SSSSNNNAAAAKE

okay my dudes, sorry for the late mail.  lol its a feria (holiday) today?  Not 100% on what that means, buuuut it means that literally everything is closed all day due to a holiday yesterday that my neighbor definitely enjoyed baha she was up dancing and singing to super loud music hasta (until) 1am.  I´m starting to memorize the same 5 songs she plays and it´s awesome haha i´m stoked about it

sooo, this week we went to Bahia and Punta Alta cuz mom´s job is a traveling job lol super exciting.  And we rode to bahia with some members and their pequeña (little one) looked at my hands and asked, "what happened to make your thumbs so small?"  feeling great that my weird thumbs are weird no matter what hemisphere i´m in (´: *two stubby thumbs up*

also, in the drive we discovered that there are FLAMIGOES j (just) chilling in argentina.  is this country magical?  I sure think so.

okie kids, ready for a lesson in the culture of argentina?  Super cute, everyone greets everyone here in a super cute way: air kisses by the cheek. it´s awesome!  I feel like it makes everyone feel loved and appreciated yay.  K, but as missionaries, we only exchange besos (kisses) with females cuz kissing boiz is against the rules, go figure. Pero (but), it´s super difficult for algunas personas (some people) to change their culture cuz they´re old and it´s engrained.  Get where i´m going with this?  I was out and about in Punta Alta and we knocked on this door and an old dude came out and thought i was his neighbor and gave me a huge beso and hug and wouldn't let go of my arm/had his arm around my shoulders/was holding my hand/etc for most of the 20 minutes that we were talking to him WHILE TRYING TO BACK AWAY SLOWLY bahaha it was awesome.  and to top it all off, he gave me a nice big friendly beso ON MY MOUTH.  wow, i never thought this would happen, but i was kissed by an old man in Argentina.  bahaha the craziest people inhabit argentina and it´s my fave.

look alikes spotted this week: Donny Osmond, the child version of Ego (the food critic form rattitoulli) and Olan  Rodgers.

I LOVE YOU PEOPLE HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK

HH

1. veggie sushi, call me granola

2. super awesome home made ravioli lookin thingies that we had for lunch thanks to my lady margarita haha she´s my fave

Denice notes:

Pictures sent to me -

TOO MUCH TINA TO HANDLE

lol hey my dudes, welcome to another weekly TMI (too much information) sesh with ya gur. lol sorry about that.  This one will be the same as the others soooo, prep up lol

okay, soooo firstly,  tina has blessed me with athlete´s foot. *gag* it´s gross and it´s the life I´m living, buuuut whatever lol I´ma roll with it.  TBH (to be honest), my toes are probably loving it cuz they get pamp-to-the-ered. lol the twice daily, 20 minute ritual that is taking care of my toes is something they have never before experienced aaaaand i don´t think they´re even mad about it haha sooo ya fue

2!  On my cumple-mes(monthly anniversary) (wow I´m already 3 months old leggo) I had the pleasure of trying out 2 foods that I probably will never eat again under my own will lol.  The first was cow stomach and the second was pig skin complete with baby hairs still chilling in the skin yay wow OH MY GOSH IT WAS GROSS.

3 my lord!  Number 3! (name that movie)  This was actually super awesome.  We had a conference with a buncha different zones on tuesday (S.O.(shout out) @naluai omg got to see her yay)  and I was j chilling with all the latinos sharing stories and having a great big laugh ALL IN SPANISH *single tear rolls down my cheek* it was awesome.  If we were in high school, all the yankies would be the annoying popular kids who stick to their squad and the latinos would be the super awesome low key loco people. and!  lol I´m in with the latinos leggo.

4!  pretty sure there´s an animal of some sort camped out in my hair cuz there´s no way that I´m losing this much and yet am not bald.  Or the water is str8 ravaging my pelo (hair) lol probably the second option but ya never know.

lol also, my soundtrack for the week was composed of half-remembered Gorillaz music and various songs by Rage Against the Machine, Guns & Roses, Chevelle, Iron Maiden (pronounced Ee-rown Mayee-den) and Disturbed haha cuz an investigator´s husband was jamming while we were teaching her haha.  Oscar (the hubby) thought it was hilarious when I started mouthing the words to sound of silence haha I love tina.

Quote!  "Most folks are about as happy sa they make their minds up to be." By your fave prez, Abraham Lincoln.  (He´s my fave cuz I like his beard. and the stuff he did too, i guess haha)

I LOVE YOU PEOPLE!!
-HH

estamos viviendo un milagro (We are living a miracle)

MY DUUUUDES!!! wowza boy am i grateful to be writing to you all I love pday hahah let´s go.

okay soooo!  My mom is officially a single mom with a job and I officially am enrolled in daycare.  Baha, she had a meeting to go to on friday and it was all day so I got dropped off with some other hermanas and got to work with them all day bahaha it was actually super awesome.  I love the other hermanas and yes.  haha that´s basically it.  But we´ll be splitting up more and more in the weeks that are coming cuz she´s gotta do splits with all the hermanas in our zone sooo I get to get to know all the hermanas!  I´m ultra pumped actually. but it´ll be interesting cuz we´ll have to neglect pringles a bit :/

sooooo I loved women´s conference and you all should definitley watch it even if you´re not blessed to be a woman because wowza I think the talks were flames and you all should partake.

