A big change

(editor's warning: original spelling has been maintained to preserve the authenticity of Hermana Alley's lose of the English language as she conquers Spanish!) 

well folks today I have quite the twist to  tell you. but before I start I would like to tell you a little bit about this past week.  Our presdient took away our very strict key indicators this week and  gave us some freedom to pick our goals. WHAT?   what a change in the mission. this week he took awa y our list of rules and now we are just going off the white bible. can you believe it ... we can drink Cola now.  thank goodness mate is out of the question still. really  I feel like this is the third mission I am serving.  only in the sa me place.  In 25 de mayo we found some wonderful news this  week.  people extremely great and so prepared to listen. we found comple families and young families. it was really a great week.   I am now learning castillano in the  sign language.  We have a  soon to be member who is deaf and she is giving us classes. I LOVE IT!  its so fun and pretty easy to pick up on!  

w ell I am just going to  skip ahead now to what I cant get out of my mind.  saturday we are eating with the family ashton, like always,  but this time we are ea ting steak!  how wonderful and nice of them, whats the occasion?  The announce that they are coming back to  25 de mayo full time this week!  celebration! well satruday passes by normal,  now its sunday morning. just another sunday in campo.  I am asked to bare my testimony out of the blue. thats odd   but why not I will do it.  hermana ashton after the reunion asks if I am read y... for? the primary? yes I am always ready?    after church see comies up to me with tears and says you didnt say goodbye? why not?  HERMANA ASHTON WHAT IS GOING ON?  she looks at me... 

¨they didnt tell you¨

 ¨TELL ME WHAT¨, 

¨you are leaving 25  ede mayo...

Take a breath...

Hello Family of mine....

What a crazy out of this world week. I dont even remember all the things that happened. Hermana passos and I have been running from place to place, having very little time for anything. LITERALLY. Take an hour break... not happening, the longest break time we had was our 5 mintue ¨¨go to outer space¨and not think of anything, so we would be sain to start running again... why do you ask is everything so busy?  well monday we didnt have pday because we worked to watch the game miercoles, Tuesday we had a reunion with our district, wednsday the game, thurdsday we set up for a wedding, friday, we left to meet our new president and his family, in the evenging was the wedding of gabriela and diego, and saturday we headed to the temple... whooooa and sunday was the world cup finals.   CRAZYYYYY! I now need a good nap....

BUT NOW FOR THE DETAILS! The little time we had to work to complete our goals was very sad. this week everything that could wrong, went wrong.  The worst luck ever, I personally believe it to be satan angry that this week we were going to have a wedding.  We didnt get down but it made us work that much harder... serious pot holes in every step.  Miercoles however is where I will begin because I have never been more thrilled to watch TV!  haha With it being the independencia of argentina and the world cup, we could have gotten away with anything in the street... there was not a soul in sight!  everything was closed and even the dogs were taking the day off from chasing us. Lets just say it was better than christmas!  I had to laugh at stephens comments of soccer... two hours of little action just to come down to a shoot out, but MAN WAS IT SO GREATTTT!!!  GO NUMBER 4, my favorite player.  Messi isnt even that incredible, I am so proud to be practically a argentino!  and off we were to the finals.  We watched the game with hermana cabello and her family (five generations of family all living in the same plot of land)  I couldnt help it and a little bit of my competive side came out and I did a few papa pierre yelling and a few excited carwheels when we won!  the streets fillled with people everyone headed to teh plazas to celebrate. now this is more like it, vamos argentina!  everyone said we would win everything because the pope is argentino... oppps.  Sunday we banned to the pension because it was the sabath day... I protested and decided we should swtich to having chruch saturdays... haha presdient didnt approve.  darn.  but eitehr way win or lose we came so far and what a thrill to be a part of something HUGE in a foreign country.  

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

Today is an excellent day... why? because ¨somewhere over the rainbow¨ is playing as I write to you...

 

This week was full... haha isnt every week? I would first like to start out by saying that I love american the beautiful and miss you, but until next year I will just have to keep singing (or belting) your anthem on my argentine bike.  Happy birthday home land!

My other important announcement, if you didnt already know, argentina is in the semi finals. EVERYONE there for is required to add this game and every player to your prayers... I know I just mentioned my pride for the USA but in soccer... there isnt much hope. ARGENTINA IS GOING TO TAKE IT ALL!!!! and I AM GOING TO BE A WITNESS!  luckily we have been given permission to watch the game, can you believe it.. a miracle!  VAMOS ARGENTINA! I am so stoked, its better than march madness! 

This week my comp and I had a great miracle, saturday morning we were walking at nine o clock in tihe morning in the freezing cold praying that some one would be awake... usually we spend saturday mornings walking around until about 11 when everyone decides to greet the day. a name pops in my comps head, one of our referencias and we decide to give it a shot. three houses away, a lady pops her head out the window and asks what we are doing and we are going to die in the cold (slightly dramatic no)  well without even saying who we were our referencia let us in.  We began teaching her the restoration to find that it was a perfect lesson.  She began to cry and tell us that she needed help, she had been praying two seconds before that God would send his spirt to drink mate with her and to help her know his will. she had the filling to look at the window and did it, and who did she find? the missionaries! literally a direct answer to her prayers.  She began explainingi how she wants to find the chruch where she feels good, where she knows God is happy with her.  She has a lot of emotional problems and literally is calling on us to help her. Never Have I seen anyone so prepared to receive us!  She is a dream of every missionary.  My comp and I went away just amazed at how heaven sent she was for us.   

Chooooo choooooo!

¨¨If you think you are beaten you are

if you think you dare not, you dont.

if youd like to win but you think you cant,

its almost a cinch you wont.

if you think youll lose, youve lost, 

for out in the world we find

success being with a fellos will, 

its all in the state of mind.

if you think youre outclassed you are, 

youve got to be sure of yourself before 

you can ever win a prize.

Lifes battles dont always go to the stronger or faster man, 

but sooner or laterthe man who wins is the one who thinks he can. 

-Walter D.Wintle

chooo chooooooo chug chug chug choo choooo ¨¨we think we can, we think we can, we think we can.¨ at teh beginning of this month hermana tellez and I sat down together, our last minutes together and set the goal for our beloved 25 de mayos baptisms this month of june.  We felt the impression really strongly that there are three very prepared futre members amongst our stomping grounds.  Well june brought a lot of wearing and taring on the train tracks.  Unexpected delays and cancelings, hills steeper than expected and lengthy distnaces, but ¨two missionaries sing as they bike and bike and bike, missionaries in 25 sing as they knock and knock and knock¨ okay ill tone down the dramatic, this terrian isnt nearly as bad ast the usas, those poor pioneers and one sore ragnar runner. but just as they reached the salt lkae valley and bubbus finished her race (woot woot)  we reached our home stretch on our goal. Do we give up for the cold? NO. do we cry a little for the lack of sleep, NO!  because we think we can! What do we have to lose anyways az few toew to frost bite, its fine weve got ten! and the wind drys out any mositure in your eyes anyways, crys dont exist!  SO everyday this week we literally run from lesson to lesson, visting our investigadores on date, almost losing some over there, and reasurring some over here.