Monday, July 14, 2014

VAMOS ARGENTINA!!!! :D

Haha it woulda been better to have that title if we woulda won yesterday (even though I had no part of watching, just heard all the screams and yells and cannons and all that good stuff!)

But I had an awesome week! It really lifted my spirits a lot and I didn't even realize I was in need of that, but like I've realized SO many times out here on the mish, Heavenly Father knows 1003507x's better than we do what we need and don't need :)

I LOVE SANTA ROSA!!! This is kinda silly. . .but I feel like the rest of my mission was like my hard trials and challenges of our earth life and now my last month I've been recieved into the Celestial Kingdom for all the hard work I've been trying to give <3 Hermana Peralta my new comp is amazing <3 She changed missions from Chile last transfer, so she got to our mission with Hermana Castleman, but we have the same time in the mission :) She's from Argentina too and she's teaching me how to speak in vos :) haha and I teach her and help here with her already awesome English! She's an amazing example of hard work and diligence. When she got here our area was super dead, but she's completely turned it around :) We worked WAY hard this week too and we have some of the neatest investigators!

WE ARE TEACHING A FAMILY!! It's hard to find families here in Argentina cuz so many are just living together or are seperated. . .and they do need to get married still, but they are totally willing to which ALSO doesn't happen around here. . .well in Bahia :) The people here are at least a little more chill and small town feel! Lots of people let us in their houses and it's great :) Also. . .we had SEVEN investigators at church yesterday :) Haha Hna Peralta says I'm a good luck charm, and I said all I did is just "smile and wave" haha but really, we're just working super hard and I know we had them all there cuz we gave our all so they could be there!! They all loved it and we're so excited to see their progress :) Hermana Peralta likes having fun too, we're always laughing and being goofs :) She has 12 brothers and sisters haha she also is 24 so before her mission she was working as a Music teacher. She has an AMAZING voice. haha my first day we had a zone meeting and they asked us to sing and I totally butchered it haha but she was super sweet about it, in that she teased me that "we" did awful even though it was just me haha but she's awesome in that way, not at ALL fake :) It's awesome wokring with her here! I'm sure I'll have more stories next week :)

I'm so grateful fo my mission. I love every minute :) It's been hard, and it's not over, but I'm gonna keep rolling forward in full gear until the whistle blows!!! And even then I know it's not over, this was just my pre-workout haha But I'm happy, and that's what really matters :)

I love you all so darn much!! Have an awesome week ok?! Work hard and love God with all your heart :)
xoxoxoxo
Larissa

Monday, July 7, 2014

I'm leaving Bahía Blanca! :( :) :/ :D haha

Yep. Crazy. After being here for almost a year, President called me and told me he's Emergency Transfering me to La Pampa tomorrow! I cried haha cuz after lots of stuggling and hard work with little fruits, we finally were seeing some real progress in our area, which I am SO grateful for the opportunity to have had to work here in Villa Floresta, but I was excited for the fruit too haha but my Heavenly Father needs me elsewhere which I'm excited about!

It's the closest it gets to "the country" where I'm going and I'm way stoked about that!! haha my comp says she feeling like she's the guy on Tangled when she's all "I'M FREE" then the next minute "I'm such a terrible person" haha I thought this was just gonna be a normal keep working hard transfer, but it'll be fun to get to know another part of Argentina for my last few weeks :)

We had invited 6 poeple to church and all of them commited to coming, but come Sunday it was raining and gross outside so. . .no one showed haha when we passed by to see what happened they were like "oh you still go in the rain like this?" haha I was like YESSSSSS!!! IT'S A FREAKIN COMMANDMENT!!!! hahaha just kidding, I said it way more spiritually than that, but I think it had the same power ;) But seriously, it's NUTS the excuses people are willing to make for things that are not optional. I know I defintiely was and still am one of those people sometimes, but I'm grateful I atleast have the vision of what needs to happen and I'm trying my best to make things happen :) That comes from having a testimony though, which I know my buds here in Villa Floresta are still working on gaining.

I'm going to Santa Rosa and I leave tomorrow at 5ish at night and I'm going with all the Distict leaders from down there so I don't have to travel alone so don't worry about anything! I'm going as Junior companoin with someone who has the same time in the mission as me, and it sounds like she's been having a rough time so we'll see if I can help, but pray for me <3 She sounds way awesome! She latina so I'll be able to come home not remembering how to speak english ;) I think she's from Chile, but I'll have more details next week!! LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!! Have an awesome week :) Work hard in whatever your doing, give it your all, and SMILE!!! <3
LOVE YOU!!!!!
xoxoxoxo
Larissa