September 14

First of all  i want to thank you all for your birthday wishes!! I feel a little old!! haha chiste! But it was a lot of fun! We had an asado and ate a lot!!!! So what could be better? haha but thank you for your birthday wishes it was a fun day! The Elders here were nice and bought us ice cream!! :)

This week we had a lot of help from members and we had awesome lessons!!! 

Sorry i dont have much time this week because we have a lot to do!!! :)

But i love you all and hope all is well!!!

These photos are from a family and they have a ton of animals and we got to hold a duck and pet the calf that is a day old!!! 

And this is the Abuela of the whole city basically!! haha

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The Church is True!! 

September 8th

Yes that is the name of my new area!! :) I did get transferred! It was really hard to leave all of my friends and investigators In Rafaela but I know that Heavenly Father needs me in Feliciano! :)  And it is TINY!!!! like 16 cuadras (its like city blocks) by 16 cuadras!  AND! We share the area with a set of elders! haha so really we are going to have about 16 square blocks of our area! haha but what is really cool is that we are the first sisters in this area! :) so there is always a story about how the mission president decides to open an area and ours is really really awesome! So because this area is so tiny they elders here one of them is branch president! and as a companionship the elders have been praying that President Perez would send another set of missionaries here! Especially sisters because we can help so many people here! Well President Perez came to Feliciano and asked the elders what they think if he sent sisters here! They elders were astonished and said that it has been what they have been praying for! And so i got to talk to president about the transfers because he came to Rafaela and we were talking and he told me that the area is very beautiful and that the people here are wonderful and that he told me that when he got here he had such a stong impression that he needs sisters here that this branch needs sisters! So Im really excited to be apart of an answer to their prayers and that I can meet and help so many people here! 

My new companion is AWESOME!!! her name is Hermana Robledo! She is from Bolivia originally but has lived in Buenos Aires for a while so.... I HAVE A LATINA COMPANION!!!!! YAY!!!!!! :D im so excited!!!! She is wonderful and has a lot of energy and we are going to help so many people!!! :)

Another thing about our area! We dont exactly have a house or an appartment............ Haha and so we are living in a hotel... Sounds awesome but it brings its own hardships like we dont have a fridge...... so we cant keep food! haha and we cant cook our own food because we dont have a kitchen.... hahaha oh and we dont have a cellphone! hahahaha Im pretty sure this change was a shock to everyone because there is nothing set up for us! haha but its going great there are so many wonderful people here!!! Im so excited to start and This area is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!! its a lot like home minus the mountains! haha its very country and lots of trees and I Just LOVE IT already!!! 

But this transfer has really strengthen my testimony that Our Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers and that he knows us individually and knows how to help us when we struggle!!! Its been so great to have served in Rafaela but im in Feliciano and that is where im supposed to be to help this branch grow!! 

i love you all and hope that everything is well with you all!!! :) I hope you have a great week!!! :)

Love,

Hermana Armstrong

Bienvenidas a Feliciano!!! haha

Mi nueva compañera

Our kitchen!!!! hahaha 

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The Church is True!! 

August 31st

Well summer is approaching! Its starting to get pretty warm here! Some times it feels really nice that you can go out and theres a nice breeze then other times usually around noon its just really hot! haha and its pretty humid here and so its not a dry heat is like a muggy heat! so its been fun! so here comes the times where eveyone here feels bad for the missionaries! haha but its really not that bad and its just going to keep getting hot and so im trying to enjoy where it feels good that its nice and warm! haha but im getting the really nice sister missionary tan line on my legs and my feet! haha but our weeks been good otherwise!

 

I went to Rosario this week to do some paperwork for my visa that was fun! Got to go to one of the new appartments for the sisters! The new mission presidents wife is really cracking down on the sisters appartments and the regulations for them! So theres a lot of sisters that are moving out and some of the new appartments are really nice!  :)

 

Our investigator pool is small but we are still working hard at finding those who are ready and willing to let us in! Our investigators la familia Barrios are still going!! WE are still really excited for them! Its been hard the past couple weeks satan has really been working hard on them and we are helping them work through the walls that they are finding! But they are a great family and we have a lot of hope for them!!! they are really our only investigators right now that are progressing! Our others are going along but have a hard time keeping their commitments.... so we are going to see! :)

 

Well that is all thats really happened this week!! I hope that all is well with everyone and that you will have a great week!! Also this coming week is transfers........ and so my next pday will be tuesday! So i will talk to you all on tuesday and see if im still in Rafaela or if Heavenly Father wants me somewhere else.... 

