Pray, He is There!

First things first I have to shoutout the big man. God works in our lives and that's a fact. We had a Conference Monday (which is why our p-day got switched to Tuesday this week) and we had to catch the bus to mar del plata. These buses leave ON TIME! I have never had a bus in the USA leave as on the dot as these buses run. The morning of the Conference it was raining HARD! Like the rain hurt to walk in hard. So we thought, let's maybe call a taxi, but we call the taxi and they're like, it'll be an hour wait, so we scrap the taxi idea and decide to walk. 

We leave, but I'm kind of slow because my companion has no shoes she can walk in the rain in and so I gave her mine and decided to wear my boots which are a bit of a high heel, but I cant walk very fast in those. So we leave, but then she goes, I forgot my phone. So we go back to the house she grabs her phone and as we're still like 10 blocks away from the terminal she goes it's 4 minutes until the bus leaves. So we start running, but it's really hard to run in higher heeled shoes and I gave her my good shoes so I'm having a really hard time. 

Finally as she's running in front of me I yell that I can't run anymore and so we start speed walking and I just shout, 

"Dear heavenly father help us catch this stupid bus, in the name of Jesus Christ amen" 

And all of the sudden a conviction, literally a heart burning warm feeling, stirs in my chest and I said out loud, "I know we are going to make this bus." So we walk to the terminal and she checks her watch and sees our bus still in the terminal and then when we reach the cement of the terminal we book it, my shoes unzipped got both he socks I was wearing drenched, my feet were cold and wet, but at least the shoes stayed on my feet, and we got to the bus 2 minutes after the bus was supposed to leave. 

The last person was getting on the bus, and the bus driver let us pay for our tickets on the bus so we got on and successfully went to the Conference. 

Pray, he is there! Speak, he is listening! You are his child, his love now surrounds you! He hears your prayers! - A Childs Prayer

Conferncia

A member of the Seventy came to speak to us (A church leader responsible for a large area). Since we aren't in Bahía we only got to watch a zoom but it was all good. There were a lot of technical difficulties, but it was fun nevertheless! 

Halloween

No one cares about Halloween here in Argentina, it was really a bummer. We did see like 4 kids dressed up though and we gave them candy so that was fun. At church some kids also gave us candy, bit of a reverse trick or treating. We also made these treat bags for all the members on our half of the branch, a bunch of them really liked it, one member asked us like, "Oh I didn't know members of the church were allowed to celebrate Halloween"

So everyone here kind of thinks Halloween is satanic, but we still dressed up. Points if you can identify what me and Hermana Ellison dressed up as! 

Transaldos

Miramar is a branch (a super small church congregation), we are not even a Ward (a normal size church congregation), and there are 6 missionaries in Miramar! We got elders in the transfers! We have a native speaker teaching a brand new "yankie". (Give it that the Argentinian accent, "shankie")

They're so nice! It's exciting to have a district in Miramar. We went to the beach for our p-day together and played beach volleyball then ate lunch together and got ice cream! 

Volleyball Crew

The elders did end up taking half our area which means 2 of our friends with a baptism date are their friends. But it's all good! I cant wait to see all the baptisms they're gonna have here! 

I'm really worried one of our friends with a baptism date, Martin, doesn't know we're still in Miramar. Last time the missionaries teaching him switched he stopped progressing, so I'm hoping he does okay with the change this time. 

Peaks

Found 15 new people to fellowship this week!

Y... nan más! 😁 Chau Chau!!

A Letter made it through. It's a miracle!