Bautismo!

Hola familia como esta!!?

This week was de 10! for starters we didn’t have divisiones, meetings, NADA. We got work a full week like missionaries normales WAHOOO. 

So funny story we forgot to pay the electricity bill and my companion is terrified of the dark and refused to sleep in our apartment so we had to go to Santiago for a night and sleep with the other Hermanas haha. 

So this week Lautaro got baptized! His sister is member but his parents no :( They are AWESOME. They always come to church, solamente they both need to get divorced and then get married. They are really humble and said that its 10.000 pesos to get divorced cada una. We are going to go the the registro civil this week to see if there is another way. I love this family so much...we will find a way!

So the elders also had a baptism the same day and when we went to the church in the morning to fill the baptism fount we remembered that the drain doesn’t work and there is water like 1 month old from other baptism and it was a little dirty. So we spent the whole morning with the elders filling buckets of water and pouring down the drains in he bathrooms....haha it was a very interesting experience....but the pila bautismal was REALLY CLEAN and beautiful afterward. See photo

Whelp not much to tell this week. We are working hard and I’m learning new things every day. The mission is so amazing I don’t want it to end and I’m not accepting reality. haha 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK. I love the idea of an Argentine Thanksgiving. Send pics please! Give Rebecca Lonas a big hug for me! 

Hermana Allen 

Emptying the baptismal font before filling it

Baptism of Lautaro

Debilidades

HOOLLLLAAA FAMILLIIAAA

Como estan??? Wow can you believe today I start my last transfer!? I really can;t believe it......... so weird. Whelp I thought for sure Hermana Goncalves was going to be transferred but she is staying! So that’s good! 

Yeah so we kind of had a baptism! Surprise!!! Axel was really a miracle and I forgot to mention him last week oops. But yeah we have been teaching Axel this whole transfer but we never really focused on him because he wasn’t really progressing. But out of no where we had a really great lesson with him and he came to church and then we had his baptism! He already had asistencia a la iglesia with other Hermanas so it all happened so fast. But he came to church Sunday with a white shirt and tie and LOVES everything about the gospel. His abuela also came to his baptism and to church on Sunday! Axel´s mom died a year ago and his main interest in the church is that the family can be together forever and the temple! Miracles happen once and a while.

Bueno. this week was also a little bit rough for me emotionally. I don’t really know why but I’ve been feeling like lately all of my weaknesses (debilidades) are right in front of me like all the time and I’ve felt just really... I don’t really know how to explain it. But today I read in 1 Corinthians 

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”

Sometimes I have to remember that our weaknesses are to help us grow closer to Christ and to make us STRONG. I have so many weaknesses but I’m so grateful that we have the chance to change and grow. That we are never weak when we are with Christ! 

Have a great week! I love you all and miss you so so much! 

Hermana Allen

Baptism de Axel

Empanada de Salta

Light of the World

Hola okay this week was crazy like all the weeks. haha. Salta was so good as usual and we got to watch the new Christmas video of the church! ITS SO GOOD. “Light the World”. It comes out 25 de noviembre but we got to watch it because we are missionaries hehe. So yeah its really good and the church has come out with 25 ways to light the world every day until Christmas. I love it. 

SO the familia Rojas. Man this family....I love them so much...but the CRAZIEST things happened with them this week.

We laughed the whole day because LITERALLY NO ONE RECIEVED US. ZERO. We went to every investigator, member, less active....it was kind of funny. So after this long day we went to the familia Rojas and when we got there, the mom wasn’t home the dad was talking to someone on skype so we started to talk with one of the daughters outside her house. We just finished singing,  about to say the prayer when another daughter came and asked us to come into the house and she looked so scared. We entered the house and her sister (Yanina) was curled us in a ball crying with her eyes closed and saying the she sees blood and she kept saying “Carla (her sister) Carla look at the blood and then she was saying for her dad to get away from her mom” It was sooo freaky. She was having a night terror or something.....had a fever and everything, but then she woke up and it’s all good now.

then SATURDAY we had another lesson with them. We got there and Sandra was outside drinking her mate with her daughters and loud music coming from the house it was really obvious that the dad was drinking with his friends....boooo... We started to teach them outside and then Carlos (dad) comes outside and saw us and ran back inside hahah but then he came back out a little buzzed and we asked him what he was doing. then he started to cry and told us that he was sinning. and then we sat there for about an hour and a half listening to him talk about his bad childhood and how he feels week and his wife and daughters were all crying. It was soo crazy but the spirit was strong. He prayed for what felt like 15 min asking God to forgive him for all he has done. We shared Ether 12:27 and the conversion of Alma. 

wait for it.....

After the lesson we went to visit an investigador that lives on the same street, Rosa. We found her outside her house crying because her kids we fighting ...like real fighting...like beating each other up because of the drugs or alcohol who knows what. Then her daughter came to listen to us and started to tell us everything...and then a bunch of people came and entered the house (we were outside) One came in with a hammer in his hand...and she was so calm and said to us that her brother was going to kill her other brother....like what!? We didn’t see anything but still....and yeah then she started to say that she is looking for the true church and that she has talked with missionaries before and was SUPER interested....and then she started to tell us her problems and how her daughter was raped...

wait for it....

She then asked us what we were doing here in her neighborhood and we told her that we visited her neighbor the familia Rojas...and then she said, “Oh the familia with pretty daughters and the dad is a little fat....that man raped my daughter”....sooo that happened......

I don’t even know what we are going to do about that situacion....

wait for it....

the familia Rojs CAME TO CHURCH. Ahhh. man oh man. LOCURA. 

We can really see a desire from this family to change and lets face it the need so much help. 

Whelp that’s my drama for this week. There is more to come I’m sure of it. 

I can’t believe this is the last week of transfers! Time is flying by. I love the mission and Im so so so happy. The gospel changes lives and through it we find LIGHT and HAPPINESS.

Love you all, miss you so so much! 

Hermana Allen