Nov 26, 2012

Hey!! Sounds like thanksgiving went well!! So this was the first year I didn´t celebrate Thanksgiving...weird!!! But I did think about what I’m grateful for:

 for my awesome mission; and

I really think were the most blessed family in the whole world. Really!

Edison was confirmed a member yesterday and the ward LOVES him! I know you want pictures I keep forgetting my cord.

I love you all!! Have a great week!

Love,

Hermana Marchant

Nov. 19, 2012

HI!! So we got a text last night from our zone leaders that there are going to be protests in the whole country on Tuesday, so we can`t leave our houses at all tomorrow, so today in stead of tomorrow is Pday (expect this morning to buy food and email because we cant leave our houses tomorrow) So time is really limited today!

This week was awesome!! First of all, Edison, an investigator got baptized yesterday! It was beautiful. We got a new ward mission leader that actually helps us!! Melissa (our recent convert that got baptized about 2 weeks ago) said the prayer in the baptism of Edison, and right before she went to say it she said this is my first participation in the church!!!!! I have to remember it and clapped her hands like a little girl. Ha-ha

This week was really awesome for growth! I saw huge growth in investigators, members helping, my Spanish. everything! It was awesome. When we teach Edison, we have to go to member’s houses because he is only 26 years old and lives with 2 roommates so we cant go into his house. So after the lessons we always have to walk really far (because the member that has us over to teach lives across town) So one day this week we taught and we were walking back and talking briefly about the Sabbath day, we didn’t even teach it well because we had plans to teach it the next day, but it came up in conversation. I think either my companion or me said something like we don’t buy things on Sundays and briefly explained why and that was all. But then the next day we all met up and he said "hey guess what? "I asked for Sundays off at work with out us even committing him to do it, or bringing up the idea or anything. He is so awesome! He is the definition of repentance. He had committed almost every sin, and almost each point of question 4, but completely changed his life.

I LOVE THE MISSION. Witnessing things like that make it all worth it. Also Melissa (the chica from Spain) wanted to finish her tattoos and asked our opinions because she just got baptized ha-ha so obviously we told her what the prophets have said and told her to pray. The next day we went to her house and she said “LOOK. I found something in the book of Mormon then flipped open her book to Jacob 7 and in one of the verses is talking about doing Gods will not ours”.  And she said "and I know that its Gods will that I don’t get more tattoos, but its my will that I do”. “But I know the truth and I know that I need to do his will and if I don’t, I will be condemned. So I’m not going to get more!!!!” How awesome!!

I told her to look for you on FB Alex. She said she found you. She now calls her self Hermana Marchant too because she wants to marry you! Ha-ha that’s actually a huge step. The first few times she came to church she left right before Relief Society because she DID NOT want to get married...ever. And that’s all they talk about in Relief Society hahaha. And now she wants to get married to Alex! The gospel is changing her!!!! We finally have running water, elevators, and A MISSION LEADER.... couldn’t ask for anything more! I love you all!

Love, Hermana Marchant 1 (Melissa is 2)

Nov 12, 2012

This week was...awesome! Like always! Well besides the fact that the elevators broke, and are still broken (we live on the tenth floor) and we didn´t have any source of water either! The day the elevators broke was the same day as Zone Conference. At Z.C. we got a huge box of Books of Mormon, and little booklets too that explain the lessons, and other random books and DVDs. So knowing that it would be heavy and that we will have to travel, we took an empty suitcase so that we would be able to get it all home. Well when we walk in our neighbor tells us that the elevators are broken. With a suitcase at least 65 or 70 pounds (literally) we start to walk up the stairs. Some random guy saw us suffering and asked if we wanted help. We said YES. Well he started to try and almost couldn’t lift it but managed to lift it enough. After about 2 flights he started to fall and sweat and die ha-ha. After about 20 minutes we got it up there and he said ¨WHAT IS IN THIS¨´ we told him it is full of the best book ever, and gave him one. Right when he realized who and what we are he walked away fast ha-ha but at least he accepted the BOM!