also, general conference was awesome and I even understood a lot of it in spanish!!!!  wowza feeling awesome about that.  but funny story hahah saturday we had lunch to go cuz we had to watch conf in the capilla (chapel) so we picked up our lunch from the bailones (the best fam ever) and it was milanesas.  Which are basically the chicken part from the classic chickfila sandwich blessed.  But we didn´t have pan (bread) to go with it haha so we hoofed it to our casa and made poor man´s tortillas and then ran to the capilla and ate lunch there in the most ratchet form posible hahaha it was aweosme.  We didn´t have plates or anything so we ate on top of plastic bags and it was super hilarious but i didn´t have my camera to document soooo did it really happen?  can´t say for seguro (sure) lol

back to conference.  I loved it!  One of my favorite talks was the one by Donald L. Hallstrom about having faith to accept that even when things are bad, it´s okay and it´s a part of the plan.  I hit me pretty hard haha.  I loved how he talked about how we need to learn to appreciate the milagros that we already have like our lives and the atonement and stuff.  (and if none of that was what the talk was actually about lol my spanish is worse than i thought)

you people are the best and thank you so much for the support I love you!

HH (but you can also call me Muñeca (doll) or Gabriel cuz those are two of my newer nicknames from the beautiful people of Pringles haha)

1. pants

2. pants

3. the most perfect ombre of 2017

shah fway

lol that´s the ingles (english) pronunciation of a very common term in tina. The words, "ya fue" (shah fway) signify when something like already happened or something? Tbh (to be honest) not sure but they use it a bunch haha

anyways, ya fue mi primero traslado en argentina y idk (my first transfer in Argentina has past and i don't know) how to handle it my dudes!  Time flies and it´s freaky but it´s also mega mega fun.  I´m still in Pringles for this transfer!  I was ultra nervous cuz my mom (eddy) got a new job and as STL (sister training leader) she will need to travel a bunch and we were ultra scared that she wouldn´t have time for a child (i´m still in training) and either she was leaving or I was leaving or los dos (both of us) were leaving to different places and yikes it was freaky haha like I understand that it´s 2017 and everything buuuuut I really didn´t want to have 2 moms lol yikes

okay so big news, we´re using pants lol and it´s awesome but I learned that we´ll be using pants for the next 8 MONTHS OR SO??  unsure about how I feel but for now i dig.  mucho.

okay so I have a bit of beef (lol) with the people of tina solo porque cuando (only because when) we´re out walking and talking to people and such nearly everyone uses the word "nena" when referring to me.  Nena means child.  baby.  Infant etc.  Like, perdon, perooooooo (excuse me, but), I´m not an infant lol.  NO JOKE everyone has this freaky thing cuz everyone always turns to eddy and says stuff like, "ooohhh pero ella solo es una nena! 19 anos.. justo una nena!"  (oh, but she is just a child, 19 years, truly a child) k so I never thought I´d be the person to say this but, ya gur is not a child.  To all the people who have viewed the spectacular film "The Sound Of Music" should know the song where the chick and dude are singing about age and the one year difference is huge?  yes, the people of tina believe that too lol cuz they freak cuz my one year age diff with eddy is apparently enough to warrent me an infant and ella una mujer.  ya fue. (she a woman. It happened.)

also, the song of the week is Broken by Bob Dylan.  lol I thought I could escape the scathing voice of bob in tina, pero (but) during lunch yesterday we were jamming to bobby d and watching the futbol highlights lol.  This is the life and I dig it.

SORRY FOR NO PICS, the place we´re at is confusing with the pics soooo i´ll figure it out next week.  ALso we´re getting elders in pringles tomorrow woah.

LOVE YOU ALL

HH

Denice notes:
More pictures snet my way

whats love got to do with it

hola my dudes lol so the people of pringles have taken my heart and it{s awesome (also i{m writing in a bus terminal and the apostrophy button ceased to work so i{ll i{ve got to work with is the mustache part of the smiley face leggo.)

k so in the mtc they gave us filtered water bottles cuz we don{t want to die from the water yay and i{ve been using mine cuz as i have been picking up the lang i need to get my kermit on lol jk jk i just really like to be hydrated like all the other healthy humans.  SO my bottle is a must on the accessory list entonces (because) i{m always using mine.  BUT I LOST IT. and i was sad because i love water and couldn{t partake (tries to cry but can{t cuz doesnt have enough water in body to cry lol jk)

soooo i was walking wit my compy to a sita (appointment) and some dude legit with his window down in his truck says CHICAS and pulls over and hops out. I recognize this dude from when eddy and i bought snax for after the baptism and a little nervous cuz hes speaking rapidly and im catching like 36% of whats going down and racking my brain for what I possibly could have stolen by accident until my thoughts are interrupted by SU BOTELLA.(your bottle)

my dudes.

I left my bottle in his store and he had been trying to find me for almost a week and saved my bottle for me until he found me in his store!!!  I love these people cuz they{re so amazingly nice and kind.

