July 28th

Well this week not too much has happened I found out that Hermana Thornton and i get to stay in Rafaela!!!!! YAY!!!! I was so excited! haha our new mission president didnt make a whole lt of changes....yet... haha but he is really great!!

We have been really working hard on our investigators la familia Barrios (Victoria from my last email) they are both so ready for baptism they just have to get married and he doesnt want to!! haha but she told us that she decided that she wants to get baptized!! So we are really excited for them!! SO all is going good with them!! :) 

we are working with our less actives and our members and are seeing a lot of success in our area with this and looking for new investigators through our members!! 

Not much has really happened this week haha but we did have a contact that came up to us and asked us about the church! that was a lot of fun!! we were in the store and he was just hanging out and came up and started asking about the church and what we believed! that was great!! 

Well sorry for such a short email but i cant really think of anything else that happened this week!! But im doing great! Im loving Argentina! It really just feels like home! haha

I love you all and hope that you have a great week! :)

Love,

Hermana Armstrong

SOMOS RAFAELA!!! WHOOOO I get to stay!!!!!!!! :)

This is a plate of food in argentina!! ;) JK our family that we were eating with made a pizza and once the pizza was all gone this was round 2 and they didnt want to dirty another plate! haha

This was also while we were eating with our investigators and their oven doesnt work the best and this is how they keep the oven on! haha 

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The Church is True!! 

July 20th

Okay to start off with the subject line! The District is basically a tutorial on how to be a missionary but its like a picture perfect scenerios. But this week we had a investigator who told us,¨So when can i get baptized? It was the best!!!!!! :D We were so excited!! There are a few problems though! She´s living with her boyfriend and they have a kid together and want to have more kids but they dont actually love each other! yeah you read that right! haha but she is really great and so is her family!! They are so much fun they are originally from Paraguay! And during our lesson they started talking in guatanee(??? Spelling? its like a tribal language of Paraguay) when they couldnt explain it in spanish! That was pretty fun! haha but they really are so much fun to work with and she loves the gospel!! 

 

This week we went to Jesica and Rauls house for lunch and their daughter is a little sassy but sooooo cute! So my companion askes Jesica how she made the fruit salad (because everyone here makes their salads different) and Pauli (the daughter she´s 5) answers, with fruits no más! haha 

 

This week is transfers and so we will get to find out if we are staying or if there is going to be a change!!!! So my pday will be on tuesday next week! but time really has gone by so fast!!!! It is crazy!! 

 

Well, i hope everyone has a great week and know that I love you all!!! :) 

 

Love,

La Hermana Armstrong

 

The first picture is of a great friend se llama Magali Rohrmann! The baby isnt hers and everyone calls the baby chanchi which means pig in spanish! Its so funny the terms of endearment here are definitly something that you need to have a tough skin for! hahaha 

 

The second is Pauli! She is just the best!!

 

 the last one is Raul and Jesica when we did a family home evening with them about diligence and enduring to the end! The game where you start with the oreo on your forhead and try to get it to your mouth without your hands its so much fun!! :)

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The Church is True!! 

July 6th

Hola!! :)

We havent met with our mission president yet, but we have a meeting with him tomorrow!! :) he sounds really interesting! haha he was military and was a prision guard sort of thing so its going to be interesting to see what changes he makes! Presidente Zanni was pretty strict as well and made a lot of changes but its going to be fun! :) 

Our weather is really cold! Sometimes! It really depends on the day but mostly its cold! And its humid so it makes it worse and the rapid changes is making a lot of people sick here! But its always really hard to get out of bed because its so cold in our pensión! haha i feel like im in a totally different time period that everyone else because emails that i get from you all are about how hot it is and all these wildfires! Yikes and here its freezing!! haha its really weird! 

