Hey Fam!!!!!!!
I was excited to get your e-mail Mom! I am
so glad that Derek had a good birthday. I need to find something really
cool here for him but it may be belated. So its exciting that you all
have been getting a lot of rain in Florida and I hope that Utah gets its
act together and starts to rain soon. I am sorry the zucchini died
again, that is really kind of funny but sad at the same time. The more
time I spend out here in the mission field the more I notice how weird I
am getting. My companion and I talk about the strangest things and we
talk about how strange things are here in Argentina but by the time we
get home we will think that everything in the US is weird. I laugh at
hna. Tourtillott so much because she literally has forgotten how a lot
of things are in the US. I will have to make a list and tell you about
them all next week.
So this week has been interesting but we have gotten a lot done. We
having be doing a lot of contacting and we have had some great lessons
with people. I love being a missionary because I get hear some many cool
stories from people about their experiences with God or with the Holy
Ghost. And when we talk to people. sometime they tell us that they had
been praying for help and then we have showed up at their door. I love
the way that I have seen Heavenly Father working with people here. We
have been teaching this man and he knows that the church is true and he
believes in the Book of Mormon and everything but he just doesn´t
understand why he just can´t live his life as a good person. Its so
frustrating because I know how much the gospel can bless his life.
We also have this inverstigator whose name is Annibal and he has a
date for September first to get baptized. He is really awesome! He loves
Everything about the gospel but the hard thing for him to do is to come
to church. He came last week but he was sick yesterday and so he was
able to come. We are really working with him right now to help him
understand the importance of coming to church. I know that it will click
for him soon and I know that it will really help him if we get him
involved with some of the members so that they can encourage him as
well. I am really excited for him and he is really a very amazing man.
So on Saturday we had a very interesting experience. We had knocked
into this women the previous week and se really like the first lesson
so we went back to teach her. She let us in and right away she started
to tell us about how she had been in an accident a few years ago and she
was in the hospital forever because she had a big hole in her stomach
that wouldn´t close up and now she is having issues with that area and
the doctors who operated on her wouldn´t tell her anything and so she
wanted to know if we could help her. I guess when she was having
surgery, she was awake and her hands and legs were tied and she wanted
to know if that was normal. My companion told her that is didn´think it
was but she didn´t know and she told her at we were there to teach her
the gospel and not to be her counselors. We then the lady looks at us
kind of creepily and said that maybe we do know what happened to her but
we can´t say. Since I can´t understand anything, I didn´t know what was
going on but I sensed that she was off her rocker but after we left my
companion told me everything she had said and I was shocked. So that is
another person who thinks that we are spies.
the up side about not being able to understand is that I can make
up really funny stories in my head as they are talking based on the
words I pick up. Sometimes I am not to far off. The people here love to
talk about everything and nothing all the same time.
Also this week we had a Noche de Hogar (family night) with Maria
and her sister who is not a member. We hope to start teaching her sister
but when we had the noche de hogar with them we literally didn´t say a
word for an hour and a half. Her sister talked about all of her problems
and stuff like that and Maria just talks about anything. So it was
quite interesting. They are so hiliarious but it is really hard to teach
them so we are going to be practicing on how we can cut in and bring
the conversation back to our lessons.
Well yesterday at church crazy man came in and threated to light
the church on fire so the police came and arrested him. He really needs
help. He broke into the Bishop´s house and stole somethings last week.
It is really sad but I hope that something can be done with him soon.
So I am sorry about the letter situation but I am writing today but
it is way cheaper to send a large envelop with a lot of letters in it
than a letter at a time so I will be needing you to put the letters for
my friends in the mailbox so they can get them. There is just no time in
the day to get everything done. We will be going down to Rosario on
wednesday and thursday for me to get some more things down with my visa
and we also hope to be moving this week sometime so it should be a crazy
week.
Well I love you all so much and I hope that your week is
awesome!!!!! I love this gospel and the opportunity I have to spread
it to the wonderfully crazy people here in Parana.
Lots of Love,
Alayna
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