Week 5 - Buenos Aires CCM

Okay, So I got pretty sick this week! I was feeling super achy and couldn't breathe out of my nose and have a huge cough! It started on Friday... the day before proselyting haha (The aches are gone, but I still have a stuffy nose and pretty mean cough.)

When I was napping in my room, Presidente told me to try to get over it as fast as possible so he let me nap for a bit, the Latina hermanas came into my room and they were like "¡Oooooooo Hermana Sant es inferma! Oooooooo!" Hermana Simmons nicely ushered them into the hall and said okay talk out here! Then Hermana Robles, started rounding up other hermanas in other rooms and was like we need to pray for her! And Hermana Garcia, her adorable companion sighed and said, "We don't need everyone! Lets just pray!!!" Eventually, they got everyone they needed and prayed for me. It is the sweetest thing I had every heard! Hermana Simmons told me all of that because I was knocked out. 

Okay, platform shoes are so in down here! I wish I had brought all Doc Martins and Dansko because they are the best brands of shoes. Hands down. Best. Shoes. Ever.  I want 10 more pairs and every pair of Danskos they sell. So worth it.  I don't even know why I bought different brands because they are by far my most comfy and most durable shoes. You were right, mama. I should have listened to you!  Also, the packet said I could buy fleece lined tights down here but I hear they don't sell them.

So, I taught chastity to my teachers seven times this week. In one of them, we forgot to say the "until marriage" thing. The fake investigator was like "EVER!!!???" Eventually we were like "OHHHHH! noooo! Hasta matrimonio!!! Hasta matrimonio!!" 

This week feels like senior year. Everyone has senioritis bad. We just want to be out there practicing the language and teaching real people. It is going to be way hard out there and we will miss it here, but we can't wait! 

One time when we went proselyting, we were all on our big bus that takes the missionaries to our area and we were next to this cookie truck and at a stop light, a guy jumped out of the truck and three 4 big bags of cookies into the window for us! It was so nice! 

This week at proselyting was funny. We were in a new area and no one was out or answering their doors. Eventually, some guy stopped his bike on the side of the road and was like are y'all Christians! and we said yes! He grabbed a pamphlet out of my hand, pointed to Jesus and said he's my friend. We talked to him for about a half hour and got his information and he asked us.... before we could!... if he could go to our church the next day. I don't know if he ever really made it or not, but it was really cool to talk to someone that loves God so much! 

Oh and bringing contacts on my mission wasn't worth it. I wear glasses all the time. That way I don't have to wear as much makeup. 

I just want a normal pancakes with syrup lately. That's all I want! haha 

I am soooooo happy I got to email Daniel on Monday! We had a little class activity outside that day right before lunch so we were all just standing in the cafeteria waiting for lunch and Hermana Sabolsky was like, Oh Presidente is looking for you! He's probably upstairs cause I thought you were up there! I was like crap. What'd I do hahaha

Then I saw him down the hall and he was like HEY HEY HEY! In his loud voice and said, "Your brother got his mission call! He's going to Bakersfield California Spanish speaking!" I almost cried! He brought me into his office and told me that he talked to my teachers or something and he decided I could write a line or two to Daniel about it! I almost cried again! He asked me what color I wanted the font and everything! He is so funny!

Oh and my spiritual thought is Mosiah 5:2 "And they all cried with one voice, saying: Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually."  We can truly be changed through the help of God through the Spirit. The Spirit testifies the truth of all things. 

I don't know my travel plans until Monday and I leave Tuesday sometime. I will leave with five elders from here and no hermanas.  It'll be a while before I can email you again, so I love you all! I'll email you ASAP. 

¡Otra dia glorioso!

Love, Hermana Sant

 

The shoes Sari loves.