So, we went to snag my lifesource in his tienda despues de studies (store after the appointment) and I walked in and i kid you not the 3 workers there all said SU BOTELLA!!!  bahaha the people love me.  Im so glad to be a stupid smiley american with funky spanish lol (:

also, last week we were chillin with some memebers and they gave us a ride in their auto and one of them had to stop and get pan (bread) and we waited in the car and the radio was playing and idk (i don't know) why but american oldies are a favorite here and the song WHATS LOOVE GOT TO DO, GOT TO DO WITH IT?? came on and we jammed with some of the lideres (leaders) lol.  Hugo and Mario were dancing and singing and having a total blast up in the front and it was celestial.

I LOVE YOU PEOPLE SO MUUUUCH

love HH

also, i cant see what pics im uploading soooo yes.

Denice notes:

More pictures from the gal that sends me pics each week.

por f(L)avor

lol sooo I´m jamming to american music rn and I´m ultra content.  The Lord blesses in small and simple ways haha

aight, Ima just start this email off by saying this:  ALMUERZO (lunch) IS A GIANT MIND GAME AND YA GUR (your girl) IS HERE TO PLAY.

so the members are incredible and I love them more than any of you could know, but they are sincerely trying with their incredibley sweet castellano hearts to make me fat.

Round 1:

Small talk.  Compliments.  Sitting around the mesa before lunch and having a good time.  We discuss our weeks and the happenings of the world.  Sometimes they share music that they know I´ll love or news of their people and whatnot.  The goal of this round is to make their prey (yours truly) comfortable and happy.  Happy people eat more, or so they think.

Round 2:

The actual meal.  Mmm my dudes some of these members have a skill that is not widely known in Tina.. that skill is the usage of spices and flavor lol.  It´s so awesome when they use spices!  Flavor is your friend.  But anyways, the goal of this one is to make the victim eat.  And eat.  And eat.  And keep eating lol and it´s rough, but I´ve strategized and I´ve found ways to combat this lol.  Ya gur has learned the invaluable talent of taking the smallest of bites and making them last a whiiiile.  I can make it through half my plate when everyone else has finished their seconds.  (wipes dust off shoulders) yeah, it´s a big deal.

BONUS ROUND!??

despues (after) de the actual meal and we´re sharing scriptures, the people will sometimes bring out my one weakness...  FRUIT.  my dudes, I´m a freak about good fruit and the members have found my weakness.  But!  I usually just take home my piece of fruit and eat it later (:  The fridge is so amazingly full of fruit I´m so happy haha it´s the best.

also, I had a very adventurous meal this week and got to partake of the various organs of a chicken including intestines (blah not v (very) down wit those) and the HEART.  which was freakily chewy but still chicken flavored??  I didn´t hate it lol.

aaaand we had a baptism saturday which was lit cuz I´ve already got one under my belt and I haven´t even been here a month lol (wipes more dust that somehow got on my shoulder in the past 5 minutes off lol)

aaaaand that´s about it!

I LOVE YOU PEOPLE TO THE MOON and if you see my parents give them hugs for me cuz they´re amazing and they had an anniversary on the 5th and so they´re basically relationship goals. (heart eyes)

Love, 

HH consumer of hearts and crusher of dreams lol

 1. mean muggin´two months selfie wit my caaash for the month lol

 2. cheesin in cute pringles

(translation - I want to do impossible things)

3. & 4. hood rat(chet) syd back at it

Denice notes:

One sweet family sends me pictures each week so I'm including a couple this time.

giving Pringles two // enthusiastic // thumbs up

Lol so quick story, I almost lost my right hand this morning washing the dishes.  Lol not really, but I dropped the grater (cuz I like to make my meals just a little on the //zesty// side) and almost grated off the tips of my fingers lol  which I guess is okay cuz then my whole hand would be stubby instead of just my thumbs which is cool lol

It´s the end of the month so eddy and I are kinda dying cuz we can´t get money out of our cards cuz the banks here don´t accept us so we´ve gotten pretty creative with our meals which is actually pretty fun lol  I´m so hyped for grocery shopping my life is a joke baha

ummm, due to the lack of spotify, my music taste is a liiiittle (lottle) different here.  In the mornings, eddy and I get crunk to some good good.  My favorite song thus far is "Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra, R. 93 in D Major - Allegro quisto" By:  English Chamber Orchestra. Give it a spin lol

Also, product placement cuz I´m tryna get sponsered lol I would 12/10 recommend purchasing a Buff(TM) Windstopper neck gaitor cuz legit I haven´t taken mine off it´s the most sublime thing ever.  I don´t think the people of pringles think I have a neck (I´m honestly unsure at this point yikes)

K, biggest thing of the week.  My life is going downhill at this point lol.  After comp inventory, Hermana Edwards and I could NOT stop laughing and my spirit, heart, mind, and body gave out on me aaaaaaand...... I peed my pants.

Pringles is great, my dudes.

LOVE YOU ALL OMG THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT <3

HH

more love please 

 I am who you dream of

I love my mom because she is bursting with light