las hermanas

We had a “specialized training” just for hermanas today at the mission home. It was so great spending time with them all together. It was our first of this kind since we began our service. We are all looking forward to having similar experiences together in the future.
Tuvimos "capacitación especial" solamente para las hermanas hoy en la casa de la misión. Fue maravilloso pasar tiempo con ellas juntas. Fue la primera captación de este tipo desde nuestra llegada. Esperamos tener experiencias similares juntas en el futuro.

After they left, I discovered a “heart attack” on the refrigerator in my kitchen. I am sure it stay  there for quite a while! Cuando se fueron, descubrí un "ataque de corazones." Estoy segura de que va a quedarse allí mucho tiempo.

mother’s day

Presidente is a wonderful husband. My friends are often jealous of his shopping prowess and desire to please me. He takes extraordinary care to make sure that my birthday and Christmas and super special events in my life. So it really wouldn’t be fair to complain about Mother’s Day. Let’s just say that it is NOT his thing. I have come to be okay with that. It has been made easy by the fact that I have four attentive daughters who go the extra mile to make me feel extra special on Mother’s Day. They did that this year too, even from far, far away. But something else happened this year too…
I found out what it was like to have sons on Mother’s Day. I received kind messages in person from missionaries here via a phone call or a moment spent together in person, and I was thrilled with the thoughtful messages that I received on Facebook from some of my missionary sons that are home now celebrating with their mothers.
I also received a little video from the office elders that I am posting because their own words and the words they share from Elder Holland are a tribute to the wonderful-ness of all mothers everywhere.
I want to express my great joy in having missionary sons and daughters, how I love them! and how grateful I am for each and every one of their extraordinary mothers!
El Presidente es un esposo excelente. Mis amigas están celosas de sus promesas de compras y su deseo de complacerme. El siempre se preocupa de que mi cumpleaños y Navidad sean eventos súper especiales en mi vida. Entonces, no es justo quejarse acerca del Día de la Madre.
Digamos que no es su especialidad. Estoy bien con eso. Es mas fácil porque tengo cuatro hijas atentas que hacen mucho esfuerzo para hacerme sentir extra especial. Este año lo hicieron otra vez de muy muy lejos. Pero algo mas paso este año también...

Descubrí que sentir tener hijos el Día de la Madre. Recibí mensajes lindos de misioneros en persona o por teléfono o momentos que pasamos juntos y estaba encantada con mensajes considerados que recibí en Facebook de algunos de mis misioneros hijos que están en casa ahora celebrando con sus propias mamas.

También recibí un video corto de los elderes en la oficina que estoy compartiendo porque sus propias palabras y las palabras de Elder Holland son un tributo a lo increíble que son las madres en todo el mundo.

Quiero expresar mi gozo de tener hijos misioneros. Cuanto los quiero! Y cuan agradecida por cada una de sus madres extraordinarias.

mercedes district conference

I have probably mentioned before that in the church, a district is like a stake, only much smaller in numbers and much larger geographically. We have two districts in our mission and Presidente is the equivalent of the stake president for those two districts. We visit them pretty regularly, and I am starting to feel like I really know the members there. It is exciting to watch their growth and see the strength of those that are the stalwarts in these developing areas. Of course, the missionaries have different challenges than in areas with more members and find they have to work a little differently because of that. Saturday and Sunday was the district conference.
Por lamente mencione antes que en la iglesia un distrito es como una estaca pero mucho mas pequeña en números y mucho mas grande geográficamente. Tenemos dos distritos en. En nuestra misión y el Presidente es igual de u. Presidente de estaca para los dos distritos. Los visitamos con bastante regularidad. Estoy empezando a conocer a los miembros allí. Es maravilloso ver su crecimiento y la fuerza de ellos que son pilares de estas áreas en desarrollo. Por supuesto, los misioneros tienen desafíos diferentes que en otros lugares con mas miembros y se dan cuenta de que tienen que trabajar de manera diferente. El sábado y el domingo fue la conferencia de distrito.
 

district help

Presidente has two counselors that help him with the needs of our two districts. In addition, there is a district president for each of the districts. This evening we had dinner with his two counselors and their wives (to the left and right of Presidente) and the district president and his wife from Chivilcoy. The district president from Mercedes was not able to come, but we will see him and his family tomorrow. I had to have a little laugh because it was really hard for them to even think of eating sooooo early. We ate just after 8, which is about an hour before most Argentines would consider normal. For those in the United States, you can think of it this way…a mission president has invited you to come to dinner at 4:00 pm. Personally, I like the tradition of eating later and spending the evening with friends. It is never dinner and…something else. Just dinner and chat. And that’s what we did.

april in the mission

Dedicated to our Visa Waiters:

zone conference in marcos paz

Sometimes Presidente will ask permission to share something that a missionary has written to him in a weekly letter. Today, however, he had the opportunity to have the missionary that wrote about the experience share it. Everyone in the room could feel the sincerity of his words and the depth of his conviction.
He said that seeing all of the problems stemming from having no water and no light made him realize the frailties of man. Then, he told of an experience that was particularly significant. He and his companion were contacting a family that was holding water jugs in the street the day after the storm. As he started to explain who they were, the woman said, “No! No! We are very busy. We are looking for water.” Those words, “We are looking for water,” touched his heart as he recalled the story in John about the woman at the well.
Christ is the Living Water from which we may receive eternal life. How blessed we are to be able to share this message.
Algunas veces el Presidente pedirá permiso para compartir algo que un misionero le escribió en una carta semanal. Hoy, sin embargo, el tuvo la oportunidad de tener el misionero que escribió acerca de la experiencia a compartirla. Cada persona en el cuarto pudo sentir la sinceridad de sus palabras y la fuerza de su convicción.

El nos dijo que mirando todos los problemas de no tener agua ni luz tampoco se dio cuneta las frialdades del hombre. Después el nos dijo de una experiencia que era muy importante. El y su compañero estaban contactando una familia que estaban sosteniendo jarras en la calle el día después de la tormenta. Cuando el empezó a explicar quienes somos la mujer dijo, ¨No, no! Estamos muy ocupados. Estamos buscando agua.¨ Estas palabras Estamos buscando agua,¨ tocaron su corazón como el recuerdo de la historia en Juan acerca de la mujer en el pozo.

Jesucristo es el agua viviente de que recibimos la vida eterna. Que bendición tener la oportunidad de compartir este mensaje!

zone conference ramos mejia

The office elders went searching for matching ties on their P-day. This photo is part II of a two-part series. I didn’t get a picture of part I yesterday, but I understand there will be an encore.
Los elderes de la oficina estaban buscando corbatas iguales en su P'day. Esta foto es parte II de una serie con dos partes. No saque una foto de parte 1 ayer pero entendió que va a haber una repetición.