10-11-2011

Buenos Dias todo!
Ok... 10 minutes to write quickly.  This week was awesome!  Probably my favorite so far since I´ve been here in Argentina.  First some awkwards...


AWKWARDS, INCOMODOS, Y CHISTOSOS

• don´t know if I have written this one yet but it happens often... we greet the women here with the 2 kisses on the cheeks ya know.  What is awkward is when you miss the cheek.... not kidding... hahah
• this happened last week but I forgot to write about it.  My clothes! gah!  Something happens everyday and I´m afraid I am already going to have to buy a whole new wardrobe.  All within a couple of days, one of my skirts caught on something sharp and totally ripped right in the front (don´t worry I hand sewed and it just looks great!), and I spilled super glue on a brown skirt, and I couldn´t get it out with soap so I just colored over it with black sharpie and now there is black sharpie and a big white stain around it... hahaha.  It is so bad I have to wear the skirt backwards so it´s on my backside instead of the frront.  Also like 3 of my shirts have bleached streaks from sitting in the sun in the washing bucket, and others have color bleeding stains from sitting in the buckets together.  So great.. :) my clothes are a little messy.. but... it´s all good! :)
• I had more that I can´t remember right now...  sorry! I´ll write them next week if I remember.

AWESOMES

• our investigators, so awesome! We are working with some great people right now that are progressing well.  We had 2 investigator families and to other investigators in church on Sunday... a total of 9 or 10 people, which is awesome! Usually it´s hard just getting one or two people there!  One family is so awesome.. I talked about them last week, the mom is Ramona and her daugther Lorena, they have been coming to church and we have been meeting with them a lot.  They have been reading the book of mormon (even though Ramona can´t read) and Ramona has been including her whole family.  Her son Agu is 6 and I think I am in love with him, he is the cutest little kid in the world!! They are such an awesome family.  Except of course they aren´t married and her spouse hasn´t been interested in meeting with us yet.  But I think slowly it is coming and eventually he will be open to it, and hopefully open to marriage so they can be baptized.  Last night we had a noche de hogar (family night) with them and another member family (la Familia Marquez) and we watched The Testaments.  It was so awesome... we all felt the spirit and a few tears may have been shed-by Ramona and Lorena too.  We shared our testimonies after and Ramona really feels good about this and like it´s right.  It was an awesome night :).  We are also working with a 25 year old named Gaston. It´s interesting working with guys around our age... we always have to be careful and pay attention to what their motives are, haha.  We´re not entirely sure about him, but we think he is a good guy and is sincere.. he´s just a little different.  Anyway.. he is progessing as well and came to church and really liked it, her is really friendly and met a lot of people.  He will probably be baptized!

The language is coming... I still can´t communicate and understand super well but I know it will come with work and time!  But the people always tell me I speak really well and pronunciate really well.  The other day a member told me I pronunciate better than they do, hahaha.  I don´t feel like that though I feel like I am always stumbling on my words!  But it´s ok... I know the Lord is helping me!  I have also been playing the piano in church every week... trying to sight-read the songs has been an adventure haha. The people are so funny here, they freak out when they find out that I can play because it is so rare here.  They also freak out when they see my eyes because NO ONE here has blue eyes.  At least once a day I hear something like ´ah! sus ojos! celestes!!´ haha.  So great.... :).  Anyway, everything is going well and I am loving it!  Thanks for all of your constant support!  Feel free to send letters :) I love hearing from everyone and getting updates on everyone´s lives!  Tengan una buena semana! Ciaocito!

--Hermana Hunt