20th Birthday in Argentina!

Hola fam. 

Thanks for the emails this week! The house looks awesome and I'm excited that you're finally going to be able to drive something other than the junky suburban even though we had a lot of crazy Crawford memories in that old car. I also loved the pics of the fam reunion! Everybody's looking better than ever!! It is so hilarious that Tiff is comps with Audrey my roomie from BYU too though, they've got to be quite the entertaining companionship.. haha!

Yeah so I'm not exactly sure what's happening in Buenos Aires, but there was some sort of riot thing in San Luis and I guess all the stores had to lock up because some hooligans were trying to break in? I don't know, that's about all we heard. There are a ton of people from Buenos Aires here in La Punta though and they all tell us how crazy and dangerous it was living there and that they moved here to have more peaceful lives for their families. It kind of freaks me out knowing that Naomi's there, but I'm sure she'll be alright and they'll put her in the safer areas. It sounds like the craziness of the Christmas season is starting to get to you guys too. I hope it's not too stressful and that you figure it all out! I still haven't gotten the package, but maybe tomorrow in Mendoza I'll get it if I'm lucky.. It doesn't really feel like Christmas to me at all not only because it's starting to get super hot (ok it's not that hot but it is when you're walking around all day with a backpack on) but also because I'm in a whole different world and the culture is way different. It's bitter-sweet I guess. 

Oh yeah, before I forget: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! 21 years, eh.. Haha I had fun telling the Hnas Martinez's the story of your proposal yesterday. I'm actually pretty impressed with myself that I told the whole thing without leaving out details in Castellano and they loved it and think Dad's insane!! Haha enjoy the fondue too! 

So this week we also had a zone conference with Pres. Avila which lasted all day and was amazing, I learned a ton. I seriously lucked out with the mission pres I have, he's incredible- hilarious, humble, patient, and very wise. But yeah then we also had some great lessons with investigators like Jorge and Laura, Soledad, and Lucia. They all have complicated situations that we're doing our best to try to help them with but it's a little difficult with the whole Christmas being in 8 days thing, but we're working hard! Last week we realized that 99% of our investigators are living with someone (boyfriend/girlfriend) that they're not married to.. grrr. But oh well, that's what miracles and the Gospel are for! It's frustrating but we're doing what we can.

Haha so Hna Hatch hit her year mark this week too and she's going crazy.. I have some priceless videos of her beat-boxing and dancing that I wish I could send. It's seriously a blast living with her though. We're all super pumped for the party tomorrow in Mendoza (we're leaving at 4 am) and we're going to sleep tonight in the pench of Hna Jacinto, Cooley, Barney, and Russel in Sucre so basically the party starts tonight because we're definitely not going to be sleeping. I'm a little less excited than I was before because now I know that I won't see my mom Hna Keller, but I get to see HermHales!!! And then soon after that we'll get to Skype!! Ahhhh! How crazy is that, that it's already been 7 MONTHS since we talked on mothers' day.. what the. I've been living in Argentina for half a YEAR! Pucha, che. 

Well, that's about it. Thanks for being the best and enjoy the cold for me! Try not to have too merry of a Christmas without your favorite hija (: Love you and I hope you enjoy the pictures!

Con cariño,

Hna Crawford (the adult)

Merry Navidad everyone!

Watched a cat eat the brains out of a live mouse

Our new BFFs are the little girls that live next door. We hung out with them like 15 min. as we waited for the other hnas because we had grabbed the wrong key.

La Punta had a baptism on my b-day for this lady named Paola who the other hnas have been working with for a while! It was awesome even though a tormenta came and the lights when out during the first talk.

more of the baptism!

Feliz Fiestas!! Haha the ads are super weird here..

2 p-days ago hiking in Potrero (we found a goat.. and a cow)

Waterfall! It was the biggest temptation ever to jump in, but don't worry, I resisted.

The old district before the Hnas came!

Santa wants to serve the Lord too <3

Another picture of our old district

I got to go to a Christmas party in Amppya (Hna Scheiss and Sanford's ward) on Friday for exchanges and the kids did the Nativity thing and then we ate dinner at like 10 (:

Feliz 10 meses to meeee (and one year to Hna Hatch!)

Birthday breakfast courtesy of Hna Sanford

las hnas surprised me with cake and coke zero <3

Also got to eat lunch with my fave family and their cutest kid Gloria who fell of her bed and hurt her shoulder and is now in what's basically a full-body cast. Pobrecita! (They're the ones with the kittens)

the older sis of Gloria (the one in the cast), Sariah.. they're SO CUTE

Hno Martos also had his cumpleaños this week