July 31, 2013

Feliz dia de Amigo

July 22, 2013

Feliz dia del amigo ayer! woohoo! Argentina celebrates just about everything.

And....happy pioneer day this week! My comp is from vegas and so has never done anything....we will of course be making cobbler and playing pioneer games. :) 
 
I hope you are all enjoying the heat. It is like Antarctica here. Seriously, it´s like the bitter Utah cold without the snow. I don´t know what happened, the week started out warm enough for not even a jacket! Our apartment is colder than the fridge, we have been just heating our bedroom and even do studies in there. Also, we ran out of toilet paper Saturday night. I almost had to resort to using the bidet with ice cold water, but decided I didn´t want this real Argentine experience. 

Yesterday at church was so good! We wanted to show the ´work of salvacion´ training thing to our whole branch. After way too many hours and dumb computers and dvds, a guy was able to help us do it all.....and we were able to copy it to a dvd, and luckily everything worked out. We spent the first 2 hours of church and showed it to everyone but the primary. It was SO good....we didn´t get to watch all of it, but i know the members liked it. Then during sacrament meeting our ward mission leader spoke. He is an incredible man, like could be a general authority. He related missionary work to a soccer team, that all the players have a role, and also that there are people that are ready to accept the gospel here, we need to work together as members and missionaries. The members all respect him, and he is a very good speaker, so that just turned out great. Our goal is to help the members be animated about sharing the gospel. Our branch also went to the temple Saturday, so they were also some testimonies about that.
 I have never been so cold at church in my life, it´s a big warehouse type building, with just a tiny gas heater, and it has been so cold here. Everyone has to stay bundled up during all of church, but the people just have so much enthusiasm and testimonies! I love them a lot. 
 
This week we had a big miracle...and then a day of poop. We had an investigador who was so prepared and accepting of the gospel. She had found a Book of Mormon in the street, and it was such an answer when we found her. Well this week we went for a lesson, and she handed us the Book of Mormon and folletos back. ... she totally rejected us. We were so sad for her.... It is the saddest thing to see people who have had a spiritual experience and know it´s true, to give it up because of what someone tells them. We pray that in the future she will accept the gospel!

As for p-days, mom we email in a cyber, buy stuff we need. Today we were tourists and went to a bunch of tourist shops, ate ice cream (we of course have to try every place in the city...), ate pizza in a cone, and this afternoon are going to paint our kitchen. And probably make pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. The past 2 p-days we haven´t been here, so it´s just time to catch up on everything. 

Hope everyone has a lovely week!
love, hermana andrews. 

P.S. A young man we taught in Venado, is getting baptized! WOOHOOO!! I think this is the story of a mission, with people getting baptized after you leave, but I am SO HAPPY for him!
P.P.S. even polar-bear-scarf-weather is apropriate for a treatie. 
P:P:P:S: THe food here is killing me.....We literally eat carbs and more carbs....I am going to come home a gordita. So hold off the fat jokes for now, my brothers. 

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