Feliz Navidad

Hello! 

I hope that everyone had a super Feliz Navidad! 

Hermana Gimenez and I started off our Christmas weekend on Friday with President and Hermana Cifuentes as well as 2 other zones for our Christmas Conference. We had a huge scavenger hunt in Centro, watched finding Dory (in Spanish, I'm going to be real it was not the same without Ellen Degeneres) and made some sugar cookies. The next day we went on divisions with some of the youth in our ward. They made cookies and cards for all of the less active members as well as all of our investigators and then walked around our whole area with us in the sun to deliver them. They are the greatest. 

Afterwards we headed to our lunch with the Hermana Moreyra. She made us about six thousand empanadas, I was sooo full I thought I'd die. 

Then we headed out with the hermana Ortiz to visit some of her less active kids where we were fed EVEN MORE. From there we headed to our Dinner with the Bishops family. MORE FOOD. The real Christmas miracle is that I could smile politely and eat everything that was on my plate that night without crying.

When we got home I was so stoked to watch the fireworks but I was so full and so tired I couldn't make it until midnight. 

Sunday we ate lunch with Hermana Frizzera and the Moreyra clan again. I was still so full from the day before. The Argentines love love love to eat! 

Skyping with my cute fam was definitley the highlight of the whole weekend! 

Enjoy the snow! Have a good week! 

Sunday, Christmas and Companion

Our baby Christmas.  We made the trees out of paper.

Two o the kids that have been going on divisions with us

Christmas Lunch selfie

Christmas Diner with the Bishop's fam

Hermana Ortiz and her son Santiago

Waiting for fireworks... I ended up falling asleep before I could watch them

Draper Buddies, Elder Tree and Elder Bakker.  We graduated together and I got to see them at our Christmas Conference

Christmas Pageant with Maria

Hi!

This week was really good! We have been having a few house problems which has been an adventure. We were without electricity for 3 days and everything in our fridge went bad! Then our window broke, so our Mission leader and his wife came over to help us try and fix it. The Windows here are weird and hard to explain but basically to fix the part that we broke you have to open up the ceiling. When we opened up the ceiling about 10 years of dust fell onto us. Our floor was COVERED, and so were we. Hermano Mansilla drew this nice little picture in our dirt pile with one of the few english words he's learned over the years. 

Natalia has been super excited during all of the lessons that we've had with her and has a baptismal date for the 14th of January as well! 

A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk in Sacrament meeting about developing Christ like attributes. I have been studying ´Jesús the Christ¨ and have been learning so much. I made it a goal when I started reading to apply one specific Christ like attribute a day and it has helped me grow and learn about my Savior in so many new ways. This Christmas season I am especially grateful for my Savior. For his life and for the perfect example he has set for me. I am so grateful for this opportunity that I have to wear His name everyday and teach people about the blessings that come when we follow His example. 

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season! 

Also this Saturday our Ward put on a Little Christmas show and Natalias daughter Maria volunteered to be Mary! We were like 2 proud moms watching her. 

Hermano Mansilla drawing in the dust from the ceiling when fixing the window

Cutting holes in the ceiling to fix the window, Sam, as you can see, is the General overseeing the job

River near were we live

Our Ward put on a Little Christmas show and Natalias daughter Maria volunteered to be Mary! We were like 2 proud moms watching her.

These two ladies are like my Argentine moms. They are so great and are such huge examples to me! 

Teaching Teaching, Hermosa!

Hello! I hope everyone has had a good week! 

Villa Floresta has been keeping Hermana Gimenez and I really busy this week. 

We had our first English class together and we had a pretty good turn out. Higher hopes this time around haha. We also have been teaching Axel quite a bit and he has a baptismal date for the 14th of January! He is really excited about all of the things we have been teaching him.

We also have had a couple of really good lessons with Natalia. She walked with her whole family to church on Sunday and also came to our english class. She's already friends with all the ward members and says that everything about our religion is ¨hermosa¨. We are excited to keep teaching her too. 

The 8th of December is the day of the Virgin and everyone here celebrates it by putting up their Christmas trees and decorations. Everyone seems to be happier and more open to hearing what we have to say during the christmas season! 

I hope all is well! Have a great week! 

Today we had a water fight and at the very end, when we were all soaked, the elders came out with bags of flour. I think I will be spending the rest of my P Day trying to get it all out of my hair.

Axel and Natalia

Hi!

I hope everyone has had a good week! Hermana Gimenez and I were anxiuosly waiting transfer calls all week but we are excited to finally know that we will be able to spend Christmas together in Villa Floresta! 

This week we were able to have a couple of really great lessons with Axel. He is the son of one of our less active members and is about 23. He has taken the missionary lessons before and ended up dropping them but now he feels like he needs to start thinking more about his future and about his family, he has accepted baptism and is progressing really well! 

We also were able to start teaching a single mom named Natalia this week. She has 3 kids and just moved here in Villa Floresta. She is friends with one of our super cool ward members. We started teaching here and she already believes and is accepting to everything we have taught, the only problem is that she is a nurse and almost always works on Sundays. We have been praying for her and her cute fam, she's been through some hard times lately but is super strong, and knows that the gospel will help her family. 

Other than that Hermana G and I are just trying not to melt into the sidewalk! I hope I can make it through this summer! 

Happy Holidays! Chow