tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50116158788330913792024-03-05T04:47:49.810-08:00Hermana Gonzalez in Argentina!Suzette will be serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Argentina Buenos Aires North from October 2010 to May 2012. Write her! She'll love it!Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-31476663592632608982012-05-07T22:32:00.001-07:002012-05-07T22:32:49.991-07:00wow wowowowowowowoweee wowzers!<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I wonder if anyone but my parentals still read these emails or my blog but to all those who MIGHT </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">THANK YOU!!!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You all have been a wonderful source of strength for me and I know that the prayers you have offered in behalf of all the missionaries of the world are HEARD and ANSWERED with a great blessing on us. I am so proud to be called one of the servants of God, like the Army of Helaman, taking the world His truth.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I know that this IS the work that He showed the prophets of the Old and New Testament and that the prophets in the Book of Mormon specifically saw our day and have blessed our lives with inspired words that we NEED to study every day!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am so grateful for this time. Yesterday, I had the great blessing of participating in ONE LAST Argentine, end-of-the-world branch, testimony meeting. It was so beautiful with an amazing spirit touching everyone. I wasn´t planning on getting up but when I saw Hna. Kapp get up toward the end, I decided I would stand with her and testify together as we always do. When I got up and moved closer to the front, the 2nd counselor conducting the meeting got up and I panicked that he was ending the meeting! But he got up and announced that I was going to be the last to get up and THEN we would close the meeting. WHEEW! Good thing I love Hno Cherañuk or else I would have had a mini heart attack.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well, I got up and as I looked out on the faces of people that I love so much, of people whom I have striven to serve and be a blessing for, I was overcome with emotion. It was an interesting thing to see that tears came to many people´s eyes and then one of them, a recent convert, came up and asked WHY she had started to cry. I tried to explain the best I could but it was really just something that I think she´ll learn when she feels that Spirit again. I am grateful that I got to share my testimony with the members that I have grown to love so much and that Mariela and Virginia were there to share in the great spirit of the meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We have had some great news this week, a lot of work, and REALLY tired legs.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">GREAT NEWS! Virginia and Nestor´s papers are all in order to get MARRIED!!! WOOT!......on the 22 of May........but hey, SHE’S FINALLY GOT THEM!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We´ve got investigators all over the map (of our area) so we walk a TON! And up the mountain AT LEAST once a day. It´s craziness!! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I love these people. We have been opening our mouth more and more. We are doubling our failures in order to double our success in FINDING the people that Heavenly Father has prepared for us to teach and accept the gospel at this time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It´s been complicado with Stefhani but we are (and SHE is) more than certain that she is READY to be baptized. Basically, the minute her situation gets all better, we´re running to the church to fill the font and get the elders over to the church to interview her and LISTO! New member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!! WOOT!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We had a GREAT lunch of choripan, kind of a farewell thing, with Alicia and her kids and Hna Jocelyn. It was so happy!!! I LOVE me a good choripan so it was amazing! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yeah, basically, I don´t even know how crazy this week is going to be but it will be amazing! I don´t know where I´m going to stay in the north for a couple days but I DO know that I fly out of here at 3 on Saturday afternoon and get to BS AS at 8pm. Then Sunday, who know´s where, hopefully Congreso, maybe Tigre though, or Urquiza!! WOW! But then I´ll try to call you wherever it is I will be. Then I have my exit interview set up with President on Monday the 14th in the morning. Crazy but hey, this is what mission life is :) I´m thinking Hna Gulbrandsen will be my temp comp for a while which I will love! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I´m actually going home with a BUNCH of Orem peeps. By a bunch I mean, at least 2. Most of our group will be all together until SLC. It´s a good size group from Utah haha go figure :)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Elder Grover, who´s little brother is Sam Grover, Ruth REMEMBER HIM? and Elder Unrau, Elder Smith who was my zone leader down here is from Draper, and I forget where Elder Hunt is from. Elder Cordon is from Ogden if I remember correctly. It´ll be legit on the plane! I have served with ALL of the elders finishing now except 2 I think....</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well, it´s a “see you later” for now. See you Sunday!! and then we´ll see everyone home soon! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have fought the good fight, but guess what the best part is??....The fight isn´t OVER!! Hooray! This is the FIRST of MANY missions to come. :) That´s why I can be ok leaving, it´s not the end. I love Argentina. It will forever hold my heart and we´ll go on progressing forever because I have great faith that my Father in Heaven will continue sending wonderful people to watch over, care for and Find and Teach these wonderful people. I know that the Church is true. This is HIS work and if it weren´t true, nothing would be the same. I am grateful to know that God lives, that we have a Savior and we CAN and WILL be with them WHEN we do what they ask. I love Them and I know They love me. I will stand as a witness of Them at all times and in all things and in all places, Argentina or not, I will live so that others can come to know Him through my small light. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">LOVE, LOVE, LOVE YOU ALL!!!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Until we meet, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Hermana Gonzalez</span></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-69608349985853387812012-05-06T21:12:00.002-07:002012-05-06T21:13:41.611-07:00wow....sooo much to do<span style="color: #660000;">From April 30, 2012</span><br />
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<i>I got the plans and stuff for things I need to do before
heading to the airport...bah! Including my final interview with President. So
weird. I can´t tell if it really has NOT set in or I’m just really prepared. Or
in denial....haha either way, I am feeling GREAT about these days. The BEST
days of the mission!!! WOOT!</i></div>
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<i>Hey, a note for the blog for <b>Pintos</b> and others who read and love me:</i></div>
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missionary fireside in San Fernando due to it being Mother´s Day Sunday and
missionaries will be calling home. BUMMER! But I love you and though I don´t
know WHERE I’ll be that last weekend, we will be in touch soon enough</b>. </i></div>
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<i>Hey, I have this intense desire to do a MILLION things. I´m
writing them down. Like, putting tile down in the kitchen, other home
improvement things like....painting my room....haha like we said we were going
to do....um...3 years ago? or more? haha good stuff. </i></div>
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<i>All those things can wait but guess what? I am DYING to do
family history work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am SO excited! I have been teaching people
about it non-stop these past couple of weeks and the spirit of Elijah is in my
heart! I can´t wait to even learn how to do it! I know that I can repent for
never having touched it before. I also am near tears every time I think about
going to the Temple. Hna Kapp said this morning, as we were getting ready for
the day, “I’m SO jealous you get to go to the temple in a couple weeks!” um,
yeah!</i></div>
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<i>Yesterday, I did cry a little in RS when they announced the
long-awaited temple dedication in BS AS.....SEPTEMBER 9TH!!!</i></div>
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<i>Ok, ZERO time left but we went to the GLACIER last week. It
was AMAZING! Loved it! Pics next week...maybe or....in a couple weeks ;) </i></div>
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<i>Today we played soccer a bit and are going to get our hair
done. I love getting haircuts....mmm...chop it? haha NO!</i></div>
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<i>Ok, quick miracles:</i></div>
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<i>Rodrigo, we met him trying to contact our investigator and
make sure he was going to church. He´s from Chile and we invited him to church,
got his address and listo. Then Sunday morning, we knocked on his door, talked
to his dad who went to go wake him. We went by 5 minutes later and he walked out,
dressed and ready to go! WOOT! He accepted a baptismal date and it was
WONDERFUL! He´s so GOLDEN!</i></div>
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<i>Also, Virginia´s papers (well, her boyfriend´s really) got
here!!! That means she now has all the papers necessary to go and get a turno
for MARRIAGE! Same day of the marriage...BAPTISM! WooTT! </i></div>
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<i>AND Stefhani (yeah, craziest spelling ever) is getting baptized
too!!! She´s so excited! We just had to work on one more thing this week and
listo! She´s getting in the water ASAP!! </i></div>
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<i>This is the best life ever. The Work of the Lord is the
reason for EVERYTHING. If it weren´t for the Gospel message, where would we be?</i></div>
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<i>Love you all,</i></div>
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<i>Hermana Gonzalez</i></div>
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<i>It´s feriado here in Ushuaia today AND tomorrow so...nothing
to do but TEACH, TEACH, TEACH and TALK, TALK, TALK, INVITE, INVITE , INVITE </i></div>
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<i>I love, love, love (threes) and our Savior. I know He lives
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<i>Love you!</i></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-5510926790228739402012-04-24T17:59:00.000-07:002012-04-24T17:59:01.329-07:00The ´field´ is white and ready to harvest... Apr 23, 2012<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
when I say it´s WHITE, I mean we are getting the beauty of the SNOW at the end
of the world. It is COLD! Brr...good thing I have some winter clothes that I
can put on...all of them....every day. No sickness or frostbite yet! haha <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Though
yesterday at church, there were a lot of sniffles and coughing etc, we are
blessedly NOT SICK! And everyone else is! I guess everyone needs to labor more
in the Work of the Lord! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SO
we have little time. I just want to let you know that we are working with
Estefani. Her estory is a great one. She just moved her from Colombia and is
living with a member friend. She was all ready to get baptized up in Colombia
BUT felt that she still needed some time and some more knowledge. Turns out
that she didn´t have a very strong testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith. In
other words, she said she believed everything but him. We testified, we read
the testimony in the front of the BoM and we taught the Restoration...again.
Then we felt to leave her a couple of videos to watch. We showed up the day
after she watched the videos and she said casually as we were warming our hands
by the heater, oh you know that thing i wasn´t sure about, I got it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Yeah, ok. Will you get baptized this weekend?..... Yeah, I would love that.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
was a great miracle. There´s more to the story but not any more time. We are
hiking to the glacier today. Much like i would in ALaska BUT it´s FREEZING and
slightly rainy so.....yeah. It´ll be GREAT! we have another appointment with
Estefani tonight and I’m super excited!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Love
you all. I know that the Church is true. i still don´t feel like I have any
more time in the day than i did a year ago. Remember when I said that mom?
Yeah, that feeling never goes away. Everyone is counting down my time. The
members here I mean. They keep saying, hey, isn´t it about time for you to go
home? RUDE haha I’m sure they mean well. A lot of the ones who ask are mothers
who have had missionaries out so I figure they feel super happy for Mom and Dad
though they don´t know what they do to my heart!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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you! Love, love, love!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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a wonderful week!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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are worth a thousand words. So these make up for the short message!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-3994682877548655322012-04-24T17:32:00.000-07:002012-04-24T18:01:06.650-07:00It´s not a job, this is my life right now.... Apr 16, 2012<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
title is a direct quote from my amazing companion. We talk CONSTANTLY. But
we're like the same person so talking is like just being vocally aware that
we´re on the same brainwave. We are zoned in on being missionaries ALL day, all
night and not ´clocking out´ just because it´s p-day or at home. She´s such a
wonderful blessing to me and I´m so glad that I had to come all the way to the
end of the world to meet a new best friend from Highland, UT! haha it makes me
appreciate her way more. :)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hna
Kapp and I talk about how to be better. We had this great chat about charity
and it was remarkable all the things I was learning as I testified to her about
experiences that I´ve had throughout the mission and I know that the Spirit
wanted to teach me a lot. I thought about how I have come to teach with more
charity than when I got here to Argentina and was afraid to even speak. I look
at these people we pass and think of what I would want THEM to do were I the
one passing them on the street. What lengths would I go to speak and invite if
it was MY salvation on the line? It´s what keeps me going. What if it were me?
Do I love them as myself? Good, then get out, forget yourself, and go to work.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We
had a fantastic week, didn´t have the results we really wanted but we are
learning to be patient and press forward doing all the right things despite the
lack of INSTANT signs of repentance and change. It doesn´t always work that
way.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sometimes
is does though! Like with Cristina. I just can´t even tell you how I adore her.
She and her sister Norma (who is STILL not baptized and she knows she
should...whatever. AGENCY) have adopted us. Norma and I had a way amazing
moment and I love her like crazy and will be here for her baptism I know it,
even if I have to come back to the end of the world. She said that there were
only 2 people in the world that she has met that instantly win her love like a
mother-child thing. I am one of the two, she says. It´s a special thing that
through Hna Shelley and I saying Hi to her in grocery store, we are now like
FAMILY. Cristina, as I was saying, is doing amazingly well. She has fallen in
love with the Relief Society/Priesthood manual for this year about President
George Albert Smith like I have. She is desirous to go with us to appointments
and have a visiting teaching assignment. She just wants to serve and help more
people be as happy as she is. She is teaching her nephews and it´s just been a
wonderful blessing to see them grow in their testimonies! She gave the prayer
in Relief Society and it was like a parent watching their child and I was
busting with joy and pride! I did nothing, of course, but I was so proud to
have been a part of her amazing decision. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tuesday
and Wednesday were warm here..meaning....only ONE jacket, one skirt and one
pair of tights. Then it got cold REAL cold again and back to the layering of
the clothes. Good stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #660000;">DAD!
and Danny! and any other RM that love me:</span> I have a huge favor to ask!! Will
you commit to writing me a story about your MISSION that you were reminded of
or that you think I would like to hear? I don´t know many from Dad´s mission
and FEWER from Danny´s so...yeah! That way Danny won´t have an excuse of
something like, nothing cool in my life is going on and that´s why I don´t
write you...junk. haha LOVE YOU AND THANKS!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It´s
only a few stories until I’ll HEAR them but ONE a week would be great. Thanks!
I meant to ask for this FOREVER ago but have continually forgotten to ask....<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ok,
Estefani from Colombia moved her three days ago. She has been meeting with
Elders in Colombia for a WHILE now and is just SO CLOSE to the waters of
baptism that it´s killing me. We are going to go get her right now and play
soccer with the elders. Soo....see ya! haha love you bye!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
know this IS the true Church of Jesus Christ. There is no other. i love my
Savior and am eternally grateful that i have this amazing opportunity to serve
Him and my fellow brothers and sisters. i am grateful for the change in my
life. I truly have changed and I hope to continue growing as my life goes on.
