Hola hola todos!
¿Como estan todos? Life is great here in good old Posadas Argentina! Hey if anyone has the Liahona for this month, there are some articles from people in my stake here! One girl.. Valeria, wrote about her testimony of the Book of Mormon and it has her picture and their family´s picture. They are in my ward, we had lunch with them today. Anyway... it has been super rainy the past couple days, which means lots of mud. The other day I didn´t use an umbrella and I only used my raincoat, and I came home completely soaked. Luckily it hasn´t been super hot though! (it was pretty hot the other day and I was already dying... voy a morir este verano!!) here are mis listas para la semana!
AWKWARDS, INCOMODOS, Y CHISTOSOS
· so to great people here we do the 2 kisses on the cheek thing ya know (with the women only, not the men). What is awkward is when you miss just a little bit.... seriously... it happens.
· when you are sitting in a lesson and the lady starts talking. 30 minutes later, you realize she is still talking (not even exaggerating), and you realize that you have NO idea what she is saying. Finally my companion has to cut her off and tell her we have to leave. This happened like 3 times in one day... hahaha. One of the ladies was talking about her experience with the dead and how she saw her dead aunt and she had a body and stuff...... who knows. Something like that. I don´t think we will be going back to her house, haha
· like I just said, the people here know how to TALK. WOW! You can ask them a question and they will go on forever until you cut them off. The other day we told about the first vision and my companion asked ´so what was the question Joseph Smith had for God?´ this guys goes on to say ´well for example.. the Catholics have their virgin Mary, and the mormons have their joseph smith´and all this stuff.. and we just sit there and smile and nod our heads, and 10 minutes later she asks again and says ´uh huh, but so what was Joseph Smith´s question? Do you remember?´and he starts again saying the same thing... hahaha. Sometimes the people here just don´t understand us
· again about the talking.... my favorite thing to do here in Argentina. During lessons, the people go off talking, (this is after I explain to them I have only been here a week and don´t understand very much) and they will look me right in the eyes and I just sit there and patiently watch them as they talk... and they are very very animated when they talk, and it´s so funny because everything they say is going right over my head, usually I catch maybe one or two words, so I just sit and watch them talk and watch their emotions and I try really hard to give them my full attention and try and figure out what they´re saying but seriously it´s really hard to do that for 20 minutes straight so when they finally finish what they´re saying I just kinda nod my head and smile and saying something like ´wow´ or ´que bueno!´ or something. Hahahah. I mean this is funny, but what´s really funny is that this seriously happens every day, all the time, like, 24/7. At least they are entertaining to watch!
· once again the bathrooms here. Bahaha. Sometimes we are tracting and I really have to go, so we stop at a member´s house. I am getting used to using bathrooms that don´t have any sinks or soap, that don´t flush, and that don´t have toilet paper. I think I am going to be in shock to see a regular clean toilet when I get back to the u.s.!
AWESOMES
· well with investigators this week we don´t have too many awesomes... it was actually a pretty sad week. Our investigator that was supposed to be baptized ended up not getting baptized because his mom won´t let him yet, and our other investigator that we were working hard with decided she didn´t like church and she wouldn´t keep her committments so we won´t be going back to teach her. :( we prayed really hard for both of them this week and also fasted for both of them. BUT all is well :) and what was awesome is that we are trying to really work with the Familia Rotela especially the mom Amelia... this is Matias´ family.. the one who was going to get baptized. We are trying to help Amelia see that the church really is such a blessing and help her feel more comfortable with us. Anyway... his week was Matias´ birthday so we brought him a cake and celebrated! We are pretty sure they didn´t celebrate or do anything, and they don´t have money for a cake, so they were really excited when we brought it over. Things like this happen all the time here and my comp and I just talk about how spoiled and blessed we have been, and how these people really have nothing. They live such simple lives... just trying to make it. What a humbling experience. One of the pictures I sent is me with the Familia Rotela.. me in the bottom, Fatima and Teresita and then Amelia, and behind them are the 2 boys German and Angel, and then in the back is Favian the dad and Matias in the very back. They are such an awesome family!!
· the other awesome thing this week was all of the chats my comp and I had. During our companion study we always start talking about something we can do better and end up just going off about life and the atonement and the gospel and our testimonies and all of the things we are so so grateful for. I am really learning a lot about myself and learning to improve myself and really give my will to the Lord and become everything I can become. I am really starting to understand what exactly that means and how to do it, and even though it is so hard, I just know that it is so right. So my comp. and I are working hard to improve ourselves and be better missionaries. Already in just these 2 and 1/2 short months I have learned so much about myself, life, and the gospel and really what our potential is and what our purpose is here in this life, and I know it is preparing me for when I get home from my mission and live the rest of my life in the gospel. This gospel is sooo so real. I think we all have doubts sometimes, about little things... but I have been thinking about that and how really everything is about faith. Sometimes we don´t have the desire to do something and we just have to step forward in faith and keep doing what´s right until we gain the desire, and gain the testimony. And then we experience a happiness that we didn´t even know existed.
Anyway... life is great here on the mish! I am loving it. It´s hard... definitely. It tests me in areas I wouldn´t think. But it´s so good and so worth it! My comp is awesome! And even though I get a full-day workout running after her all day because she walks so dang fast, we get along really well! haha. (no seriously though... I mean, I know I´m not a fast walker, but I walk fast with her, and sometimes I still have to run to keep up with her! I guess it´s good for me!). Everything is going well and I am so so happy and grateful to be here! Hope all is well at home! Keep in touch everyone!
--Hermana Hunt
P.s. 2 random things... Alex Casey who I went to high school with is one of my zone leaders! and then my companion´s companion in the MTC Hermana Jones is in Buenos Aires North and she is training Rachel Hill right now! Small world!!
P.s.s. Happy Birthday to Prez!! Make sure you all give her hugs and kisses for me :)
P.s.s.s. I forgot to bring my address again! But it´s the Argentina one that I have sent before only there is a ´435 Entre Rios´ in there as well
Ciaociao!
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