 Remember how in the last letter I said something about our memories being horrible? Well it just so happened that we.... ok not we, I (it was my fault) left the keys inside the house and didn´t realized until we went down all 10 flights of stairs and couldn’t leave the building because we didn’t have keys! Ha-ha so we had to go back up 10 flights of stairs to see if by any chance the door was open, and no it was closed. Well long story short we had to go up and down like 500 times this day and had to pay a bunch of money to some key guy to break in for us! Ha-ha I always said ´´lets take the stairs as a half joke to my companion and she always said no´´ this week this wish came true so many times it’s not even funny!!! Almost every day we forget something and have to go back up. Now we name the list of things that we need before we leave, were doing better! We finally have water again! No elevators is ok, I can handle that, its exercise! But no water. That ones hard! I think one of the biggest things I´ve learned on my mission is How to laugh when I want to cry!!

Yesterday we had stake conference and they talked how the Lord sends the missionaries in the lives of people when it’s the worse hardest point in their lives. And how we all have friends that are suffering for one thing or another, introduce them to the missionaries. And also to look for the blessings in times of sufferings in our own lives. It was good! So that’s my invitation, whom do you know that is suffering that’s not a member? Send the missionaries! I love you all tons. I hope your week is full of missionary experiences!!

Love,

Hermana Marchant

Nov 5, 2012

Hi!!

Sounds like everyone had a good week, and Halloween! Here Halloween is nothing...I asked the day before...”do you guys celebrate Halloween” and every one said YES, but I literally saw one kid with a costume the whole day!! Sad...Halloween is like the best holiday ever, besides Christmas and your birthday! I

 heard that in 8 months they are expecting twice as many missionaries in the field, and half of them will be Hermanas. How awesome! It makes me think the second coming is extremely soon. 

Melissa was baptized Saturday and confirmed yesterday! She’s awesome. We planned to fill up the font at a certain hour, and as a missionary nothing ever goes as planned.  So when we were actually on schedule (actually early).  We were shocked. So instead of taking the bus to the church, to save money because were poor, here on the mission, and we decided to walk.... Well it was a little further then we expected and we ended up getting there late because we walked. Ha-ha so we were a little stressed already. Then we go to start filling the font up and …SURPRISE its already full. MIRACLE!!!?? For a second we thought so...but then realized it was COLD, DIRTY, and from the baptism of ALEXANDRA like 2 weeks ago.

So we tried to figure out how to drain it and couldn’t so we called the elders and they helped us. After 45 minutes of draining we started to fill it up, and it turned out fine. We luckily started the baptism late (because Argentina standard time is worse the Mormon standard time there in the states). But in the end it turned out awesome. When we went to congratulate Melissa right after in the bathroom she said “seriously, there is a party in heaven right now for me” it was cute. (The people from Spain say the letter S with a lisp, so it’s like a cute 22 year old with a lisp saying it! Ha-ha it was cute. )

My companion made a chocolate cake for the baptism and was sooo excited about this cake! So she cut it and put it nicely in a Tupperware and brought it with us all day so we wouldn’t have to go back to the house to get it before the baptism. Well, she is the same as me, and together we forget everything so of course we left it at the house of another investigator. By the time we realized it (about 3 hours after we left it there) we ran back (across town) to get it and....no one was there. So we went and did the whole baptismal font thing and while it was filling up we ran to get the cake. Luckily this time they were there but guess what.... with guilty looks on their faces they handed us the container.... HALF FULL. They ate HALF THE CAKE hahaha. What the?? My companion was a little mad for a minute or two until she realized that I couldn’t stop laughing and then she started too. We told the members and they were all cracking up and went and bought more cake from the store so there was enough!

It was one of my favorite baptisms of my mission. The spirit was super strong! Well that’s about all. I love you all xoxoxo

Love,

Hermana Marchant