Verduras anyone? :)

Well, we had quite the interesting start to our week on Tuesday! We had our District Meeting in the morning and then went to have lunch with a member afterwards, and when we returned home to our apartment to grab our bikes, we were surprised to find that we were LOCKED OUT! It wasn´t because we forgot the keys or anything, the door handle on the black iron gate in front of our apartment was broken! The door was locked and the keys couldn´t unlock it! So, we waited outside our apartment for a little while until a bishop from another ward showed up to help us out. :)

Yesterday, a miracle happened! We had 4 investigators in church!!  The mom and dad Cristobal and their daughter Angie, and then Baltazar (Balta for short), the boyfriend of a less active woman. The miracle of it though is that 3 of the 4 investigators usually have to work in their big gardens on Sunday, but this Sunday they made the sacrifice to come to Sacrament Meeting anyway and just work really hard afterwards! It was amazing! But as always, when a miracle happens, Satan isn´t far behind, trying to ruin it all ;) A half-drunken man came walking in halfway through the meeting, exclaming that he was called of God to come here and sell his verduras 

(vegetables). You can imagine what a scene that was ;) but luckily, the bishop came to the rescue and escorted the man out, before I (and the bishop as well) couldn´t contain our laughter any longer! The bright side of it all, the Cristobal´s really felt the spirit during the meeting and want to come back again next week! Yay for miracles!! :) Love this gospel!! :)

Have a great week! Love you all! Take care :) 

Con mucho amor, Hermana Orgill

Photos:

1- Hermana Wilson and I: Locked out!

2- Two daughters of the bishop who came and helped us get into our apartment: future missionaries! :)

3- We got all "prettied up" for entrevistas (interviews) with our Mission President this past week! 

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Scripture Power!

What an amazing week! SO much has happened in such a short amount of time, I´m sorry I don´t have enough time to write it all! 

This week, we started teaching a new couple, the Huerta´s. Our first time meeting with them, we felt that we should teach about the Restoration of the gospel. The spirit was so strong! Then all of sudden, the wife started crying and confessed that she is already a member! She was baptized in Peru, but left the church when she came to Argentina. She told us about her strong desire to come back to church, and how she knows without a doubt that it´s the true church. Then she started crying even more when she told us she had lost her Book of Mormon. When I pulled one out of my bag and gave it to her, she took it and started hugging it, like it was the best gift she had ever received in her entire life! Words can´t even describe it well enough :)

Later on in the week, we helped with a Capilla Abierta in Los Hornos. I always enjoy Capilla Abierta´s, they´re a great way to help people get to know the church and what we believe! :)

Today we had lunch with a family of investigators, the Cristobal family. They made us chicken, rice, and potatoes :) And afterwards, we taught the entire family about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.  It was a great way to spend part of our P-Day!

Funny story of the week: I was riding along a dirt road on my new bike, when all of a sudden a huge gang of dogs came running our in front of me! I didn´t have time to stop so... I accidentally ran over one of them! I felt so bad! But hey, at least it was just a bike right? :) 

Love you all! Have a great week :) 

Con amor, Hermana Orgill 

Photos:

1- Our lunch with the Cristobal family!

2,3- Capilla Abierta in los Hornos!

4- One of the members here, Sister Ramos, and her precious puppy dog, Saphira! :)

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Bienvenidos a Olmos!

What a change in scenery! I am definitely not in La Plata 1 anymore ;) Sooo many things happened this week! The good news is that we got new bikes! Yay!! :) But the sad news is... our bathroom shower flooded this week, so we basically had a mini swimming pool in our kitchen. Also the exterminators came because we have a little bug problem, so we´ve been cleaning up dead bugs for the past three days. And these are just the adventures INSIDE the apartment!

Outside of the apartment, we had the opportunity to serve one of our investigator families, the family Cristobal, by working with them in their Quintas (which are like giant gardens or greenhouses). That was a new experience for me, it felt great to serve! And they were so excited to teach us how to harvest the plants and everything :) We also had a Family Home Evening lesson with a really big family in our ward. We talked about desires and how our desires determine our actions. We used the example of baking cookies. We started off with the desire to eat cookies, then we found all of the ingredients, put in the work to make them, waited while they baked, and then we had what we desired: cookies!! But while we were making the cookies, Hermana Wilson had a little accident. She had the electric mixer in the mixing bowl full of butter and sugar, but when she plugged it in, it was already turned on to level 6! Butter and sugar went flying EVERYWHERE! It was quite the scene, I could hardly get myself to stop laughing long enough to help her clean it up :) I guess the moral of the story is: be careful what you wish for ;)

I´m really learning to love this new area, and my companion and I get along really well! Even though I´m not in the city anymore, the Lord´s work hasn´t changed. I´m excited to work hard and serve the people of Olmos! :) That´s why I´m here afterall!
 

