10-17-2011

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Well, I am now starting the first week of my 2nd transfer here in Argentina!  So crazy how fast the time flies!!  Feliz Dia de la Madre to all of you who are mothers!! They had their mother´s day here yesterday which was pretty fun.  Things are going great!  I don´t have a whole lot to say this week (or a whole lot of time as usual) but here are a few things...

AWKWARDS INCOMODOS Y CHISTOSOS

• being told by someone almost everyday that this neighborhood is dangerous... :S haha! (don´t worry mom and dad, we are always in by 9 so we are never out during the dangerous times!)
• ummmm........ yep that´s about it!  I swear I had more funny things that happened this week but my mind is drawing a blank.  just know that I have awesome awkwards moments throughout every day with the language especially... I think they just happen so often that I am getting used to them now and not recognizing them.

AWESOMES

• this week we had interviews with President Heyman.  He and his wife are amazing!! Such awesome people!  We were the last hermanas to have our interviews so we got to go get lunch with President Heyman and his wife!  They bought us pizza and we went to a bench on the coast of the river to eat.  It was beautiful, hot, and the pizza was sooooo yummy :).  Afterwards we ran and got ice cream with the other 2 hermanas before heading back to our area! what a fun day!

• the people we are working with right now... so awesome!  Ramona and Lorena are progressing well and Ramona told us the other day that she really feels like this is the true church and wants to continue moving forward.  She has felt a lot that the Book of Mormon is true too.  We are working with them a lot and they are seriously incredible! Unfortunately her marido (husband except not really) is iffy still and wouldn´t let her go to the RS broadcast this last weekend (they rebroadcasted it here so we were going to take her to it).  We also met this lady Priscila this week who is absolutely hilarious and is interested.  Her marido also wouldn´t let her go to church though.  But she invited us to dinner this week (which is super rare because we never eat dinner and no one really eats dinner here) so hopefully things will change!

This week I have been thinking a lot about how blessed I have been to grow up in the situation that I grew up in.  It is so crazy here... it is SO rare to find a family that is put together and funcioning.  Nobody is married but everyone lives together and has kids and a family.  None of the husbands and wives love each other... basically they live together because they need food and shelter for their kids, and the husbands treat the wives so poorly and basically control their lives.  It is the saddest situation.  Many of the women are raped and it is normal, or they have kids when they are 13 or 14 or 15.  They also start living with each other when they´re around 16.  Such a different culture.  President Heyman told my companion that when he served here it was rare to find a couple NOT married.  It is incredible to see how the world is changing and the powers that Satan has.  I´m so glad to be serving here where the gospel has the opportunity to completely change the situation of these people´s lives.  They are incredible people and deserve to be happy and excel in life, not just push through it trying to survive.  Anyway... I hope all is well at home!  Is it getting cold yet?  It´s just getting hotter hear and I heard that in the summer sometimes it gets up to 50 grados which is somewhere near 125 or 130 degrees F!! I am going to die!! Haha.. hopefully not!  Anyway... all is well and I am loving my mission! I´m learning SO much everyday.  About the gospel, about people, and life, and work, and everything and I know that this experience is going to change me forever.  I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be here and for the blessing I have of the gospel in my life... I know without a doubt that it is the gospel of Jesus Christ and I am so incredibly grateful for it!  Have a fabulous week! Ciaocito!

--Hermana Hunt

Socks, on our laundry line!