SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
This week is General Conference. I’m SOOOOO excited. I love General Conference. We get to watch it in English with all the North American missionaries and we just get snack and hang out.
Hermana Godfrey, a friend, and Hermana Daniels
(Jill never tells us who is in the photos, so we have to guess!)
This week I had divisions with Hermana Godfrey, who is American. It’s so weird being with an American. After she left I missed talking in English. I dunno if you guys have realized this, but I have NEVER had a North American companion and I don’t see it happening next transfer either.
So our recent convert family—the dad is trying to quit smoking to try to get baptized. We’ll see how that goes.
We are taking Beatriz’s daughter with us to Moron with the other hermanas. We had a really spiritual lesson with Maria, but she didn’t come to church.
Hope you are all remembering that I exist.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
I love that you all went to Gavin homecoming! It made me happy to see those pictures of you in the Rice’s home theatre!
This week we had stake conference with Elder Aidukitais. We had not even one single investigator in the conference. Gosh, I hated it so bad. But my comp and I worked a ton yesterday cuz we were so frustrated and found some really good people.
I feel like I’ve lived in Argentina my whole life. I’ve been here so long. I’ve almost been living her a year—nothing compared to the two that Gavin just finished. But it’s weird.
Maria, who is waiting for a heart transplant, said she wants to get baptized, but she said she wants to wait til she gets better. Our other good investigator, Beatriz, has nine kids and lives with her husband, but they haven’t talked to each other for ten years and they live under the same roof. She likes church, but she needs to quit working on Sundays. She went on vacation this week to see her son in southern Argentina for her birthday, but she gets back this week so we’ll go chat with her.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
On Saturday we had four baptisms—the Alarcon family got baptized—three boys and their sister.
Remember Maria, the investigator who was waiting for a heart transplant? Well, she came to church this Sunday. She was sitting there with her mom. I LOVED seeing her there. I know now more than ever that things do not just happen without a reason. One of my favorite members, Hermano Peralta (he’s the one whose wife has cancer), gave a talk on priesthood blessings for healing the sick. During the block we had Hermano Peralta and another priesthood holder gave her a blessing. I loved what he said about the priesthood blessings in his talk how basically it has no importance the words of the priesthood holder, but the importance is the faith of the person receiving the blessing and how before we ask for a priesthood blessing we have to do ALL necessary with the doctors and medication to help our situation which is good because Maria doesn’t really listen to her doctors.
Funny story: There is this couple that just moved here from the states that live around the corner from us. Both are members, both inactive—but REAL inactive. The husband was raised in Utah and went to BYU because he was recruited for the rocket engineering program. We are going to their house today to teach them. On Saturday I gave him the book, Our Search for Happiness, and I asked him to read it before today. He said he would do it. So we will see what he thinks.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
Events of the week: Hermana Benton came with us on divisions one day. I really like her. She is so nice. It rained all week and on Saturday after lunch the sun came out. When the sun came out, it was like my comp and I were new people—just loving our lives! We spend our time in the streets laughing a lot. She’s from Paraguay. I also went on divisions back to Aldo Bonzi with Hermana Urdapilleta. We went to mutual and I got to see a ton of the members—and my converts.
Today we had zone activity and played soccer and basketball. It was nice to sweat. I sweated!
Yesterday was fast Sunday. Our family came and they’re getting baptized on Saturday. We had another couple come for the first time, too.
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