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