Hola Familia!!!!!
It was great to get your e-mails this week. I am glad that
everyone is surviving the cold but it does sound like a lot. I hope that you
all can have good health for this winter and that you all will only have to
deal with minor colds. It is so weird for me to think that it is winter in Utah. I know that it is
january but I just can´t imagine snow and cold. It is really funny when my
companion and I have a hard time thinking of things in the US. There are
still things here that are super strange to me but a lot of things have become
normal and so I have kind of forgotten somethings from the US. Hermana Miller
has it worse than me though, its kind of funny.
Also I am really sorry if my writing skills have gone down
the drain. The placement of words is different in Spanish and so I feel like a
lot of my sentences are worded weird.
I am glad that you all are getting snow and that it is cold,
I hope that will help the summer be a little less dry. Everyone here tells us
that this summer is going to be a wet summer but with a lot of heat. And it
doesn´t help when we now don´t have a fridge that works. Now that is a long
story and one that I can´t laugh about yet so it will be one of those crazy
things I will share with all of you after the mission.:) The mission is
definitely the place to learn patience.
So this has been a good week, we have had a lot of heat and
it was hard to find some people, but we found so great new people and we
definitely had some interesting lessons. I love the people of Argentina but I
sometimes wonder about their sanity.:)
Our branch is really great and the members are hiliarious.
They really care about us and they are so loving but one thing I have learned
about the culture here in Argentina
is that they have a very dry sense of humor. When they joke around it is very
straight forward and at time it comes off really mean but I have learned that
it is one of their ways to joke around with the people that they care about. So
I am learning to have fast comebacks and I am really sorry if I come back with
this trait. I will definitely try not to.
Valeria is still plugging along but it is really hard for
her to come to church. She feels bad when she doesn´t come but it is hard for
her to gear up the desire to go. So we are really trying to help her understand
the importance of church and tonight we are going to be having a noche de hogar
with her and her daughters.
We are also working with a great old couple that was
baptized two years ago. They are really amazing people and they love to learn
and it is their goal to go to the temple. We taught them this last week how to
have a noche de hogar and tonight they are going to be having their first one
with their daughter and her kids who aren´t members and they have asked us to
come a be a support but they are going to be doing it all! They are super
excited and Hermano Artigas is really excited about an object lesson that he is
good to do. I love to see the fire and the spirit in the eyes of the recent
converts who just get it. It makes me so happy to know that they are doing all they
can to keep learning and to stay firm in the gospel.
We are going to be having so activities this month with the
relief society and with the ward and so I am excited to see how we will be able
to help with those.
Well I am so glad to hear that everyone is doing great! I
love you all so much and I can´t wait to hear from you all next week. I will do
my best to send letter this next week!
Take care and have a fantastic week!
Lots of love,
Alayna
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