This week was..... wellll i dont want to say terrible but really it was! it was a week of not very many citas! :( and the american cup championship happened this week and so there was literally NO ONE! It was Argentina VS. Chile, and so no one wanted to talk to us first of all and then Argentina lost! So after no one really wanted to talk to us! *Background information* Argentina and chile have a huge beef with eachother there was a war in the past and things didnt end well. So to have argentina lose to Chile was the worst! haha and then no one came to church! usually we are a strong 45! That was last week! We were so excited because our investigators came last sunday and inactive members came and so we had hopes for this week but we had only 28 people in the church this week! That can tell you that this week has been rough not only for us but for our members and investigators as well! But it is a new week and have high hopes for this coming week! We are in the process of trying to find new investigators because our investigators now are hitting walls and some no longer want to take the lessons! So we will be clapping at a lot of doors/gates! (In Argentina you dont knock but you clap outside gates) 

But this week had its ups! We ate at two different Asados this week!!! It was fantastic!! Ugh i love it when members want to feed us!! haha we also got to paint a house this week! That helped our spirits a lot this week plus we got fed really well this week! haha 

But I hope that you all have a SAFE and a great week! Im sorry to hear about all the fires again! Stay safe!! I love you all!

Chao,

Hermana Armstrong

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The Church is True!! 

Our two different asados

Our street during the futbol game!! There was no one!!! the streets were empty! hahaha

June 29th

Well Wednesday is the day! I will become a missionary of the grand mission of Santa Fe Argentina!!! Whoooooo So exciting!!! 

Our week was really good! especially sunday!! We had a lot of inactives that decided to come back to church this week and we had some of our investigators come! It was great!! We had an attendance of 45!!! :) We were really excited!!

We have an Investigator right now and she is so great!! Her name is Natalie! She is 35 and has a little boy of 4 months! She is looking for a place to belong! The babys dad left right after he was born and so she has just been kind of hurting after that, she has just wanted to look for a place where her family could be together and then here we came!!! Its been really great! She couldnt come to church this sunday because its been really really humid (As you can tell from the foto!) and here baby has been having problems and so he was up all night sick and so she didnt want to take him out in the humidity! But we have taught the first couple lessons and she wants to get baptized! :) The people here are ready we just have to go find them!!! :)

Funny story of the week: We had a lesson with two of our investigators, Julieta (shes 10) and Javier (hes 8) they are kids of an inactive family and so we are working to get both the family reactivated and they both wanted to get baptized and so we are teaching them as well! The mom really wants to come back and she has come to church the past two weeks and has really liked the feeling of coming back! So we are really hopeful for them!! anyway, since both the kids are pretty young we decided to watch the restoration, its about 20 min long. Anyway, to make sure it worked we played it during our comp study and just made sure that it would play etc... anyway to have some fun we decieded to switch the language to Tagalog with english subtitles. we played it a little and laughed at how hard that language is! then took out the dvd and went to work. Well we get to their house and we put the dvd in and then it starts playing in Tagalog with english subtitles and they dont have an option to go to the menu and change the language! GREATTTTTTTTT........ So me and my companion start and attempt to translate from the english subtitles! haha Oh my goodness it was a train wreck! But their older brother came in to the rescue and pulled out their new dvd player hooked it all up and we were able to get the language switched back to spanish and such! But its a great memory to look back on a laugh about! hahahaha

Welll I hope you all have a great week!! Today i read in Alma Chapter 7 and my favorite verses from this chapter are 11-13 they say, 11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.

 12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.

 13 Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me. 

These are some of my favorite scriptures i love knowing that no matter what i go through in this life i always have someone who knows exactly how i feel and knows how to comfort me exactly how i need it!

I know our Savior and our Heavenly Father know exactly how to comfort us and how to help us overcome our trials and problems in this life! :)

Love,

Hermana Armstrong

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The Church is True!! 

June 22nd

Well this week has been a little rough! My companion got transferred and we had to say goodbye and also we had to say goodbye to our mission president! Since the mission is splitting in two weeks our president wanted to give us a final goodbye! Friday we said goodbye and it was pretty hard! I have come to love both President Zanni and his wife Hermana Zanni! Its going to be really different in the next few weeks! Also, because my companion got transferred im now leading our area because i have somewhat of an idea of where everything is but its been really stressful because i still dont know where everything is and its just been a real stressfull and hard week!  But I know that our Heavenly Father doesnt give anything we cant handle and so it will all be okay! 

