Con Fe todo es posible

una semana de milagros,

One year completed in the field! 

everyone take a walk with me down memory lane... come on it will be enjoyable lets think back to the age of back and white tvs.  for the benefit of mom and dad I will say that it wasnt to long ago... now there is a series I absoutely love, a re d head hero of m ine, LUCY.  what a charcter what a better way to gain a strong set of ab s, by laughing.  Well the chocoate factory episode is which I would like you to think about.  She is owrking in a factory, ut cant keep up with the packaging, so naturally the only solution bturns to eating the chocoalate or shoveling them into every possible vacant spot.  I am laughing in this very second as I love this episode... haha Well turns out eit is even greater finding a connection with missionary work.  this hweek on the converbelt isnt chocoaltes but miracles, which are just as rico!!!  Its ben hard to keep up with them and I dont think there are enough letters in the alphabet nor paper from the trees to express my gratitude  TO begin with a miracle with president carter... I <am staying in 25 de mayo!!! not I wont miss out on my quieridos amgios wedding and baptism!! second, we had a family home evening and 14 peopole were in attedndance.  mayb that doesnt mean a lot for the stakes of the world, but for a rama it means lot.  Heavens means that there were so many bodies in the church that we didnt even have to turn on the heater!  its a miracle!! we have doubled, tripled!  wednsday, we headed to a farwell of president and hermana  carter.  We watched a couple of videos with pictures from their imssion and heard some of their favorite experiences. almost nothing different though from a regular transfer meeting.  A little dissapointed that there wasnt more stories, like a homecoming with out even mentioning the mission.. but oh well!  we finished off by forming a wedding-funeral line. Happy and sad as every one said their final goodbye to president and hermana.  our new presdient arrives saturday.

GANO ARGENTINA!!!

Let me start out by singing a jolly old tune we all know...

¨¨its being to look a lot like.... The world cup... everywhere you go!  theres argentine flags to sell, jerseys and hats as well, the loud horns that wake sleeping missionaries... its beginning to look a like world cup.!¨¨

YES FOLKS, its true, this week starts the amazing, makes normal people go crazy, event.  yesterday we started out with the first game and not one soul was out and about, president banished every missionary to their own home at seven oclock. and about 9 the streets when wild as we celebrated the win.  We joined in from the balcony with our shirits and beenies!  little do they know we didnt watch it... haha we have a call line, to find out the scores.. shhh and today USA plays.  Pray extra hard ok.  

The Priesthood

I smell popcorn in the air, the bubbly smell of cherry pepsi and big hunks, cinnamon homemade suckers, and boiling tomatos.  I hear disntant whisteling and a duck voice, yelling from the sideline to run faster, a singing of a Lou ¨hello dolly¨... I think I hear my papa bear pierre!   Daddy, FELIZ DE DEL PADRE!!!! TE AMO!!!

Buen Dia, 

This week I would like to protest the idea that we can only call home on monthers day.  How unfair is that.  Where is the mens rights... haha  well to say the least this week was a challenging one. some twists and turns and set backs.  Our two marriages are taking their time and dont see the rust that we are placing on them, after 12 years of marriage they dont understand why rush through a marraige in a month!  but This missionary is stubborn and so I am not quite giving up.it would just be easier to get married in the name of them,sadly I dont think that is legal! sometimes its hard when people have agency. haha 

¨we cannot be saved in ignorance..¨

Yesterday was fast sunday.  Dont you think it is interesting that before my mission waiting to eat until two oclock was horrible and thats with stuffing my face at midnight the morning of... Now here I am amissionary.  fasting saturday until sunday and I dont feel a thing.  It might be because we eat so much as missionaries that we have a bear hybernating back up supply but I think it has more to do with putting your heart into who or what you are fasting for. and to think that for so many years I was just going ¨hungry¨ because I wasnt using the concept of the fast correctly and was just doing it because everyone was doing it.  Luckily I have learned that lesson here in the mission and with this weeks personal study of prayers with fasting, I have seen many miracles.  

The biggest news I have to tell this week is about two families that I have mentioned before.  First, Gabriela and Diego have been living together for six years and the missionaries met them in december.  I came along in january and well since than many an elder has asked us why we havent dropped them. I mean thats months, and missionaries work with days.  Transfers even, if they dont progress it isnt their time. well I am happy to say that I am stubborn and wouldnt let them go. and now we have seen quite the change in this family.  this passed week we asked (like every lesson) if they would get married.  Gabriela replied... ÿes!¨ and when we asked her why, ¨because We are sinning, and I want to settle for anything else besides the celestial kingdom.¨ I had to ask her for a repeat because my castillano must be horrible, did I really hear that you want to get married?  That is right folks, Our girl Gabriela has gained a testimony and this past week went and took our a turn to get married. She told us a really cool story how she gained an answer to her prayer as well. She has the strongest desire to know that this is where she is supposed to be, that this is the true church.  So with this question she visted another church during the week. to feel the difference and help her make her decision and right before she left the priest looked at her and said ¨this is your church¨.at this point in the story I was freaking out not knowing where she wasgoing with this story, but no. She said that right before the priest talked to her she said a prayer and asked if our church was the correct one of her, and like clock work this priest answered.  Prayers really are answered through other people, and isnt it so nice of another churchs priest to help her find her answer.  She came to chruch yesterday for the first time WITH Diego, and they have started reading the book of mormon together and praying.  It is truly a blessing, THEY ARE GOING TO GET MARRIED! (and than baptized!!)