Valentines Day in Argentina!

Fambly...
that´s right. we got more fruit! i love it though!!! it´s basically pears an
peaches but poeple have started picking grapes now too so maybe we´ll get
some of those soon... mostly it´s Lorena´s family that gives them to us (
she´s a recent convert, well close to a year now, and she´s really cute.
she´s 17) anyway, her mom is adorable and doesn´t let us leave their house
without something!
we made pear dulce (jam) with the rs on fri. that was pretty awesome, and
seriously, it´s SO good!!! i´ve never really liked jam before but i love
this stuff! i just eat it on crackers. of course there are a lot of things i
eat now that i would´ve never expected to like! i eat cereal with yogurt
now( they have that drinkable kind) maybe i already told you that but, i
think my tastebuds are warping or something. I´ll probably come back liking
tomatoes!!! :) nope, probably not...
so... this week, we had one day where we walked all the way to Barrio Nuevo
and back twice in one day. i don´t know exactly how far it is but it takes
about 30 minutes to walk there... and this is in the heat! so the second
time we went because we had a couple appts... and they fell through so we
were just contacting, trying to find someone who would let us into their
houses to teach. and we were about to go find a bench and just sit for a
minute, but i was like, how about we just contact our way to the bench and
then it will be a greater reward when we get there! and Hna Morrill looked
at me like i was crazy! haha so i said, ok let´s just talk to this girl over
here, and she said, k go for it:) so i went up and contacted her and she
said we could teach!!! so we sat down on her window seat, and i´m pretty
sure i melted into it! sitting has never felt so good! and we taught her the
first lesson. her sister came out and gave us Pepsi... and we set up an appt
for this week. then we went to the last appt we had and she wan´t there
either :( but her mom was and let us in to teach. and she´s so nice and the
happiest person ever! and when we left her house, my comp nad i were both
feeling so good! (oh, i forgot to mention we made cookies earlier for some
of the ward members to show our love... they actually almost tasted like
cookies from the states!) so we were like, yay! 3 new investigators!!! it´s
the blessings of our service! and we were so giddy... and then hna Morrill
was like, i don´t know if that´s the spirit, or the Pepsi kicking in! hahaha
i started laughing so hard cuz i had totally forgotten about the pepsi we
drank...
I think it was a little blessing. God sent the Pepsi because he knew we
needed a boost... sacrilege (sp?) haha anyway...
also, a couple nights ago, we went to see a guy we contacted and when we got
there his wife and thirtyish yr old son were there. and when we were talking
to them, the mom was just like, my son needs to be baptized, and he was
like, Yeah, i do!
BINGO!!!
so we taught them about baptism and why it´s important, and the mom was
like... ok, so what does he have to do? because he can´t be buried in the
cemetary unless he´s baptized, and he missed his baptism as a boy because he
got to the church late! hahaha umm... well, we won´t baptize him unless he´s
going to stay a member... SO RANDOM :), but we´re going back to teach him
and his parents, claudio is his name. so we´ll see how that goes down!
anyway, everything is going swimmingly here! I was kinda missing my giant
sugar cookie on valentines, oh which reminds me HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
EVERYBODY!!! haha I´m hugging the computer. I hope you can feel it! i would
kiss it but who knows what kind of germs are living on this thing!
anyway, mucho amor from Argentina!!!!
LOVE,
Hermana Jones

February 8, 2010

HEY!
so... my life is pretty good right now! i´m adjusting and whatnot...
I love the houses here! they´re cute!!! well... not all of them but some. 
they´re colorful and little, and the people are generally nice although 
we´ve had a few not-so-nice ones when we were trying to contact:) but it´s 
ok cuz it just makes you laugh when they totally blow you off or yell Chau! 
at you as they run away purposefully! haha
so, we taught a lady earlier this week named Rosa and she´s really pretty! 
something about her reminds me of aunt Linda... i don´t know what. not her 
personality or anything  but something in her face.... anyway, i´m excited 
to teach her again! we´re hoping to see her today!!!
so, my house (pension) is cozily nestled behind our landlord´s house. it´s 
not bad. i have a bunk bed ( top bunk) and the water is totally drinkable!!! 
pretty awesome right?! the member give us loads of fruit and feed us so much 
food at lunchtime!!! did i tell you they don´t really have dinner here? so 
we have lunch appts and then just eat a little something in our pension at 
night.
also, hna Morrill has really stinky feet! one night it smelled like cat crap 
so i told her and she looked at me and said no... that´s my shoes. and her 
face was just hilarious!!! haha i almost died! but it really wasn´t her 
shoes. it was coming from outside:) but seriously, her feet are terrible! 
haha oh well, i can live with it!!!
Gotta Go! but I love you all like i love the weird 80s Micheal Mclain music 
that telli or shay or Señor Sexy:) or one of you sent me... seriously?! it´s 
ridiculous but it brightens my day:)
send more CDs if you plan on sending a package sometime of happy songs like 
disney... and my CD that says, good music sampler, or something on it. it 
might be scratched but if you could make a copy of that with the mindy 
gledhill, child of light song on it too... that´d be super! music makes my 
life SO much better!!!!
So, love you forever
Hna Jones

Hola from Argentina!

 So, I´m sending this to your email because I seriously NEVER remember dad´s and he didn´t email this week so i can´t just reply...

 Anyway, HOLA from ARGENTINA!!! 

 Haha things are going good! i survived the trip here and Brogan, my companion, shockingly enough, is neither large nor like Hitler! YAY!!! turns out He does answer prayers, like I didn´t already know that:) so I´m glad you prayed for me. My comp is Hna Morrill and she´s lovely. She´s 5´10"... brown hair, from Logan... what else. I´ll try to upload a pic. if not, next week for sure! 

 oh, so Argentina is warm... and Buenos Aires was SO humid, like taking a bath, outside, in my clothes... uncomfortable. but here it´s good! i´m in VillaRegina and i´m pretty sure there are 3 million dogs in this city alone! they´re everywhere! and it´s hard to find cats... probably because they´ve all been eaten by now by the millions of mangy dog-like creatures! 

 people keep telling me I don´t look like a N American... whatever that looks like. I´ve gotten Spain, Argentina, and one guy said I looked like a Jehovah Witness... I wonder if he knows that´s not a nationality... :) 

 I haven´t decided if it´s good or bad that they think i´m hispanic because on the one hand, i fit in alright, but on the other, they expect me to speak spanish, which i absolutely DO NOT!!! haha this i have realized since arriving. they all turn to Hna Morrill and ask her if i understand, which is probably the only phrase i do understand, just because I've heard it so much now:) but it´s all good! i´m learning a little more every day. we've taught 4 lessons. one girl named Tania i was excited about teaching again but she hadn´t read when we went back:( and she´s moving to another city for school so we couldn´t teach her again anyway... but i´m sure she´ll see the light later in her life and be baptized! :) 

 HAHAHA 

 I gots to go! 

 Love you all MUCHO!!! you´re in my prayers, and thanks again for yours. sorry I couldn´t answer every email individually but i´ll try to do better next week! 

 Love, Hna Jones