When It Rains, It Pours... Photos

Baptism of Andres 

and hey if you notice, Oscar who got baptized 2 weeks ago baptized  him :) 

Jam and crackers for Thanksgiving with Hna Davis :)

With Hna Molinero y Davis

intercambios in trio! 

Working Hard Photos

The Hermanas of Banfield 2 

Our investigator Maria Lousia with her hortensias 

(One of my favorite parts of Argentina are the flowers)

Argetina has the best flowers

Chilling on the chilly roof of our apartment

and our amiga Ana Rosa

One of the members made me a balloon animal and it made me happy :) 

(not sure if Abby sent the right photo for this caption?)

Bored waiting for a tour to start in the Capilla Abierta

How I feel at the end of the week 

Working Hard

So this week was a really good one! We worked really hard and we are able to see a few fruits so that has been awesome! :) 

We had a new investigator this week, Maria Louisa, she really likes her garden and is really Catholic but hey :) its all good! The flowers in the photo of her are wow.... all over the place right now and I love them! :) 

Andres is progressing SUPER well and we hope that this Saturday we are gonna have a baptism wooohooo!!! Pray for us and him please! He is honestly the best, he just wants a better life and knows that baptism will help him and he tells us all the time, I just started with this stuff but I am just gonna keep learning little by little.... ahhh :) love him so tender :) The ward loves him too, he always arrives half an hour early to our appointments with him in the chapel so he has met a ton of members and they talk with him and are his friends and it is cute :) 

This week coming up is gonna be full of meetings of liderazgo (leadership) and intercambios (exchanges) wooohoo and I am not gonnna be able to work in my own area much which super stresses me out cuz we are gonna have an open chapel in a week and there is a ton to plan and we have to plan a baptism but I am not stresed.... and I'm not stressed that there are 5 of our hermanas in our zone training and that there are lot of problems with some companionships ..... nope not stressed at all......

But hey, this weekend was good, so el Faro, an area in our zone, had a capilla abierta (open chapel) Saturday and those are awesome! Basically 40 missionaries show up in a ward and work super hard all morning and invite a ton of people to come to the open chapel where they turn the capilla (chapel) basically into a visitors center and then the hermanas give tours and it was great! 

So I wanted to share some fun expericenes from that, so on the way there no one knew how to get to el Faro so we all met up in the train station and like 25 missionaries took the public bus together with 1 elder who knew how to arrive, and on the bus we all got on and then immediately the assitents starts contacting someone and everyone just looks at each other and then starts contacting everyone on the bus and it was so cool people, an entire bus full of people sat and chatted with the missionaries and we shared a message and took down their info and it was just a super cool minute, and when people got off the bus and others got on and sat next to us we would talk to them too! Super cool! :) 

Then in the actual cappilla abierta, (open chapel) with my comp in the morning we contacted a full and one of the men we contacted showed up with his little invitacion and it was super cute :) 

It has been a fun challenge getting to know my new comp, it is weird to have to get used to people and figure out a way to work together.  But she is super fun. She has 5 months in the mission and this week was a little hard for her adjusting to this area but I think we will get along just fine. 

We keep working hard and this week is no exception! I love you all and please pray for us and Andres  :) 

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Abby 

Banfield Round 3 Photos

our district menos Elder Romney

haha you can see in this foto we were playing assistants and tried to guess all the changes in the hermanas! :) there are only 30 so it isn't too hard! 

matching tree of life necklaces :) 

fiesta with the other hnas in our pench when our lunch was a no show 

Banfield Round 3

Hola everybody, how is it going! So, to start off we got our transfer calls Saturday and I am sticking around in Banfield, BUT I have a new companion!!! Hermana Navarrete from Chile! She has 5 months in the mission and this is her second area and she is ready to just hit the ground running!! Woohoo it will be super fun! 

But holy cow, I am gonna miss my compi Hna Hernández like you wouldn't believe! She literally is one of the best friends I have ever had and made working in a really hard area not just possible but enjoyable! Love you compi! 

I continue this transfer as a hermana capacitadora so that is fun and I will have lots of intercambios this tranfer!! A trabajar! :) (to work)

This last week we had together was a pretty good one! We had a few lessons with Andres and he is progressing super well and is so cute, he went to capital and when we saw him Thursday he was all worried we had called him while he was traveling and didn't have service and ahhh.... he is super cute :) Oscar the other hermanas' convert is progressing really well too! He was really sad to see Hermana Chaffin go!

