Hola che!
Thanks for the update
on how the week went! I'm impressed
that you guys pulled of
the surprise almost flawlessly (even though
you offended Kenny) and
that you got it on video! I can't wait to see
all of these videos
that you're making when I get home. The
Harringtons look sooo
different and grown up- especially Katie and
Camille! And I love
Emily's long hair and the view from their
backyard! I wanna visit
some day.
I have a ton to tell
you about and like 2940 pictures to send but I
don't have that much
time, so I'm gonna do my best to give you all the
highlights in this
letter, and then the pictures will tell the rest of
the story.
My first transfer in
Argentina was a crazy experience! I had to pack
everything and be at
the terminal for collectivos at 9 so that I could
leave at 10. There was
a TON of elders in the terminal dropping of
their comps or waiting
to catch a bus like I was. I saw all of the
elders that were in the
MTC with me there, which was awesome! Hna
Sidan, the mini
missionary that was with me for a bit, also surprised
us and showed up at the
terminal with her mom and little sisters! I
could only talk to her
for like 2 minutes though because my bus came
and I had to get on. I
rode in a double-decker bus that looks kind of
like the ones that we
use to go to girls camp inside. It was a long 4
hour drive from Maipú
to the terminal in San Rafael, but I slept a bit
and talked to the
Columbian elder who was sitting next to me. I
finally got to San
Rafael and met my comp, who's super nice but a
little timid.
San Rafael is sooo
pretty compared to Maipú. It was like
moving from Tucson to
Gilbert! Haha, but really. My comp and I have a
lot in common as far as
personality which is good and bad. It's not
quite as fun with her
as it was with my other comps but it's not bad
at all. We're a lot
more balanced when teaching because she's not a
huge talker either, so
we have to depend on each other a lot during
lessons. In fact, we
had a great lesson with a lady that they met on
the street the other
day who said that they could stop by sometime. So
we went this Friday and
got to know her a bit and gave the lesson of
the Restoration. It
went super well, and as part of the lesson we
watched the 20 min
video about the first vision, and afterwards
Luciana (the
investigator) described to us that she felt an incredible
peace that felt like it
didn't fit in her body as she was watching the
movie. I had felt
exactly the same during the movie and was praying
hard that she would be
able to feel what I was feeling, and she did!
We went to her house to
walk with her and her two little kids to
church with us
yesterday morning, but no one answered the door. Later
we went to see what had
happened and she told us that she had been
waiting for us this
morning but never heard us knock on the door! We
were so mad that we
hadn't knocked louder or something, but there's
always next Sunday!
Anyways, as you can
tell, the people here are
great, and the ward is
super small, but there's some awesome
investigators and they
respond better to the missionaries here than
they did in my other
area. It was a little shocking to go to church
and only have 14 people
show up because of the snow, but given the
fact that I gave my
first talk ever in Castellano and it was terrible,
it was probably better
that only a few showed up! We also had kind of
a disaster with the
sacrament hymn because they use the CD's instead
of piano because no one
plays, and someone chose a hymn that no one
knew (including me, and
I was leading the music) and on top of that
they accidentally
played the version without the vocals, so it was an
extremely uncomfortable
4 minutes.. Haha maybe it's for the best that
Luciana didn't come..
but it really has been a great week and I'm so
excited to have a fresh
start in a new area with new members and
investigators to work
with! We have a zone conference with a member of
the 70 and Presidente
Avila tomorrow, so it should be another great
week! Those are the
highlights, and now I'm gonna take the rest of the
time to send the pics!
I hope you have an
awesome week too and that
Jakey gets better. Tell
Dad I'll write him next week, I think he'll
enjoy the pictures more
than something written! Love you guys!
<3, Hna Crawford
PS- Thanks for sending
me a present, it'll probs get here just in time
for Christmas (:
PSS- Castellano is what
they speak here in Argentina, but they call
people from Buenos
Aires porteños (as well as the accent, which uses
the sh sound). The
people in Mendoza don't like Porteños that much and
 |
| Hna Becerra- she reactivated when Hna Keller and I started visiting her, I miss her a lot! |
 |
| Roxanna, the investigator, and her husband in their kiosco |
 |
| Crazy old Hno Santos, who's awesome and helped us a ton, but also taught Jehova's Witnesses how to be better missionaries.. hahaha |
 |
| my comp hit her 9 month mark on the 13th so as the tradition goes we had to give her a pregnant belly and take a pic! she did NOT want to do it at first but I talked her into it (; |
 |
| pics of our last p-day in Maipú! We ate hamburgers, took pics, and played games (ping pong, monopoly deal, frisbee, etc.) at the stake center |
 |
| Saying goodbye to members in Maipu. Hna. Rossi |
 |
| Hna. Hernandez |
 | ||
Mauricio, Ruth and baby Candela.  Tony the perrito of our investigator, Dylan! He was a lot cuter when he was a tiny puppy but he's still adorable!
On my way to San Rafael not knowing what was in store...
I had a great view from the top deck of the bus- there's actually
green here, unlike Maipú where everything's brown.. haha 
La pensión- we live in the top floor and have a balcony! It's only one
room and a bathroom but it's nice and clean (for now), so I like it a lot more than my old one  
We did a service project with Barrio 2 (the ward here) and two other
wards this Saturday. We painted a school for handicapped teens where they learn how to prepare and can food, and then the school sells the cans to the public. It was a ton of fun, we painted the hallway and all of the classrooms & doors. Took about 4 and a half hours!  
The last pic is from yesterday when it decided to SNOW.. I thought
spring had come, but apparently not yet :/ It snowed a lot this morning too even though supposedly it ws going to warm up today. Oh well! That's all the time I've got, folks. I had a ton more to send but time goes by wayy to fast in the Ciber. Love you all, ciao! |
No comments:
Post a Comment