Missions don´t end at airports. They just won´t let me wear my nametag anymore
is all. :)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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you all, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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a great week!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hermana
Gonz</span></i><i><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">á</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">lez<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-32028692710858274912012-04-14T00:44:00.000-07:002012-04-14T00:44:57.049-07:00I just LOVE life!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs1K4LT0U5SzaHFw0lT2QrA74c9HbAo3pcjf857bmZgOq2eovYBdxU1hzx2kvOiRiZ3A4Z8v5G-Hg-sLjFbxRaPRx62V2NEL6vk1dRSZ4eMQtVmeg8_TtIzhqn5-QXBrzqLyvk9xhNuwn_/s1600/April+9th+2012+Imagen_768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs1K4LT0U5SzaHFw0lT2QrA74c9HbAo3pcjf857bmZgOq2eovYBdxU1hzx2kvOiRiZ3A4Z8v5G-Hg-sLjFbxRaPRx62V2NEL6vk1dRSZ4eMQtVmeg8_TtIzhqn5-QXBrzqLyvk9xhNuwn_/s400/April+9th+2012+Imagen_768.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i> Ok Family and faithful friends, I just want to let you all know that the power and burning faith one can come to have on the mission DOESN´T die if you don´t LET it!!!!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>I am so incredibly excited about these coming weeks and am more afraid of the dwindling time than worrying about it. I’m afraid that there´s not much time left because I don´t ever want to stop feeling this way every week when I report about what I´ve been doing. I have had amazing companions and the Lord knows me and has blessed me with yet another amazing Best FRIEND!! </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Hermana Kapp is a joy and we have the best days!!! I was feeling a little under the weather this past week (we got REALLY wet in the constant rain and it didn´t do well with my already on the edge of dying health. haha exaggeration of course but I was NOT my full self so after I started taking meds and asked one of the Elders after district meeting for a priesthood blessing (I LOOVE the priesthood and I have FULL faith that my faith and the faith of a worthy priesthood holder helped me recover) I started doing much, much better.) I was feeling guilty for being grumpy and not with full energy to get out and help Hna Kapp learn the area quickly. I told her that last night after a great Sunday of visits and meeting great people and she said, “that was you GRUMPY? This transfer is going to be AMAZING!” Haha it made me feel better that she hadn´t been too effected by my lack of energy and that it hadn´t been so apparent. She said she noticed a real difference after we had rested and I let the meds take effect. All is well in Zion.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>We are so alike, it´s nuts. We get along SPLENDIDLY as i have been so fortunate to do with all of my amazing companions on the mission. I loved seeing Hna Erickson last week and she´ll be coming down here at least one day for when President comes to do interviews and then I won´t see her again until....yeesh, 2013. Hna Shelley and Hna Dunn already know that they are REQUIRED to go to my despedida. haha I WILL see them both before I leave and Hna Kapp wins the jackpot to be able to pick through everything I leave behind haha :) </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Seriously, Hna Kapp and I both feel like she´s been here way longer than a week. I feel as though we have known each other for years. We teach in an amazing unison that usually takes much longer to work out, practice and plan. It has been a huge blessing since day 1.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>We went around to say goodbye to a few people with Hna Shelley. It was great to have some time to say some farewells and let them see both Hna Shelley and Hna Kapp at the same time and see the transition. I am so grateful that Hna Kapp has a wonderful memory for all these people I have been telling her about all week. At church yesterday, she was a rock star and remembered lots of people by stories I told her. It was wonderful.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>CRISTINA AND JAVIER got CONFIRMED!!!!! They are now confirmed members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!!! The newest members on the island!! Well...at least in Ushuaia, don´t know what went down in Rio Grande. haha </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>I feel like I´m always saying goodbye to Hna Shelley! haha the bajillion pictures that we took together here in Ushuaia make up for the very FEW that we had in Congreso. </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>I have been learning so much about how important Hna Shelley is to the work in Ushuaia. She´s just amazing organized and has a mind for planning. She always said that she hated planning but she´s so ridiculously good at it, she can´t hate-hate it. I am really grateful for everything that I learned from her because it has really been helping with how I´ve been able to teach Hna Kapp about the area. </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>This week was a wonderful one for sure. Talking all day, every day about the Atonement of Christ, helping investigators and members alike remember what EASTER is. There is a lot that I would like to study about it later but it is one of the most meaningful weeks I´ve had in my mission. It helped to have this particular recent convert who was really stuck to her catholic traditions but we read together and learned together and the Spirit testified to our hearts of the Savior´s divinity and what we can do to sacrifice our vanity and selfishness to be more like Him. We can and must come in Him to find the peace that He gives. I have been studying the week, day by day, of the last week of the Savior´s mortal ministry and I think it´s a great new tradition to start for Easter week! I learned so much and was truly blessed with a greater love for my Brother and Redeemer.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>We even had a special conference all about the Savior as a mission. It was the first time in President Gulbrandsen´s time that we have ALL been gathered, north and south, in a conference and it was amazing. I want to always make this such a special time of year. </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Because Jesus lives, we have HOPE. Because He lives, we can repent, we can live again. Because HE LIVES. </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Hna Gulbrandsen said this once and I´ve never forgotten it: Christ died to save us and He lived again. He didn´t die again. HE LIVES. Like you and I live, so does the One who loves us more than human mind can comprehend. I hope I can learn to love Him in like manner.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>I am so grateful for being here. I am truly blessed to be found worthy as one to represent Him to the marvelous people of Ushuaia and lead them back to the fold of the Good Shepherd. </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>I love you all and hope that all is well......right?</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>A couple of shout outs:</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Angelica, I´m glad you had such an amazing birthday. I DIED laughing at your email. Seriously, you HAVE to write me more. Just a couple more weeks yo!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Ali Washburn: I heart you face!!! I am so excited for you and congratulations on your call!!!! That´s so amazing and you will be phenomenal. We have GOT to talk hun!!! I LOVE missions!!!!!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Nick: follow Angelica´s example and....write me!! Email is SOOOOO easy. DON´T FORGET!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Hey I’ve been thinking a lot about my brothers. Brett, you are great, you know that? I do love you like a crazy pants and I hope you know that. COLLEGE man!!!! We should move out together!! haha maybe your second semester because I won´t be there for fall...but that would be cool! We can live work and study in SLC! What do you think? Maybe Danny could move in as my roommate after you leave on a mish.....oh wait.....he’ll be married by then! hahaha right? </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Sam, is it too late to change a class for next year? You MUST take Mr. Park´s class (if you aren´t already and if he´s still at Timp) I´ve been thinking about that a while. It´s a creative writing class that I always wanted to take but it didn´t work out in my schedule. I had him for 10th grade English and it was a mini version of his creative writing class. It would be LEGIT for your talent. For real. Look into it if you haven´t already.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>RUTH!! I love you hair!! I love that you do what you like. I hope you are happy. Haven´t heard from you in a while. PS a couple of my fav young members here looked you up on youtube (I told you I was going to make you famous in Argentina) and they said you have billions of videos!! When are you going to write your own stuff?!?! I will help you and edit your poems and stuff. You´ve got lots to work with!!! Love you pooh</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Mom and Dad, you are fantastic! Have I ever told you how much I love and appreciate you guys?? If I haven´t recently, I repent. I LOVE YOU!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>No word on flights or anything but I am honestly not worried about it. If you are, I´m sure you could ask Hna Gulbrandsen but I won´t ask :) haha all I know is that the Saturday before my last Sunday I will be flying up to BS AS again for my final interview with President. SAD! I get shorted 2 days! Bah....</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGsaQjySYmnnxEyW0lOpQWrgbgY-2KGW6BSp4DqdiSJ6PMV7Oo3n5YHdbIEPxjizRNM-duEr_gb_D4kFGPgfpkeKKjzOASPFjRj5usV2VGa3Yq3xzeK4ENL4NXjYSN23cEjlxxFeR2Q7Q6/s1600/April+9th+2012+Imagen_773.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGsaQjySYmnnxEyW0lOpQWrgbgY-2KGW6BSp4DqdiSJ6PMV7Oo3n5YHdbIEPxjizRNM-duEr_gb_D4kFGPgfpkeKKjzOASPFjRj5usV2VGa3Yq3xzeK4ENL4NXjYSN23cEjlxxFeR2Q7Q6/s400/April+9th+2012+Imagen_773.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Any who, </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Love you all. WRITE ME PEEPS! Those who write will be those with whom I will spend some quality time. If not, I don´t know. I´ll move to another state or something and make NEW friends. haha :) </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Love y´all forever! </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Hna Gonzalez</i></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-43615198558727898972012-04-03T17:09:00.001-07:002012-04-03T21:53:47.508-07:00hey quick update<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Super crazy, awesome transfers. Seriously, it´s been hilarious.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Well, Hna Shelley´s bags are packed and she´s headed north!!! To an area called San Ignacio II.......</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>with.........</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>HNA DUNN!!!! Small funny world, right? She has STILL only had 3 companions in the field. Hna Shelley is destined to have repeat comps! haha Wow!!!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>A LOT of changes in our little zone. EVERY companionship changed. Not the usual thing but hey, what the Lord needs, we will go and do!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>My new companion is Hermana KAPP from Highland, UT. Officially wins award for the one who lives closest to home! haha sweet! She´s got 3 months in the mission. Started with Hna Gillum! Then with a sweet, sweet amazing sister I love, Hna Carriola, now here! </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I just can´t get over the fact that Hna Shelley’s going to be senior companion,she is going to be with Hna Dunn again. Crazy, right? The Pinto´s will get a kick out of that, I´m sure. Right Camilly?? haha love you!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Oh, and Hermana Erickson came through here!!! She´s on her way to Rio Grande (weird, I forgot I wrote from there last week). She´s going to be companions with Hna Reed! Woot! So I got to see her and be with her about an hour before her combi went on its way to Rio Grande. That was a great blessing because even though she´s down here on the island now, she WON’T be in the north for my despedida in San Fernando which is a bummer! But Hna Dunn and Shelley will be there together with their most recent converts, together!! Hooray!!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>This is so nuts. There is an elder here that I heard a LOT about from Hna Erickson when we were together because they were in the same MTC zone and then same zone in the north. Also, more familiar faces are making an appearance tomorrow. Elder Johnson, an elder that used to serve as the secretary to the President when I was in Tigre, is now coming down here to be a zone leader. We were really good friends so I´m super excited for all the great, amazing things that are coming our way this transfer! Seriously!!!! </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Rio Grande with Hna Reed was superb. We had a great time and I love her so much. I am so glad that I got to serve with her even though it was only a few days. She´s fantastic! I learned a lot from her in such a short time. I am also very grateful for my wonderful, now former companion, Hna Shelley. I knew that she was going to be called as senior companion soon and I think that this division that we made really helped her see that she CAN do this and now she´s off to do great things.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I am excited about this all.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I´m sending pictures of our MIRACLES from this week! Cristina, the woman we found last week got baptized with her nephew!!!!! HOORAY! Between crazy conference sessions. I hope it was a great conference. I´ll read it when the text comes up next week. We had some major technical difficulties but it was a wonderful experience all the same. Even though it was nuts, our branch, almost all of them, showed for the baptisms and we had great support for these wonderful new members!!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I love this work. It brightens my day when I actually stop and remember that this is what we do, who we are and it´s the best thing in the whole world. The gospel saves lives. It has changed me forever and I hope to always be a person that lives so that my faith isn´t hard to detect. </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I can´t wait to tell you all more. Just know that I love you, Hna Kapp and I are going to ROCK it here. We´re going around with Hna Shelley to say goodbye to peeps before taking her to the airport tonight. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP-I7ZPTAlOPs4NU_aSs9jYXLL-3Vl1KgsVrR_OSvFUucH3crn7YpbKENckJGsivWS7jPOsSAiUmzkg8lvIGwQj_hNTDlp6J6WVnUUGKeE-BWaTmtZQhqyDNZ3KV-YCZn6vzlc5L-aAiXG/s1600/April+2,+2012+Imagen_722.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP-I7ZPTAlOPs4NU_aSs9jYXLL-3Vl1KgsVrR_OSvFUucH3crn7YpbKENckJGsivWS7jPOsSAiUmzkg8lvIGwQj_hNTDlp6J6WVnUUGKeE-BWaTmtZQhqyDNZ3KV-YCZn6vzlc5L-aAiXG/s400/April+2,+2012+Imagen_722.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hna Shelley, Hna Reed and Hna Gutierrez in Rio Grande</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gotta go. I’ll tell you all about the greatness of this week next week.</span><span style="color: magenta;"> <span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Love you all. Thanks for the love, I feel it and hope to SEE it in my inbox next week, yeah?</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What was your favorite part of conference?? Tell me your highlights and favs that I should look up and print off next week. I´m sad I missed it! Best weekend of the year still though. I love these two just like everyone else that is preparing to be baptized!!! Ushuaia, here we come!!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Love you, until next week, </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Hna Gonzalez</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>This email came on the first day of Suzette's last transfer. She would love to hear from you before she comes home.</i></span></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-26204023137154098612012-03-20T23:25:00.000-07:002012-03-20T23:25:19.410-07:00woot woooooo!<span style="color: #660000;">From March 19th, 2012</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">I am loving this life!!! I think EVERYONE should live a missionary life! It´s the best! </div><div class="MsoNormal">Well, that reminds me that in Preach My Gospel Chapter 1 there is a quote I read just this morning that the greatest work we will ever do is within the walls of our own home. That HAS to be the truth. What I have learned in my own parents’ home and here in the mission field is for SURE the key to how to have a successful future home. I am so grateful for the amazing examples in my life and experiences to learn by and teach by the Spirit of the Lord and gaining full confidence that it is His true Church that we belong to and through His Begotten Son that we will gain eternal life. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This week we have been overwhelmed with amazing people! Familia Carrari have been a great gain to the branch. Hno Carrari is a life-long member whose new almost-wife is not a member. After several years of inactivity, he decided that his life and his family needed the BEST things and he called up the Elders to have them come and visit. 2 months later, they are preparing to get married so that his wife can be baptized! They are so great and faithful not having missed a Sunday in 2 months. Little Lujan, 6, and Ignacio, 3, just LOVE church, primary and reading scriptures. They are just SUNSHINE. A new sister for our Relief Society, another priesthood holder and two great additions to our ever-growing primary. LOVE IT!! </div><div class="MsoNormal">Cesar, a convert from January, received the Aaronic priesthood and is so eager to keep going and growing in his responsibilities of the church. He just loves being there. He´s in the church almost ALL day Sunday when he can. He attends our branch and then helps the branch that comes after us and stays to participate in choir as well. haha he´s great!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The world is so small ESPECIALLY as members of the church. The family I told you about just now, the Carrari´s, know a member family (Barcos) from here from about 25 years ago when they were in the same ward/branch in Bahía Blanca (provincia BS AS). Now they live a block away from each other! Flia Barcos has been making all these connections with our investigators, including being a childhood friend of Enrique! They are often together now doing different activities and teaching and learning. It´s been amazing! Enrique says he´s hooked. haha love him</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Monica, a great, great lady, was looking for work and we happened to randomly know that a member from the other branch was looking for someone to help them in their house. We made the connection between them and Monica was overjoyed to get the job the same day!!! She has been having a hard time lately but her faith was strengthened to get immediate answers to her prayers. I love watching how the love and confidence we have for our Heavenly Father can really shine a new light into our lives. It´s amazing!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">haha Did I tell you all that the people I tell about my bus driving job in Alaska just stare at me incredulously? haha they stare at me, eyes wide just waiting for me to say, ‘just kidding’. Most women here don´t know how to drive. It´s really a lot more rare to find a woman that drives. There ARE women who do but it´s not as prevalent as the US. And so when I throw in the BUS thing, it´s even more incredible to believe. So I have to promise to bring them pictures the next time I see them and it´s also a great way to set up follow-up appointments. haha win-win! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We were walking up this one street this week to contact a referral when we saw a man sitting outside his house look up to see who was walking by. ( I still CAN´T get over the fact that people just SIT OUTSIDE and chill in their front yard while we are FREEZING and wishing we were inside somewhere, anywhoo...) He looked up and instead of looking back down, he stared and so we felt to go and talk to him on the way back down the street. We knocked on the door of the referral, no one home. Once we had gotten to the top of the street it really was going to be a lot more efficient to not go back down the street and just walk more uphill and have a more direct route to our next plans. But we both looked at each other and with that knowing look that we have achieved as a companionship; we went to follow the prompting of the Spirit. As we talked to this wonderful older man (80 yrs old!!!) about his relationship with God, I felt the strongest impression to tell him that if he came to church with us he would know that this is the true Church that he hasn´t found because he didn´t know where to find it. He looked at me a second and then just nodded his head and said, OK. Well, German Venegas LOVED church yesterday and is planning on coming back next week too. MIRACLES HAPPEN!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We FINALLY met this one kid who was baptized in Misiones (provinicia al norte de Argentina, almost Brazil) 3 years ago that his mom stopped us in the grocery store two weeks ago to ask us that we go and visit him to invite him and the rest of her sons back. I´ll have to tell you later what she said about herself but she knows that her sons were better when they were active in the Church. We are now helping Javier, Andres, Arturo and Martin. Woot! We have a Family Home Evening planned with them for the weekend when they are all home together. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Will someone please tell Nikki, Siostra Stay, that I love her??? I can´t believe that she´ll be home this week! I will let you know what i get from her emails because I’m pretty sure her homecoming won´t be for another 3 week or so because of gen conf and her ward conf and fast Sunday :) haha oh man. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This week we are planning on doing an exchange with the sisters from Rio Grande (the zone on this island Tierra del Fuego to the north of us) I´m a little nervous but very excited. I would be going with Hna Reed while Hna Gutierrez comes down here to be with Hna Shelley. Wow! Pray for us. It´ll be an exciting week! Especially prepping everyone for conference and Easter!</div><div class="MsoNormal">I love you all. Have a wonderful, joyous week. Danny sent me pictures of the snow!!! Wow. It snowed here too. We are finally in the same season on opposite ends of the world :) haha it´s nice today though so we will hopefully be going to a little hike to the Ushuaian Bridal Veil Falls. Pretty. So I hear. I´ll let you know if it is next week! </div><div class="MsoNormal">Love, love, love you all!</div><div class="MsoNormal">I know this church is true!</div><div class="MsoNormal">See ya!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hermana Gonzalez</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3hQ65zOZWEOT27Jji06hbYuK6Er1SjrlVSNJ5iGsY4SvDnwcnkkn5Oonv9b1XyVqHlgzIZUrHES7Wap7LeG9115tLAlRM-tx0-GtNL741JarAgFIFhyphenhyphenZkIlRZ5L8NrVxAjcWNTHgATXei/s1600/March+19,+2012+Imagen_607.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3hQ65zOZWEOT27Jji06hbYuK6Er1SjrlVSNJ5iGsY4SvDnwcnkkn5Oonv9b1XyVqHlgzIZUrHES7Wap7LeG9115tLAlRM-tx0-GtNL741JarAgFIFhyphenhyphenZkIlRZ5L8NrVxAjcWNTHgATXei/s640/March+19,+2012+Imagen_607.