2nd transfer!

Made it through my first transfer...phew ;) They say the beginning is kinda free climbing, but thought it went by super fast! I´m still in Lugano and will most likely stay here for 3 more months. Also, Hermana Carrasco will stay my companion for this transfer! Yay! I´m super glad, she´s super awesome and we have a blast. I´m super grateful for her.

At the beginning of the transfer, we had no ¨real¨ lessons with investigadors for weeks.....we would teach a ton of people in the streets throughout the week, and teach members, and inactives, but we never had a long lesson with a nonmember. Nobody has time here (I mean.....they have plenty of time to sleep in the day and sit outside and drink mate, but no time for us lol)., and nobody wanted anything to do with us. I always thought that missionaries would go from appointment to appointment and teach a ton of lessons in homes all day (like they do on The District). BUT lately we have had a lot more lessons and investagadors, woot! In the MTC they made it seem like we would be sitting around on a couch teaching (like they do in the movies), but it´s a lot different haha. We taught in dim, cockroach invested rooms, on someone´s bed (a lot of people dont have coaches), in a garage, and outside.
Around 8 one night we had a lesson in the dark, the lights went out so we gathered around a flashlight haha....total ghost story setting. But, it has been great :)

We have 2 people that really want to be baptized. One of them needs permission from her mom who doesnt like the church (she´s 17 so she might just wait until she´s 18......), but the other one is getting baptized at the end of April! Super excited :D

A lot of strangeness here...I´m definitely not in Utah anymore. Strange things happen everyday, and the more I´m understanding spanish, the more things I notice. Just want to mention Utah is a great place to live :) 

 

My mama was able to work something out to smuggle in an SD card reader into Argentina, because they don´t accept outside packages (she´s pretty sly that way ;)) ....So I will hopefully be able to send pictures next week.

Love you all!

Chau!

Jello.

This week was awesome! Great things happened every day :) I´m grateful to have an awesome companion and for the awesome members here. I´m laughing tons everyday! 

I went to a family´s house (members, inactives, and friends) and they asked if I knew how to play guitar....and they pulled one out! I got to play the guitar for the 1st time since I´ve been on the mission. I played a song Dad and I always played (wasnt as good without ya Daddy) and played Metallica riffs thinking they wouldnt know I what I was playing. But they did....ah well, missionary rockin out! I missed playing! 

The other day I was explaining to my companion how much I hate jello (the last time I had it I threw up...I really hate it). And the very next meal we had, we get the jello sponge lookin dessert...I asked my companion what it was and she turned to me in english and mumbled ¨If I tell you you´re going to throw up so eat it and pretend you like it!¨ AHhhh what?! Found out it was like this milky/egg jello...wahhh. If ya´ll remember....my email last week mentioned the lady pouring oil and vinegar on my food...well that meal kinda poisoned me! Ok not poison, but now I´m on a special diet haha. Which means......not more gross desserts! 

Every night we plan and do the things we need to do, and once I hit the bed, I´m out! We are soooo exhausted everyday. There are days when we literally walk the whole day without sitting down (because people won´t accept us...). Lately though, there´s been parties and people screaming and clapping at like 3 in the morning outside our pension. It´s SO loud, I would wake up thinking they were in our pension lol. So we´ve been more tired, but hopefully that will stop now that the weekend is over haha. We keep pushing ourselves though, and a lot of great things do happen!

We have transfers next Tuesday, so I will be writing on Tuesday instead of Monday next week, just a heads up so the Mission President doesnt get a call from ya Mama ;)

Just a random thought....D&C 88:40. Stealing my Dad´s wise words, but remember to be positive, because you will attract more positive things in your life :) This scripture is pretty great. I hope ya´ll have a great week, love you!!

Moms note ~ Nicole should be getting a camera cord next week when she gets to the mission home. I'm crossing my fingers for some pictures soon! :)