Racquel se bautizo!

Wow, so much happened this week! Fa! An adventure every day. 

On Monday we had a picnic at a river with the district and my bike broke down afterwards (that`s super typical though...my bike is crazy old). 

Tuesday we had a good work day and taught un montòn de personas, fue super divertido y exitoso :) Despuès we traveled to Zarate and sleptover with other hermanas for a meeting the next day.

Wednesday we had a reuniòn de zona...Hermana Comin and I did a special number in Portugues and I shared the experience that we had with Olivia and her baptism awhile ago and what happened after (when she passed away)...we were all tearing up. That is a story so powerful and will be a testimony builder for the rest of my life. The experiences acà en la misiòn are unforgettable. It really is so powerful!

Tambièn, we taught clases de portugues and english, it turned out to be really fun and really productive! I loved it! 

Thursday we got up at 5am and took a remis to Belgrano in Capital porque Presidente Gonzalez de la 70 and his wife spoke to all the missionaries en our mision. Our mision has a high goal of baptisms and lessons with members, and we still have a long ways to go to reach our goal. So he talked to us about faith and fa...it was incredible! Missionaries are always so pumped up after meetings! hah, it was amazing. My companion and I told our branch our goals and what we all need to do to reach it, and they`re all excited to start teaching with us and work along side with us. This branch is AWESOME!!!! 

Saturday was the baptism of Raquel! The mamà of Roberto! (Now it`s time for the papà :)) She is 78 years old and super great! A little background is that Raquel was SUPER....pero, SUPER sad before...I cant even imagine with everything she has gone through. She received a blessing of comfort, and the next day...wow, she was a different person. She was so happy! We took down her curtains to bring in the sun, and she finally said how happy she had felt. Testifico que Priesthood blessings are real :) She was so excited for her baptism. She showed up to her baptism with a boquet de flowers to put up for sacrament! After the baptism, Roberto stayed to clean the whole church...he loves activities of the church! In sacrament, Raquel and Roberto went up and shared their testimonies. And Roberto came to church with his first church suit outfit and received the Priesthood :) What a beautiful Sunday! Fa! 

Y sip, that was my week :) Super hermosa :) 

Bird

Aweee....Raquel :) A kiss isn't that weird because that's how everyone greets everyone anyway hahaha.

How precious

Roberto cleaning the church :)

My comp found these cans full of "meat"....and put it in our pasta....I felt like I was eating cal food.

My companion and I

I dyed my har.      Chiste

Oi, tudo bem?

This week was amazing! My companion is pretty cool, we get along real well and have a lot of good laughs. The craziest things happen, as usual haha. She`s teaching my Portuguese and Im teaching her english. It`s weird to think that we live together and speak different languages and we have to meet in the middle with spanish haha. In the pension she usually only talks to me in Portuguese and I think it sounds sooo cool! She has a cool accent. I only know a little, but so far we have a couple songs down and a prayer. It`s has a lot of things that are similar to spanish. A igreja de Jesus Cristo è uma bênção em minha vida. Minha companheira me encinol como fazer uma oração! We will be doing classes of english and portuguese so I will have to learn enough to be able to teach. We`re pumped! 

On Tuesday night we traveled to Zarate and stayed the night with other hermanas for a zone meeting the following day. It was great :) We only have 1 progessing investigador in our whole zone......as we know, there will always be tough times in the mission, but we know that we will see miracles with our diligencia. We just have to keep working hard, be obedient, and have faith and the Lord will do the rest :) 

We have a few people that are soooooo close to be getting in the water. It`s crazy the obstacles that are placed in front of them, but it`s a real test of faith and it`s amazing how strong they are!! We`re so blessed to be working along side of them. Roberto is doing awesome....perseverando hasta el fin! He always shows up to church 30 minutes early, talks to everyone in the church, and participates soo much in the classes haha, I told him he should teach a class haha. It`s amazing to see his progression and also the progression in his family. 

Sorry this one is a short email. 

These pics are from last week with Hermana Abril, we went to some really pretty parts. The last pic is of a giant Mate....Argentinos live for el mate! And Im acostumed to it too now....