It's been an awesome week in Pergamino! I love my area and am learning a lot with Elder Nixon. We are working well together and are good friends so that's a big blessing. On Tuesday, I had interviews with President Allred! I love that guy so much haha. He's taught me so much in this … Continue reading Week 28 – Humble Circumstances
Week 27 – Debauchery
On Monday, we saw miracles happen. We were walking through this villa (a really poor area where people live in shacks) and this guy came up to us on his bike. He introduced himself as Santiago and told us we wanted to get baptized. He said he'd talked with other missionaries before but they left … Continue reading Week 27 – Debauchery
Week 26 – 6 months!
I'm loving Pergamino! It wasn't a very exciting week haha sorry for the boring email. We had an exhausting day on Tuesday haha. We had several lessons where we were just trying with all our heart to help people understand and just like intense questions and trying to help them and praying for them. We … Continue reading Week 26 – 6 months!
Week 25 – Easter Asado
Pergamino! I love it so far! On Monday, I said goodbye to my Zone in Venado and then got on a bus to Pergamino, where I met my companion, Elder Nixon! He has 2 transfers left in the mission, so I´ll most likely end up finishing these 2 transfers here with him. I´m loving Pergamino! … Continue reading Week 25 – Easter Asado
Week 24 – Transfer to Pergamino
My birthday was a good one! Thank you guys all so much for your birthday wishes and emails and stuff! We had District Council in the morning, where the new Senior Missionaries from Pleasant Grove, Matrimonio (Senior Couple) Rhoades, made me a cake which was super nice. We also had splits that day, where I … Continue reading Week 24 – Transfer to Pergamino
Week 23 – #prayforshrek
We had a cool experience on Monday! We were talking with Familia Vargas, a member in our branch who just had that back surgery, and we gave an old couple next to them in the hospital a blessing of health and comfort, and then the husband died a couple days later. But we were talking … Continue reading Week 23 – #prayforshrek
Week 22 – Milagros 2
We'll start off this week with a miracle. In my first transfer, we found and started teaching this 15 year old girl named Milagros. She progressed super fast and is reading the Book of Mormon and praying every day and goes to church every week, but the problem was that her parents are very Catholic … Continue reading Week 22 – Milagros 2
Week 21 – Milagros
On Tuesday, we had a weird but cool experience. One of the Hermanos in our branch just had back surgery, and he was in the hospital and talking with some other people in the hospital and they said that they wanted a blessing. So we went and gave this blessing to this old guy basically … Continue reading Week 21 – Milagros
Week 20 – Yankee Food
We had a crazy day on Tuesday. We woke up and were getting ready and this suuuper loud alarm started going off in our apartment, and we couldn't figure out where it was coming from. We like dug through everything trying to find it and we couldn't so we asked our neighbors and they came … Continue reading Week 20 – Yankee Food
Week 19 – Dog Days
We had an awesome day on Monday. We had a super cool experience with this mom and daughter we are teaching, Maria Elena and Carolina. We were teaching them about faith and the importance of the faith, and they were asking all of these super good questions that we could answer, and the Spirit was … Continue reading Week 19 – Dog Days