Welcome to crazy!

HOLA FAMILIA

 

where to start? the key board is different. that{s a good point. It will definitely take some getting used to... for you... heheh  um OK after i got off the phone with you i treated my companion to our last american feel, TGI Fridays.  we watched a beautiful sunset over the Dallas run way.  while waiting to board we talked to a man in Spanish who is from Argentina.  i got hermana and i so excited as he talked just like the Italians.  mamma mia and all.  wow is the Spanish different.  but he was so friendly it just made us that much more excited.  the flight wasn{t actually to bad.  other than it was a redye and it is so uncomfortable on an airplane.  but the hours flew by.  maybe because i didn't actually want to arrive that quickly,.  i knew once i did it was going to be loco.  well eventually we did land crazy as that is. after we watched the sun rise from our window as well. i fell asleep for a few hours but other than that pulled an all nighter doing little things to keep me busy.  ive never had dinner and breakfast on an airplane before. from there things just went insane.  culture shock after culture shock, look around and man nothing is like home.  obviously right i{m down south.  well since we were the last two arriving we didn{t get any of the training.  which i was fine with except the health and safety.  oops..  hermana and i were dropped off at the office, filled out some stuff and were allowed to bring a few things with us as we headed to a temporary two day area until transfers <today< i took my carry on with me which ended up being the worst decision in the world.   don{t ever want to hall that thing on cobble stone streets and on buses.  it didn't help that my companion walked speedily.  well things were crazy and I've blocked most emotions from my mind.  everything is foreign to me and i{m attempting to adapt quickly but wow it{s difficult. 

ADIOS USA!

Wow what an eventful, awesome, and lesson filled week to leave Seattle on.  Your right my time here has flown and I can officially say I don't want to leave this place.  It's become such a part of my mission and I adore my mission presidents. (sick of me saying that yet? hehe)  My time here will always be remembered, there are so many great memories and there are so many people here I have learned to love that i'm leaving behind. although this area was my shortest area (3 weeks long) it's been by far my favorite.  can you have favorites?  well too late.  I feel like there is SO much going on here and that just just two companionships (Spanish) for such a big chunk of Seattle just isn't enough.  Everyday we meet who are so prepared for the gospel (they just don't see it right of the back).  A highlight of my week was attending a baptism in the branch. Her name is Julia and the Elders taught her. Shes very frail and old but hilarious.  She has some serious spunk.  For example the elders warned her that she would be tried before her baptism.  That Satan would try to do all he could to not get her baptized.  Well this little old lady is at the grocery store and a young man comes up to help her and she says "Get away Satan."

big news family... big news!!!

Before I start out I just can't wait, i'm not patient enough!! so I've been feeling really strongly this past week that I wasn't going to get transferred but go to Argentina.  Weird feeling but I just felt like it was getting closer.  Transfers are next Tuesday, can you believe this is my 2 in the field? crazy.  Anyways I head to choir today and a senior missionary pulls me aside and tells me I need to go get finger printed.  Well I just decided to straight up ask her (here in the field they pretty much keep everything secret from you until the very last minute)  if I got my visa.  Well she looks at me puzzled... "well yes, your flight is booked!"  I'm sure the expression on my face was priceless. somewhere like excited, to wait is this a joke, to when do I leave, to full on tears!! the Hermana I came out with also got hers! we'll be heading out on the 24th (not for sure on any details).   I just started hugging this little old woman. for like a good solid 5 minutes too.  I was so happy and still am.  Wow this is it folks, the time has  come.  There is so much adrenaline pumping in my body right now.  SO DON"T SEND ANY MORE LETTERS PLEASE!  well if you do send them only to the mission home address and then they will be forwarded to Argentina.  what great news... and the funny thing is Hermana Gardner said she felt the same way I did, that we'd be leaving. Oh goodness I'm PUMPED!!!!  (it's also my last week of training... good thing imma be leaving:) )

Highlights from General Conference

Well to my lovely folks back home it hasn't been all that of an exciting week... But wait it has!!!  GENERAL CONFERENCE WAS THIS WEEKEND!!!  has one of the apostles said how can watching 10 hours of a talk be enjoyable?  I ask myself that... yet I about cried when the closing prayer was said. I've been looking forward to it since... well I first got here!  and now I have to wait six more months... dang that's a long time!  so highlights for me from this years event 17 pages later...  (Elder Ballard, Dube and Uchtdorf's were my favorite talks! they just pulled at my heart strings!)

1. "be not afraid only believe"

2. "doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith."

3. Pray to hear God's Voice

4. Never look back, look forward at what we still have to do.

5. The past is to be led from but not lived in.

6. Press forward spiritually and physically

7. one spiritual gift is gratitude... being content with what we have

8.the Lord sees weakness  different from rebellion

9. when we serve others we are more likely to seek the Holy Ghost as a companion. 

10.being truly convert means acting on what we believe.