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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