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thanks <span style="color: #38761d;">Hna CAMILLY</span> for the update!! I was SOOO happy to hear from you. I have a story for you and Alipio: so Hna Dunn went to her new area and new companion with all sorts of great hopes and things are going well as far as I know. She said that her new companion did NOT like the Brother of Jared´s skin!!! Remember when Hna Dunn SCREAMED when it was in her hand and she threw it on the table with the food that first time??? haha apparently her new companion´s reaction was WAAAY better. haha I thought Alipio would really appreciate that. Hna Dunn had to take that page out of her memory book and hide it until her companion leaves :)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #38761d;">EMMA</span> bo bemma!!! I LOVE hearing that you have had such great testimony building experiences in DC and that you are loving it. I will TOTALLY go back east with you someday and you´ll have to show me around a town I know I’m BOUND to love! Keep being amazing like you are and remember always that I love you! The Church is true!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #38761d;">ANGELICA</span>!!! You TALK about me all the time? I know, I know. You love me. But I DO expect you to dedicate at LEAST 3 biscuit nights to me to catch up on all the stuff you HAVEN¨T TOLD ME! I don´t worry that you will, it´s just when. What´s your Alaska stuff looking like? P.S. WHO is the guy that served here?? NAMES please? Well, I love you my dearest!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I don´t know if you can send these to them by email or what. I know that all these lovely ladies read my blog often. My favorite stalkers for sure :) haha I have a stalker story for you all later :) don´t worry it´s not scary, it´s actually really funny. Well, it was to me at least.</div><div class="MsoNormal">This week was INCREDIBLE!! I decided that the end of the mission is DEFINITELY the best. I can´t believe it but then again, God is a God of miracles. EVERY day is my new favorite day of the mission. We get home EXHAUSTED beyond all reason of course but we are on FIRE! Well, the MEMBERS are really. We have had the success because we have been receiving the Lord´s vision for this area and it lies in doing our part to help the MEMBERS fulfill their missionary responsibilities. I mean, when a member has a referral of a friend that wants to hear us, they come RUNNING. They don´t have to putter around, we don´t have to tear the referral from the hands or anything. This week we had 7 of these great people in Church with us and one will be getting baptized this coming Sunday. She is so great and is so excited! She´s like Enrique and has been telling everyone and inviting them to be there! Ana Laura. She´s 12 and fell in love with the Young Women´s program and the hymns and music and then read the Book of Mormon and noticed right away that it was special. She´s amazing! I´ll send pics next week!</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are preparing a great little family too and a wonderful woman who is fighting to get out of a bad, very harmful relationship. I love her and she is so great and has a powerful testimony of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and how it is true by what? Praying and reading. She prayed and picked up the Book and found her answer right away. So GREAT! I love knowing that the good news we bring, the Gospel message, is what EVERYONE needs, regardless of situation or problem. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is for every one of us. </div><div class="MsoNormal">We have been going to the hospital quite a bit this week because that´s just how Argentina medicine works (we´ll talk about health care when I´m NOT Hermana Gonzalez, don´t get me started) if someone gets sick, to the hospital. Fall and your knee still hurts 2 days later, go to the hospital. If your nose is runny, go to the hospital. Anyway, Hna Shelley got some weird red spots on her body and we were told to go to the hospital to figure it out. Anyway, the subsequent visits were to get an appointment with a dermatologist, get blood drawn, a delicious throat swab etc. Well, the point of the story is that I noticed when we were there at 6 am to get in line for the tests that Argentina has ZERO vending machines. I had never thought about it until we were sitting there in SILENCE, in a HOSPITAL. I have spent a good amount of time in hospitals and the familiar hum of the vending machines was absent and so it clicked. NO vending machines anywhere in Argentina. WOW! BUT there are dispensas/kioskos on every block which serve the same purpose. haha Just a little side thing that I discovered this week that changed my life. Also, learned how to make yogurt this week. Another life-changer.</div><div class="MsoNormal">This past Thursday, the 8th of march, was Día de la Mujer. Everyone was really friendly and wished us a good day all day. We took advantage of the day to get in touch with some of our tougher peeps. There are less active families that NEVER let us in to teach or they are all friendly and everything UNTIL we start to remind them about Church on Sunday then all the friendly goes out the door. So we took delicious banana bread to a sister that isn´t our biggest fan and we saw as the bread melted her heart a little, she smiled, let us in and it was great!! Hooray!!! We took more bread around to all of our appointments that day and ended with a big empty tupperware and happy hearts lifted all over Ushuaia! Oh the love and tenderness of small acts of kindness!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hna Shelley asked me a really great question this week. We were enjoying really great facturas and she thoughtfully asked, ´why are pregnant women so cute, but fat missionaries aren´t?´ hahaha I would really like to know the answer but hey, it might be one of those mysteries that we won´t get to know until the other side. I might come home slightly round but not for a lack of trying. It´s cold, ok? Everywhere we go, they ask us if we are cold or hungry and without listening for an answer, they get out something to snack on and get the hot water on the stove. Bummer that it´s too wonderful to turn down a warm cup of boldo (not sure if that´s the same herb in English) on these cold days. Whew. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Well, the funny stalking story real quick. We have this recent convert that is doing great. She´s super faithful and is learning a lot and very quickly. She sometimes brings a lot of what she would have said in her ´former´ life to apply now and we have to remember to correct her like a child. She calls us her baby because she´s learning like a child. She´s been baptized for almost 5 months and has had some issues with an ex-boyfriend that she just chooses to suffer over. Well, we got that guy out of the picture, I mean, not US as missionaries, but she finally just closed the door on that. BUT all of a sudden we get this NEW guy on the scene. He´s already tons better than the last guy because he came to Church, is reading the Book of Mormon and all BUT is not being a fan. We were teaching this new member last night and he came over. She got all red and blushy! Like a little teenager. haha I called her out because he went to the other room to not pray with us (baby steps) and she wouldn´t confess. Anywho, we left all together because she said she was going to go meet some friends and this new guy had come to get her and go. We went separate ways after getting out to the street from the apartment. As she was walking I had this crazy ´protect her´ sensation so we watched as they crossed the street. It looked like they were holding hands!! So we ran down the block to see them cross the next street (good thing the blocks here are shorter than the city blocks in Capital) and we ran down and hid in a darkened doorway to watch them walk by. We followed them a good long while, laughing and giggling all the way because of my craziness. We stalked them until they got in a taxi and drove away but it looked like good friendly time so we walked home still talking about this new guy. We´ll be keeping our eye on him.....Then, Hna Shelley, always the worry-er (can´t spell), said she hoped no one called the cops on our creeper behavior, and if they did, she hoped Hno Franco (our ward mission leader haha) would be the one called to come. hahaha </div><div class="MsoNormal">haha anywho love the work. We are looking to help a lot more members catch the vision of every member a missionary and getting a STAKE here in Ushuaia.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I love this work. I know the Church is true!!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Love you all, </div><div class="MsoNormal">Have a wonderfully fantastic week!!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hermana Gonzalez</div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-29923321126758158282012-03-05T22:50:00.000-08:002012-03-05T22:50:34.341-08:00Hey hey hey!!!From March 5th, 2012<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I cannot believe all the amazing-ness of stuff that is going on here, Poland, in Utah, and all over the great wide world!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I have been faithfully receiving and reading such GREAT emails from friends who are wonderful examples of member missionary work and finding every opportunity to share their testimony and from fellow missionaries throughout the course of my mission. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Sister Stay, my amazingly talented and beautiful friend serving as a missionary in Poland has always been a great source of motivation and love for me. Her amazingly powerful personality and testimony has kept me going MANY weeks of the mission and I love her stories of the tender mercies of the Lord. I don´t know if anyone one at home (mom, dad?) have followed her blog like I have (the posts of her emails get forwarded to me, not sure how but they have been since day 1 of the MTC. LOVE it) But she will be finishing up this great service to the Lord this month. My heart felt a ton of different emotions reading that. We were together very little time in the MTC while she was waiting to just get out and serve and it was a miracle for me to see her. Now, it´s just a little bit longer and I´ll see her on the other side. I love her so much and I am grateful for her friendship just as much as the amazing example she has been of a diligent worker in the Lord´s vineyard. The field is WHITE and ready for the harvest. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A great friend sent a fantastic email with a story about sharing the Book of Mormon with David Russell, a Grammy winning guitarist, while he was in Salt Lake playing. I loved the story because of many things but mostly the power of prayer and preparation. He had a spare Book of Mormon in his car and a prayer in his heart to have the opportunity to share it with David Russell. He got the chance and did his part to flood the earth with the Book of Mormon as President Benson said we should do. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The time is now. The technology has never been greater. I am so grateful for the opportunity to have shared my whole missionary experience with dozens, maybe a hundred people or more through a simple blog. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know that this is the only true Church of Jesus Christ. He Himself is at the head leading us in a world of confusion and changing values to a path of steady, sure principles and a firm foundation. What a wonderful gift of peace in a difficult time to live on earth. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This week was amazing to see how the Lord has prepared the people here in Ushuaia to receive the Gospel. Hno Enrique was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and received the gift of the Holy Ghost. He has been a ROCK star inviting people to come to church to accompany him and see the great changes he is making in his life. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There is a girl that is a reoccurring face in my pictures Xenia, (pronounced Gina, kinda).She is AMAZING! She was baptized about a month and a half ago in another branch down here. She LOVES going with us to visit investigators and makes sure that we are doing well in committing the people to read, pray and leave them a part they can read and ponder until our next visit. She´s 12 and the best mini missionary I´ve seen her age!! We went to meet this one family that just moved here from Rio Grande on Saturday night after a baptism (where we took Ana Laura, a great girl that is excited about her baptism the 18th that Xenia befriended immediately) and with this family, Xenia loved them immediately as did Hna Shelley and I. Nestor and Virginia are SO great! They have two little kids, Lujan and Ignacio. They are a great family. Nestor is a less active member who wants his family to have the gospel. Virginia and he are just waiting this week for his divorce papers, all signed and good to go, to arrive so they can go and start the paperwork to be married here! The day they get married, Virginia is all ready and anxious to get into the water!!! She´s so prepared it´s crazy that all these random things have been holding her back from being baptized already. The whole family went to church yesterday, stayed happily participating in all the classes. They are SOO great! Virginia started the Book of Mormon from the beginning about a month ago and is in Alma 30 I think! She LOVES learning the gospel and just wants to know everything. She has this huge list of things to ask that she is anxious to talk about with us this week. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We met Ana and Ana Laura, well, I met them because Hna Shelley knew them from BEFORE I got here and they had left for vacation. Now everyone is back because school started down here. Ana Laura is this cute, cute 12 year old who loves church, loved young women´s and is eager for her own baptism. Hopefully we can work with the whole family but her mom has been kinda depressed lately and sleeps a lot so we never see her. Ana Laura came with us to the baptism on Saturday and loved it. She said it scared her at first because she wasn´t prepared for what it was but then said she got this great warmth in her heart as she was sitting waiting for the little girl who had gotten baptized to change clothes. She wrote little Victoria a note of congratulations and thanks for letting her be there. It was Great!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I love this work. I am so grateful for every day we get to be here and testify!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I have so many more stories to tell you all someday. We´ll get there. Basically, Heavenly Father is a God of miracles. I love it. I get to see them everyday work in people´s lives and hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I got really sick yesterday with a terrible migraine (like old-school style) that KILLED me. I was OUT after church. I can´t even believe it. It frightened Hna Shelley I think but after sleeping, I felt tons better. I thought after sleeping all day, I wouldn´t be able to sleep through the night, but I SURE did! It just goes to show HOW tired I am. It´s bad. I have to take care of myself because I can´t just be taking days off, so we´ll be planning better, resting better and figuring it out. My body can´t give out on me yet!! I still have lots of time left!!! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Love you all, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Until next week<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I´ll tell you about my new district next time. They are cool. I miss Elders Herrera and Manjarres though....bummer.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Love you!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Hermana Gonzalez<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I think a <span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">BAPTISM </span>would be pretty news worthy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Remember that one time we found a GOLDEN investigator and three weeks later he got BAPTIZED?!?!?! Yeah, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That would be the one and only Enrique Segundo Cisterna Miran. He is so amazing and just feels so good about everything that´s gone down in the last 3 weeks. We were teaching him last night and he said with teary eyes that he is so grateful that we knocked on his door. We had been looking for his dad but the Lord knew that Enrique was prepared. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The baptism was amazing. It all started last week after the baptism we went to with Enrique. He was feeling big time excitement about this past Sunday, the 26, when he knew it would be his turn. With everything that we taught him and invited him to commit to live he would just say, ¨ok, I’ll do it. I´m just sorry I didn´t know this before.¨ We had the incredible opportunity to have District Conference this weekend too so he went to EVERY meeting he could with President Gulbrandsen in town. He went to and loved the adult session, a special meeting for new members and investigators that President Gulbrandsen planned and then the general session. After the General session, Enrique dressed in white along with Hermano Alvaro Robledo and they walked into the FREEZING Ushuaia water (because the water heater went out again! but he was DETERMINED that if we could find someone that could handle the cold, he´d be getting baptized, warm or cold water aside). It was incredible. He asked us a couple days ago if there was any way that his deceased mother could be baptized too. OF COURSE we said and taught him about the power of the ordinances in the Temple. He started to cry with joy and it was incredible to presence the start of a huge tree of people that have been waiting for their children to find and accept the gospel. Enrique will be the door for so many. LOVE IT!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He wants to share the gospel with his whole family that are all over the island. Rio Grande, Tolhuin, etc. At the end of the baptismal service (in which, Hna Shelley and I sang AGAIN and AGAIN I was dying of nerves.) we sang families can be together forever. He could sing for the tears in his eyes. President Gulbrandsen was up on the stand, saw Enrique´s emotion and then looked at me with that look of ´he gets it´ and such greatness!! I love this whole life! After the service, Hna Shelley and I couldn´t wipe huge smiles off our faces. We giggle and were happy, happy, happy despite the snow and cold. Nothing can get us down. Here we go off to work some more!! This feeling of the Spirit changing lives is ADDICTING!<br />
We are getting great people in our lives. Jesús and Monica are the NEXT ones to get in the water. I hope. They do have to get married first and that could prove problematic with the silly argentines that just go on strike sometimes so everything goes kerplop. Like the weeks the gas people were on strike and we couldn´t pay our bill so we were afraid of being without heat or hot water for a while. Oh Argentina, how you have my heart! haha<br />
Love this work. I know that it is the Marvelous Work that the prophets prophesied of. We do the Work His way and Heavenly Father does the MARVELOUS. I am eternally grateful for this opportunity. LOVE IT!<br />
Love you all, <br />
Have a wonderful week! <br />
P.S. thanks for the amazing package, the tights are such a great amazing happiness in my life!!!!! SAVED ME! And the peanut butter? LOVE!! And poptarts? AMAZING! haha thanks for loving me!!! May the Lord bless and keep you!</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>YES!! Transfers and.....I¨M STILL IN USHUAIA!!!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>WITH HNA SHELLEY!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Hey I’m LOVING the pictures that I’m FINALLY able to send today so I will write until all the photos load and then move on to the next email for more pics.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I can´t even tell you how nervous we were ALL DAY yesterday because of the impending changes. I thought for sure that Hna Shelley was out of here and I would be left to try and teach the area to my next comp. The Lord loves us and made sure that we could be together 6 more weeks and we are SOOO EXCITED! I love Hna Shelley SO much. She thinks I´m as funny as I think I am so we get along AMAZINGLY! It´s also one of the greatest things because we totally complement each other as far as personalities go because when I´m tired...(haha like every day but whatev) she says GO and when she gets down, I get the chance to lift her up and help remind her of the amazing life that we are living right now. We have such an amazing opportunity to serve the Lord and talk to everyone about the love of God and the beauty of the Atonement....(bah, English is hard. I hope you know I REALLY have to concentrate when I type on Mondays. I hope that the grammar and spelling is at least understandable) QUICK SIDE NOTE before I forget.....</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Listen. NO ONE WRITES ME. I know that it´s not that long until we see each other again BUT I’m STILL HERE! I STILL want to hear from you peeps. Just know that EMAILS I love to read but rarely will handwrite you back UNLESS it´s a dearelder letter or a hand written to me. Sorry but it´s not a lot of time I have to write. Just quick notes like what´s up in your life and a quick testimony building experience. Sound good? ok good.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Well, we had such a wonderful experience this past week. Enrique, that we found by trying to contact the referral who is his dad, came to Church last week and this week after a sincere invite from us and the member that had referred his dad. It was so great and such an unexpected miracle from the Lord. Enrique is SO prepared!!!! GOLDEN!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>We invited him to church. He went. We invited him to read and pray. He´s doing it every day so that he can understand for himself. We invited him to see a baptism the elders had this weekend. He went and enjoyed every minute. We were right there trying to make sure he had a good spiritual experience and he said he felt right at HOME. I just about cried of happiness. Hna Shelley and I had prepared a specialmusical number (the night before....haha oops) But Hna Shelley is a WONDERFUL singer and we prepared so we knew the Lord would help us to have the Spirit. It was not half bad, if I do say so myself. I was WICKED nervous because you all know I DO NOT sing solo in front of people, but here on the mission, Hna SHelley made me make an exception. :) It was super great.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>transfers cont....</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>So Enrique, SUPER PREPARED. He is so ready for baptism, it´s not even funny. AND when we were announcing it to everyone, he was so happy to invite everyone. He is what they call here ´fueguino´ someone born and raised here in Tierra del Fuego. There aren´t many of them because either people move here from other places or the people from here move north but he is one of those who was born, lived and stayed. SOOO....that means, small town, knows a LOT of people. At church, it was like finding all these people that he says hello to on a daily basis but finding that they have something more than living at the end of the world in common: they have Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and are all trying to follow better His example. It was such a sweet thing to introduce him to people and they say, oh I know you! It was bittersweet. It´s bittersweet because lots of members know him and that´s great because he already has bunches of friends....BUT this is the first time anyone had ever invited him to church. Wow. All these years that he´s been surrounded by members of the Church and at the first invitation, he´s ready. I just wonder if his friends at Church have thought of this too. Well, he knows so many people so we have a LOT of work to do because we are going to be baptizing ´a FUL´! </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Cherry on top: President is going to be here this weekend for District Conference and a Zone conference and he will be here for the baptism!!! HOORAY!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>By the way, the Zone conference will be Monday...pday will be Tuesday. :)</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I am just so torn in all my emotions right now. I love that we are still here. We were in shock last night thinking that we really weren´t moving! And I know that our work is just taking flight after a transfer of WAITING for people to re populate the town because EVERYONE including the members had left for vacation. (Did I talk about that before? How people in Argentina get like a month or two for vacation and they just go somewhere, to visit family, to the beach, whatever for a month or two at a time? This really means that we get a ton of visitors wherever we are but no one that will be permanent. For the south, it means that everyone evacuates to go north to enjoy some sun a while. It was a terrible month having the streets to ourselves....)</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>OH IT´S DEFINITELY SNOWING today!! It was freezing yesterday and it finally fell on us today as snow! I am dying of cold, it´s ridiculous. BS AS is still warm, like upper 30´s.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>transfers cont....2</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>So i´m torn because two of our GREAT elders are leaving for the north. Elder Herrera already left today (we went to the airport too because a sister from Rio Grande, a zone also in Tierra del Fuego but more north on the island than us, Hna Milmont left to go north to BS AS too) and it´s sad because we are good friends with ALL of our Elders. We love them and they are great. This was my second zone down here in the south with Elder Herrera and Elder Giraldo, but Elder Giraldo is still here. Elder Herrera was with me in Rio Gallegos and he was there and then here all the while I was bouncing around in BS AS and came back. He spent a YEAR down south and will be interesting to see how he adjusts to the north. He´s great! The two Colombians that we had in the zone are leaving. haha they are the ones in all the pics I’m sending. The pics are from everything from the National Park last week, the snow from today! And the baptism yesterday, random things that I´ll just have to tell you about in like...a while. haha but they are all great. Love the Elders in our zone. I learn so much from them and being the only 8 missionaries in the zone, we have gotten really close. It´s pretty awesome!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Love you all</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I want you to know that I am so excited to work. I love being here and I love that I have been blessed to have you as my family; I have been blessed to know the gospel and have it as the guiding influence in my life.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Oops some of the pics will wait ‘til next week. LOVE LOVE!!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>mwah!</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Until next week, Hna Gonzalez</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br />
