9-10-2012

Familia!

Como estan?? Haha thanks everyone for the pictures!!! Keep ´em coming... I love
them!! Whew... what a week! We´re gonna go by days again...

TUESDAY. I had to be in charge of the practice in district meeting which means
I also had to do a demonstration. Ensima, the assistants just happened to show
up, so I had to do it in front of everyone!! I never get nervous when teaching
but for someone reason in front of other missionaries I always get nervous!
Luckily it turned out ok. Then after district meeting, I received two very...
well.... exciting I guess you could say papers in the mail!

First: my trunky papers. Booooooo!!! :( :( :( (see attached picture) That
was... interesting. I really don´t know why the first thing it says is ´it´s
already time to return home, so you need to pack your bags!´. What??!?? I swear
I still have like 3 or 4 months...!!

Anyway... my date as of right now is January 2nd. It was a surprise to me too!
Haha. I had talked to President about the 12th of December. I´m going to talk
to him and see if it´s possible still to change or not. Although, I would love
to stay the extra 3 weeks until the beginning of January. The only problem is
that just the thought of coming home Saturday, moving to Provo on Sunday, and
starting school on Monday without even a second to spend with family or even
realize that I just spent the last year and a half in Argentina kind of gives me
a heart attack, hahah. I don´t know how I would be able to prepare myself for
school that fast (physically or mentally! haha). So we will see what happens!
Whatever date works out is whatever date I need
to come home.

Second: a letter. From Lucas and Ramona... my converts from Posadas!!!

Oh my gosh, it made my whole mission getting that letter. I may have even shed
a few tears reading it. :) Here´s what it said... (if you don´t know spanish,
you can google translate it and hopefully it will translate ok haha)

 

¨ Hola Hunt:

Espero que este bien. Quería agradecer por haber conseguido que
nuestra familia sea hoy parte de la iglesia y que hayamos conocido el
Libro de Mormón. Queiro agradecerle por los cambios en nosotros.
Queiro decirle que usted va a tener una gran recompenza de nuestro
Padre Celestial por haber cumplido con el. Queiro contarle que he
recibido el Sacerdocio de Melquisidec, mi familia está estable,
conociendo un poco mas la gracia del Dios. Gracias a personas
especiales como usted que llevan como estandarte el nombre de
Jesucristo. Estabamos tristes y afligidos y hoy en dia ya ¨no¨
queremos decirle que le extrañamos mucho mucho, pero muy concientes
que usted ya cumplió en este lugar con lo que se le encomendó. Nunca
la vamos a olvidar, la queremos mucho. Con palabras sinceras desde el
corazón. Espero que no se olvide que salvó una familia completa.
Esperamos que le vaya muy, muy bien. Muchos saludos de Agus, Lore,
Braian. La familia Ferreyra y Monzón--Lucas y Ramona

 

The best feeling in the entire world is not just that you helped someone accept
the gospel, change, and be baptized, but that they are now continuing to
progress and live the gospel every day, and enjoy the blessings more and more.
I can not explain the joy I have felt this week. When we found Ramona, Lucas
was into drugs and alcohol, he told us that he wouldn´t even think about
getting married until he was 70, and he wouldn´t even talk to us. Now he is a
worthy melchezedek priesthood holder and their entire family attends church
every week. I am SO grateful for the change that is possible only through the gospel.
There´s so much more to say here but this email is already going to be really
long so I better move on..

WEDNESDAY: divisiones! Tuesday night and Wednesday we had divisions and I went
with Hermana Martinez who is still in training.. it was really fun!!

THURSDAY: we went to Corrientes so I could finish renewing my visa. I talked
with Hermana Parker who is now in my old area Parque and she said that all is
well! Nieve my last convert has been going to church on her own and got her
temple recommend and everything, which is a HUGE deal because in the beginning
she didn´t have the will to do anything on her own! She has changed so much!!
Also, her son Lucas is getting baptized this week!! As well as another boy
Ezekiel who I taught while I was there. I´m going to ask president for
permission to go.. hopefully he´ll let me! She also told me that Hermano
Valdiviezo (the family that we helped re-active.. his wife is María the one who
got baptized with me. He is the one who cheated on her but they got their
family back together and are now active in the church) is now

the 2nd counselor in the branch presidency!!! SO awesome!!! I was SO excited to
hear that news. Once again... seriously, there are no words to describe the
happiness I feel finding out that people who I was able to help are doing so
well and are progressing in the gospel. We worry SO much for these people and
love them SO much and there is always just this little worry that they will
fall again, or inactive,etc... so finding out that they are doing well and are
strong and are holding themselves up is the best news in the world!

FRIDAY: our only real full day of work this week.. haha! It was a crazy week.
But we found a new girl named Fatima who has a baptism date for the end of this
month. She is 14 and is SUPER awesome.. she already has a testimony! I´m really
excited to work with her.

SATURDAY: we went to the stake center to watch the celebration of the

Buenos Aires temple. I got to sit by Nieve and Jorge and Lucas and it was sooo
awesome to see them again!!! I also got to see my hija Hermana Medina who is
seriously one of my favorite people in the entire world... I was SO excited to
see her!! Some of Sandra´s kids were there too and I saw a few others from
Parque. It was so nice seeing them all! :)

SUNDAY: instead of having church we had the Buenos Aires Temple Rededication.
It was incredible.. I miss the temple so much!! It felt like we were there
though in the temple. I sat by Romina from Parque which was also awesome. When
they gave the dedication prayer, I felt a strong impression that God was
listening to this prayer and accepting it... another confirmation from the
spirit that this is all true, that it is all real, and it is right. I love the
gospel. :)

 Well... that´s the jist of this week! There is a lot more that happened in more
details haha but it´s already super long and I´m out of time. I love you all!!
Thanks so much for everything!!!

 

--Hermanita Hunt