 

To celebrate with the other hermanas this week we were going to have lunch with our mission leader ..... but we all showed up at his house and he wasn't home and didn't answer our phone calls.... so we bought stuff for hamburgers and some ice cream and had a little party :) it was fun! 

I am really grateful for this last transfer I had. It was one of my favorites. I grew with my compi to have our own little version of a family here. We were super close to our district and zone leaders and my comp always said that I was her mom, our dl was her dad, and our zone leaders were her tio y abuelo! We felt a lot of support from them in the middle of some rough times together and it was sad to break up the family! BUT I am excited for this area! There are lots of prepared people just waiting to be found! 

I am grateful to be the Lord´s missionary and serve him with all I have! Wish me luck with all the changes headed my way! 

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Hermana Walker 

Miracles and Setbacks photos

The Baptism of Oscar 

Miracles are happening in Banfield 2 

with Hermana Dias from Brazil

our investigator Andres 

With my favorite :)

From our adventure in the hospital

Miracles and Setbacks

This week was a super good one, everybody ready to hear about it ... okay :) 

Okay so to start off the week we had a meeting the whole zone and the viajeros, a pair of elders that don't have an area and that just go from area to area helping out, and they challenged us to look in our area books and find people ready to be baptized this Saturday.... and we kinda just laughed at them .... :) 

But then I had an intercambio with Hna Chaffin which was awesome right cuz we show up to our lesson with their progressing investigator and holy cow I don't know what happened but the Spirit was super strong and he asked us why his face was warm and we just got all giddy and told him it was the Spirit and then Hna Chaffin challenged him to quit smoking, ya and be baptized Saturday.... and she challenged him to pray that night and ask cuz todavia he hadn't gotten his answer. And we just left and kinda stared at each other and it was awesome! :) 

Then the next day after intercambios I was with my comp and we had a lesson with Andres the investigator who just showed up last Sunday and the Spirit took over AGAIN and we don't even remember what we said but we left the lesson with a baptismal date for the 19 of this month and were super excited. My favorite part of the lesson was to see the look on the members faces when we challenged him... I think we surprised them more than a little!  

When we left that lesson that we were having in the chapel we saw the other hermanas in the ward and they congratulated us for our fecha (date) with Andres and then told us that when they showed up at Oscar's house that day, he was super serious and not himself and they started the lesson and asked how his prayer went and he said, ¨I want to be baptized¨ and they told us the Spirit filled the room and that they where preparing for his baptism Saturday. 

Justo after we had missionary correlation meeting with our ward mission leader and he arrived and the assistants too and when we all shared our news the assistents just got super happy and bubbly and we were all glowing ... our mission leader was a bit of a dark spot (he doesn't have much faith in us or the ward), he told us no one in the ward would come Saturday and that he wouldn't come and the assistants just looked at him and were like,.... yeah but what matters is that he gets baptized!  And he did :) Saturday he was baptized and Andres came to see what his baptism will be like and he is super excited and we are super happy :) also we had a good ward turnout.

Oh, also this week I had an intercambio with Hna Dias from Brasil and we found another new investigator wooohooo! :) 

But we kinda killed my comp this week......

so our area is HUGE right? .... like we probably walk 8 miles a day all day .... which is fine we are always tired but what you gonna do.... but apparently we walked TOO much. We walked more than usual Friday and Saturday and by the time we were heading home by train Saturday my comps foot was killing her, she could barely walk, we woke up Sunday and her 2 legs were hugely swollen and she was just crying but we had to go to church and I tried to call the ward mission leader to help us find a ride there... but we wasn't very helpful, so she just sobbed taking a bus to church and we got there and the wonderful president of the sociedad de soccorro (RS) realized my comp was in SUPER bad shape and called another sister in the ward who is a nurse who checked out my comp and worried it was something with her veins and my comp just sobbed and Hna Calquin didn't anser the phone but the wonderful assistants gave us the ok to go to the hospital so we went.....

and an ultrasound and blood test and shot in the behind and 5 hours later we learned that my comp was basically fine but has tendonitis in her 2 legs for ...... walking too much.... they told us to ice it, buy a brace and not walk as much.... it was an adventure. But through it all we REALLY felt the support of the ward. Hna Lopez took us to the hospital and then had to go but told us to call when we needed a ride home but then the Bishop Pesado and his wife showed up later to be with us and help us and she was posting in Whatsapp ( the equivalent but better of Facebook here) updates to the ward about how my comp was and we just felt so much love and it was wonderful.

 

So yeah that was the week in a nutshell :) nothing is ever normal with us :) but this is probably our last week together and we just gotta make the most of it :) #rubiaymorochita (blonde and brunette)

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Abby