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Hey family!!<br />
We had quite the week, quite the day and I am just loving life!!! It´s been great working down here. It´s like a fairytale land and I know that it just won´t be my life for very much longer and I´m soaking up every minute of it. I love seeing the Lord´s hand miraculously in my life! The people all around us are little angels that Heavenly Father places in our paths to learn something or to make us be the instruments He needs to bless His children.<br />
Once upon a time, a member told us yesterday that WHITNEY HOUSTON DIED??? WHAT? That is so sad. It´s such a sad loss because of how she went. Her great talent couldn´t fill her life and the love of thousands of millions of people couldn´t keep her from the horrible drugs. Is that what ended up killing her? So sad!<br />
But this week we had member heaven. I love the members here so much! I feel like they are just willing to give so much of themselves. When we pass around a calendar for lunch, all the sisters sign up and try to fill us up for two weeks. Then, with our visits planned, they invite less active members, recent converts, non member friends, etc to be at that lunch! It makes it so great for us to have success in creating friendships with more less active members and the fellowshipping of recent converts runs so smoothly!!! Love it!! So happy with how this branch works.<br />
Today we went to the National Park and the END OF THE WORLD! Literally, where the road ends and it says end. My favorite part? The sign says how many kilometers to Buenos Aires AND to ALASKA!!!! OF COURSE I´ve got a picture to show it and now, added to my ever-growing bucket list, is getting to the other end of the road in my beloved Alaska!!! YES!<br />
Love this work. We have NO time but will get back to you next week.<br />
We had interviews with President and as always I always feel WAAY better after talking to him and getting his feedback. Love it. We had a great conference too. But hey, no card yet, but it should come either with transfers or with the conference in 2 weeks. No worries.<br />
BUT next week COULD be crazy. Please pray for me that no matter what happens with transfers that I´ll be ok, that Hna Shelley will be well and that the Spirit can keep us going strong in USHUAIA! I really hope I don´t leave!!!!<br />
Love y´all!<br />
MWAH!<br />
Until next week!<br />
Hermana Gonzalez<br />
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</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This week has been like any other. I know that I´ve had a ton of crazy weeks but I really think that this one takes the cake.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It all started last week when we had lunch altogether as a zone (all 8 of us). We ate hamburgers and played soccer, much like we do every Monday (not the hamburgers thing) and we went and got Ice cream to celebrate my mom´s birthday last Monday. It was GREAT except we ate it while walking down the main street downtown (it really IS like Juneau, Alaska because ´downtown´ is only one, maybe two roads that you can walk down with stores down both sides. Oh, I said we were walking down the street eating ICE CREAM.....it was like 5 degrees Celsius!!! NOT great ice cream eating weather but it was GOOOOOOD. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mom, quick question, there´s a sister here who´s sister has lupus...anything you can recommend her? I told her about how you have done a ton of different things. I even remember DR. Landis but not what you did to help control symptoms and such. She gets the huge ronchas that you used to get. Remember? in the house on Main St? That´s what hers looks like. Big red itchy horribleness. Anything to suggest?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Have I told you about how much I love a sister here named Hna Zapata??? She´s so great! Love her. She has been less active for a while but it was one of those things that she just had chosen day by day other things until not going to church on Sundays wasn´t a weird thing. Since Hna Shelley and Hna Malhue went to go visit her, she has been attending faithfully. She´s got the most heartbreaking life story I´ll tell you all about someday, basically, it´s a romantic story without the happily ever after ending...maybe.....haha well, she´s just great. She loves to have us over for lunch and we sure don´t complain because she stuffs us full of amazing veggies and healthy, light food that makes our work SO much easier to continue rather than the other HEAVY stuff we are fed for the ´cold´. It´s great! I love her tons!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I´m giving you all a little profile of the GREAT members that are living and sharing the gospel down here at the end of the world....<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hno Juan Godoy is an incredible example of a priesthood holder that strives to magnify his calling. He is a convert of 11 years. He is the only member of the Church in his family of 11 brothers and sisters. That doesn´t keep him down at all. He´s so great! He set apart 2 and half hours every week, every Wednesday night, to go with us to visit investigators and less active members or new members. We plan to take him to help and meet specific people because we know he´ll be there. He´s ALWAYS there, always on time, even EARLY. His testimony is powerful and he loves to be with us and the people so that he can do his part of sharing powerful testimony. He is the Elder´s Quorum President here too. He´s a rockstar!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">President of the Branch, President Leiva is a convert of 2 years and is married to another convert of 2 years. They are AMAZING. I am SO grateful for the opportunity to serve with President Leiva who is so focused and great, with Hnos Cherañuk who are GREAT! I just love the members we are blessed to work with down here! We are so lucky and we count our many blessings!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Tbc…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">More....weird week<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So we were with him Wednesday in a lesson where a new member, little 8 year old David, had a real concern about fasting. He asked, What? We can´t eat? How can we fast, we´ll die!!! It was such a sincere little cry of despair that we couldn´t help but chuckle a little before answering. It was so funny. What a crazy kid. The WEIRD thing, we met a cousin of theirs (we LOVE new people) and we share with her about the gospel. She gave us an address and we went the next day. It was for an apartment building downtown. We got there as a tenant was getting there so he let us in. We didn´t realize you needed a key to GET OUT so we went in calmly and on the way down after not finding her.....we found that we were left alone in an EMPTY apartment building. We got STUCK in the building for the better part of an HOUR until someone finally came and set us free. We were going crazy in there. Not being able to do ANYTHING about it! ah....<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Then, Friday, Hna Shelley got bitten by a dog....but for REAL this time. Nothing to protect her from the fangs of a ferocious beast .....oh wait, it was a little guy. Those are the ones you´ve got to watch out for. He was annoying, barking at our heels (like he always does when we walk down that street) and then as we were getting by, he came up like a crazy and got the back of her calf. It was ridiculously painful for Hna Shelley. She limped to the closest member´s house where she got it cleaned off and then we called all the appropriate people to get the procedure. We got antibiotics, meds etc and like Hna Shelley is....got right back to work. She´s a nut! We paused long enough to ice it a little because it was swelling from the hit and then back to work. Probably not the brightest idea but we found lots of great people. It has been changing colors. I take pics of it every morning and night. The ones i included I think are from the first day and today. It´s as crazy looking as the pics show. I love her for her diligence but I HAD to make her stop to make sure she wasn´t going to die of rabies :) I figured her mom would appreciate that.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One last story and then chau-sito (little ciao) <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On Saturday, we ate lunch with the branch mission leader and his big loud family. I love big loud families. Hno Franco was telling a ton of great, humorous and crazy mission stories. We would laugh, gasp and scream at all the right moments. Then the questions and stories turned to Hna Franco. Her 8 year old asked at what age she served her mission. Hna Franco explained that she had gotten married and not gone on one. The little boy said very seriously, Wow mom, you got married, what a blessing!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We were all DYING. Hna Shelley and I could NOT eat for about 5 minutes until the giggle had subsided. What a kid....<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I am SOO crazy excited to work with the people we met this week. They are GOLDEN!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We have interviews this week with President. It´s gonna be GREAT! I love these things. President is like my temp Dad. It´ll be a great week again here in Ushuaia as WINTER sets in...it is all snowed in from the storm last night. This place is nuts. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself exactly where I am. It´s the END of the world. Any further south and you fall off the corner ;)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I know that the Church is true. It is true everywhere and in every heart lies the Light of Christ that helps them recognize the message of great joy that we bring as set apart representatives of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Love you all<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thanks Emma and Amelia for the emails. I love hearing from you!!! Letters are few and far between but I hope you know I love you bunches!!!!!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Love you fam, thanks for sharing with me the song you sang mom for the B-day. Save me a piece of cake!! haha not, but I WOULD love a good Dunford doughnut ......mmmmm... dreaming about it :)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Love you, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">until next week!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hermana Gonzalez<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Happy Birthday mom!!!!!!!</div><div class="MsoNormal">You are so wonderful and I am so grateful that you are MY MOM! I´m so lucky!!! Hooray! I hope you have a wonderful day! You are just great.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I was really happy to know that you were so excited to celebrate your birthday with your sisters, nieces and friends. I love your nerdy scrapbooking style. :) It´s really so beautiful! Did I already tell you how much I loved my birthday card you made? So amazing!</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Well, Ushuaia. It´s kicking my little buns into shape! We walk, we talk, we climb, we run, we fight off ravenous dogs, we teach, we invite, we study, we find and we LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF IT! It´s seriously so great that Hna Shelley and I are together again. We have been kind of feeling like it´s some incredible honeymoon we get to enjoy. It´s just fun! We get each other´s best sides out and we get to work. We are so excited to keep working with the members who are all slowly starting to come back to town after all the holidays. Lots left right before Christmas and are just getting back. Life goal: Be a STAR member that missionaries can count on for support in the missionary work! Done and DONE!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Last week we were really enthused about Daniel and while we haven´t given up on him, we have found out a lot more about the things we will have to talk about with him, like, his sister-in-law is a pastor in the evangelical church, though he doesn´t go and has never been baptized. He will have to invite his wife and family to listen with him and we are ready with members to back up the invite. It´ll be great. ALTHOUGH his house is where we had to fight off the dogs. I seriously have never been afraid of dogs before but I´m starting to develop a complex that they are out to get me! Paranoid? I don´t know, when 4 huge dogs close in on all sides (beauty and beast style with all the wolves) I started to get really nervous but not let Hna Shelley know. I picked up a huge rock and most of them took off running in fear I would chuck it at them. I don´t know if I could bring myself to do that. If they get me or Hna Shelley, yeah, I guess, but luckily we had our very own Beast that came and saved us, that was Daniel´s sweet little father-in-law. Whew! Lived to see another day.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> We have been working with this great family with a sad story but the Brother and his two sons are holding tight with a lot of help and love from the ward. We have Family Home evening with them tonight. They are great and very musical. We have been helping them with some English pronunciation so that they can sing along with the BEATLES songs that they play so well. It was so fun and they love having such a strong spirit in their home. </div><div class="MsoNormal">We are going to share a message about how we are children of God so that little Santi, 5, will know that he is loved. His mom is no longer with the family and that hurts a kid. We love him and are starting to be friends with him. I teach him tricks and he´s still in the impressionable stage so he LOVES it. We WILL be best friends soon.</div><div class="MsoNormal">We have been missing Walter because of all the extra hours he´s working right now in the factory. Because everyone ELSE is on vacation, he´s picking up all the extra hours he can. He went with us to the baptism last night, that the Elders had, and said that he will be prepared to be baptized THIS SUNDAY! Pray for him! He´s sooo close! He has such a great big heart and is SUPER forgiving because there was one day he didn´t show for an appointment we had and we called him tons before we realized maybe he had been called in early to work. Whoops. Good thing he´s SUPER kind hearted :) </div><div class="MsoNormal">Familia Diaz is a fav. haha They are so great. The three grandkids of these great members were baptized last month, the youngest of which, David, turned 8 on the day of his baptism. It was such a sweet experience for them and they are keeping strong. We study the scriptures they´ve read that day with them and we just feel so much peace and a visit to them can turn any frown upside down.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> It has been on and off, cold and hot this week. It´s the worst when we dress ready to freeze and then end up baking ourselves into oblivion because we´re wearing too many clothes. Or freeze to death because we dressed lighter and the wind wants to take us the rest of the way to Antarctica. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Speaking of Antarctica, there was this awesome member who showed up to our meetings yesterday. Brother Olsen currently from Salt Lake City was doing a conference tour for nerdy tech stuff but was all over Argentina and in a base in Antarctica with Argentines, Chinese and Russians peeps. He was in Chile on Saturday and then ended yesterday here in Ushuaia and will head back up to BS AS for a day before heading back home. Great member! He talked to everyone he was traveling with about the church and placed a Book of Mormon in Antarctica. Super SWEET!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Once upon a time, there´s this really great album by Jericho Road that Hna Erickson had that is now stuck in my head but I can´t get it out because I don´t have it.....it has a song called Come to Jesus on it but I can´t remember what the album is called. Does mom have it?? It has Homeward Bound on it too and Abide with me tis’ eventide. Super beautiful! Listen to it!</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have started the Book of Mormon over again and plan to finish by....Mayish....yeah. It´s going to take 6 pages a day and I can do it! I LOVE the Book of Mormon. I learn so much and remember the things I´ve learned from companions and leaders and teachers and my wonderful parents, every time I read it! It´s such a wonderfully wonderful book full of great teaching and counsel and comfort from a loving Heavenly Father. Everyone needs to know about this book. We are looking for the people the Lord is preparing because they are His children and we love them TOO!</div><div class="MsoNormal">I am so excited to get this week started. It´s already under way!</div><div class="MsoNormal">This morning we went to Hna Matamala´s house to drop off some letters that she is taking to Rio Gallegos for me. She is traveling by car there tonight and will be staying with my dear lovely friends, Hno Juan and Hna Olga Urquia. I LOVE them and got to talk to them a little while making arrangements for Hna Matamala and her son Agustin to meet them tonight in Gallegos. It´s going to be so great. My worlds combine again :) As we were walking to her house, though, we helped a woman carry her groceries to a school because she was loaded down with bags and a 20 day old baby! We talked to her about our message and the wonderful family center and we have an appointment to meet at her house tomorrow! Hooray! I love the tender mercies of the Lord. Sometimes we look so much for the incredible that we miss the daily miracles. I love this work and I am so happy to be a missionary and servant in the Lord´s royal army. We are called to serve and it´s such a blessing to be here!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Love you all, </div><div class="MsoNormal">Mom, party it UP! Listen to “I believe in a thing called love”, for me. Ruth knows. It´s a great dancing and jumping around song :)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Until next week, LOVE YOU ALL!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD8gQ7HRGszwrO363q02IupJk_e2yJw5jWmK6A0sY3eFPslWMcOMwjYzXsTLLOfx5YToBL9vYRxGsQn1upmYsqeCCPdUIrV9-C-Y3f0gJsY3Go5jqtjludvqG4miuaFpNiahY7piYiJKay/s1600/Jan+30+2012+Imagen_206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD8gQ7HRGszwrO363q02IupJk_e2yJw5jWmK6A0sY3eFPslWMcOMwjYzXsTLLOfx5YToBL9vYRxGsQn1upmYsqeCCPdUIrV9-C-Y3f0gJsY3Go5jqtjludvqG4miuaFpNiahY7piYiJKay/s400/Jan+30+2012+Imagen_206.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The note is basically telling the missionaries "we ditched you".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5HG8H2vIh9HAVvqC4CeXFiibEala2_XBw2M5CI5O8BN-d5Im1v7FyKl_ju3nh0l8UorXLzXRWnfGndhBo1CGrcyCZGnFyKmJegCX7TuBQEkOtDZPVC1IYT2R7WJ0s4tuJsoKgG3e1pM3X/s1600/Jan+30+2012+Imagen_210.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5HG8H2vIh9HAVvqC4CeXFiibEala2_XBw2M5CI5O8BN-d5Im1v7FyKl_ju3nh0l8UorXLzXRWnfGndhBo1CGrcyCZGnFyKmJegCX7TuBQEkOtDZPVC1IYT2R7WJ0s4tuJsoKgG3e1pM3X/s400/Jan+30+2012+Imagen_210.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Dogs all over!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgervNAfH1Ff7Xq5ZMg9fZX9pUhbZf5FtFUSXeWQpgn-Wf-nmaWX3asp_oSNKIUoO0PpgJlmCoP5JpGxwZ7r9M4kfgQCjsC7YQea9OFn4FK_xugzKSKN9goO8uu2V4H9wcMmNlfiOPERvLg/s1600/Jan+30+2012+Imagen_213.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgervNAfH1Ff7Xq5ZMg9fZX9pUhbZf5FtFUSXeWQpgn-Wf-nmaWX3asp_oSNKIUoO0PpgJlmCoP5JpGxwZ7r9M4kfgQCjsC7YQea9OFn4FK_xugzKSKN9goO8uu2V4H9wcMmNlfiOPERvLg/s400/Jan+30+2012+Imagen_213.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Tbc…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So all of these great people that we are visiting are people whose names are just sitting in a binder WAITING to be talked to and invited again. We are going to be working hard to step up to the responsibility that we have of being the missionaries that are here at this time to serve these people!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Marlen, Lidia, Walter, Jorgelina and Daniel, Daniel Lopez, Lucas and Gabriela, and a few contacts more are the names that are ALWAYS on my mind. These people are so special and I love them so much! I can´t wait to see them all dressed in white and making covenants with the Lord that they are willing to bear one another´s burdens, comfort those who stand in need of comfort...shoot I don´t remember the rest, only in Spanish. haha sorry!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So we found tons of great people. Saw lots of great miracles.