Dear Mom and Dad!
I too am wondering about transfers. There is a slight chance that Hna Israelsen and I will be together again, and I am really really hoping that we will be. Or that if there have to be some changes, that I will be able to stay in Puerto again. For at least one more transfer!!!!!
Kami told me that she was coming home this week, she did not tell me about her experience while she was modeling. I do love that she has turned into the "sports expert". That is great. But just look. You two had nealy lost all hope that you would have sportsy children, and while we may not play, we are learning some. How well rounded we are turning out to be!!!
OKay. My week. Things overall are getting alot better. I can certainly feel a difference in my attitude, and are starting to see some results, even if they aren´t quite the amount of results that we would like, they are coming! And things from here will only go up!
In terms of exciting things that happened this week, Hna Israelsen had her first asado! We had visited a menos activo family, and they were asking what things we had eaten in Argentina, and one of the first things that everyone asks is if you have had asado. I don´t know how but Hna Israelsen in her almost 6 months in Argentina had never had an asado. So they invited us back for another day, and we had one of the best asado´s that I have had in my entire time in Argentina! We were also able to get them at least thinking about coming back to church. They have a couple of obstacles that they will need to over come, but I hope that we can help them do just that!
Also, this year they are have the first EFY´s in Argentina! They have broken the country up by missions, and so each mission has a week, where the youth from that mission will go to Buenos Aires to have EFY. This is the week for our mission, and a good chunk of the youth from our ward were able to go. They are SO excited, and I am really excited for them. We have some amazing youth, and EFY will do nothing short of helping them become even more amazing. I am really excited to hear how it goes. The last week I have told more EFY stories than I probably have in my entire life!
And, on Sunday we had Elder Patanía come to our ward. He is the area 70 for...our area. I actually have no idea how large the area is or anything. I don´t know how the area 70 are split up. But I do know that he came. And he gave the best talk that I have heard my entire time in Argentina. He talked alot about the Atonement, and how we need to try to remember every day what it is that Christ did for us. Christ gave so much, and we should never take that for granted. He talked about the picture where Christ is knocking at the door, and that we have to let Him in. He also said that many times, God will knock so we will let Him in through our trials. That we need to think, what is it that I need to learn, and with this trial, what is it that will help me grow closer to my Father in Heaven.
We were also able to do divisions with the ward missionaries again.That is really proving to be something successful for us. The last two weeks we have done it, we have found new investigators. The girls that we have really are special, and they know what it is that they need to be doing to be good teachers. We are also starting to do a "companionship study" with the ward missionaries. And that has been really great. They are all just so nervous to go teach when they don´t know the lessons very well. So once a week, for an hour, we are reading PMG with them, and doing practices, so they can feel more comfortable with the lessons that they have to be teaching, and so that they can be helping us when they are with us. It really has been great.
We also got our Ward Mission Plan for the year, and it is going to be great. They are doing a big PMG push. They want every family in the ward to have it, so and use it when they are doing FHE´s or family scripture study. I think that it is going to help our ward a lot. They have so much potential! And we are going to see so many miracles here! As we have had the blessing of already seeing.
I have yet to receive the other shoe. But I did find out from one of my zone leaders that I will be getting a package tomorrow at district meeting. Who knows which one it will be? I sure don´t. Haha.
Umm...I think to buy new shoes it should be....anywhere from 100-300 pesos. (25-75 dollars) It really just depends where I get them and how good of shoes they are. I did end up buying about a month ago some jelly shoes which have actually been really good. They have yet to wear out and I have been wearing them for a month! I am hoping that they will last me another month longer up until the cold weather comes.
Just so everyone knows. If you send me peanut butter, don´t write it on the claim slip. If you do, one of two things will most likely happen. 1) they will send the whole package back to the states or 2) they will just take the peanut butter out and I will never see it. There is a slight very slight chance that they will just let it slide, but that isn´t too normal.
Okay, I think I´ve got to go. I am going to try to send some pictures, we´ll see how that goes. I haven´t had much success lately.
I love you!!!
Corinne
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