Feliz Navidad y Próspero año de felicidad! Celebrated my first (and last) Christmas in the mission with some of the other hermanas! I made mashed potatoes and another hermana made pulled pork and we played uno and watched the illegal fireworks go off. It didn't really feel like Christmas since we had to work, but it was fun to celebrate with the other missionaries and get to sleep in on Christmas day!
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| Playing Uno |
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| Christmas Dinner |
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| Our Christmas Tree |
Plus I got some awesome Christmas gifts from the other hermanas! We also put on our own nativity which ended up being super hilarious to us. You can check the video, but if you don't speak Spanish or understand Argentinian culture you may be confused as to why we're dying laughing.
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| My awesome gifts! |
Lessons and Dates
Have you ever been serenaded before? I recently had the pleasure of being serenaded by one of our friends. He brought us alfaphores (really yummy Argentinean candy that's chocolate and some other yummy stuff) and Facturas (Argentinean pastries that are also very yummy) and played his guitar at us all while telling us that religion was a cage and he prayed, and God told him that our church wasn't true.
He ended up coming to church surprisingly, but one of the church members came up to us and told us he had accompanied the old Hermanas to lessons with him and he had a tendency to sing at the missionaries... we had to break the news to him that we already knew.
Anyways we stopped teaching him, but at least he'll never be forgotten
Roldolfo (falleció)
We had a Christmas miracle this year! On Christmas we recieved a text out of the blue from a random guy named Rodolfo with a "Merry Christmas!" We responded, chatted with him a little bit and then asked him if we could teach him something. We looked for him in our records but we couldn't find any information on him. We called him the next day and I just felt the steongest prompting to ask him if he wanted to get baptized. He said yes so we put a date to be baptized and he gave us his address so we could go teach him in person.
Anyways, we began looking a little harder and we ended up finding his phone number linked to a guy named Rofoldo. So we assumed the old missionaries had written his name wrong, but also, next to his name, he had a cute little note written that said, "Creemos que falleció 😬"
That means "we think he died." Luckily for Rofoldo over here he's about to be reborn through the waters of baptism. So please pray for our dead man whose about to get baptized, it would be really awesome if my second baptism in the mission was a zombie.
Anyways I just wanted to say as a quick spiritual thought that miracles are real, they happen and sometimes we just need to have the eyes to see. Recieving that random text from that guy was a miracle and even if he doesn't end up getting baptized God gave us the awesome Christmas gift of hope this year which was a super special miracle. Look for miracles in your life and you'll see them.
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| A fun note from Artemio! |
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| Hermana Merlo's Side hustle? |
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