Hola Family!!!!!!
Well the past week has been quite the Adventure! I am still alive but for a while I didn´t think I would survive.
I guess I will give you the play by play. Here is goes........
So after I talked to you all in Dallas we boarded the plane and we
sat there for a bit before the pilot came over the system and said that
we would need to change planes because the was a not so good smell that
was in the plane and the maintence had to check it out. So we got off
and had to wait until 10 o´clock that night to board a new plane and
start off for Argentina. So I thought that we might meet up with our
Elderes there but we didn´t. We were just with 6 other Elderes from the
MTC that we had seen before. The plane ride was forever long and I
hardly slept. We arrived in Buenos Aires at 10 in the morning on tuesday
and it was really quite easy. We went through a quick check point and
we gave them our Visas and then we met up with Aliberto, a guy who works
for the church, and then we separated from the Elderes and they took me
and Hna. Morgan to this van and guess who was there, Our
Elderes!!!!!!!! It was weird to see them again but Awesome at the same
time. They loved Alabama. So then that started our 5 hour car trip to
Rosario. Now our driver didn´t speak English and we couldn´t understand
him for anything!!! So after being really confused and stopping at a gas
station and eating a ham sandwich and Coke,(My first and last Coke) we
finally made it to the Mission Home. Presidente and Hermana Giuliani are
super sweet and nice! We had my first home cooked meal in Argentina, it
was really good! It was ravioli with a meat sauce and there was a ton
of it! Then we had flan for dessert.
We slept over at the Mission home that night and then on wednesday
morning we got our trainers. Before we found out who they were we saw
two sisters getting dropped off and on was American and the other was a
Native speaker. Elder Perkins turned to me and said that i would be
getting the Native Speaker. I thought that I would as well but nope, I
got Hermana Tourtillott!!!!! Quite the name right? Its French! She is
awesome and she is from Kansas. She has been out for 8 months and she is
basically fluent in Spanish. She just finished having a companion from
Peru and so is is going to be able to teach me a lot.
Our area is in Parana and it is called Cinco Esquinas(Five
Corners). We had to take another 4 hour bus ride to get here from
Rosario. It is so strange to think that I live in Argentina! and I will
be living here for the next 15 months!! It so crazy!!! Cinco Esquinas is
a rather large area and some of our investigators live an hour away
from our Pench(apartment). Walking! Okay now our pench is something
else. The walls are concrete and we have no heating. We have a gas oven
that looks like it could attack you and the word carpet doesn´t exist
here. Oh and we have a Bucket Shower!!!!! When I first walked in Hna.
Tourtillott asked me not to run away. I guess I looked that dumbfounded.
I know that the living conditions here in Argentina aren´t like in the
US but wow, it really humbles you. We we are contacting we knock on
buildings that I swear we be condemned in the US. I have been extremly
blessed to have grown up in the US.
Any who, we are over one ward but only 30 people come every sunday.
I had to bear my testimony in church yesterday. It was quite nerve
racking.
So basically I can´t understand a thing!!! They all talk super fast
and so I am lost all of the time. I thought people in Texas talked a
lot but nope, the people of Argentina have them beat! Hna Tourtillott
just laughs at how confused I look as we are talking to people. But she
is an awesome teacher and so I will be working super hard on learning
the language.
I will have to tell you about all of the people that we are working
with in the letter but they are quite interesting and have quite the
history.
Well I hate to cut this short but I still need to write Presidente.
I am so glad that everyone got down to Florida safely and that
everything is Great!!! I will be writing a long letter! Promise! But I
will probably be writing you on e-mail again before you get the letter. I
love you all so much! Have a great week!
Lots of Love,
Alayna
p.s. My address is still the Mission Address. All of the mail has
to go there so its the same as the one I gave you before I left.
p.p.s. I can´t believe Alexa is Engaged!!!!!!!!!!! Tell her
congrats if you see her and give her my address so I can get and invite!
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