A little something to share

Hey Shubbs!

I almost forgot that I was going to email you!!!

so... transfers passed and i´m in villa regina, godoy still! that´s kiinda what i expected though:) it´s pretty sweet but a lot of our investigators have just been truchos lately ( not progressing) which gets a little frustrating but we just need to figure out how we can help them understand better or soomething... I don´t know. but we´re still working and teaching people. it´s weird. a lot of our investigators have been young girls lately... i´m not sure why...

There are times when i just think it´s SO beautiful here! but mostly just the chacras. we went on a little adventure into an obscure part of our area the other day and it was down a chacra road. it was GORGEOUS! and their was a house surrounded by flowers and trees. i totally want to live there someday but it turned out to be a business not a house. we know now because we knocked it and contacted the lady that worked there:)

I eat too much here. I need to stop so i don´t get fat! today we went to a chinese restaurant, all you can eat. it´s interesting because it´s argentinized chinese. pretty interesting haha but yeah. mostly i eat fruit so that´s good. i love fruit now! i think i´m turning into you:)

well, i gotta go!

LOVE YA Shaybe Baby!

Love Hna Jones

March 9, 2010

HEY FAMBLY!
This week has been... different. We had a Zone Pday in Roca and then a service project the next day, so we did splits and stayed the night with the other hermanas on monday. Then tuesday was service, cleaning around an old people home... pretty exciting:) and then the whole week was kinda slow finding poeple. school just started again and everyone seems to have dropped off the face of the earth! everyone, that is, except for the Jehovah´s Witnesses who are our new investigators! we taught them a couple days ago.... that was interesting. we didn´t really get past the first principle... but i now know a lot more about their religion! haha It just makes me appreciate that I have the truth. it´s a little frustrating though that they can´t see it, and refuse to even try and see it. we´re going to teach them again, but it´ll probably be the last time since you can´t progress if they don´t even want to read the Book of Mormon.
it´s been super humid the last couple of days, MISERABLE! and finally, last night, the sky decided to let go! and it stormed, like really stormed! with thunder and lightning!!! it was sweet! and the power went out. we stopped by Lorena´s house to get some fruit from them and we were soaked so they let us come inside, and we talked to them for a while. I love that family:)
Oh, something else that made me laugh this week, We went to see some of our investigators in Barrio Nuevo, they´re all just chicas, about 13 yrs old, and two were home so we asked if we could teach them, they said yes but we couldn´t do it at either of their houses so we walked to the park and found somewhere to sit, but we knew we had to catch the bus so the lesson was going to be a short one, and we´d already told them that...
so we sat down, and then looked at our watches... " Oh, so the bus should be coming in like... ( and right then the bus turned the corner) NOW!!! " AHHH so we had to run to catch it and didn´t get to teach them anything. we were just shouting goodbye to them as we ran! "OH UH BYE!!! OH HEY, READ THAT SCRIPTURE TOO!" haha it was great.
anyway, oh it´s a new transfer but i´m still here with Hna Morrill. neither of us left:) I still have people to save here!!!
haha that´s all this week. we´re gonna go make us some delicious cookies!
LOVE YOU ALL!
Oh, and for JD, my area is Villa Regina, well, Godoy, but we have both places in our area.
Love,
Hermana Jones

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

Cami in Argentina!

LA IGLESIA DE

JESUCRISTO

DE LOS SANTOS

DE LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS

 

A picture of Cami in Argentina during a mission orientation.

This is the new mailing address for all those who would like to write her.

             MISIÓN ARGENTINA 
                                                                            NEUQUÉN                                                                   

                        Zapla N° 24

8300 Neuquén

Neuquén – Argentina

                    

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