Felices Pascuas!

Felices Pascuas a todos! 

I'm glad you guys had an amazing Easter out there in Nueva York. Those giant eggs looked awesome. I seriously loved all the pictures you sent... and yes, I do hate you haha but it's all good I'll have my chance someday to travel without being expected to talk to people on the street all day (: I'm glad Chloe and Madi had the time of their lives, they deserve it! It sounds like it was an awesome trip for the 4 of you.

So this week was rough at first but the last couple days were awesome! You wanna know more about Schiess, huh? Well... she's very.. sweet, and definitely sheltered but I still love her haha! She has never heard of Beyonce, the rapist in Lincoln park (the youtube video), she never had cable, she has never eaten brown rice?, she also didn't know who Jack Johnson or Jason Mraz or Rihanna were either.In fact I made her a list the other day of videos she needs to see and music she needs to listen too when she gets back haha. But it's been fun to be with her, she's a hard worker. Her spanish is still pretty rough. She has a hard time with el vs la and with conjucations, and she always says the word "like" in english while speaking in spanish. The other day she was talking to a lady and the lady said she couldn't understand her because she speaks Castellano and not English.. Ouch. But she doesn't give up and she's studying hard, and I'm helping her out too and she's been improving little by little. She's a great cook and she has a lot of patience and a good heart. Haha it's been an adventure! The down side is that now that I'm with a gringa who's super tall, blonde, and has blue eyes and a very distinct face, the quantity of guys that yell at us and make kissing noises, etc. has gone way up. I'm honestly sick of men. When I get back if anyone tells me I'm "hermosa" (beautiful) and whistles or blows me a kiss I'll probably punch them in the face. The way that someone's going to get me to fall in love with them will be by ignoring me and avoiding eye contact. Just FYI. But yeah I'm still a missionary so pretend like I didn't just say that- I love everyone!!...

As I was saying, this week was a little rough at first. We still didn't have much luck the first few days and we were getting really exhausted, but we kept working and being obedient of course. We had a fun lunch on Friday with Hna Zutaro who is a little cray but is hilarious. She served in the Argentina South mission like 40 years ago. She always talks about the craziest things during lunch and tells us some pretty interesting stories that she reads on the internet. For example, this week she told us the following (I have no idea if any of it is true): Bill Gates died last year and ever since then Facebook has been a lot less secure, Russia is in a war agains Croatia, some kid named Sneider? found spy info in the CIA and the gov. found out and chased him all the way to Russia, the US wants to take over S. America, but countries are joining up with Argentina to fight us, there's been big fires in Chile and Australia, everyone is against the US, and apparently she has some Iraqi friends that she skypes all the time that she was going to help sneak in to Argentina??? Hahaha but she's a great lady she's just very gullible and wants to help everybody. So that made our week a little more interesting. Then slowly we started finding people who were willing to listen to us! We ended up finding 3 new investigators this week. First we found Teresa who's an old investigator and she's an older lady who can't open one of her eyes, but she has a lot of faith in Christ and is waiting for the moment when he'll explain everything to us in the next life, but we told her we're His representatives and have the answers she's looking for, and she accepted the invitation to listen to us! We also found Antonella who's a super tall and skinny 19 yr old who's studying to be a chef. She's really sweet and her fam is Catholic but she doesn't really believe in it and is searching for the truth. Then yesterday we found Alejandro who at first I thought just wanted to tell us his philosophies and not really listen because he didn't really let us teach, but then he did a 180 and told us he let come over because he wants to choose a religion because he wants his baby daughter to grow up with good values. He's got a ways to go but he can get there, and hopefully his wife will listen next week too!

We've been really excited about these people we met, and then also easter was awesome! It was quite interesting to see the Catholics walk around in a big group at night with a cross and candles chanting prayers to Mary. But yeah, I opened my package and got all of my favorite candy and snacks, and letters from you crazies! Then it was hilarious watching the hnas search for their eggs. Church was also awesome of course and there were some great talks! The spirit was extremely strong. It was the best to be able to think about the Resurrection and the moment when we'll all have our immortal bodies because of our Savior's sacrifice, and after reading Alma 40 & 41 I thought a lot about what we each need to do to be ready for that moment. I hope we'll all be prepared! (:

I love you guys, and I'll skype you in a couple weeks! What the heck. Have an awesome week! 

<3,

Hna Tess Crawford

SURPRISE: I got my Easter package!!! It got here on Wednesday and I almost died because I had to wait until sunday morning to open it! It's an easter miracle! Haha

I even had my comp hide it on saturday night so that it could be as authentic of a Crawford Easter as possible- here's where I found it

since marshmallows don't exist here I decided to get the most out of the peeps I got from you guys and roast them over our stove. best idea I've had in a while.

we also hid eggs/ chocolates around the pench for the other Hnas and Hna Aguilar (from Peru) had her first Easter egg hunt hahaha

Easter lunch at the pench- we made empanadas and they're definitely some of the best I've ever tried

Another easter miracle is that we have 5 lunches this week! A few months ago they were getting 5 per month

my comp & I- people on the street call us the Alemanas aka Germans... uhh.

mmmm, anyone want some ketchup and mayo flavored fake pringles?

hey but I did find Snickers

Elder Smith the night before he flew out to Ogden

worst thing I've made so far. there's no shortening here so I replaced it with what I that was shortening but it was actually cow fat and so the cookies turned out disgusting. We took them all and fed them to stray dogs.