We got to watch Meet the Mormons at our little meeting in Santa Fe with Presidente Zanni! That was a lot of fun! It was all in spanish and it was really good as always! Afterwards i got the question of "Hey Hermana Armstrong are you related to the Elder Armstrong that´s in the movie?" haha it was pretty funny! 

This week we also got to use the elders bikes! It was fantastic!! Our area is really big and so to walk from one end to the other is over an hour and a half walk! And so one day we had so many appointments all over the place and so we asked if we could use the elders´bikes! It was great! It was a little scary and i was sure at one point we were going to get hit by a car! (There are no stop signs here in Rafaela) but it was all okay! We were able to visit so many people though! It was fantastic! Im pretty sure that we need bikes! It was a lot of fun!!!! :)

I read this morning in Mosiah chapter 24! It was a really good chapter especially with this week! In verse 13-15 it says, "Lift up your heads and be of good comfort, for I know of the covenant which ye have made unto me; and I will covenant with my people and deliver them out of bondage.

 14 And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions.

 15 And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord." 

I love this scripture it gives me a lot of hope and comfort!! :) 

Well i hope that you all have a great week!! I love you all and will talk to you soon!!! 

Love,

Hermana Armstrong

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The Church is True!! 

Grafiti here in Argentina,

My Companion!!! :)

Our Zone!!! (Well most of them!! haha)

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The Church is True!! 

June 16th - Transfers!!!!

Hola everyone,

 

Well transfers came and went that is why my pday is on tuesday! But i get to stay in our pueblito Rafaela for another transfer but my companion got transferred out! :(  A little sad but i have a great companion! :) Hermana Thornton from wait for it.................... SPOKANE WASHINTON!!!!! How cool is that!!!!!  But this means that im going to be in the Argentina Santa fe mission!!! That´s going to be a lot of fun! :) Im excited to meet presidente Perez and his wife! Im just not really excited to say goodbye to Presidente Zanni y Hermana Zanni :( 

 

This week we had an awesome visit with a reference that our Zone leaders gave us! They are fantastic their names are Angel  and Martha! They are so ready! Its fantastic! They loved the restoration and love how our church is! They have a couple friends in our branch and just love the standards of the church! Its been really great to teach them we have a meeting with them this saturday but its the same day as a goodbye activity we have with Presidente Zanni! So we will have to swing bye and reschedule! 

 

This week has been kind of slow! We have a lot of investigators that arent progressing and so we are kind of in the process of finding more and trying to excite the others to progress so its been kind of slow here but there are a lot of areas that we can try! Im excited!!

 

I love you all and love this gospel and I know that it can bless so many lives and so many families! 

 

Love,

Hermana Armstrong

 

p.s. Sorry there arent any pictures i couldnt get it to work! but i love you all So much!!! :)

The Church is True!! 

June 8th

Well this week was kind of a slow one for us! I finally had the day where you go the entire day without a single visit!! That was a little rough! haha but that day we had planed for the whole week and then went to our lunch appointment and they are having some health issues and so they just sent us with food we came back did our studies and then EVERY SINGLE appointement fell through! It was harsh! We went to about 16 peoples homes all over just trying to talk and find someone to let us in! haha but no such luck! We walked all over and would find some people to talk to but only small chats where they just came outside to tell us that they were busy but that was few and far between only 5 people opened their doors and talked to us outside. 

But its okay! We are given the hard days to help us appreciate the good days! :) 

I love this gospel with all my heart! I love the opportunity that i have to wake up each morning and be able to go out and share what i know to be true with the people of Argentina! The missionary life is pretty great! We have a really good area!! I love The Book of Mormon! There is such power in the pages! I know that this book is true! I know that Joseph Smith translated it by the power of God. I know that any question a person could have there is an answer in the pages of The Book of Mormon! I love being a missionary! I love this great opportunity! There´s nothing like it! 

I love you all and hope that you all have a fantastic week! 

Hermana Armstrong

we found some pretty huge apples and just had to take a foto opportunity! haha

And here missionaries have a weird tradition where they do what´s called milking an alfahor! its where you take the cookie and bite one side and bite the other and then drink the milk through the cookie! It is divine!! haha 

So weird that all my photos this week are about food! HMMMmmm.... I do promise that we do, do other things than just eat! hahaha