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Guess what?? BOTH Hna Shelley and I got bitten by dogs this week!!!! AH! It was another one of these miracles where we received a greater testimony of the covenants we made in the temple. The two different dogs that we must have startled by walking by bit me where my covenant was covering my leg below my knee and Hna Shelley on the back of her thigh where she was also obediently keeping her covenants. We both felt the teeth on our skin but when we looked down, there was only dog slobber where there should have been blood or something. It was such a protection that I know comes from our obedience and commitment to the Lord and the many prayers in our behalf.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Funny story, we were practicing walking more ´lady-like´ because walking fast and a lot makes us get lazy about posture, etc. So walking a little straighter, heads high and feet closer together made for sore legs and backs!! We have gotten way out of habit and so walking well was difficult. Hna Shelley decided that ´walking like a woman´ wasn´t worth it. ¨It´s easier to be a man!¨ haha she cracks me up and that was something that kept creeping back up into conversation as we walked from house to house. haha :)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We were accompanied a lot this week by this great member, Veronica. She´s in a picture with us on a bridge...I love her dearly and I´ll tell you more about her next week because right now we are late to go play soccer! I am DETERMINED to learn to play so the elders are helping us, as well as members and great peeps that love hanging out with us! It´s fun! I´m so excited!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Love you all, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I know that this is the true Church and I know that my Savior lives. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Love you all for eternity!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Love, see you next week!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hermana Gonzalez<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbBs6v_THnu3jqMUX5j1C7QeT0LzKKrXHZu42NF3xLIWNguhxEcx39zNsWcMmuzc9T-dLBScgKQvBa-h77FDSQo_LsLXTrFE5EeQ2VjuVcSqD-_5-vz1lubrZm9x6dKKfx7kro-o8VQN1Q/s1600/Jan+23%252C+12+Imagenes_019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbBs6v_THnu3jqMUX5j1C7QeT0LzKKrXHZu42NF3xLIWNguhxEcx39zNsWcMmuzc9T-dLBScgKQvBa-h77FDSQo_LsLXTrFE5EeQ2VjuVcSqD-_5-vz1lubrZm9x6dKKfx7kro-o8VQN1Q/s400/Jan+23%252C+12+Imagenes_019.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The pics are from all over. The Congreso seals of the provinces I’ve served in. Pics with hnas Dunn and Erickson. The great views and things I see here in Ushuaia. It´s a million times safer here to take my camera around than in Congreso so you will be getting more pics!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-7131061390893502372012-01-20T10:31:00.000-08:002012-01-21T21:24:51.907-08:00Together forever.....at least for now :)<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCe1A54cz8h11lO-JC5FuwXDAtmYtcbR7aooCwrUa3HHiw-eJjNtvAgdrgFiToCPAqM4zH5C9Kt5mhVR6EoWp_IVrqY1Qiwr98Nc3ZF5VXU9dL6iWze3wSUOAjwbdpOXwEGoT4Yd0PrnH_/s1600/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCe1A54cz8h11lO-JC5FuwXDAtmYtcbR7aooCwrUa3HHiw-eJjNtvAgdrgFiToCPAqM4zH5C9Kt5mhVR6EoWp_IVrqY1Qiwr98Nc3ZF5VXU9dL6iWze3wSUOAjwbdpOXwEGoT4Yd0PrnH_/s320/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_016.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_OLMojGbv2vRyfywf2-WDO3mYO0IR1EZiGo3zJCmxh25LRH_NJrqin_1OdNGxVKQ00_1LreOqAmcv2FItyx4ocBffbKgeOyvjYiZDO-B5ZSdqIAYzhCHCgf4cXGeoOIm_6Y2XdvEpXC4/s1600/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_OLMojGbv2vRyfywf2-WDO3mYO0IR1EZiGo3zJCmxh25LRH_NJrqin_1OdNGxVKQ00_1LreOqAmcv2FItyx4ocBffbKgeOyvjYiZDO-B5ZSdqIAYzhCHCgf4cXGeoOIm_6Y2XdvEpXC4/s400/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_028.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Despedida (farewell)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhAqj8QhN-UuSSb1scKBmEz_2AQVFrbP_LU2a6WR7wS1VmwM5AdovcpKTLwb_5lZDouaL_FC3qN8LwcShVdlMbHFw4F8SzvuHF-pnqiPC-OX7reslTA-wJ1WgAkO_kxq37wcQ6iWYHE0DC/s1600/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_037.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhAqj8QhN-UuSSb1scKBmEz_2AQVFrbP_LU2a6WR7wS1VmwM5AdovcpKTLwb_5lZDouaL_FC3qN8LwcShVdlMbHFw4F8SzvuHF-pnqiPC-OX7reslTA-wJ1WgAkO_kxq37wcQ6iWYHE0DC/s400/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_037.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Transfers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3a707v6Vgdv0vZuM7u7aEzzldOvOfDLwbMHCwIrW6Ui_XEHo30nYKP3oIljH4kHJkKQfVN0S-fFOjiCZto_r_P0T5Om4FiFN1qDsKm5RmLM94uiZgxIWsWyGqnAH5lqfD3JzR363zXi7B/s1600/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_078.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3a707v6Vgdv0vZuM7u7aEzzldOvOfDLwbMHCwIrW6Ui_XEHo30nYKP3oIljH4kHJkKQfVN0S-fFOjiCZto_r_P0T5Om4FiFN1qDsKm5RmLM94uiZgxIWsWyGqnAH5lqfD3JzR363zXi7B/s400/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_078.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> At the airport</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpA8ID-604Uwyc8SCYRzmt8TWoPLYeWj-ykuohHfjDF-D2848NLtneqeBy72pvS5K797jHAAqYR21fACCFvaB18LPgzlkHHbX0EE3GLaPAgXqZWeeEzzl1y7CFXgz7GbFwCCy2Wg7h4vI1/s1600/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_115.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpA8ID-604Uwyc8SCYRzmt8TWoPLYeWj-ykuohHfjDF-D2848NLtneqeBy72pvS5K797jHAAqYR21fACCFvaB18LPgzlkHHbX0EE3GLaPAgXqZWeeEzzl1y7CFXgz7GbFwCCy2Wg7h4vI1/s400/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_115.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Incredibly blue sky</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKyEIgOHDS9P2MupjbK4q_L_mOPLqdN9DfNL_gQ2B1ciKCI9VJmKmF3piyl6uo4jUFnoybXTLDeKqNMuTKZX6w5YsjQH2vAcMpiwbRO0BzH8cFN-xLdcz2IoXemGYjqgDrR6XjrjDNVa_F/s1600/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_128.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKyEIgOHDS9P2MupjbK4q_L_mOPLqdN9DfNL_gQ2B1ciKCI9VJmKmF3piyl6uo4jUFnoybXTLDeKqNMuTKZX6w5YsjQH2vAcMpiwbRO0BzH8cFN-xLdcz2IoXemGYjqgDrR6XjrjDNVa_F/s400/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_128.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The mountains, oh how I missed them!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ-LqN31gzGnFweyOvZU6b0WavQPtsGwgVOleckwMT3qVg78m-pZ0gC6EFwGNb02pOCLUL2seBPsCN6HhFJJxoh8OpqhsXB4l3wCwt2kn9SNu-cFZHpo_iW_2mJNPzKyo6buOcdDhty1Mk/s1600/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_141.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ-LqN31gzGnFweyOvZU6b0WavQPtsGwgVOleckwMT3qVg78m-pZ0gC6EFwGNb02pOCLUL2seBPsCN6HhFJJxoh8OpqhsXB4l3wCwt2kn9SNu-cFZHpo_iW_2mJNPzKyo6buOcdDhty1Mk/s400/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_141.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I got here and it was a balmy high of 9º celsius. I almost died. I left the 38º of Buenos Aires </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgduX8CJtUOYrQkQttzibZJ1RvGLocyhA_VGefyfpN7580ZQqF3DtLNb5N5SDRC88QuX81vfApq9iEbkQdADo2Jw_lsWbrSAZEC_8L5QDhf2OsT05YTBk2RARJ0BJEM8MnLjlh4S4w361w4/s1600/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_156.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgduX8CJtUOYrQkQttzibZJ1RvGLocyhA_VGefyfpN7580ZQqF3DtLNb5N5SDRC88QuX81vfApq9iEbkQdADo2Jw_lsWbrSAZEC_8L5QDhf2OsT05YTBk2RARJ0BJEM8MnLjlh4S4w361w4/s400/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_156.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Hna Shelley had baked a delish cake </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwx1cv6JK_Qyt3UT0WqkmxifVXCUQeAaVNXsAlsbd7t1NwkwJIdIwtFArBkI0StYEWFRVioc0Vg-N5VLHT8pouz-EhoHTz4w8_JQyULNOwdK-qHTQtkX3sCucjLRQsYs3Ke1p4htJi4yv/s1600/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_161.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwx1cv6JK_Qyt3UT0WqkmxifVXCUQeAaVNXsAlsbd7t1NwkwJIdIwtFArBkI0StYEWFRVioc0Vg-N5VLHT8pouz-EhoHTz4w8_JQyULNOwdK-qHTQtkX3sCucjLRQsYs3Ke1p4htJi4yv/s400/Jan+17%252C+12+Imagen_161.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Back with Hna Shelley on my birthday!!</div><span style="color: #660000;"><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">From January 16th, 2012 Sorry fot the delay.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hey family!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the great birthday wishes! I felt so loved!!!!!!!!</div><div class="MsoNormal">I love all those people so much. I think it was great that I got messages from the friends of yesteryear too! Oh man, so much happiness.</div><div class="MsoNormal">So much to tell!!! I’m here. LOVING it while FREEZING in Ushuaia. umm, good thing I’m here in the SUMMER because I´m pretty sure I would DIE to spend all winter here! I got here and it was a balmy high of 9º Celsius. I almost died. I left the 38º of BS AS and it´s a good thing I didn´t pack my coat in my checked bags because it was CHILLY!!!!!!!!! </div><div class="MsoNormal">I didn´t get picked up by Hna Shelley, but by our zone leaders so I waited almost impatiently (because I´m VERY patient now :) ) to see her but she was a rockstar and out working with a member while waiting for me. I got to quaint little Ushuaia, which is actually much bigger than I imagined it would be. I think it might be bigger than Rio Gallegos...maybe I just couldn´t SEE all of Gallegos ever all at one time. But Ushuaia is like landing in JUNEAU. Seriously, I had to do a double take as we were descending to make sure we hadn´t been flying the other direction the whole time. IT¨S JUST LIKE SOUTHEAST ALASKA! I can´t get over it! The mountains, oh how I missed them! The snow capped ones too! It´s green, we are right next to the ocean and it´s just amazing! Cold, but hey, roll with the punches, I say! I´m sending some pics from 2 p-days ago with my last trio and then from the flight and here! I want to share this experience with you as much as I can!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Well, I was really bummed actually that I was leaving my dear Congreso the DAY BEFORE my birthday but, it turned out being the BEST BIRTHDAY YET! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">tbc.....</div><div class="MsoNormal">So when I got here, I went straight home because the schedule here is different. But in the airport before I left BS AS, I had run into Hna Quispe, who came north from RIO GALLEGOS to be in Congreso with Hna Dunn. Her last companion was none other than HNA WHITEHEAD!!! (who sends big hugs and thank you´s for the package that finally got to her!) Hna Quispe came as the best mail carrier to give me two large envelopes, one of which was marked to not be opened before the 12th. Well, I didn´t so that morning was amazing and I got to see pictures and saludos from the loved ones I have in Rio Gallegos! So many people that I had taught or found are baptized now!!! HOORAY! Isabel, Familia Lazo-Atia=Roxana, Chrisitian and Juliana!!! Love them all! It was great to see them in picture at least. It was a great way to start out the morning.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Then we had a great zone meeting. It´s a zone meeting and not district because the other 6 missionaries that are here ARE the zone. It´s been super great, two of them are repeats from my district in Rio Gallegos. They have stayed south this whole time!! Elders Herrera and Geraldo. GREAT Elders that we get to work with here! Hna Shelley had baked a delish cake that we took to share with the elders. They love us.</div><div class="MsoNormal">We went out and had lunch up on the mountain with Hna Alicia. It was great. Hna Shelley had told her it was my birthday we had ice cream for dessert. LOVE HER! haha </div><div class="MsoNormal">We walked all around the Barrios, which I´ll have to tell you about some other time but basically my legs are SORE and will get HUGE from so much uphill walking and climbing. Seriously, I think I have never been so sore in my life. We also did a zone service project helping a family of investigators to fill a foundation of a house they are building and my arms hurt! Anywho, after all the complaining of my body being a year older and weaker, I have never been happier. We are starting out with somewhat of a clean slate, finding, teaching and loving and serving these great people of Ushuaia!!!!!!!!!!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Yesterday we had Elder Foster of the Area Presidency here for the mission tour. It was incredible and I love him and his wife and the great things they shared with us. It was a great learning experience and spiritual meeting. The Zone of Rio Grande came down for it so we had 4 sisters in our little apartment. Hna Milmont and Hna Gutierrez were with us. They are GREAT! Hna Milmont was with Hna Peña and Hna Whitehead in Tigre for her first 4 or 5 weeks in the field and she´s been down here in the south since so I had never met her! Love them.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Elder and Sister Foster shared great things with us, especially about establishing the Kingdom. We are here in the End of the World and Elder Foster asked us to think about what would happen to our areas were we to get pulled out completely in like 3 months. Would the work progress? Would the branches here keep growing, having baptisms etc? Or are we trying to do it all ourselves? It was a huge reminder that this work of sharing the gospel doesn´t belong only to us with nametags. We need to help the members share and teach the gospel not the other way around. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Knowing that Mom and Dad will be speaking next week about Looking up, that´s what I want to share really fast. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Sister Foster told a story about her granddaughter that loves taking baths up until the moment she has to wash her hair. She doesn´t like when the water and shampoo get in her eyes and she would duck her head down to try and avoid it, not knowing she was making it worse. After a very animated lesson by her mother teaching her to tilt her head back and let the water run down her back, Ally followed her mother´s example and smiled at the ceiling while rinsing her hair and found that baths and life were better when she was looking up. </div><div class="MsoNormal">When I heard this, I realized I needed to grow in my faith. I need to develop enough faith in my leaders and in myself that I will know what to do and that things will be better when I look up and trust in the Lord. Most importantly, with a smile on my face.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I know that this is the Lord´s work. His hands are here in Ushuaia. Hna Shelley has been the friend that Doctrine and Covenants section 121 says. Verse 9. She is just what I need here, just like Hna Dunn and Hna Erickson were just who I needed in Congreso, just like all my areas and companions. I love this work and plan to never stop being a missionary. I know that this is the true church and it is my duty and my love to share with all that I meet.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I love it here. It´s so cute and quaint and it´s a WORK OUT! </div><div class="MsoNormal">I love you all and thanks again for all your love and support. I got the Cub Scouts Christmas letter this week! Thanks Beckie!! You´re great!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Love you all, </div><div class="MsoNormal">Until next week</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hermana Gonzalez</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000;">I will add pictures later, I have to go to work :)</span></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-31638557129184139922012-01-10T21:47:00.000-08:002012-01-10T21:47:08.849-08:00Hold on to your hats folks.....<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000;">January 09, 2012</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I´m going SOUTH!!!! AGAIN!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For realsies this time I´m going to the end of the earth....the land of fire and BAPTISMS....</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">USHUAIA!!!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Tell<span style="color: #0b5394;"> <b>Natalys Campos</b></span> to write me, an email or something so that she knows I´ll be in Ushuaia. She is the only other sister that I know of that has served two times in the south! I love her and I know that she´ll have people she´ll want me to visit!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Seriously, we went to the despedida last night for the missionaries in San Fernando and when<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Hna Gulbrandsen</span> came up and hugged me she just gave me this face....that usually doesn´t worry me but then I spied Elder Johnson (President´s secretary) behind her watching us and saw his very TERRIBLE poker face (same face he made when I was going to open an area and train) and knew something was coming. ¨I hope you´re packed¨, she whispered in my ear. NO! I´m not packed! Why would I? I´m NOT leaving! haha that was my initial reaction because I LOVE this area and LOVE my companions with all my heart. BUT the Lord has called me to go back south. THAT was a shock. The next amazing shock was that Hna Shelley, my dear sweet first trainee, will be my companion down there!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to know how she is handling this because I just can´t wait to fly down there and see her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! She called this week to make sure that some things get to her this transfer, a few little things she left. Had I known, I would´ve just packed them for her and taken them in person. Now I really don´t know when they´ll get down there.</div><div class="MsoNormal">This is just an insane thing that has been inhabiting my mind for the last 17 hours. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This past week however was full of wonderful, wonderful work by my wonderful, wonderful companions! We made a decision to follow with full faith and works to do exactly what President taught us last week. He invited us to have a goal of 5 investigators in church every week (because if they don´t go to church, then they can´t get baptized, and if they don´t get baptized, they can´t be clean and forgiven of their sins therefore cannot enter the kingdom of God soo.....we have to get them to CHURCH!) and to work on having at least 3 lessons with members present PER DAY. The key to the work is in working with the members! So in order to make sure we have 3 lessons go through, no failings, etc, we had to plan and set 5 lessons with member per day. We had enough lessons and plans to do splits 3 of those days and a wonderful sister that spent their days with us, along with great members that accompanied us to meet the investigators we have. We ended every day BEAT and with our heads held high because of the work that we had accomplished. But we had the wonderful result of 5 wonderful people joining our Sunday meetings this Sunday. I LOVE this work because it is the Lord´s work and He knows how to do it and He teaches us through our leaders and through the Spirit. I am so grateful to have been a part of this and I will love Congreso forever. So, so many great people here!!!!!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Word out to <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>the Pinto´s</b> </span>since I didn´t get to see them and might not before WEDNESDAY when I fly down to Ushuaia: <i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING</span></i> and <i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">PLEASE</span></i> take care of Hna Dunn for me. I love you both dearly and know we will be friends forever! We´ll play in Utah!</div><div class="MsoNormal">We had great miracles happen as we were working a lot with members. There was a fire that was lit and I have this great feeling that it will just keep building and building. A bonfire has to happen here in Congreso! The members, a LOT of returned missionaries, have been so grateful to us for including them in the work. That´s funny to me because we were so happy that they could help! We had another wonderful testimony meeting yesterday were the running theme was member missionary work. It was so beautiful to share that with them. We had Maria and Damian in Church. I LOVE Maria and can´t WAIT to see the pictures of her baptism. She is so prepared, so loving, has had wonderful experiences and continues with this wonderful desire to know more. She´s great! </div><div class="MsoNormal">Enrique, oh, Enrique. This wonderful man is so desperately in need of a spiritual recharge and an extreme thirst of feeling God´s love and guidance. He works like a mad man to provide for his family. He works an hour and a half away, from 2 until midnight, then weekends until 3 am, gets home two hours later, eats something and sleeps so that the next day he can do it again. He never gets to see his little baby boy and his girlfriend but they promised to make the time to go to Church yesterday. We called and called peeps so they could wake up and walked to Enrique´s house on the way to go to Church. We knocked and rang and knocked and waited but no one answered. As we were walking away to catch the bus, he walked up! We met on the corner and he was soooooooooo tired. We were walking around getting people at 8:45 and he had gotten home from work at 6 am. WOW! He hadn´t slept in forever. BUT he said, wait for me, he went and showered and changed and went to church with us! On the bus that we got on, this great, great family the Arroyo´s (who remind me crazily of Evan Petersen from Alaska and our Disneyland trip) and he immediately started talking to him and getting to know him more on the way to church. The family also sat with him in Church and everyone went to greet him. Poor guy, he was super tired and kept falling asleep but then another great member with a car took him home so he made it ok. </div><div class="MsoNormal">I have to tell you this great story too. It´s humorous! Last week, right after internet, we went to eat at our favorite street side grill. While we were waiting for the deliciousness to be made, a GIANT bird dropping landed RIGHT on Hna Dunn´s HEAD!!!!! It was huge and she just froze. I was worried she was going to puke because it got all on her arm and skirt too. I was laughing really hard but didn´t want to make her feel bad because I TOTALLY would have flipped had it been me. Hna Erickson got her arm pooped on a few weeks back I forgot to tell you, but she went immediately into action grabbing napkins to wipe the stuff off and get it out of her hair. haha</div><div class="MsoNormal">Ok gots to go. P day is precious and I won´t have another until Tuesday! Remember that, ok? No worries if you don´t hear from me until Tuesday because we´ve got zone conference with Elder Arnold of the Area Seventy on Monday in Ushuaia. I leave here on Wednesday at midday when we will also be receiving Hna Quispe who is Hna Dunn´s new comp and who was just Hna Whitehead´s comp in Gallegos!! Hooray!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Love you all, love the work. I bet many facebook birthday wishes will come next week so it´ll be this great drawn out experience. I got all the great packages you sent! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANKYOU!!! It´s everything I always wanted. LOVE EVERYTHING. Shout out to<span style="color: #0b5394;"> <b>Brady</b> </span>and Thank you for the mountain of peanut butter M&m´s. I don´t think I’ll ever run out now :) haha and the greatest CD of the Nashville tribute to the Prophet!! YES! Hna Dunn has it but I didn´t I was really going to miss those great songs. Thanks a million!</div><div class="MsoNormal">I am so glad to be in this great work and the servant that the Lord has chosen to send to labor in Ushuaia. Happy to be out of the heat, though my heart is torn to pieces to think of this change. It´s so hard being a missionary and love, and be sad, and be happy, all at the same time. Just know that I am well, I am happy and joyous laboring in this part of the vineyard. Thank you for your support and prayers. I do feel them. LOVE YOU ALL! Have a wonderful week. Next week, I´ll be 23!! haha OLD!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Love, your missionary, </div><div class="MsoNormal">Hermana González</div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-60186135076850102682012-01-08T16:03:00.000-08:002012-01-08T16:08:49.210-08:00Hey hey FAM BAM!!!