor thing. We will try to teach her this week.

Week 74 - Limay

So, this week, it started getting hot here! Im getting a little sunburned but I am doing good! I feel like right now, spring in neuquen, is hotter than mid summer in el Bolson. So weird! haha  I was VERY blessed to not be in this part of the mission for summer because I would not have survived haha 

The work is doing good here! The truth is, we were left with alot of people "ready to be baptized with baptismal dates" but as we have visited the people, they do not want to be baptized and never heard of their baptismal dates haha so we are working on that! 

I LOOOOOOVVVVVEEE the people here! the ward is so great and there are some families that are just really models for good gospel living or from good family relationships or for good memeber missionary work. I love it! They are all working so hard! 

We found one family last night that is AWESOME! They are so ready for the gospel. They are Jonathan, Yanina, and Erik. So, pray for them please:) 

Also, President, put the goal for the mission of one baptism by the end of september, so if yall could just keep that in your prayers:)

Also, this saturday, we went to one of the sisters' pension because they are a little discouraged (and here in the north its a 40 minute walk to the other ssters instead of a 4 hour wallk like in the south) and we ate breakfast with them before they left. I went to the pantry to grab a cup and to my surprise, there is a cup FULLLLLL of oil right there and it just came pouring out all over me haha good times.

Week 73 - Limay

Okay so the pictures. Hermana farr and I decided to dress up as hipster missionaries for the leadership counsel. It was good.  

Hermana barbosa and HErmana Flores go home with me. 

That is the letter from president full of my goals I have to put for my future-- my trunky letter-- I still hvent even touched it hahaa 

Sergio got baptized this week! He was very ready, but we worked with him this week so that he could understand the importance of baptism and the book of m romon. The water heater in the church b roke before the baptism so he got baptized in cold water! Poor guy! 

Also I was blessed to se hermana banuera in the terminal in Bariloche before I cam eup to the north! I LOVE HER! 

All in all this week was great! Were walking around kind of like chickens with their heads cut off haha  we just get really lost and end up finding someone at about 8:30 at night! Its all perfect haha This week President told us that each companionship needs to have one baptism by the end of september. so we are working on that in our area and with the sisters:) We will probably be doing exchanges this week to help them! We are very excited:)

Week 72 - Bariloche

So, we had a week all in all very good! (not for the group... my companion just notified me that this week she started to love me so thats good stuff) 

And we had a week full of people to teach which was great! 

Yesterday we got transfers and I am going to Limay-- the meca of the mission, smae ward as president, the sisters that get alllll of the newbies and say goodbye to all of the oldies, the sisters that we stay with when we do paperwork to be legal-- and my companion will be the one, the only.... Hermana FARR. Thats right. Hermana Farr that got here the transfer after me in Bariloche who is awesome and so funny and the best ever. I am so excited. And I am openly expressing my bias... in this email. I am trying to control being so excited in front of my companion. Her and I will be doing whitewash there in Limay.

 All week this week Hermana Gaertner and I have been saying that they could not surprise us with transfers, so when they did the transfer call and said I was leaving and Hermana gaertner would stay and Hermana Nokes would be her companion. Nope. No surprise here. It was 2 hours later when they called us and said there was a change in the transfers that we were surprised. Hermana gaertner will still be in Bariloche with hermana Nokes... for a week. the sisters in Esquel- hermana Howard and hermana Rodriguez- will come here and gaertner and nokes will go to Esquel next sunday. They will do the big switcharoo next sunday because the sisters in Esquel have a baptism this saturday. after the investigator gets confirmed, theyre leaving and coming here! whitewash EVERYWHERE. 

Really. I am just too blessed by the lord this week. Hermana Geartner and I are good friends. I am going to Limay, my dream area, with my dream companion, and its perfect because when yall come to get me in October, I will aready be there and I dont have to take a 7 hour bus ride up to Neuquen. I will walk a couple of blocks and be there. 

Anyways, god loves us. This is the true gospel of Jesus christ restored on the earth. I love you all! ç