Hermana Tess Crawford: 4th of Julio

Greetings from World Traveler #1.

I still can't believe Chloe's actually in Fiji, what the heck. It looks like they're doing amazing things over there, I'm proud of her! Seriously we all are going to have a ton of catching up to do here in a little over a month. Haha I liked the story about grandma's birthday (PS- Feliz Cumpleaños Abuelita) apron at Joe's BBQ, and the 4th of July sounds like it was great too. I <3 the USA. The $5 patriotic shirts were a nice touch. The flour war sounded awesome as well. My cuatro de Julio was kinda fun- we did our best with the time, money, and resources we had haha.

So as you know we got to travel again and meet Pres. Goates and his wife. They're from Sierra Vista, AZ I believe (I think it's super close to Mexico) and they're buenísimos! We were afraid they wouldn't be as funny as Pres or as loving as Hna Avila but they definitely are. They have amazing testimonies and are very excited to work hard out here in Argentina even though it's a lot different here than in Colombia and in Bolivia where they served. It was entertaining to watch the look on Hna Goates face during lunch as we hnas told her a few stories and facts about the culture and stuff that goes on here. I guess it's a lot different than Colombia where she had lessons every hour every day. Ha. She has some cool ideas though and I'm sure it'll help us get a little more creative with how to work more succesfully. Pres. is really great too and he's going to help this mission focus and grow a ton. I'm excited even though I won't be here to see much of it! They're coming here on Thursday morning to meet the rest of us and tell us more about their lives/fam.

Other than traveling we've been teaching that guy named Damian who's a member's friend and it's been going pretty well- he actually came to church yesterday! It was great even though the Gospel Principles class got a little....crazy. I wish you guys could see how funny the classes here are sometimes just because of the culture and the personalities here. He's coming to the 9th of July activity on Wednesday and he's going to help cook so it'll be good! We haven't really seen the Ibañez fam so I don't have updates on them, or on Belén except for that we found her last night and have a lesson for Tuesday which hopefully she won't bail out on again like she did this week when we had brought a member and everything.. Grrr.

The World Cup is insane too and the people are getting super pumped for the game on Wednesday. It's the first time that it'll be at 5 pm instead of 1 pm which has been perfect because it's during lunch and we study afterwards so there's been no conflicts.. so we'll see what happens.

There hasn't been much more to tell you about. We FINALLY got the Liahona/Ensign (not sure what it's called in English anymore) with these last conference talks and I've loved being able to read them this week! The Priesthood ones were especially awesome. My new fave is "The Chosen Generation" by Ridd of the seventy. You should all read it, it's awesome- especially the part about smart phones and how we should make sure to be spiritually charged every day. It's something I've definitely come to understand a lot more thanks to the mission. Oh yeah also Acts 18:11 is a cool scripture that an elder in my zone found the other day. Go sister missionaries! Anyways I hope you have another awesome week! Be safe, I love you.

<3,

Hermana Crawford