Querida familia,
Sorry if I freaked you out by not emailing earlier. Today is a feriado aka holiday (one of the 39502 that they have here) so the cibers weren't open until now. Don't worry about sending pics at all, it doesn't make me homesick or anything (no offense haha) they're just entertaining! It's sounds like it was a fun fall break though and you enjoyed Conference almost as much as I did. I definitely remember Schnef Farms, it was the best! The pic of all the girls is super cute- it's crazy how much they've grown up in just 8 months. And the shoes that Olivia dyed look awesome! I don't envy the fact that it's getting colder up there, though, but I'm sure you guys are happy to have a break from the heat. It's FINALLY been getting warm here the past 2 days even though supposedly spring started Sep 21st, so pretty soon here I'll start getting brown again and I'll start to stick out a little less (hopefully). Actually a bunch of people this past week have thought I was Argentine though even after I said a few sentences in Castellano, which normally gives it away that I'm a gringa! That's been kinda cool. Hey I definitely know Rustin's "friend" Hanna though- we were in the same seminary class senior year (I think). She's so cute, I approve of their "friendship" haha. And the Tiger thing turned out awesome! Nice work.
So last week down here in San Rafael was a pretty normal one. We had a zone meeting on tuesday which wasn't terribly exciting or eventful. Then on Wednesday we had exchanges and I went to the other hermanas' area in Barrio 1 with Hna Jacinto which was kinda fun but all of our appointments fell through.. We did find a few new investigators though and I did a harvest blessing which went relatively well. We also visited a less active family and the teenagers really like English so they brought out an English hymn book and when we sang the closing hymn I sang the last verse of Lord I Would Follow Thee in English and the mom started crying.. Haha I had no idea our language was that pretty or exciting, but apparently it is! Not a crazy successful day, but the hermanas did have some success in our area. They finally got our investigator Marta to do a recorrido and she LOVED it. She felt the spirit strongly and decided to try to quit smoking that night. She liked it so much that she wants to have every lesson in the chapel from now on. They also found some other great new investigators, but they weren't home a few days later when they had scheduled appointments with them.. That's been one of the toughest things about the mission (besides the siesta), that finding the investigators or potentials at home is super inconsistent and it's so tiring having to walk all over trying to find people to teach, but it's all good! We still see a lot of little miracles all of the time (like somehow finding an investigator's house after forgetting to write down the address) and have enough funny experiences that it's still definitely fulfilling and fun.
We had exchanges again on Saturday too and I was with Hna Jacinto again but in my area. We had a "tormenta blanca" in the elders of our wards' area, which means that all the missionaries in the district go work and knock doors in one area for like 3 hours, so that was fun and we met a really sweet little old lady named Elsa who was really receptive but was about to leave to Mendoza for like a month.. haha so the best possible new investigator we found for them isn't going to be home for a while, but it's better than nothing! On Sunday we had my first fast and testimony meeting in this ward. About 13 people showed up to church, but the testimonies were amazing and even though there aren't a ton of us in this ward, the people we do have are awesome. We had a surprise investigator attendance when the kid of a recent convert lady named Nora came. He's 9 years olds and so cute, and he wants to get baptized. We got to teach him a bit about the plan of salvation because the primary pres didn't show up and so they put Hna Tzorin (pronounced without the T sound like "soreen") and I in charge of the whole primary for the 2nd two hours of church. There are only 2 primary kids in the ward and zero Young Men or Young Women, so it wasn't as crazy as it sounds. The other kid was Gabriela Notaro (8 yrs), who's so adorable and spiritual it makes me sad that she doesn't get to have the same primary experience that I had growing up, but she's already got just as strong (if not stronger) of a testimony about prayer and scripture study as just about any other church member, so I know she's going to be an amazing future missionary and mother in spite of the lack of other kids to hang out with. But anyways it was a good Sunday and we finally caught Luciana at home and had a quick lesson about the importance of reading the pamphlets and Book of Mormon because she hasn't been doing it. We're going back tomorrow to teach another lesson and also to have her house blessed because apparently there are unfriendly spirits there that have been scaring them for a while..... and we've taught in that house at night a few times... Haha but yeah, she's doing pretty well and still feels the spirit strongly every time we come over (our goal is to get her to feel it when were gone though too by reading the Book of Mormon)!
This week is the last week of the transfers and also my comp's 22nd birthday is on the 16th, so it should be exciting! I think that we'll both be staying in this area for another transfer but she feels like one of us is gonna leave.. vamos a ver quien tiene la razón! This has been quite the backwards P-Day, but it was fun to celebrate Hna Medrano's last one playing volleyball with some of the Young Women of barrio 1 at the stake center. It's time to go now though, we're going to go see what's up with the people that weren't home when we had our appointments with them. As far as the Christmas/birthday packages go I'm not sure at the moment- the only thing that comes to mind is more music! I love what I have but I've been missing a lot lately listening to this group called The Lower Lights, which one of the hermanas in Utah had and we always had playing in the car. So that would be sweet. I'll let you know next week if I think of anything else! Thanks so much for everything and for all of the support. Love you guys!
Con cariño,
Hna Crawford
PS- I'll send pictures of volleyball and our zone next week because I didn't have time today once again :/
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