<span style="color: #660000;">From January 2nd, 2012</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">So Dad!! Another year older and wiser, too! Happy Birthday to YOU!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That´s so great! I LOVE CPK! (California Pizza Kitchen) It´s super delish!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I love food, I feel like I talk about it a LOT and we had a wonderful big happy lunch with the Pinto's and Pardo´s yesterday (another family in our ward, young couple with an adorable little boy who is VERY active and ´little boyish´) It was crowded around the table with so many peeps but it was so fun and happy. We laughed a lot and we ate lots of amazingly delicious food and desserts that Hno Pinto made. They were seriously so good!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Except.......we weighed ourselves today. And we are never going to eat again. hahaha<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I know it sounds really girly to say this but what we are doing is an important work of the Lord and we feel AWFUL and now we know why. Gluttony is NOT in line with the Word of Wisdom. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Anywho, we are working on that as part of our New Year goals. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It´s such a great thing to be making these goals, and especially doing them with the Lord and His great work as the foundation of this task. I have such a great testimony about the fact that the Lord guides our lives. We can make goals for our lives and He will help us as we seek His will for us. We can PLAN to be blessings to those around us. Like a friend shared with me today of a simple act like observing helped him to feel the Spirit´s guide and OPEN HIS MOUTH to share the gospel. It doesn´t have to be an in-depth, deep doctrine explaining conversation to be sharing the gospel. In fact, the approach never is! BUT the invitation followed by a testimony will be sure to touch the hearts of those that our Heavenly Father is preparing and setting in our paths. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That´s one of the most amazing things about being in the field and doing our upmost in daily planning. Weekly and daily planning are ssoooooooo important!! Nightly planning of where we will go has proved countless times to be how the Lord is able to PLACE people where we will be. On the street, in a bus, subway or train, whatever, just as long as we find them and.....da da dah dum! TALK TO THEM!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I just marvel at it every time. Since, as I have said times before, we work in a very small area (geographically) we pass a lot of referrals of people like: Nahuel, Camila, Ariel and Perla, Gustavo, Georgelina and many, many more that walk up to US and ask where we are from and what we share! Those are such amazing moments that we know that by just BEING somewhere, someone´s fervent prayer to the heavens and a loving Heavenly Father has been heard. Angels are round about us always to bear us up. Not just us as missionaries or as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but ALL the children of God. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">OK, so this week was so great! We have been working REALLY hard to raise the percentage of lessons taught with MEMBERS present. We can go around being chums and teaching people left and right but until they have a friend and confidant of a member that lives here, they DON´T go to church OR have someone to be accountable to. It has been really great that this week our numbers didn´t dip down as far as we thought they might because of the holiday. It is sooo weird to be here during the holidays, I mean here in the heart of capital, because when no one comes into work, the place is a GHOST TOWN! Well, especially on New Year’s eve and New Year´s day. EVERYTHING was closed, even McDONALDS!!! Shocking. But it was like being in the south all over again. haha No one in the streets. Such a weird thing because we are usually shoulder to shoulder or dodging people in a hurry to get someplace. Having the whole sidewalk to ourselves was crazy. We decided to talk to everyone that WAS on the streets and we got to have some good contacts to pass on to the elders in our district. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">PRINCE! Well, he is still NOT baptized. I wish that we could just save him from himself in this area but agency, agency. Not even Heavenly Father messes with that. He´s been really difficult to teach lately and we figured it out!!! When he first got here, a lot of people tried to help him out and made friends with him. I guess a day before one of our members invited him into Church, he had been befriended by some Jehovah´s Witnesses. They have kept in touch and now, right now when he finally had desires to be baptized, they took him away for the weekend! He was gone just long enough to miss his baptismal interview (again) and missed Church too. It was super sad. I hope that someday, he will find the strength and understanding to be baptized and receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost. Well, pray for him. I will be.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ricardo, I don´t know if I´ve told you much about him. He was a contact of the sisters in Ushuaia and he moved up here not too long after. He has been coming to Church and reading the Book of Mormon. He says he likes it and that the world would be a better place if everyone lived the way it teaches. It´s true! He is progressing steadily. He even came to church with a white shirt! He´s not so jazzed about the tie wearing though. haha silly billy. Such small things when the reason we go to church is to put the Atonement into effect in our lives. It doesn´t matter what you wear as long as it shows respect to the House of Prayer where we get to worship our God. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There is a man we have been visiting named Becquer who is here in BS AS because of medical issues. We started talking to him because he was outside one rainy night when we were literally RUNNING by. We stopped to talk to him and he liked the message we shared and we´ve gone back several more times. This week, we got to be present as a wonderful brother in our ward went to give him a priesthood blessing. Becquer has NOT been doing well so the blessing was a great source of comfort for his wife and him.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On the 28th, Dad´s bday, while you were chowing down on delicious stuff, we were doing divisions with a future sister missionary to Peru! She´s great and we love doing divisions because we just know that more needs to be done here and we can do it by splitting up! We visited a bunch of people including with a youth whose family just moved here a month ago from Bulgaria. Hna Dunn went to teach him SPANISH. He and his family are converts from 2 years ago in Bulgaria (I think they are ORIGINALLY from Ukraine). They are faithful church attendees, even though they don´t understand a thing. Hno Danilenko actually plays the piano beautifully and played yesterday for sacrament. Alex, is 20 and is learning Spanish to help his family figure out what to do here. He speaks German, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and English and is trying to add Spanish to the list. He´s soo smart and already get the basic gist. UNDERSTANDING it is a WHOLE different story. He´s so great though! Love him! Our goal: GET HIM ON A MISSION! haha of course.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Well, I know that this New Year will be a great one, filled with work, love, and success in many, many ways. My comps will be spending ALL of 2012 in the mission field as I did all of 2011. They are going to be so great. I love them so much. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As Hna Dunn goes off to wherever the Lord calls her, Hna Erickson and I will keep tearing it up here. She is so wonderful and as I ponder how to help and serve her, I keep remembering what President Gulbrandsen promised us before she and her group of new missionaries got here: the spirituality of the mission will increase because of THIS group. Because of Hna Erickson and her companions, Buenos Aires is getting a new league of missionaries. I pray that she and all who come after will be 100 times the missionary I have been. The world needs it. The Lord and His children NEED them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-13961034794530255082011-12-26T10:57:00.000-08:002011-12-26T10:59:43.210-08:00It WAS a verry merry Christmas!!!!<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hello Family and dear friends!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I just can´t believe that it´s over just as quick as that! Christmas I mean. I kept trying to remind myself that Christmas was coming. I just cannot get over the summer heat to have holiday cheer. Weird maybe but it´s a struggle. Mostly, the fact that the whole world over is celebrating SOMETHING right now, if it be our Savior or not, our focus is the same YEAR ROUND. We love and praise our loving Heavenly Fatherand remember His Son every week as we partake of the sacrament and many times in between. I LOVE Christmas though for the FAMILY focus. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It´s such a wonderful thing to see people enjoy the quality family time that comes with this holiday season and the end of another wonderful year.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have spent ALL of 2011 in Argentina with these wonderful people and I love them SO MUCH! I am so grateful also to be here with the companions that I´ve had. I know that they were put here especially for our investigators and members and for me to learn from and to love.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It was so great to be able to talk to you all on Saturday. It was so fun even though it always comes with just a little bit of anxiety trying to make sure that we get everything worked out in order to SEE and TALK to you! It worked out great, you got to see my companions and even though, like mom said, the time FLIES by, it was time well-cherished. I feel like afterward I could think of way more that I wanted to tell you but it´s all good. We have time.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Then Sunday was a crazy thing trying to get our investigators out of their houses and warm beds into church! We only had sacrament meeting and it was at a different time combined with the ward that we share the building with but Prince got there and a few more and it was so good!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If you think about how awesome Prince is and how badly he needs to just make the decision and be baptized...he does NOT speak Spanish. He doesn´t have a job here yet because he can´t speak the language. BUT even though the whole church meeting is in Spanish, he comes EVERY WEEK! He´s so much more prepared than he believes...<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sacrament was great and we got a chance to greet and see all of our beloved members and wish them a merry Christmas! Hna Erickson and I couldn´t see the Pinto´s so we were wondering where they might have gone for Christmas but then we saw them and were so happy!! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hna Dunn had some sort of allergic reaction to some tarantulas that we held last week at their house...yeah, did I tell you about that?? Hno Pinto´s spider collection was on my hand last week...yick. I would send you pictures but the Pinto´s have them so bug Camilly to get them! haha they were gross but one might have scratched Hna Dunn´s hand because it got red and has little bumps. Hna Dunn was super freaked out so she asked Hno Pinto about what it could be and he calmly and very seriously informed her that she could die.... haha NOT! But poor Hna Dunn´s face. haha It was probably an allergic reaction and it´s going away now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We had this GIANT mission conference/Christmas fireside in PILAR this week. On Thursday, the whole (North part) of the mission was mobile and on our way north, north, north to the LDS campsite facility that they use for EFY and other youth conferences. It was so great and the FIRST time I´ve ever seen the majority of the mission all together.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There were about 150 missionaries I think plus 2 senior couples that we got to have a white elephant exchange and had a scripture chase and a wonderful Christmas devotional. It was great to see all the sisters together too. We were missing TWO of my old companions that are in the south but they know I love them dearly. I got pictures of all the sisters and will be sending those next week (because my camera battery JUST died...lame)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Oh! Sunday, yesterday, Christmas day! We had lunch with Familia Marquina who I LOVE. We hardly get to eat with them because Hna Marquina is serving in the Primary and gets last dibs on inviting us to her house. But HNO Marquina got the calendar two weeks ago and wrote his family in for Christmas. I was pretty excited because I love the whole family sooo much also.....because Hno Marquina´s profession is.......CHEF! haha AND he´s Peruvian which equals double yum. We had a traditional Peruvian meal for our Christmas feast: seviche and duck!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">First of all, I LOVE SEVICHE! It was the first time I had ever eaten it but it was SUPER delish! It is fish and all kinds of seafood cooked by the lemon juice it sits in for a few hours. By all kinds of seafood, I mean, SQUID, fish, mussel, and other things that I don´t know in English...YUM! And you have to drink the juice because it´s really rich with the nutrients that the lemon and other condiments add to the seviche. It´s even sold separately in Peru called Leche de Tigre (Tiger´s milk). And then the duck, that had been marinating in deliciousness for 24 hours, with the typical MOUNTAIN of rice and beans. Soo good but soo much food. We left nearly rolling around. I was happy though :)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ok, I just want to tell you some great miracle stories named Ryan and Maria.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Well, I told you a little about Ryan on Saturday but his whole story is just so amazing. His mom is a member of the church but when he was young he decided that the Church of Jesus Christ wasn´t for him and left it. He was never baptized because his father was not a member of the Church and his parents never forced him to choose. Well, years later, after becoming a research doctor studying STEM CELLS and on the side being a dancer, including in the BYU Living Legends, he came to Argentina for a study abroad and loved it. After returning to the U.S. and graduating, he moved back to live in Argentina. He´s been here for 10 years and met a great future Sister missionary in a Bolivian dance group. Hna Noemi shared with her dance group (that dances purely traditional Bolivian dances) that she had received her mission call, what she was going to do and when she was leaving. Ryan showed great interest and she set up a time to meet with us. Now, Ryan in spending a month in México with his mother who is THRILLED that he has decided to be baptized because he has now asked to know that this is true. He knows it and will follow through with making a sacred covenant with the Lord. I am SO excited for him!!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Maria, a wonderful, wonderful woman that reminds me sooo much of Mom it´s crazy. She´s from the north of Argentina, Corrientes and we found her because we were trying to contact some referrals from a member.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They weren´t home but as we were leaving the building, the member (a wonderful member missionary) started grabbing things and helping Maria move in. We grabbed some more things and worked together very quickly to move all the things in from the street. As we were working, Maria kept saying that God had answered her prayers with angels. It was such a wonderful opportunity to be there at the right moment to find her. She has had marvelous spiritual experiences with prayer and the Book of Mormon and she is progressing wonderfully. She´s a nurse so she has a rotating schedule that makes it so until now, she has been working Sundays but!....dah dah dah!!! THIS SUNDAY SHE’S OFF!!! Hooray! She´s going to church and we are so happy, happy, happy!!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I love this work. It brings so much joy to all those involved in it. It´s because it is the great and marvelous work that the Lord has entrusted us to do. A marvelous work and a wonder is NOW coming forth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thank YOU ALL for the wonderful testimonies you share with me, for the support to me and other missionaries and for your prayers. I wish everyone a safe and wonderful end of the year and that this coming year brings great things and goal making and especially achieving!!!!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">PLUG FOR JOURNALS: WRITE IN THEM!!!! If you don´t have one, START ONE.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If you have one and it´s gathering dust on the shelf, make a habit of writing what you learned in the day every night. You WON´T regret it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You learn sooo much from yourself because you may have already learned something from an experience but because you didn´t write it down, the next time something similar happens, you don´t know what to do. Don´t forget to show the Lord gratitude for personal revelation! WRITE IT DOWN! 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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! WOWWWWW 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Have a wonderful week and we´ll talk NEXT YEAR!!!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Love,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hna González</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7bvXplCcOiH1UdusQCN0-dYSqjodRYHxXKk54s3WJJpY5jEuslfWV3IkCLA17qKo3p__5T6GYtDNx9e36MpmzkGJ4Y4CmHAtxGoNcIrzoKndRQLEJFOU7QhekdcbR6klvLrVC5ITApO34/s1600/Dec+26+2011+a_%252824%2529%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7bvXplCcOiH1UdusQCN0-dYSqjodRYHxXKk54s3WJJpY5jEuslfWV3IkCLA17qKo3p__5T6GYtDNx9e36MpmzkGJ4Y4CmHAtxGoNcIrzoKndRQLEJFOU7QhekdcbR6klvLrVC5ITApO34/s640/Dec+26+2011+a_%252824%2529%255B1%255D.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-3536797020409126422011-12-12T09:57:00.000-08:002011-12-12T09:57:52.543-08:00oh the weather outside is frightful.... (the real one)<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The last time it SNOWED in Buenos Aires was like 10 years ago and it freaked people out. haha I think it is funny that here, they only know about the White Christmas´ that can exist because of movies they´ve watched. Anywho…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This week we had wonderful things happen! First things first, HERMANA DUNN IS STILL HERE!!!! And she´ll probably be here a while....I THINK. I HOPE with all my little heart! I NEED HER! haha It seriously can be very challenging to have a trio BUT we have had great things come of ours here. DIVISIONS! Woot WOOT! I told you about all the future sister missionaries that we steal from other wards. haha the Elders actually called me one day to ask if we were going on divisions one day and if it was with their ward member. Oops....yes? haha We HAD called a week in advance (because she was doing finals for school) and we got her first! Early birds get the worm...which is actually kind gross but we did get to have more lessons! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Another thing I love about my Sisters is that we are focused on our investigators and we have so many different perspectives on life and background experience and spiritual experiences etc. that we end up counseling together and come up with great lesson plans focused on our investigators needs. I learn so much from them! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hermana Erickson wouldn´t mind me telling you that she´s 25. haha but I asked her anyway. It´s funny but I really don´t think that age is an issue ever anymore. Maybe if she was 26......haha just kidding. I love her and think she is the bomb.com. We have a lot of common loves like food and She´s the Man. It´s super funny all the time with her and we have a lot of good times. She used to work in California as a paralegal assistant in a law office and then most recently worked in Provo at the Utah Valley Convention and Visitor´s Bureau. Hooray! We talk Provo all the time with the three of us all knowing what´s going on! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We met a great sister from Indianapolis, Indiana who was down here studying tango to teach back at her dance studio in Indiana. She was super great and invited us over for lunch. We were very spiritually edified by her testimony and love of the gospel. She shared with us this GREAT documentary (I love a good documentary) that´s on BYU TV called the 5,000 day project. Have you heard of this? It´s super great. Look it up. It´s one of a series but this filmmaker guy chose a bunch of kids and followed their lives, asked them questions and such for 5,000 days (about 10 years) and them put them together. These two brothers from an LDS family were chosen and followed over the years. It´s a tear jerker and so wonderful and amazing as the filmmaker followed the Older Brother on his mission to Chile. It´s like LEGIT mission prep stuff. haha watch it if you haven´t yet! I only saw a little bit that Sister Roach showed us and it was great!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There was a long 5day weekend for the Immaculate Conception and Día de la Virgen....basically.....we walked a lot because people weren´t home. BUT we also had great experiences teaching Prince some more. He is really struggling right now because he misses his family a ton. But he has great faith, though it´s still really hard for him to accept WHY he has to be baptized if he´s already been baptized. I have definitely grown in my testimony of the sacred Priesthood of God because of the long hours studying and teaching it to him. The Spirit has witnessed to me of the truthfulness of the restored gospel and I am so grateful for knowing that it is true, for having the gift to believe. I have never doubted. Sure, there have been times that I took it for granted in my life but those days are past. Like one of the Twelve said, This is NOT a spectator sport, nor a fast food outlet where you can ´have it your way´. This is the Lord´s way or the highway. But we always have the mercy of God to forgive us and turn around. He is just waiting for us to turn to Him. Look and Live.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The CUTEST Primary in Buenos Aires had their presentation yesterday! It was so amazing and CUTE! It helped me to love children again. I just can´t believe the outstanding difference between those reverent, scripture-memorizing, primary song-singing children and those that are not yet of our faith. I wish that the whole world could see the 4 and 5 year olds that memorized scriptures and were teaching US about the values they learned in primary this year. I LOVE THEM! Theirs is the kingdom of God!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Well, we have to get along with our P-day. Sorry so short but know that I love you and pray for you daily. I am so happy to know that my family is FOREVER. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hope that you will be safe in the cold and snow (if it´s snowing yet) and that the preparations for the celebration of the birth of our Savior will bring not only you but many others closer to Him and the knowledge of His divine love and mercy. I know that our Savior LIVES. He is the reason for the season. No toy, sweater or socks could be enough to give Him but <i>our Heart is what he asks.