Miracles Happen

Hey again Papa:)
You get 2 emails because you sent me 2. haha but this one you can send to the family so that everyone will get off my back! jk, i love you all!
oh, but first of all, to answer your question... I´m really not unorganized at all. My concerns had more to do with having to be in charge. i don´t like responsibility. but it´s been ok! God is helping me:)
and speaking of God, I have a couple stories to tell this week! 2 miracles
firstly... we were walking down the street one day and a lady yelled at us from her window on the other side of the street, so we crossed, and the crazy woman is trying to ask us a question, but there is like mach 5 wind outside (not even joking) and we can´t hear a word she´s saying. seriously, it was miracle enough that we heard her call to us from the street.
so she yells, ¨i´ll come down!¨ and we´re like... please do. so she comes down and says, ¨i was just wondering if there´s a mormon college around here¨ and we said, ¨nope. but can we come in?¨ and she said, ¨sure¨ and told us how her daughter had gone to the church before and they talked to the missionaries, but in the north. they just moved here from Cordoba. Anyway, They´re really great!!! and it the mom, grandma, and granddaughter that live there. the granddaughter is the one who went to the church before. so we set up an apt. to go back in this next week. miracle number 1
miracle 2... Gustavo. He was a reference from the elders, a street contact. we were trying to find his house yesterday but forgot the map in the pension and so we decided to go visit some other people, and then on the way back ( oh, we were with a member, Gabriel) so we were talking to him and just happened upon the street we were looking for before! gustavo´s street. so we found his house and he let us in, and told us he had talked to an elder, he couldn´t even remember his name, but that it changed everything. he went out that day looking for a fight. and the elder came up to him and said, ¨how´s it going brother?¨ and he said he didn´t know why he didn´t yell at him or insult him even though he was really angry, but he just answered, ¨not good¨ and the elder told him he should go to church. Gustavo promised him that he would and they parted ways.
It was a five minute conversation, but for the rest of the day, good things were happening to him. He had left his house that day, ready to kill someone (literally, a guy owed him money and he went to get it from him. he said, ¨i had my knife in my pocket, and if he didn´t pay me, I was going to kill him¨) but after he talked to this missionary, he hid his knife somewhere on the side of the road, and picked it up on the way back from talking to the man who owed him.
He told us, ¨I just want to know the path. I´ve never gone to church in my life but i want to go, because i promised that elder! and i don´t know if your path is the path that God wants me on, but I´m willing to follow it. I´ll do whatever i need to.¨
yep... that´s miracle number 2. I was like.... ¨umm... ok. We´ll teach you¨ :)
so, that´s that! Those people who say that God doesn´t do miracles anymore are absolutely mistaken! I was always ok with just having little miracles, but i´m not gonna complain if He lets me see big ones too ;)
Anyways, Times up! but i love you all bunches!!!! Be Good!!!
Love,
Hermana Jones

Um....

So, I´m here in Neuquen! I said goodbye to everyone in Trelew. my investigator, Deborah, cried a lot and she wrote me a really beautiful letter and gave me her hair clip to remember her ( and i´m actually wearing it right now!) she´s so cute! I just want her to get baptized. unfortunately she has to get married first, or separated:( but i know she´s going to get baptized soon!

anyway, so fun story, I was feeling pretty good, I didn´t even cry in the bus when i left. 12 hours later (oh ps, i hate long bus rides!) i arrived, slightly tired, in the terminal and started talking to my new comp, Hna Murdock. We were waited for the taxi to get there and I asked her how long she had been in Neuquen. And she said, no... yesterday. and of course we were speaking in spanish and i thought maybe she just hadn´t understood me, so i asked her in English, ¨no, How long have you been here in Neuquen?¨ and she said, ¨yeah, I understood you. I got here yesterday¨

umm.... WHAT?! yes, that´s right. we´re whitewashing the area... and nobody told me!!!! I almost died of a heart attack! how are they going to forget to tell me something as important as that?! so yeah, haha I just laughed and was like, ok this will be fun. and we went to the pension. then, i soon realized that the missionaries before us left nothing behind as far as teaching records go, so we basically are just starting over from scratch... even more fun. haha but seriously, I´m lovin it. it´s definitely an adventure. the first few days, we just went out and knocked doors all day long! we also didn´t have lunch and the other hnas left us without minutes in the cellphone, so we went to a public phone and just started calling random families in the ward. we got ahold of hna Monzon who said she could give us lunch the next day, and when we went to her house, we told her that we didn´t have lunch that week, and she called eveyone until she found someone to feed us for every day! so, God is definitely helping us:) even in the small things.

Our ward mission leader seems really great, although he thinks we´re stupid because we got lost on our way to the church, but it wasn´t our fault, we just had the map upside down... i probably shouldn´t admit that to you guys, and i shouldn´t have told him either, because then afterward, he told us which way was north and which was south like 12 times, and then made us repeat it to make sure we understood... GRRR!!! we´re not blonde! haha it´s ok though..

Anyway, just wantyou all to know that i´m doing great! Thanks for everything!!!

