Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

I just had pday...and here it goes again. I just finished eating mcdonalds and a mcflurry... the things you would never take for granted  in the US. And we just bought a fridge for our pench. Yay! Finally, our food won´t all mold the second day! It´s a miracle warm milk hasn´t killed us yet.

Luckily, the holidays are over! jaja. It´s not a misionaries best friend in Argentina. It´s nice to have everything more back to normal with the schedule and all. This week a huge tender mercy... it rained! And for a few days it was (relatively) cold. I even used my blanket one night. Woohoo! And there has been (relatively) little humidity!. I never have had the weather affect me so much in my life.

This week has been a lot of planning and figuring out what needs to be done. We are really working with the elders, and make goals and plans of everything to do to help this ward. There are some big struggles here, and we need to raise this whole area. A struggle is also that there are practically no members in our area, active or not. But this week we have seen miracles as we have found more people to teach. We were at the house of L____   the australian, when the testigos de jeovah showed up. That was funny.

Our area has a lot of old people, which makes for great conversation, but a little difficult when they can´t see to read or walk to go to the church. But at least we feel loved with all our old grandma friends. Also, the other big chunk of the people we find don´t live in our area... they work in the houses in our area. Which is unfortunate, as they are often so nice and want to listen.  But it´s always entertaining to find the biggest house of the day, or count how many people say they are catholic and shake their little finger at us to go away before we have even said one word. And then there are the people who really do want to listen to us. And that´s refreshing.

This week we are starting english and piano classes. We also have an activity, noche de hermanamiento, that we are doing every 2 weeks. This is a big deal here, as this has not been practice here.

Mom, you would be proud, I made bruschetta the other night. Delicious. Also, I found the yummiest drink....Anana Fizz. Nonalcoholic of course. It´s like pineapple sparkling cider. Truth is, a relatively uneventful week. Well, the mision is always eventful. And my dislike for dogs continues to grow very day.

As for the spiritual stuff, I have learned a lot about less actives. Even the most active can become less active, it doesn´t matter how long a person has been a member. And when someone stops going what they need is a friend to check up on them, not everyone to start talking and judging why they aren´t going. They do need a little more love if we want them to come back.

I cannot believe that everyone is starting their ´last´ of everything....holy cow. Schools gonna be over before ya know it.

The work of salvacion continues. The church is true.
Love you all!
hermana andrews