Haha yep! I'm no longer in mi querida area White :( but it's
in really good hands, so i'm not worried, just know I'm gonna miss it a whole
lot! It's all I've ever known of the mission here, and really right now i just
feel like I'm on companion exchanges or something. . .but I feel like come
wednesday or thursday I'll have a good cry, i already let my companion know and
she assured me she'll have some ice cream waiting for me :) Her name is Hermana
Martinez! She's from Honduras and has 9 months in the mission, but just 3 here
in Argentina. She served 6 in Honduras and the change was hard she said , but
she's a real hard worker and I know we're gonna get a lot of work done and grow
a TON spiritually :) She's 19 too! But she turns 20 here in a couple weeks
which will be fun :) We live with 2 other Hermanas (this apartment is a LOT
bigger haha but still chiquito haha) Hermana Valenzuela (who lived with Hermana
Vincent and Harris before so she knew me through them haha) who is from Chile
and Hermana Zurita from Mexico :) I'M FINALLY GONNA LEARN HOW TO SPEAK
SPANISH!! Haha obviously I know a little, but I'm excited I'll learn all the
little words and stuff outside of just church vocabulary, and they are excited
to learn a little english too :) They are all WAY nice and caring, as it's been
proved to me here to be a very very correct stereo type of latin americans :)
I'm super excited for this transfer, I feel like we're all gonna be super good
friends and have a lot of fun!
So, my area is called Villa Floresta, at this
point I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean, but I'll figure it out before
next week :) I'm in the same Stake that White is in so here in the next couple
weeks at General Conference I'll hopefully be able to see everyone from there
:) Since I'm in an area so close I didn't have the fun times in the terminal
like I did waiting for Hna Harris, but I did get to go because Hna Boyce had to
wait for her companion to get there and saw some of my mission buddies. Oh, i
forgot to mention I'm the oldest missionary in our house and that is a WAY
wierd feeling. . .makes me realize how short this time really is and I really
do need to make sure I'm giving this amazing work my all every single minute. I
read in Mark this morning Ch. 13 which is Christ talking about the second
coming, and in the end he talks about how we need to WATCH! We can't relax or
think it's ok to take a break for a day or two, NO. We have to always be
pushing ourselves to be better, always on the brink of feeling like we are
gonna break, but we won't because we've got the help of our older brother Jesus
Christ <3 The things that are the most simple (pray, reading our scriptures,
going to church, FHE) help us remember and stay watchful until He comes again
<3 So, just keep doing the things God needs you to do and being wonderful
and smiling and being the best you can every single day :) That's how we are
truly happy :) I love you all sooo much! Hope you have a good week, and as of
right now I don't know a lot about the area, so I'll be sure to write about
that next week :)
LOVE YOU!!!!
Hermana Conger. . .your Larissa :)
PS haha the boys asked me at Christmas what's the weirdest
thing I've eaten and i didn't really have a good answer. . .well that was
because I was just eating what I was given and didn't really ask a lot of
questions! Haha found out one of the thing I eat is a sausage casing filled
with blood and cooked up. . .it's actually really good haha I also had Kidneys
yesterday, didn't think those were very good haha and. . .I think there was
another one but I can't remember haha but there ya go :)
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!
xoxoxoxo