 

I hope you all know i love you!! And hope all is well!! :)

 

Love,

La Hermana Armstrong

 

There is some awesome grafitti here!!!! :)  So we have to take a picture of course!!

 

Then Kit Kats are new to Argentina so also had to take a picture!!! :) 

August 24th

This week was just a little crazy! Well the beginning of it and then it kind of slowed down but still was a little insane!

To start off we spent last tuesday in santa fe doing things for my visa and so then we lost a little bit of time that way and then I get to go to Rosario to do other things for my visa that we cant do in Santa Fe! Fun!!! haha but its going to be good! oh and we ran out of money this past week! haha that was an adventure!! We have gone to santa fe 3 times in the past 3 weeks! haha but no worries we were able to recieve more for this week and so its all going to be good! 

Oh you have got to love the honesty of little kids! We went by a house and clapped at the gate and the youngest daughter came out and told us that her mom was in the shower we were talking to her as the grandma came out really angry that we were there and told us that the mom wasnt home and to leave stuff like that and the daughter turned around and yelled at the grandma "yeah shes home dont lie shes in the shower!" it was really funny! :) It gave us a good smile from a rejection like that! haha 

our investigators that we have arent really progressing..... this week was a little sad because it was the first in a while where we had no investigators at church! so that was a little dissappointing! But we are continuaing to work with them! 

the rest of our week wasnt very exciting! haha but it was still good! :)

I hope all is well with all of you! 

I love you all!

Hermana Armstrong

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The Church is True!! 

August 17th

Hola!! :)

This week has been really quick! Its crazy how quick time flies by!!! I hope everyone is doing okay with all the fires! I love you all and you are all in my prayers!!!!

This week! well  where to begin.... we kind of had a slow week! We had one day where my comp was sick and so we didnt go out that day, then we had a great meeting in Santa Fe with Elder Viñas of the seventy come and talk to us and that was really great!! We talked a lot about the atonement!! It was reallly good to get to study and learn more about how the atonement works in my life! I encourage you all to do the same to really ponder about what our Savior Jesus Christ did for us and how because of his sacrifice we can become better!!! It will change the meaning of the atonement! I know it did for me! :)

We have a great new family that ugh they are seriously so great!  I think i talked about them last week! Rita y Oscar!! They are serisouly the bomb.com!!! This week we were able to pass by twice! It was awesome! They are a really close family! The parents and their kids all get together every sunday for sunday dinner! They have told their whole family about us and how they really like us! They have even invited us to their crazy family dinners on sunday! :) Its really great to see that the gospel makes sense for people! It also helps that they have had some examples of faithful members to show what we believe!! That really really helps because they can know that it isnt just us telling them what we believe but it helps that they have friends who really lived the gospel! But through them as well we have found a less active family!! haha and so we are working with them as well! The problem is that they just live so so so so so far away!! haha but they are awesome!

Well i hope all is well with everyone! I love you all!!! :) Keep on being the awesome people you are!!!!! :)

Con amor,

Hermana Armstrong

We got to use bikes this week!! It was a huge blessing as you can see our area isnt all that big but when you have to walk its really big! but the only downside to using bikes in a skirt is that your skirt sometimes gets a little dirty! Then when you look at the bikes its a wonder that only your skirt gets a little dirty and not the whole skirt itself!!! haha but its okay! WE finally found someone that is willing to wash our clothes for us!!! HUGE BLESSING!!!! okay gross note but its so true! When you wash by hand its not that gross! but here as a missionary if it doesnt smell and if it doesnt have too many stains on it its okay to keep wearing it! haha just because washing by hand is actually really hard and no one likes to do it! haha and so there have been some clothes that i havent washed since i came to Argentina..... Ew Gross i know but hey they didnt have stains and they didnt stink.....Too bad.... haha but now they are like new clothes! Its really great to have washing machines!! haha :) but we are really thankful for members that help us with our clothes! Because on pday the last thing you want to do is have to wash by hand! Especially now because it rains and rains and rains! haha 

but i hope all is well!!! :) Love you all! 

