March 16th

 

Hola Familia!

OK so I am officially on ¨la isla¨its super awesome to get to know another part of the patagonia! It took us 36 hours and i have no idea how many miles to get here from my other area, we traveled all night by bus and then we had to cross the border into chile. WHO GETS TO TRAVEL TO 2 COUNTRIES IN THEIR MISSION?? then we had to wait for a ferry for 6 hours because the current and waves were too crazy to cross lol we bought some chocolate and talked with the people on the bus. there was a couple there from london and they are doing a world trip around the world, we gave them a book of mormon and it was super cool, they thought we were funny and that it´s cool that we give up 1 1/2 2 yrs of our life to serve the Lord in parts of the world we dont know :) They took a pic with us to put on twitter lol. After we got on the ferry we saw penguins and got soaked because we were up on deck cuz we´re crazy and it was SO COLD. hahaha Then we got on the bus again and had to cross back over the border into Argentina and then travel like 2 hours to my area in Rio Grande.

Our pension is seriously so nice, and our area is SO different from my area in Caleta. There is grass and flowers and we have a bunch of apartments too! We serve in a branch. there are 6 misioneros en our branch. there is another branch that meets in our capilla also. There is another capilla too and there are 2 branches that meet there too? i think...haha our lider misional is Hermano Marcos...you should be getting a friend request on fb from quique marcos he puts up pics of all the missionaries here. he´s already got pics of me and my comp lol. also you should log into my account and accept my friend requests from argentina lol :) ALSO hermana Burt from the CCM is in my zone :) Also the people here are a lot more cold than up north lol jsut like the weather but its all good. I got to wear my boots and huge coat for the first time since i left our house in November hahahaha :)

My compañera is hermana Miranda. she is from  ecuador and this month will mark her year mark in the mission. I LOVE HER! She is super hilarious and super direct and bold with people and I LOVE IT! I´m gonna learn so much from her this transfer, she´s pretty sure that she will only be here for one more transfer so  might only get 6 weeks with her :( but who knows what will happen. We were able to place a fecha in my first day here. His name is Heros, he´s 16 and his older brother Nahuel just got baptized last week. he had all of the lessons in 2 weeks and hmna miranda told me that in their 5th lesson with him they talked to him about tattoos and stuff and he took out his gages in the lesson and promised never to wear them again!! He is seriously so great and we met his brother when he brought him to one of his lessons of retention. Heros promised to pray, and the day after Nahuel told us that he is re-contento because Heros told him that he has been praying! Nahuel just got his aaronic preisthood yesterday! and if Heros can come to church and get his answer NAHUEL CAN BAPTIZE HEROS! How amazing no?? seriously they are both so awesome! pray for them both that heros can get his answer and that nahuel can stay fiel! 

I think its crazy that i could leave one place that i loved so much and come to another and love it just as much lol i miss the people of caleta and our branch and the other missionaries but now we have a chance to meet with more people and help here in  Rio Grande!

The church is true! Our heavenly father knows us and he knows when to bring the gospel into people´s lives! I hope you´re looking for ways to serve and share the gospel! les amo muchisimo! 

the pics are us waiting for the ferry in the freezing cold wind in Chile we dont have one of me and hmna miranda yet because her sd card wont read in my computer and my camera died after all the pics with everyone in my last days in caleta and on our trip lol. but next time!