fire

Hola my duuuuudes!!!!!

okay... como (like) the title suggests... this weekend was a trial by fire.  hna linde and i have been referring to it as the fire swamp lol.

we were going along super tranqui (calmly) when suddenly!!! we fell into the lightning sand. (we forgot our c@$h money in the apt and had to volver (return) right quick to snag that to be able to function at all this weekend yikes.) so we turned around and snagged that to be able to take the kit (equipment/supplies for the open houses) out of the bus station.  and started to dodge the fire burps (or whatever they´re called)  aaand the dude who works there didn´t show up cuz he didn´t feel like it.  so a lady told us to go look for our kit in the SUPER FAR FAR AWAY off site lugar (place). so we went. and it wasn´t there.  the dude told us to go back to the terminal to snag the kit cuz the guy was gonna show up sometime this tarde (afternoon).  so we waited for an hour more and he walks in tranquiiiiloooo (casually).  and our kit wasn´t there.  he told us to come back tomorrow (saturday.)  so we did!!! and the dude in the terminal told us the kit came!!! ....to the super far far away off site lugar (place) that was way out in the middle of nowhere.  BUT WE GOT THE KIT!!!! we survived the cap abi (open chapel) and the attempt of a coupe de (by) the members lol but during the middle of the night we got SAVAGED by an ROUS attack aaaand the alarm didnt go off.  so we missed our two buses to go to azul (azul is the name of a city) to get to necochea (name of another city) to find a way to get to loberia (name of another city) (the place where we were to have a capacitacion (training).)  sooo we left at 8:30 in the morning to start our journey over there.  and in the terminal along the way another ROUS popped outa nowhere and the pte of loberia (bus to city of loberia) canceled on us.  sooo we hung out in a bus station until our bus left necochea at 9:15 at night. wow.

BUT WE MADE IT OUT OF THE FIRE SWAMP!!!!!

and we thought everything was in the clear until we woke up this morning and the 6 fingered man showed up.

we left the phone in a taxi last night and no we have no way to communicate with anyone.

guys, 

pray for us. lol we need it.

bahaha nah, we´re good but it was cool to be able to learn how to laugh everything off instead of stress out (:  i love being able to look back at all those cliffs of insanity and giggle about how we somehow manage to survive everything lol

I LOVE YOU MY DUDES!!!
HH

1. jefferey

2. my life

3. nacha (the dog lol)

4. our no sé cuanto bus

earth

HOLA MY DUUUUDES!!!!

Guys.  This week.  Flew by.  (Have i said that before? Lol). And this week we were in our area the whole time!! It was a packed week. But it was awesome.  I learned a TON from the conferencia general que tuvimos los ultimos dos dias (general conference that we had the last two days).  I LOVED IT.  I almost slept a little but when i focused myself a little more, it worked out!!!!  It was awesome. The conference brought me down to earth.  I feel more grounded and i loved the talks.

The womens session was pointed at something i’m not stoked about (for the forseeable future haha) but i’m okay with it.  Going into the conference i had been praying to learn what the Lord wants from me aaaaand after a spiritual slap in the face i think i found the answer i had been praying for hahaha, sometimes i regret asking things i sort of kind of already know because there’s always a big drop of cane to wake me up haha, buuut it was cool.

Something that struck me was the talk about forgiveness and reconciliation.  It was awesome to see and feel the importance of being a peacekeeper and a peace seeker.  I loved the admonishment of going to ask forgiveness instead of waiting to be asked.  Being meek enough to step out of your comfort zone to ask forgiveness is super rough, especially when you’re unsure if the forgiveness will be given, but i’m excited to try it out.  I’m sure with my GIGANTIC MOUTH AND NO FILTER BRAIN i’ve offended someone along the way so this’ll help me out a bit (;

I encourage you guys to go and read what we just learned!  And if you didn’t watch conference, i invite you to go give it a try.  Even if you’re not a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints.  It’s got some life lessons that are sure to help every one of us be a better person.

I LOVE YOU MY DUDES!!!!

HH

(Sorry for the lack of pictures.... there’s no way to use a pendrive with an ipad.)

Also don’t stress about me being in the house of hymas, we’re just helping her prep for her cena (dinner) with all the missionaries that are going home, nothing bad haha

water

HOLA YOMIES COMO ESTAN!!!

okay so this week was mega mega rad (: like usualllll.  but there were definitely some ups and downs with what was going down the whole week.  soooo one of the downs was when we got to the terminal to watch our bus drive away ;( buuut! with about 6000 phone calls and awesome elders to help us out, we found a way to get to our destination in time (: it was long, but we made it!!!  and while we were on the way, we stopped in trenque!!! and the hnas there told me that my old pal FRANCO got baptized!!! and he loves it and he´s stoked.  that was probably the best news anyone can get at 4am haha

in castex (a tiny town in La Pampa, ie: our destination) we had to stay in a hotel sooo that was actually super rad. they had really nice beds hahah linde and i took like a 3 hr nap it was amazing. haha i love naps too much.  the capilla abierta in castex was AWESOME!  it was a tiny tiny tiny house-church, but the members worked really hard and some amazing people came by and helped us out.  it was super cool! I loved it.

https://goo.gl/maps/DqvkTCsYT4p (link to a map to show where they traveled)

the next day, we were in Olavarria (we had to cross the entire mission to get there, yikes) to do a capacitacion and it was actually amazing too haha everything this week fell into place and it was super super cool to have so many people suppporting us and helping us out along the way.  I love how (me, being the crazy person that i am) we have always had someone supporting us and helping us out.  I can´t do this crazy calling alone, and my comp can´t either.  there are always amazing people in our path to help us find our way and to help smooth out all the colectivo insanity.

I LOVE YOU MY DUDES!!  I hope you can be the help for someone else this week!
HH
1. lion order

2. the bread thief

Sydney included a video of a dog that was walking around with a loaf of bread in his mouth.