Hello hello my dearest family! Oh my goodness it´s going to take me AGES to write this. The keyboard is different because it has... ñ y otros cosas. Also every word is underlined with a red sguiggly line. That´s going to drive me CRAZY!!
Anyway, boy do I have stuff to share today! It is soo sooo different here. Definitely feels like I´m partially starting my mission over. I´ll start from after talking to you guys on Wednesday. The plane ride was good. Another sister gave me dramamine and that was excellent! I still regret the suit cases I brought. They´re a pàin in the rear to drag arround! Well, we arrived in Argentina and went straight to the mission home. There we had orientation and then interviews with President. Based on the interviews President then chose who our companions were going to be. Well, when they got to me he said that there had been a little misunderstanding. My companion had just found out and was going to pack up and be over here in 4 hours. He proceeded to say that I was going to be the Senior companion, opening a new area, and my companion didn´t speak English. AHHHH I couldn´t even believe it. I thought that I was basically going to be trained again here... but I guess I was WAY OFF. Welcome to Argentina :)
We arrived at our home around 10:30 and quickly recognized that the lights were not working. Thank goodness dad packed me that nice flashlight! Haha we also couldn´t use the fan which is a MUST here. No air conditioning. It was SOOO HOT! We don´t have warm water for showers though, so that cools us down! The next day the Elders showed us around a little bit and introduced us to some people. We split their area into two so we actually do have people to work with which is nice. We met with the Bishop and he is SUPER nice! We´re in a ward of about 700 people.... but about 50 of them are active. It´s so SAD. MUCH MUCH different than Virginia! We didn´t have as many members, but the ones we did have were very strong!
The next day we just went around trying to meet more people. We had a few lessons! The kids are adorable here!! When we get there they run inside and bring the chairs for us outside and then listen in on the lessons. We are walking for now, but hopefully eventually they want to find us some bikes. It is HOT and takes lots of time to walk everywhere, so bikes would be very useful. I did not bring the right clothes for the weather here! I´m going to go out and look for some more tshirts. I sweat like a HORSE!
Yesterday we had church and then lunch with Bishop and his family. Ayyy we were there for FAR too long. The food wasn´t even ready until after an hour of being there. We´re supposed to leave in that time! I was stressing about that... but what do you say to the bishop? We then went to a stake activity that they had. Noche de Luz (Silent Night or Night of Light). They had a choir singing and did very well. That was super fun! Guess who´s in my district?! HEATHER HANSEN! It was so good to see her yesterday! She´s doing so so well. She´s a transfer after me but she came straight here. We were the last group of Visa waiters, because now they send everyone with a visitors Visa. Crazy eh? I wouldn´t trade it for anything. I LOVE VIRGINIA!
Sorry there aren´t really any MIRACLE stories. I´m sure there will be many this week. This past week was just SUPER crazy and we were just running from place to place. I have heard that many people usually are sick and throwing up their first week. Fortunately, I have yet to throw up. I was a bit sick this past night, but didn´t ever throw up. Just the other way. Haha The WATER is miserable here. It´s full of dirt! Hopefully my body handles that transition well.
I am loving it more and more here every day! I´m not going to lie... it has been a big change. Everything was just going so well. I can already tell that I am going to love it here as well though. Yesterday I already was feeling that I was developing a relationship with the members. The few that they have are wonderful! Now we just need to get all those menos activos coming back!
My companion is excellent! She´s waiting for a Visa to go to Venezuela, but she doesn´t think she´ll ever receive it. She doesn´t speak any English, so that has been fun. We play sharades(I don´t know how to spell that) all day long. Hahaha just kidding it has been fine. I can understand her! I still have a hard time understanding the weird random conversations that go on. It has been pretty good though. I didn´t want to talk with the accent they have, but I have started doing it. It´s not as bad as I thought! Hahaha Anyway, she´s an excellent teacher. She´s had lots of experience with that. She was a counselor for EFY and also a seminary teacher. It´s been interesting pùtting together both the differences in missions and companions. I have no idea if I´m doing things right or not here!
Anyway, love you so much family! I look forward to talking with you on Wednesday! I´ll tell you all about everything then. Oh by the way, our President seems super cool! We have a Christmas Lunch at the mission home with our zone today! Should be fun! Have a fantastic week!!
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