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Love you all! MERRY CHRISTMAS!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">(I mostly say that so I can remind myself that it´s almost Christmas. We might buy decorations and stuff today. We haven´t decided but we are loving the WORK!)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Love forever and ever, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hermana Gonzalez<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjycc7fc-Rtpdcp1h8Qf9xNFdvs1XWCfWv94IkSZxZoUqw9cnqIYroQkYiTD3FNnRfSlo5xx_SqqjrUMWkRvBblfvgIlaYNSgIYSz2JOMUtvBPL9X8NWySyPqRqbzbg_F4BHCtmq3-CautB/s1600/Dec+12+2011+fotos_de_hna_erickson_004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjycc7fc-Rtpdcp1h8Qf9xNFdvs1XWCfWv94IkSZxZoUqw9cnqIYroQkYiTD3FNnRfSlo5xx_SqqjrUMWkRvBblfvgIlaYNSgIYSz2JOMUtvBPL9X8NWySyPqRqbzbg_F4BHCtmq3-CautB/s400/Dec+12+2011+fotos_de_hna_erickson_004.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</span></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-51120255873637527512011-12-07T21:45:00.000-08:002011-12-07T21:45:18.609-08:00pics and me telling you about how much i love The WORK!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><i>This email is really made up of 3 emails Hna González sent on Monday December 5, 2011</i></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i>Hey hey hey. These pictures are loading quickly so this will hopefully be a Picture filled day!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>My new companion arrived on Wednesday after a crazy amazing day of getting to sleep and KIND of catch up on the time difference and resulting jetlag. Dear Hermana ERICKSON is now with us in Congreso. At the mission home, President let us know that Hna Dunn WON´T be with us the whole transfer but that arrangements are being made to get her new companion up (from the south, we think) and things put in order to open a NEW SISTER AREA!!! Hooray!!!! Like mother, like daughter haha, I had warned Hna Shelley that since that´s how I was trained and how SHE was trained, that´s how someday, she will eventually train! It´s been amazing to see how the sisters are answering the Prophet´s call to serve. 4 more sisters joined the ranks of Buenos Aires North missionaries! We BAPTIZE! We have, at last count, 30 sisters!!!! WOOOOOWWWW!!!!! If I counted wrong, we might only have 29 but I´m pretty sure that´s about right. HOW AWESOME!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Hermana Erickson is from Chicago but has lived in California and Utah (Provo) so she gets the west coast stuff that Hna Dunn and I know. I feel like I´ve been in a time bubble because of all the things that she and Hna Dunn can talk about and I have no idea what they mean. And Hermana Erickson´s iPod nano is like the size of my really old iPod shuffle and I´m just really behind on stuff...that´s all.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Anywho, it was super great going to get her from the mission home, especially since it was so different from last time with Hna Shelley. Oh, before I forget, remember Elder Neilsen from my MTC district and how he´s the only one I´ve got from those olden days? Now I talk to him all the time (not ALL the time, obviously) but he´s the secretary to the President so in the offices, he´s got to get all the info to the trainers and is just in charge of a lot of stuff. I´m just really excited that he´s doing so well and that he´s close! I don´t want that to sound weird but remember that he´s like seeing Brett or Sam. If my siblings and I were working in the same job/profession or whatnot, if we were on the same floor or same office (you get the point) it would just be fun to see them!!!! </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Back to the sisters. 4 more. 4 wonderful sisters. Hna Gutierrez was the lucky one who will have her first area in the SOUTH so while she was waiting for her flight to the south, President and the secretaries made arrangements for her to come home with US to CONGRESO............</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPHuR6lPfpjBp-9Jf8fILHnoXHYgUDUfVVQwNooC9yutArBmML35fl0pK8oueA8OBtJiPDeq0_VW_3C-4K3I_waaDCyIt8earteLwP6bUVHOMWLyJjM7InTnF62JHmM_wjdV9yVq9FRn-g/s1600/Dec+5+Imagen+044.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPHuR6lPfpjBp-9Jf8fILHnoXHYgUDUfVVQwNooC9yutArBmML35fl0pK8oueA8OBtJiPDeq0_VW_3C-4K3I_waaDCyIt8earteLwP6bUVHOMWLyJjM7InTnF62JHmM_wjdV9yVq9FRn-g/s400/Dec+5+Imagen+044.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> So happy to receive her favorite things!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBKHvL9X4r3FC_O92-uaLZRs2SXYukTylqOnYK8tbkhdz6vY2ClO_HriAoEsfa-3afH0NyNtZY4YO_L4L-goLp2WPhX9xaM8kqSbe1rDYITgmb_PwwsP0bfKsR1aF-HbB1ystk4bgN7i1Y/s1600/Dec+5+Imagen+061.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBKHvL9X4r3FC_O92-uaLZRs2SXYukTylqOnYK8tbkhdz6vY2ClO_HriAoEsfa-3afH0NyNtZY4YO_L4L-goLp2WPhX9xaM8kqSbe1rDYITgmb_PwwsP0bfKsR1aF-HbB1ystk4bgN7i1Y/s400/Dec+5+Imagen+061.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Loving family and friends, thank you!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnpl8hysBhzmFuZyezHBeFWCCCPUEdRYo1e64UbXs30d8thpULUpRAZyj29AKEJP8TV4EWobKRuy_fXbxZ05wnv2RC72rmSreNHVj2yOrbO9FaxRNPn8XWP2xKDjuV0E4q2fGUIvo8WWo/s1600/Dec+5+Imagen+063.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnpl8hysBhzmFuZyezHBeFWCCCPUEdRYo1e64UbXs30d8thpULUpRAZyj29AKEJP8TV4EWobKRuy_fXbxZ05wnv2RC72rmSreNHVj2yOrbO9FaxRNPn8XWP2xKDjuV0E4q2fGUIvo8WWo/s400/Dec+5+Imagen+063.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Nutella is great for crepes, so are the peanut butter M&Ms</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf1F0P4qDJhyAq4YOMmYM2Y3mzeh5h4-SWVj1P6IW7ueGUXSsdwSPsLQtOnfl-Tv3IutH0-AJ48Cu1G78Anu5unufyaR2h9Zat9Pj6Xh56uEpxpWAtQ3Bw5ik3k6DbKfvgZqmQkg5rXcbc/s1600/Dec+5+Imagen+069.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf1F0P4qDJhyAq4YOMmYM2Y3mzeh5h4-SWVj1P6IW7ueGUXSsdwSPsLQtOnfl-Tv3IutH0-AJ48Cu1G78Anu5unufyaR2h9Zat9Pj6Xh56uEpxpWAtQ3Bw5ik3k6DbKfvgZqmQkg5rXcbc/s400/Dec+5+Imagen+069.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> YUUUUUMMY!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii_-B8Dv-qJWhTe_-Cb49qhpwWf-nTVC6SeK0YcCopi5GO6mKWSs1qVXbaT6FXRfxdnfl4rm_V7a1fGAfgC_g_GkG9S5lkWgZ6nYZMQ00s8JnoynB-BOH3Y0DQzMmMkupsYRa006rzxP5U/s1600/Dec+5+Imagen+075.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii_-B8Dv-qJWhTe_-Cb49qhpwWf-nTVC6SeK0YcCopi5GO6mKWSs1qVXbaT6FXRfxdnfl4rm_V7a1fGAfgC_g_GkG9S5lkWgZ6nYZMQ00s8JnoynB-BOH3Y0DQzMmMkupsYRa006rzxP5U/s400/Dec+5+Imagen+075.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Presents for Hna Dunn also!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9LNPq8td8Ql1QHOPAINVFh7nATnMq-hc7G9EExytE-m45n6x3JbaRHQ_SEIdXyIx1X2bU2SDzbcyifqgXntROz6M2KG-B5UqFU_wAlwc3nS-pMnAmRdOjdQ0dZBCcx1d_4gZ6ykZwNWCt/s1600/Dec+5+Imagen+079.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9LNPq8td8Ql1QHOPAINVFh7nATnMq-hc7G9EExytE-m45n6x3JbaRHQ_SEIdXyIx1X2bU2SDzbcyifqgXntROz6M2KG-B5UqFU_wAlwc3nS-pMnAmRdOjdQ0dZBCcx1d_4gZ6ykZwNWCt/s400/Dec+5+Imagen+079.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</i></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Email # 2 <b>more pics and more letter....</b> ………hey more pics…..</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i> but if you were doing the math on HOW MANY sisters were going to Congreso....</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>you´ve got ME....</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>my new comp: Hna Erickson</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>my lovely trio comp: Hna Dunn</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>AND a flight-wait-er comp: Hna Gutierrez!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>FOUR SISTERS in one area! What does that mean???.....</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>…….DIVISIONS!!! haha my favorite. Twice as much work in the same amount of time. And we went CRAZY!! </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Our living room (the only other room that ISN´T where we sleep or shower) was the suitcase room. But we got to go see so many people!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>We got great things done and I loved the sisters but it was a LOT of stress and responsibility on ME. Three sisters, two brand-new to the country and one just finished training but ALL ROCKSTARS! THEN I was trying to coordinate who was going where and with which member and when we would meet back up again and all sorts of craziness. Just the fact that I´m writing these emails is proof that the Lord prepares the called, when assigned by your priesthood authority to do something, even if you think you can´t do it, you really CAN. It´s the power of the Spirit of the Lord. </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>RICARDO is my miracle of the week. He was a referral from Ushuaia and we couldn´t contact him for forever. We finally went one random day that he popped into our heads (which means the SPIRIT led us there) and we FOUND HIM! We couldn´t teach him much because he lives alone but we gave him a Book of Mormon and an invitation to church. Then, he kind of fell off the face of the earth. But THEN!!!!........</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWlCbw7wKL-bxlA5AulIouHxh5Pr70PcTiSABWw29kENQabpBnSGEJ22pruv2RVHtFaGyX4T6WketkumXZTpM05smy_yAmrOxlwURKGkbXW8QqAYAVywThneFAbzaLA08BMAYffL4oP5MY/s1600/Dec+5+Imagen+012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWlCbw7wKL-bxlA5AulIouHxh5Pr70PcTiSABWw29kENQabpBnSGEJ22pruv2RVHtFaGyX4T6WketkumXZTpM05smy_yAmrOxlwURKGkbXW8QqAYAVywThneFAbzaLA08BMAYffL4oP5MY/s400/Dec+5+Imagen+012.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">Argentine pants</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvLwH7QvTnLXr9zoVZe49rfbuBV1tsAlJhF9u7XaSiJvExn5ffr8HqalTWbTFYEFh1THJLpRgaMeuQCkYaFKsgZCqCw0-_-3XYvXTuLFzNFHgvjpjgbFZBHmLgu3p_W7W2S6ovkbDH6-T9/s1600/Dec+5+Imagen+019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvLwH7QvTnLXr9zoVZe49rfbuBV1tsAlJhF9u7XaSiJvExn5ffr8HqalTWbTFYEFh1THJLpRgaMeuQCkYaFKsgZCqCw0-_-3XYvXTuLFzNFHgvjpjgbFZBHmLgu3p_W7W2S6ovkbDH6-T9/s400/Dec+5+Imagen+019.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> We love them!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiPNrSFOxgRVsYf8_dEzYLcMtrxWXfasv6FxIZS-UDTumyedghFEsO9ULAsc_losTmt82zAGA4Pnqk1jJ6huv8Q_STEpgO4gBFL-0B6gI_4Kva0OoViDZWrhyZkrHXl-J88AEqIbaoOPpM/s1600/Dec+5+Imagen+034.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiPNrSFOxgRVsYf8_dEzYLcMtrxWXfasv6FxIZS-UDTumyedghFEsO9ULAsc_losTmt82zAGA4Pnqk1jJ6huv8Q_STEpgO4gBFL-0B6gI_4Kva0OoViDZWrhyZkrHXl-J88AEqIbaoOPpM/s400/Dec+5+Imagen+034.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>…….so then Ricardo, called US! It was like in the best two years and I nearly cried. But we went and taught him. We read 1 Nephi 1 with him and he loved it. Then we left one more chapter for him to read for the next day. We went back the next day and he had read all the way to chapter 13!!! I LOVE IT! He is just plowing through all the goodness of the Book and he’s loving it. The member that we were with (a future sister missionary to Colombia, leaves in February) told him that there was a baptism in her ward the next day (Saturday) and he asked if anyone could go and see. OF COURSE! We took him and he liked that. He came to church yesterday along with 4 MORE of our investigators (all MEN by the way!) and he liked that too. BUT he´s LEAVING TO CORDOBA!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! He is going out there on some business with his mother and doesn´t know when he´ll be bacK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sad but he´s still going to get baptized. Maybe not as soon as we thought and hoped but, he WILL. He´s taking the Book of Mormon with him so all is well. I love this work and we see miracles all the time. I love being with the new missionaries because they aren´t tired yet. Maybe a little sleepy but their feet are soft and callous-free, their backs are strong and their wills freshly renewed from making and remembering the eternal covenant we made with our Heavenly Father in the Temple. I am starting to forget the little things. Makes me really sad. I didn´t think I could ever miss the Temple like this. </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>First stop in Utah, SALT LAKE TEMPLE? I want to do that as a missionary IF POSSIBLE. We have a while to worry about that anyway haha. Love you all!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>This season will be the most wonderful that I can muster. The Lord´s great work for 2 Christmases in a row. I can´t believe I am so blessed. I get emotional every time I think about the power of the Gospel, the blessing of the priesthood and the miraculous opportunity the Lord gives us to serve and learn and grow and work for Him full time. I talked about Ruth in one of our lessons, again, and my amazing little brothers. I am so overwhelmed with joy when I think of them and Dad´s story about the talk Brother Garbett gave about them. They have learned what President Eyring talked about in priesthood session, priesthood staying power is to work a little longer and push forward past the point others would have taken a rest. I love it. I had to come here to learn it and they will enter the MTC and get to their mission fields already having practiced it for years.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>I love you, each and every one of you.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>If I was born in my family ONLY to serve here in this area of the world, all the experiences I have had and endured, family things, especially my mom´s illness, then it is PROOF that our lives are not our own but that our Father in Heaven places us where we need to be and gives us experiences we need to have in order to serve and bless others in His due time. </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>In this ward, I think I mentioned that it´s really great for the visitors because of all the hotels here and random people show up every week. But it´s also where people from other parts of the country come to stay when they are here for medical treatments. The members from all over Argentina end up in Barrio Congreso. There has been a brother and his wife here because he received a kidney transplant, another sister accompanied by one of her sons for her chemo treatments and others. Just by being my mother´s daughter, I was able to extend the loving words I did years ago to my own mother and family. I could just hug them and let them know that they could do it; they could make it through too. Our Savior´s atonement makes our healing possible, my experience with similar illnesses, seeing it from the outside, made possible that my heart was open to express the Savior´s charity.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>I love the Savior. I love my Father in Heaven and thank Him every day for the family he has blessed me with. I love you and I know that this is true. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Until next week, </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Hermana Gonzalez</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX67ZHBSTl_PxG9yBmFxp09BtG4CuUtMVpJ_iNqdUmUNun8fuPEstb4rMouYNz4OEhnaxmmhYVKwEa_vOKVE2t2UWyQpPtyUbhiRPlZc7gyrgcJYbugnNCJY55HaGxPbYNrntZtFNj7us9/s1600/Dec+5+Imagen+095.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX67ZHBSTl_PxG9yBmFxp09BtG4CuUtMVpJ_iNqdUmUNun8fuPEstb4rMouYNz4OEhnaxmmhYVKwEa_vOKVE2t2UWyQpPtyUbhiRPlZc7gyrgcJYbugnNCJY55HaGxPbYNrntZtFNj7us9/s400/Dec+5+Imagen+095.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</i></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-70403966011728444832011-11-28T22:40:00.000-08:002011-11-28T22:54:54.908-08:00oh my lanta......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsoxW-_byXa39kjfrJTa7ESt1-kmfHwbJpi-UlV80D3hkGBi3W1POQA-gj5Ys7prBbzY4tB-NgOEnvZ3mVzxd1uNwdGD_vgrck7cgmAOs0YmyGRbytqCpPaju-Qb116-2Ac0jIqgod4lgn/s1600/Nov+28+Imagen_018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsoxW-_byXa39kjfrJTa7ESt1-kmfHwbJpi-UlV80D3hkGBi3W1POQA-gj5Ys7prBbzY4tB-NgOEnvZ3mVzxd1uNwdGD_vgrck7cgmAOs0YmyGRbytqCpPaju-Qb116-2Ac0jIqgod4lgn/s400/Nov+28+Imagen_018.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><i>We thought we would not get an email today, Suzette sent it at 1:02 pm and we received it at 9:49 pm, pictures make the email veeeeerrrrryyyyyyy ssssllllllooooooowwww : )</i></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">This is part of a short message Suzette sent earlier this morning:<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">12 noon</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Yup.......trransssfeerrrrrrs. I decided I don´t like them but I deal with it hahaha, it´s just the crazy and the anxiety of moving or not, packing or not, saying goodbye or not....I lose sleep. No bueno .... buuuuuuuuut......<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">WE BOTH STAY IN CONGRESO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">PLEASE keep praying for me and my comps AND our investigators of whom I will tell you more later!</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">1:02 pm</span><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Hey, sending these pics and also wanted to let you know that I GOT THE CHRISTMAS PACKAGES!!!! 3 packages and SOOOO much happiness. I really wish I had gotten a video of my reaction of opening and seeing all the great things on ´Christmas´. We did Christmas last Friday because we really couldn´t wait to see what amazingness could be inside! So we made a delicious breakfast in our sweet hindu/argentine pants. They are the BEST things ever. We LOVE these pants. Mine have camels on them and Hna Dunn’s are elephants. They are super popular here and I’m DEFINTELY taking the trend to the US if it hasn´t made it there before me. They are the most comfortable amazing things ever. Especially now that it´s getting so HOT!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Hna Dunn made crepes and we delighted with the Nutella. I just about passed out when I saw it and the maple and the... </span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">...m&m 's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A happy missionary, indeed. :)</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Ok as these pics are loading I’ll start writing about this week and the coming week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">First of all, I just have to say that last week, Hna Dunn and I found exactly what I´ve been looking for.....great argentine things to take home and share with you! Mostly things like awesome key chains but also legit argentine amazing-ness. We might have gone crazy with happiness. I found....wait for it............................LEATHER FANNY PACKS! They are coming back. And even if they´re not ´cool´ they are DEFINITELY a GREAT and practical thing. I´m SO excited to get to use it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">That being said, <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">this <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">area<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">is <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">getting<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">CRAZY. </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Transfers have come and gone and I am staying in Congreso like I thought and hoped and......so does HERMANA DUNN!!!!! I was actually really, really anxious about these transfers because of all the things that are pending with our work together. The GIANT surprise was that we would be, yet again, in a TRIO.......I´M TRAINING AGAIN!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Last time, I was just feeling all sorts of inadequacy, discouragement, and worry. Now I´ve learned SO much, grown a lot and have developed this insane trust in the Lord. Nothing like pushing you to the edge of a canyon to show you that you can actually fly. I worried a lot, cried a lot, prayed a lot. And while I will continue to pray my heart out, the worry and tears will be reserved only for our investigators and not in MY behalf. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">This time around, with the new missionaries arriving, President and Sister Gulbrandsen are doing a great thing. For the Latin missionaries who are already here, they will be getting right to work on Tuesday when they get picked up from the CCM. For the Provo MTC missionaries who will be arriving tomorrow morning after a looong, loong travel on an all night flight, they will be taken somewhere to go sleep a few hours, THEN get the welcome training, THEN the interviews and we will go and get them from the mission home on Wednesday. While I’m SUPER jealous that they get to go and sleep and feel good and clean and happy before getting work, it´s SUCH a wonderful thing for these missionaries to sleep before we stuff them full of amazing info that they will NOT remember in a tired, hazy state anyway. I just remember my first day and the confusion, a good kind, not bad. I didn´t know what was going on but I wasn´t worried about it either. I was just so excited to be here that all I worried about was trying to stay awake and pay attention. I honestly don´t remember much but I do remember being happy and knowing that I was exactly where the Lord needed me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Well, enough reminiscing, I’ll do that lots later I´m sure. But we are getting so excited here, yo!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(Before I forget, Hna Whitehead got sent SOUTH! </span></i><i><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To.......da da da dum! </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">RIO GALLEGOS!!!!!!!!!!!! She´ll be in my beloved branch down there and I´m so happy for her even though I will miss her TONS. I actually got to see her a lot last transfer and I love her to death. She and I have matching leather fanny packs now :) and have many dates planned for the future so while we are separated by miles and miles now, all will be well in Utah. I was just mentioning this because last Wednesday was probably the last time I´ll see her in the mission field... :( ) Could you send her the picture I attached with her fanny pack? Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">We had a GREAT week. Prince is getting SOO close to the water, it´s killing me. He has some doubts about being baptized again because he was baptized in another church before and with the language barrier, it takes a LOT to explain BUT we had this incredible experience of having a lesson with a member in her home with Prince. We got him a French Book of Mormon, from which he would read out loud what we asked him to while Hna Dunn followed along in English and Hna Balaña (member) and I read in Spanish. We would explain in English and Hna Balaña would testify in Spanish (she understands English VERY well). It was such a beautiful spirit! I loved it. We were talking about it the rest of the day, especially because we were visiting less active families and testified of the power of the Book of Mormon. So great!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">We met this great family last night trying to contact a less active family. Veronica was sitting outside (a lot of people are sitting out on the sidewalks now trying to escape the heat of their apartments (which means GREAT contacting opportunities for US!) with her nieces and nephews and we started talking to them. Veronica is from Paraguay and has had SOME experience with the missionaries, mostly misunderstandings which we were GLAD to inform and resolve her doubts. We got a return appointment and they said that just the day before they had been talking about needing some spiritual guidance in their family because of some recent experiences. I am so grateful for the Hand of the Lord leading us to be there at that time to meet them! Hooray for the guidance of the spirit!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">To be cont....</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-3996825149423470352011-11-27T19:28:00.000-08:002011-11-27T19:28:18.133-08:00Congreso, dear Congreso<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Hna González blog just a different look!!