August 10th

Hola everyone!! :)

Well I have experienced my first really big rain storm in Argentina! Yesterday! :) it hasnt rained here for about 6 months and so everything flooded!!!!! We were about midcalf in water walking in some streets and just soaked! haha but the worst part is here everyone is home but no one wants to let you in!!! haha Its terrible! In about 2 hours we ran out of our plans for the day! Everyone was home but they didnt want to let us in! haha so we decided to go to a members house that we know they would let us in! haha and they did! but they just started yelling at us! why? because we were soaked and dirty and they told us that we shouldnt be out here when its raining like this! haha the hermano was really really close to calling Presidente Perez to tell him that he shouldnt let us out when its raining like it did yesterday! haha Our appartment didnt flood but we were preparing for it! haha but they let us in and made us switch skirts with la hermana and coats and they drove us (they are one of the 3 families in our branch that have a car) to our appointment (our last appointment of the day) and then once our appointment was over they told us to call them and they were going to drive us home! it was quite an experience!! It continued to rain until midnight and so by morning the water was gone! (mostly) haha 

we found a really great family this week that we are really excited about Rita and Oscar! They are contacts and it turns out that they are really good friends with some less actives that we have here! Its been really great to know this family! They actually remembered our appointment and were waiting with food for us! This is a big deal! A lot of people dont remember our appointments! but they have a big family and are really close! We have a lot of hope for them! 

Our other investigators are still progressing and it is so cool to see!! :)

Im so gratful to be here and am so excited to be a missionary!

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

Love,

Hermana Armstrong

unfortunatly i didnt get a picture of the rain but we went to santa fe this week and got to see the new offices of the mission!! :)

this is our wonderful oven that we use! The front is slit in half and we are in the process of getting it fixed but its really funny!! haha 

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The Church is True!! 

August 3rd

Hola!!! :)

I hope that everyone is doing well!!! and that this week was good to everyone!! 

our week was really great! We had a lot of miracles that happened this week! The past couple of weeks we have had problems with communication with our leaders in the branch here but this week everything has changed!! Its been really great to see this change and it helps us to know that we have their support and that all is well! 

great well we have a few miracles this week and our first one was at the beginning of the week! So we have a less active member whose name is Juan,and  well he is missing a foot! yeah and lives like super far from the church! so he usually has a ride to church but then he has been feeling like he is more of a burden than anything else and so he tries to be independant but cant. He doesnt have the means to do so and he physically cant! and so one day he had just had a really bad day and has just been really hard on himself like we all do one day or another and called us and told us he wasnt coming to church anymore and that he was going to donate all his books back to the church, etc... and so we went to go meet with him and frankly told him that he cant deny what he knows to be true. He finally came around and told us that once he gets his money (like a retirement fund) he will come back to church! but he doesnt want anyone to come and pick him up and doesnt want anyone to help out with the taxi. He was expecting that the time to get his money would be like in two or three months. Well the very next day he gets a call from the bank and they told him to come in and that they have his money for his retirement!!! It was fantastic!!!

another miracle, our investigators la familia Barrios the boyfriend is finally thinking about getting married!!! This is a miracle for us because before he didnt want anything to do with marriage but now he has plans to save money so they can go to Paraguay to get married(they are originally from there) so that his brother and her dad can be there when the get married!!! :) We are really excited for them!!! :)

last miracle that happened this week! Another less active member, whose name is Anita, this lady is awesome!!!!!! She is really fantastic!! She has had the hardest life I have known! She met the missionaries and was baptized but her husband wanted nothing to do with it! well he finally had a change of heart and was baptized in january, well october of the same year he passed away of cancer! It was super sudden and was like one month they found the cancer and the next he passed away! Its been really hard for her to find closure! But anyway she finally came to church!!!!!!!! :D the second time she has come to church since ive been here!!! But what is really crazy is that the missionary that baptized her is a relative of the mission president here!!!! And so when he came for the other branch that shares our building he got her address and went and saw her!!! I think that was a game changer for her! And also, because both us and the elders from the other branch went and saw her throughout this week unplanned and was just spur of the moment! We all told her how much she is needed here! She knows like EVERYONE!!! Which is great she can help us with all our less active members!!

Well i hope everyone has a great week!!! I want to share that I know miracles happen!!! It may be hard to see but miracles really do happen! Big and small!!! :) 

I love you all!! 

Love,

Hermana Armstrong

 

Our activity that we had this past week! (Im standing next to our investigator la hermana Victoria (soon-to-be) Barrios!) 

Ummm free living spider when you purchase q-tips! Grrrrrreeeeeeaaaattttttt.... 

One of the prettiest plazas that is in our area!!! There are a lot here!!! :)