Week 53 - San Martin de los Andes

 

What's your favorite day of the week? Is it p day? Sunday? A different day? 

We were talking about this yesterday with my companion. I feel like there are only three days of the week: pday, thursday weekly planning, and sundays. Everything else is just the same and sleeping is like a pause button. 

Is there any habit or routine that you've picked up on since being on a mission? A cultural thing, or something you eat that you didn't before?

I eat ALOt of granola. Also, I like mate (in tea packet form) at night. find out if there is mate there in the states! I have however, dropped the habit of putting on makeup or caring about if my clothes match. I just throw on a dress and shoes now. I rarely use skirt and shirt haha 

 Are you still journaling?

YES! 

 Do you feel like looking back there have been specific things you have learned from each companion you have had?

YES! 

Ovando- How to work work work. 

Jarvis- How to avoid contention

Banuera- how to give and share openly

Brown- how to be happy and be me

Coman- How to love every person we see on the street

Correa- I cant say now! Thats all things we realize after the fact!

 Have you taken something or gained something (a habit or new recipe or tie or something) from each companion, or no?

No but I have a journal that they write me notes in! And I have a little something from each:) 

How is your tummy?

Its better! It still hurts, but Im being better with watching what I eat and NOTHINg fried or with oil or bread or sweets. Im determined to live like this for the rest of my life. And I WILL NOT go home. 

This week the exchanges with Bariloche caused a MESS! Because the sister training leaders are really just sister gossip organizers now that I realize it. THERE IS SOOOOOO MCUH GOSSIP. So new goal: I will NEVER ever gossip or tolerate gossip. I hate it. 

Oh!  Tell me about your weather!

Its fall here! Its so opretty! The trees are all golden or on fire! Ill be taking pictures and sending them next week! But its also sending me for a loop because it does NOT feel like Easter. I accidentally said thankgiving the other day! Haha we´re even eatting a lot of chestnuts and everything! 

This week was a week full of miracles! Also, a really hard week! But thats how it is. The miracles always come after the trial of our faith! 

It was hard this week because Madelen had told us that she was DETERMINED to leave her boyfriend (from her own ideas. we NEVER said she should). We went to visit her the day after exchanges with the sisters from Bariloche and she didnt come to the door after three times of clepping but we could see her son in the window so we knew she was home. She came out eventually and said she couldnt recieve us. I asked immediately if her boyfriend ahd gotten home and she said yes. I KNEW IT! we had been warning her ALL week that he would get home early and convince her that he would change. She then told us that the past week of feeling like she should elave him was from "the enemy" and said she didnt want us to come by more and went inside. It is SO sad. Im destraught. I KNIOW how she feels and how she has to follow the spirit, but she is blinded by satan. Its so sad. 

But, NELIDA GOT BAPTIZED! She is the sweetest lady ever! She was abandoned in a box with her brother when she was 1 or 2 and rasied without school (one of these pictures is us teaching her how to count to three to then teach her tithing), she is just now learned to read in her 60s. She has 8 or 9 children. 4 have died and she doesnt know the names of some of them or the birthdays of any of them. BUT she is so ready and willing to follow Christ! She has a huge faith! She always has flowery pants and a flowery shirt, but this Saturday she came in nice slacks with a white button up shirt.. She is the sweetest ever. I love her! The ward has really become her best friends! Its great! And it turns out that Alex Oñate, the guy that baptized her (we just randomely chose him) is friends with her son and they already know each other! 

MIRACLES! Also, we have a new youing married couple! YAY! 

So HAPPY! 

Love, Hermana Sant