OCTOBER 31, 2022 -- HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Fun news this week! Round TWO of rabies shots went well and we´re getting a new companion today! Hermana George is coming up and we´ll be a trio for my last three weeks.

We live in the 8th floor of our apartment building and its SPICY up there. It´s springtime here and 105 degrees every day. Summertime it gets up to 125 degrees, pray for us haha. The city is buzzing here at 6.30 in the morning but once it hits noon every one starts heading inside to gear up for the hottest part of the day. From about 1 pm to 5:30 pm it´s pretty dang hard to get stuff done because everyone´s eating lunch and then sleeping to get out of the heat. It´s super big here in Argentina, they call it the siesta. So we´ve been absolutely cooking just out beating the streets at 3:30 pm looking under rocks for people to talk to. But I love it! I´m getting a wicked farmer´s  tan! 

I´m typing on a super janky computer so it´s kinda hard to type. So this might be short, but I was super amazed this week to be reached out to by so many inactive members of the church wanting to come back. It´s super awesome seeing people who have received spiritual confirmations and have fallen away reconnect with those experiences they had. It´s a crazy spectrum of dedication to the gospel here. Those that are faithful members are FAITHFUL and those that aren´t just aren´t! I feel like there´s not much in between.

But we´re out here with our ward La Rioja and branch La Quebrada and up to our necks with work. Lets gooooo!

Luke Chapter 12 really touched me this week. Here in Argentina the economy is having some troubles and it´s a big stress causer here for almost everyone. This chapter is an example that it´s not the material things but the spiritual things that matter. Putting our lives in line before God and preparing ourselves here to be with Him again there.

Verse 34 says  ¨For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.¨

I pray that we can lay up our treasures in heaven now.

Love you guys!

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OCTOBER 25, 2022 — Bat/Rabies Shots Update

 If I'm wearing the same clothes in a lot of these pictures just know its because we were traveling WITHOUT KNOWING we'd have to be traveling for three days.

Also our washing machine flooded our apartment this week.

Pics include random hospitals

Farids baptism 

and other stuff

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OCTOBER 25, 2022 -- I ALMOST WENT HOME THIS WEEK!

We had Zone Conference yesterday so our p-day is today! 

Crazy title, but due to some crazy circumstances (a bat flying into our apartment and dying there) made us jump through some ridiculous medical hoops trying to receive rabies vaccinations (mandated by the area mission doctor) and not finding them in La Rioja after going to almost every hospital in the city that afternoon. Not a single place would give it to us, we even went to veterinarians. 

La Rioja is just casually SIX hours away from Córdoba capital and we had to travel, overnight, in a special taxi (this is all happening last Monday night) to try and get the vaccines we need.  Our Mission President tells us if we can't get them this same morning they were going to have to send us to the U. S. of A. to get them. Effectively ending my mission a month early to be able to receive the whole series.

THANK THE LORD we convinced the random man at the anti-rabies center to give us authorization and then we traveled to this other hospital where they gave us five shots, three in the arms and two in the place I will not name. haha

So we were out of our area for three days trying fo figure that out and then we get back and eat something janky, and puts me out of business ALL SATURDAY. At this point I just wanna work and work and work but its like there’s some outside force working against us.

But the tender mercies of the Lord were still shown... 

FARID GOT BAPTIZED!!

STAKE CONFERENCE!!

MEETING A BUNCH OF LITTLE KIDS IN THE STREET, THEN DAYS LATER THEIR PARENTS APPROACHED US IN THE STREET ASKING TO TEACH THEM!

So I’m m grateful I didn’t have to go home. Even though we have to make the six hour trip to Cordoba to finish the treatments I just count my blessings. It really made me have to reflect on what my mission has meant to me and how bad it would have hurt to cut it off a month early knowing I still had so much to do. So here I am! 28 days and trying to leave my all there on the altar. 

LOVE YOU GUYS

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OCTOBER 17, 2022 -- HAPPY MONDAY!

I've been transferred to La Rioja, one of the hottest parts of Argentina. We're entering spring and in the summer its supposed to be 122 degrees. I'm a little sunburnt:) But I'm ready to just grind and work until my feet fall off.

Going into my last transfer (6 weeks) of my mission, I'd just like to leave you with a quote I found in the first transfer of my mission.

"It is as if the judge in that great courtroom in heaven, unwilling to ask anyone but himself to bear the burdens of the guilty people standing in the dock, takes off his judicial robes and comes down to earth to bear their stripes personally. Christ as merciful judge is as beautiful and wonderful a concept as that of Christ as counselor, mediator, and advocate."

This is just so tender to me. I love my Savior so much. This knowledge and testimony I've grown of Him is the entire world to me.

Love you guys so much!

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