11-07-2011

Yes, we wear these hats!

Sleeping on the floor before conference

Hola todos!

Wow... what an awesome week!  We got to travel to Resistencia over the weekend to hear Elder Christofferson speak along with Elder Foster and Elder Jensen from the 70.  It was super awesome!  Not to mention we are working with some great people that are very near baptism... one of which will be baptized this week!  My first one! :)  Exciting.  Here are a few things from the week...

AWKWARDS INCOMODOS Y CHISTOSOS

• walking in the street and having a lady call out from her house to tell me that my skirt was tucked up underneath my backpack.  Yeah.... that wasn´t embarrassing at all. 
• 12 hermanas, tons of heat/humidity, 1 apartment, 2 beds, and 1 fan.  What a night! Haha.  We had 6 companionships sleeping in the same pension Friday night before the conference.  Most of us slept in the tile floor with a blanket beneath us.  It really was tons of fun!  We all got up early in the morning to get ready (since there was one bathroom we wanted to make sure we all had time) and then it rained on us and we ended up taking a bus and walking through the rain to the conference.  So much for doing our hair and shining our shoes! Haha
• the culture here is so funny sometimes... we called for 3 remis´ (taxis) the night before the conference to pick us up the next morning since the church was far.  They never arrived so one of the hermanas called them and they said that they didn´t have very many workers that morning because of the rain.   Sometimes transportation here is so unreliable. Well, really all the time. It´s so great.

AWESOMES

• first of all... investigators.  Lorena is 16 she is getting baptized this Saturday.  She is super awesome!  We were having a charla (¨chat¨) with her and her mom Ramona and their neighbor Natalia who is 14 the other day and we were talking about Lorena´s baptism, and Natalia who is super sweet and quiet just blurts out ¨yo quiero bautizarme tambian!¨ (I want to get baptized too!) so we are planning for her too but we have to talk to her parents first.  Ramona also will be baptized but she has to get married first so she´s working with her marido on that one... with time, with time!  We are also working with a guy named Miguel, he is the marido of a member.  He is very addicted to cigarrettes but he is so awesome and we are working with him to get baptized the 26th so we´re trying to help him quit smoking.  He is really on board and is willing to break through any walls that he needs to.  They have to get married first and last night he told us he was born in Buenos Aires, which means someone has to take out his papers there and send them here which could either take weeks or which will cost a ton to send overnight.  He was like ´lets do it! I´m calling my mom tomorrow to go get my papers´ haha.  He is so great and we have had a lot of fun working with them and their family!  We had a family night with them the other night, I will try and send pictures from it next week if I have time
• 2nd... the conference this week!  There were so many good things that I learned but I don´t have time to write them all.  One thing that I really liked though was Elder Jensen talked about covenants and how we follow the rules and are precise because we have made covenants with God, not because they are rules.  It´s really cool to think of it that way and recognize the responsibility we have because of the covenants we have chosen to make, like baptismal for example.  Not because they are silly rules, but because we really are doing our best and trying hard to follow Christ and live a higher law

Ok I don´t have time to write more but I hope all is well there in the states and you are all enjoying the cold while we are enjoying the heat! (too bad you can´t hear the sarcasm when I say that haha)

Besitos! CIAO! Cuidense!

--Hermana Hunt