</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nov 21, 2011 9:37 am<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">OH the mission, there are so many things here that I have to write down (I’m getting WAAY better again at my journal writing following the great example of my companion! I write EVERY night again. I feel bad because there´s really no way to go back and write everything I missed in the south....oops. Hopefully my planner´s will do for my posterity....) I have to write stuff down because I am learning so much all the time and I think that it will serve me for the rest of my life. Actually I KNOW IT!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">I just read Mom and Dad´s emails since they were the only ones who wrote in time for me to see it today and I got really excited for mom! HOORAY! And Dad´s really made me emotional. I am so grateful that even in the moments that I don´t think I´m doing enough, just being here has been an immense blessing for my family and that´s all that I could hope for in the world. It reminded me of Elder Holland´s talk from priesthood session saying that in our family WE SERVE MISSIONS. We can say that. Mom and Dad in Mexico, DAnny in Brasil, me in Argentina, Ruth, Brett and Sam.....TBA. And my parentals will be companions in some not-so-distant future wherever the Lord needs them. I LOOOOVE IT! SISTERS and COUPLES are missionaries too :) Everyone within hearing range of the Prophet can answer his call. I know that today we have a prophet, a modern-day servant of God that declares repentance to the children of God and a way we repent is to prepare ourselves NOW by learning more and applying the principles of the gospel and going out into the world to bring this truth to the WORLD. Like a stone cut out of a mountain without hands....until it fills the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">We are children of our Father, an army of His sons and daughters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">We are here to serve our King, children of the Most High. And this is good news that we bring, as we labor gladly bringing souls to Christ!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">I can´t believe that I didn´t write last week about the Pinto´s. We had lunch with them last Sunday (as we do every other Sunday) and had a great time again. We had an exchange of desserts, sharing recipes (which Hna Pinto appreciates but I think her husband appreciates it MORE :) ) and eating delicious things. One I’ll have to make for you Mom because it´s a coconut milk thing with JELLO which just happens to be one of the BEST combos this little missionary has ever seen!! SOO GOOD! I´ve been craving jello ever since.....I’ve got to make some...<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">So with the Pinto´s, I don´t know if I mentioned how much Hno Pinto loves critters. But not cute little critters like, awww, cute. But the hairy, crawly, possibly dangerous things like tarantulas and scorpions. So the things, I’m sorry, the spiders, shed their skin, right? And Hno Pinto saves them. He brought some out to show us. He was super excited about it and we HAD to let him show them off because we do so many girly things we have to give him a Man Moment. So he had the skin of one out and Hna Dunn asked if she could just hold it. Hno Pinto placed it in her hand and it was fine for a minute until.....AHHH! She screamed a weird, disturbing scream that I´ve never heard before and threw the skin on the table. I don´t blame her for freaking out but I knew myself better than even touching it. haha it was super funny. We had a good laugh. I MIGHT tape one of those skins into my memory book just to always remember that great moment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh hey........</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">HAPPY THANKSGIVING!<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">It´s super weird that this week will be all kinds of festivities and it will be just another day here......haha AND that it´s now climbing into the 80´s and we are starting to bake! It´s going to be another WEIRD mission-flavored holiday season. PRIME family togetherness time...for those who don´t all LEAVE. Did I mention that last year? All the people who CAN, LEAVE BS AS and move to cooler or less crowded places for a month or two starting in January. It´s crazy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Oh quick things before I forget, we made CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES! I know that doesn´t sound so amazing but for a person who is starting to have all her favorite things be ARGENTINE.....we´re talking about having a truly wonderful USA moment. Seriously, when people ask me if there are foods and things I miss from home....I can´t remember. Everything I like or like to eat are now Argentine. Haha But the chocolate chip cookies were a great little love bubble from home. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">We had a great Sunday yesterday. I really love this ward. It´s small, but powerful and full of so many rockstars. I love them! Hna Chávez, Hna Amparo, Hna Gómez, Hna Aguilera, Hna Martínez and Hna Miño are some of them. These wonderful, wise women are great examples of faith, diligence, patience and love. They are at church always, sharing their testimonies through word and deed ALWAYS. I love these women so much and look up to them for all their hard work and dedication to the Lord. Sometimes they go to church alone, some are single, some are married with less active husbands or husbands who are not members of the Church. Yet, they are strong and determined. They uphold their beliefs and feed and grow their testimonies week after week. I LOVE THEM!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Hey question: mom do you have a recipe for cranberry relish?? I want to see it that´s something that I can find all the ingredients for here.. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">I know that this church is true. I love the Lord and thank Him every day for the wonderful opportunity that is REPENTANCE. It´s a HAPPY thing. It means that we can change. It means that we can achieve a lasting happiness and be at peace. What a marvelous thing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">I know that my Savior lives. I know that because He lives, we have hope. We have hope of a brighter today and a better tomorrow. We can be forgiven of our past and be made clean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Missionary work is the lifeblood of the Church. Without it, we wouldn´t have ANY OTHER organization. The Relief Society, Young Men and Young Women´s organizations and Primary would be for naught. There wouldn´t be people to fill the seats. I love all of you for supporting the Work this way and for preparing for your own dedicated service. If was easy, it wouldn´t be hard. :) The things that are worth it are hard. They require sweat and smiles. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Do we still have that refrigerator magnet that says that? Look for it. Maybe it´s long gone... anyway, it was a good one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">I love you all <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">I gotta go. We have to live up this day like there is no tomorrow!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Love, love, love you!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Mwah!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Until next week. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Hermana Gonzalez<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">ps. does the book of Mormon get printed in Creole?? Could you look for that next time you are in the distribution center. Also in Bambara. Long shot but just curious. Creole from Haiti, Bambara in Mali, Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Thanks LOVE Love!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">10 am same day- As I was writing President....<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">I thought of all the amazingness of this week that I forgot to share!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">We have been receiving little tender mercies everywhere. When I got here, I don´t remember if I mentioned how hard it was to find people at home, even members and ESPECIALLY the recent converts. A lot of the recent converts, about 90% of the last 2 months are not active. It was really hard for the elders who have asked us about them to hear that we hadn´t been able to contact them or that when we had contacted them, they didn´t want to receive us BUT things have changed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">It´s like we had to struggle a lot to learn how to love and appreciate these people that we didn´t know but that needed our help. It´s hard to love a person immediately upon meeting them or just seeing their name, but we prayed to have Christ-like love, to have charity toward them. Now, almost 3 months later, I have met and LOVE all but 3 of these, the newest members here in Congreso. Yesterday was amazing. We met for the first time Elena and Roque. They are GREAT. I was really hesitant to go and didn´t have much hope (my poor lack of faith) that they would even be home but the minute we rang the doorbell, Hna Elena came out and seeing her was like seeing Grandma. No kidding. I loved her immediately and just couldn´t stop smiling at her. She got emotional at the end of our visit when I expressed that love and asked us when we were coming back. This from a woman who just a month ago said that she didn´t want us to come and would never let us in because we were women. (She was trying to protect us from her 4 very big, very wild sons) Now, we are just flying on cloud 9 and this week is looking to be the best yet here in Congreso! LOVE IT!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Right after this great experience, we saw a young family headed out of their apt building for a Sunday walk (it was REAALLLY humid and hot yesterday so no one stayed inside really) The little baby boy in the stroller was staring at us and following us with his very intelligent eyes. So we smiled at him and stopped to shake his cute little hand. He looked at my planner in my hand, on the front of which is a great picture of Christ kneeling and holding children with angels above them. (fav) He held his chubby little arms out for it and I handed it to him. He took it, looked at it and stroked it lovingly. Then he turned it over stared at the other side where I have a picture from the sacred grove (thank you Ensigns!) He and we had this wonderful moment to appreciate how the children recognize Christ and His light. We talked to little Mariano´s parents, invited them to church and set up an appointment to see them next week. They said they had been looking for a church but worked so much, the one day they have off, SUNDAY, they didn´t have time to really go look for one. So, the Lord put us there and little Mariano to find them and give them the information they needed. What a tremendous blessing!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Things like that happen all the time. Sometime, I’ll tell y´all all about them. :)</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011615878833091379.post-61534573098235607772011-11-15T21:49:00.000-08:002011-11-17T20:11:43.170-08:00hey hey all! IT´s gettin´ TOASTY down here<div class="MsoNormal">November 14th, 2011</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Let me just tell you....I don´t think someone can REALLY get used to the heat. It´s all a matter of realizing that ANY climate is all the more REAL for missionaries. We don´t have warm, toasty houses to chill in when it´s 10 below, nor do we have air conditioning to follow us around on a daily proselyting basis....just wanted to let you all know that but NOT scare the future missionaries. This is just part of the experience. Hna Dunn said the other day that I could really scare people with my stories but to me it´s all the fun and greatness and excitement and wonder of being a servant of the Lord. We are representing Him who descended below all. So when we have to be super sweaty or bundle up with layers and layers of clothes or if the people reject us or dogs chase us or whatever that may happen, we still are so blessed and have NOTHING about which we can complain. We rise above it, we learn from it, we allow the Lord to be our support and our all for these trying times and He rejoices with us in the great times. I LOVE THIS WORK! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><i>(And if anyone scares away from serving a mission because of a little cold or a little hot, they are not ready to serve at all. SO, rise to the challenge!! Suzette's Mom)</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Speaking of the Work AGAIN, have you FOUND the Tribute albums? They are just the BEST cds in the whole world. Hna Dunn and I listen to them about 3 times a day some days...we are obsessssssed.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The ´s´ key is sticky......lame. That was NOT actually on purpose :)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I just wanted to let you know about this week really quickly. Today we had to go and do some of the paperwork that we have to do to get national ID. It´s called a D.N.I. I already have one, HOORAY! And we went to start Hna Dunn´s stuff on it. That means we had to get up at 5 this morning to get ready for the day and take the hour and a half journey to the mission office. No big deal. It was pretty fun and entertaining because I got to spend half the day with....dum da da dum......HNA WHITEHEAD!!!! She is also training and our companions were sent in a van to do part of their paperwork and fingerprinting back in capital (my area, actually) and we were put as temporary comps (or we might have put ourselves that way...there´s no telling) So we got to catch up, she told me all about the great things that are going on in Tigre (yes...she is STILL there...I think she´s going on 8 months. Her ONLY area of the mission so far....haha I love her) and we just got to reminisce about our great 5 weeks that we spent together. Not a lot of people understand how we got to be SUCH great friends and have so many stories, and funny and great things that happened to us in LESS than a normal transfer. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Speaking of that transfer, Mom, do you have contact with <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Annika Huish</span>??? PLEASE tell her that I am SO sorry for not writing yet but I am going to repent! I love her SOOO much. Tears came to our eyes as Hna Whitehead and I were remembering our few sweet weeks together and the time Hna Huish squashed a man on the bus when she lost her balance. Wow....good times. </div><div class="MsoNormal">But there were several baptisms in Tigre of people that we taught together! Karen, the girl that we even got to have a baptismal interview with, (the one that was nearly 3 hours in the COLD after which I nearly died from the fever...), same girl. Got BAPTIZED!! Yesterday! And Joset and Carol, the ROCKSTAR 12 year old and his 8 year old sister. Now they are starting to teach people, I don´t know but I was so happy to hear about these great miracles and about people I love!!!</div><div class="MsoNormal">(I’m sending this now and will load more pics.....)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">…So this week we realized that we actually have a LOT of great people to work with. We had been kind of down because it has been a very, VERY big challenge to baptize in this area but we took a big step back. I realized that we were getting ahead of ourselves and needed to go back to basics: serve, serve, serve. We pray and pray and pray, receive the revelation, and then get off our knees and WORK with ALL OUR MIGHT, MIND and STRENGTH, until we have accomplished everything we felt prompted to do. Technically, we are never through because the Lord gives us revelation bit by bit, raising us higher and higher and adding to our faith little by little until we are walking in the way He wants us to because He led us there. </div><div class="MsoNormal">That´s something that I want to tell Kameron. And all the future missionaries. I didn´t know exactly what to expect of the mission and of how life would be there. I don´t know, it is hard to wrap your head around and it´s hard for a returned missionary to REALLY explain, because it really is what each individual makes of it.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thanks for sharing with Kameron my emails. I really do know that attitude is a key factor in how each and every day starts and ends. I haven´t ever felt like I shouldn´t be here, that I wanted to be somewhere else or anything of that nature. BUT I HAVE felt discouraged at times, felt guilty for not doing more and felt the need to repent and do MANY things better. BUT that doesn´t get me down. I shared with President in my last interview, I can´t remember if I shared this already last week, but even if I did, I will share it again. It is something that changed a lot how I feel about myself. </div><div class="MsoNormal">President Gulbrandsen helped me change the perspective on being TIRED and Guilty. He knows my face now. We´ve been serving together a while now and he can tell. I walked in his office and he asked how I was. I know that when he asks me that, he´s not looking for the standard, ´oh I’m fine, thanks´ kind of answer. He wants the LEGIT answer. He looked into my eyes and said (not ASKED): </div><div class="MsoNormal">Pres: You are tired. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Me: I really am. And I feel guilty.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Pres: That´s ok.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Me: It doesn´t FEEL ok.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Pres: Well, would you rather be rested, with a lot to give and feel guilty? Or exhausted with nothing left in the tank and feel guilty?</div><div class="MsoNormal">Me: hmmm....exhausted and guilty. But I don´t want to be guilty or have regret here.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Pres: the Lord lets us feel that way because He always wants us to do our best. He is always pleased with our efforts but never satisfied.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I know that when I shared this with my companion, she didn´t like the thought that the Lord is never satisfied. I thought (not only of SAMMY scratching his nose :) ) but that it´s true. Of anyone, who better than our Father in Heaven to know what our true potential is and not rest until He helps us reach it? He sees us; He notes our acts and applauds us in our good acts, suffers in our wrong doings and rejoices when we turn to Him for help. After everything WE think that WE have done well enough, HE sees and always knows better. Hna Dunn shared with me in companionship study about being UNCOMFORTABLE a few weeks ago. I directly quoted to her her own words that day, ´when we are uncomfortable is when the Lord is trying to humble us and invite us to do something more´. I wrote it down word for word as it came out of her mouth and she was surprised when I read it back to her the other day. </div><div class="MsoNormal">That also testifies about how we learn. We have to learn and relearn and remember CONSTANTLY the words and ideas we ALREADY LEARNED because the human mind is a weak thing. I have to write everything down and then REMEMBER to review those thoughts and impressions because if not, I am not changing. If I´m not, I´m the same as yesterday and that´s a step backwards.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">That´s also why JOURNALS are so important. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Kameron, on your mission NEVER GO A DAY WITHOUT WRITING at the very least ONE line about how you FELT that day! DON’T GO TO SLEEP UNTIL YOU HAVE REFLECTED WITH THE LORD ABOUT YOUR SERVICE TO HIM. Pray with a notebook by your side and write down what you think of afterward. The thoughts and impressions will continue to flow to serve your companions, your investigators, members, bishops and everyone as you learn to ASK, RECORD your thoughts and ACT on the revelation. TRUST the revelation. YOU have as much right to the revelation for your areas and members and investigators as your trainer does the VERY MINUTE you arrive to the field. USE EVERY MINUTE in the MTC to strengthen your words and to share your testimony purely and simply. No use for grand words and pretty phrases. The Spirit will testify as you speak with the authority and power by which you have been called and that have been bestowed upon you with this sacred call.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I pray for you and all of my family and loved ones. All you who ask about me, pray for me and the missionaries, who write me and send your love are SERVING. You are showing your love to the Lord by loving His servants. THANK YOU.</div><div class="MsoNormal">This weekend was Stake conference in Congreso and that was a HUGE theme. There are 25 wonderful youth that are going to the temple in Uruguay in January to make sacred covenants with the Lord in preparation to serve Him as missionaries!! 25!!!!! By March, this one amazing Stake will have nearly 40 missionaries serving everywhere from England to Colombia. 40 MISSIONARIES! How wonderful is that??!?!?! Don´t worry, it´s about half and half SISTERS and ELDERS.</div><div class="MsoNormal">SISTER CAN SERVE TOO! We are part of a wonderful and blessed generation. I LOVE being a missionary and hope that MANY, MANY, MANY other young women can have hopes and dreams to experience the same. I love my life, my family, my friends and my Lord. THAT is why I am here. I could never show so fully my love without being here and sharing it with everyone.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Love you all, have a wonderful week!!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Peace!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hermana Gonzalez</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">PS Package items for the blog :) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">*Otter pops?? :)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">*Baby Books of Mormon (as many as you can, I don´t know how much they are...but people here LOVE them and they ARE expensive to get here)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">*Neosporin (the ointment stuff for cuts and stuff)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">*CARMEX my lips are DYING....</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">*Maple extract!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">Thanks!!!! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And family, thank you soooooooo much for including my comps in your Christmas preparations. you have NO idea how much I love you and them and the grateful tears that sprung to my eyes as I read that line about the packages. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! And I’m keeping it a surprise for my comps so that they are surprised at Christmas!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!! </div><div class="MsoNormal">LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOOOO MUCH!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Purple shirt pics are from our p day last week. sending these to smile at you a little and for you to be proud of my hair growing abilities!!! it´s a struggle but I´m DETERMINED to have long hair for forever more....we´ll see..... :)<br />
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For halloween we made the ´dirt in a cup´ treats. They were GOING to be for our district meeting buuuuuut, it got cancelled. So we ate and enjoyed them thoroughly ourselves. Oreos, pudding, gummy worms...oh the greatness of crazy americans treats<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Congreso Nacional with all the sisters whose comps were doing tramites. We had fun together getting to know my area! This was TODAY!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Suzette Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16724355145277468507noreply@blogger.com0