17 de Junio

Happy father´s day!

I hope the day was great! I celebrated by drinking some mate (dad´s favorite...) and playing the piano in sacrament for the primary kids to sing their little songs.

The primary (ok it consisted of the 2 little wolfley girls and 2 other kids....) had an activity yesterday, and we were at the church so ended up helping. Haha it was a primary activity argentine style, making little fathers day picture frames. 

This week was zone conference, president Giuliani is doing it separately with every zone. There are 14 missionaries in Venado zone. Oh boy...it basically made me feel like poo. We had to do a ton of practice things, and everything they talked about just made me remember all my weaknesses. But....I do love listening to pres. and hermana Giuliani speak:) Everyone had to prepare a talk, and they choose a person to give it in Spanish, and a Latino has to give one in English. Well good thing I prepared mine the morning of, because president picked me to do it! Ugh! it is just my luck!, I had to do this twice in the MTC and then in this zone conference! ha. 

Some good things for the week....we had 42 people in the capilla yesterday, and 10 of those were priesthood! Basically, those are the numbers you would see in Buenos Aires...so very good for here:) The best part was, there was 2 inactive ladies we have been working with for the past 2 months who came! It was even more of a miracle, as it rained yesterday morning, which means normally no one leaves their house. A difficult thing about a mission is everything is so number based....how many baptisms, investigatores, etc. Me and my comp have worked for almost 2 transfers now, and at times it is difficult to see any difference. There are 2 things that I realize though: 1)we have to experience the bad to know the good, every day is not just full of great things....but you just keep doing all you can do, knowing you are at least dedicating your time and effort to God. Also, 2)change in people takes time and persistence. One of the ladies who came yesterday has been a member her life, but inactive for quite a while. She always feeds the missionaries every week, is proud to be Mormon, and wants her (almost) husband....partner...to be baptized. She talks the talk, but never would go to church, or read the book of Mormon. Finally this week we could see she is changing....we have assigned her things to read every day in the Book of Mormon, and she is always asking us questions....you can just see a change in her attitude about living the gospel. 

We passed by our special little Carlos one day to explain the importance of coming to sacrament meeting if he wants to be baptized. Turns out, their is a huge cement wall right in front of his little shack! The neighbors with the mansion next door built a wall in front of his shack....and Carlos was just on cloud nine, so happy that his neighbors would be so nice.....he is just so innocent.
 Good thing he doesn´t realize it is more of a wall of shame to hide where he lives from the world....

We went to Murphy one day, and of course had too many things to do and not enough time! We were able to pass by some referencias from members, and met some people who have definitely been prepared for the gospel. Murphy is a small place, and everyone knows everyone...the problem is that members never even talk about the gospel with people.
 

It´s cold here! The sweaters have been on every dog here for the past month...but it finally is cold for real here. And mom, I do wear the thermals every night! I hope you are all enjoying your 80 degree weather!

Ooh, I miss parades! That´s hilarious you went to a stake dance...ethan better get going to those while he is still under the age limit. 

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Good job on the uke, landon. You can be the new youtube sensation.

Thanks for the emails!

Until next week!

love hermana andrews