Love,

Hermana Jones

Me Voy

Well Fambly!

Transfers came again! and this time i´m changing. I´m going to Neuquen! and i´m going to be senior comp... umm... I don´t know what my Father was thinking when He decided that, but then i guess we never do know:) Anyway, it´s definitely going to be a learning experience! My new comp is Hna Murdock and i met her once before because she was in my zone in my first area. She seems really great so i´m excited!!! Although I´m seriously going to miss Hna Varela! with 3 whole transfers together we´re already really used to each other, so it´s gonna be different getting to know yet another comp, different but always fun:)

so, the penguins... well, they are pretty cute. there´s a ton of them! like millions so it was fairly entertaining to go visit, even though it ended up eating up our whole p day cuz we had to travel 2 hrs to get there and 2 hrs back. I took a bunch of pictures so i´ll send you those soon! It was a pretty fun drive. all of the elders squished into the back of this little truck, and my comp and i went in the front seat ( which was also super squished) and every time anyone moved, the hna that was driving swirved all over the road. I was kind of afraid for my life! but luckily, we all survived:)

Anyway, that´s all for now! I love you all and miss you!

Love Hna Jones

PS I got the packages! from mom and from JD too! THANKS A BUNCH:) Love the skirt Telli! and the shirt from the volleyball tournament. I´m gonna use it on a p day!

Springtime!!!

Well, It seems that Spring has pretty much arrived! All the trees are covered with flowers and things are starting to look a little greener! It´s a miracle!!! I love springtime! to be honest, it´s a little disorienting having springtime come in September! haha but that´s ok. I still love it just as much as if i were at home. This last week, my comp and i got kinda freaked out because we couldn´t find the moon for about 5 days! I don´t know where it went, but it seriously disappeared! Maybe it ´s some sort of weird thing that only happens in the south...? anyway, it reappeared a couple of nights ago so we´re ok now:) Nobody else even noticed that it was gone! probably because we´re the only ones who spend the whole day outside, and we always look at the stars at night when we´re walking back to the pension. Also, there´s this really Ginormous star that appeared a couple months ago! IT´s SUPER bright! Can you guys see it from there too? I don´t remember how the stars work exactly, but I think there are some that are only seen in the North or South.... I don´t know.
Anyway, This week is Hna Varela´s Brithday! I´m going to make her a carrot cake. When i told her, she thought i was crazy because carrot cakes don´t exist here:) hopefully it turns out ok. you should probably all pray for me. haha no, but seriously.
Anyway, That´s all I´m going to write for now:) I hope everyone is FANTASTIC! I love you all and miss you a little bit every once in a while ;)
LOVE
Hna Jones

Just a quick Message

Hey!!!

I´m gonna write a really short message to the fam today... sorry:) This week was a good one. If you got the last email, you know that I´m still here in Trelew and I´m still with Hna Varela! We were SUPER surprised when they told us! so she´s probably going to finish her mission here, and this next transfer i´ll be heading to another area... or that´s what we´re guessing! but anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that I love you SO much!!!! I´m so grateful for the wonderful family that God gave me!

Just so you all know, I´m doing great! I always forget what i want to tell you when i come to do internet... the next week i´m going to write down what i want to say.

anyway, that´s all for this super lame email!

Love you all!!!!

Love, Hna Jones

August 16, 2010

Hey fam!

this is gonna be a super short one but i just wanted to say i love you all! and hope you're all wonderfully and blissfully happy :) I'm doing great here and transfers are this next week so I'll let you know what happens!!!!

Love Camilynne

 

P.S.

Ken, I got your package, and your email! Congrats!!!! I'm really happy for you! I'm gonna write soon.

Recovering

My Beloved Fambly...
It is oficially FREEZING outside. wanna know how i know? because this morning my comp hung her clothes out to dry (our landlady doesn´t like us to hang them inside cuz she says it gets everthing wet and foggy) and when we went out to wash to stairs, i noticed that there were icicles hanging from the bottom of all of her clothes!!! haha I touched her toweland it amost shattered into a million pieces! How great is that?! so i took a picture. I have a feeling her clothes aren´t going to dry anytime soon:)
oh, so then we had to clean the stairs but it was really difficult because my comp would wash one and the dirty water would freeze to it faster than i could dry it! in the end the stairs ended up dirtier than when we started, and definitely more dangerous, cuz they had a layer of icky brown ice! hahaha i don´t know why we even tried.
So, it´s a little bit cold but today really isn´t bad because it´s not windy. 2 nights ago, we went with one of our investigators to his church. he´s evangelical. and when we were walking there, it was SO cold because of the wind. we almost died! but luckily we made it to his church, and it was actually really great. my first experience going to another church, and luckily i didn´t leave the building traumatized:) no, the people were all super friendly! they invited us in and we sat down. They sing a lot! we sang all the songs with them which was pretty fun:) Oh, and we went because we made a deal with him that if we went to his church, he would come to ours. and he came sunday, AND he brought his friend. So, it was great!
anyway, I gotta go! I love you all!
Love, Hna Jones