I hope you all have an amazing week :) The church is true!

Con mucho amor, Hermana Orgill

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Gracias a que Él Vive :)

Well, nothing really new happened during the past 4 days since I last sent an email. :) But on Sunday, we helped another area (La Plata 2) with their "Tormenta Blanca" or "White Storm", which is where the missionaries separate from their companions and become companions with a member of the ward and we all go out and visit less active members. It´s basically like SUPER visiting teaching!

We also started a new iniciative for Easter, "Gracias a que Él Vive". If you get the chance, go to mormon.org and watch the video! It´s amazing :) #GraciasaqueÉlvive

 

I got to go to Walmart again for P-day today! It´s always an adventure in Walmart! I bought myself some golden Oreo´s and Mantecol (a delicious candy bar here in Argentina) as an Easter/General Conference treat for this weekend :) I can´t wait for General Conference! It´s going to be such an amazing experience, especially for our investigators! Hopefully they can come and feel the spirit while listening to the inspired words of the Prophet and other leaders of the church! And... Happy Easter! I hope that everyone will take the time to remember the Savior and his eternal sacrifice. I know He lives and loves each and everyone of us. :)

Love you all! Stay safe!

Con amor, Hermana Orgill

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Night at the Museum! (Argentina Style)

Weeeeeell, this week definitely had its ups and downs! We started out with a week full of plans and appointments, it looked very promising indeed! And then... POW! Almost every single one of our appointments with our investigators fell through! It was rough, but we didn´t give up! Everything happens for a reason :) We ended up finding a new family to teach, which is perfect because the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is centered around the family! We have another appointment with them on Saturday, we pray that everything works out :) 

On Thursday, we had a Zone Conference with our Mission President. It was a great spiritual boost, all of us left the Stake Center excited and ready to get to work! Plus, we all received a gift from the mission: a pillow and sheets! Yay! Exciting stuff, huh ;) Then on Monday, we got to do service for a couple of members in our ward! We helped them paint their house! Their dog, a black lab named Soy, tried to help us paint as well! That was quite the experience, let´s just say black dog hair and white paint don´t mix well ;)

Today, we visited the Museum of Natural Science here in La Plata! It reminded me sooo much of the movie, "Night at the Museum," I swear I saw one of the statues blink! Here´s a few pictures from our adventure en el Museo :) 

But anyway, Fall has begun in Argentina! Never have I experienced such a quick change in temperature! It literally changed over night, exactly on the first day of Fall (the 21st). We went to sleep caliente with all the fans on and woke up the next morning to a crisp chill in the air! Welcome to Argentina, where anything is possible ;)

Have an amazing week, love you all!!

Con amor, Hermana Orgill

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Discípulos de Cristo :)

This week, we focused a lot on families! Families are so important to our Heavenly Father! :) So we went through our list of members and wrote down a whole bunch of less active families that we could visit! And we found two less active families that seem to really be interested in coming back to the church! Woohoo! Then, on Saturday we had another Capilla Abierta! It wasn´t for our ward, it was for the ward Tolosa but they asked for our help. It was very successful! We had quite a few visitors, investigators, and less actives come :) Yesterday, I spoke in church on how we are all disciples of Christ! I love the scripture in 3 Nephi 15:12! We should always remember that we have Christ´s name written on our hearts! :)

Today has been quite the interesting Pday. It started off with trying to go and buy food for the week, but being stopped by a protest in front of the grocery store! Then we waited for the collective (bus) for 30 minutes so that we could get to the church in Citybell and have our Zone activity. Once we got to the activity, we got to play volleyball, eat chicken sandwiches and ice cream, and watch The Penguins of Madagascar! It was a good day, all in all :)

Sorry I can´t send pictures this week! I´ll send some next week :) Also, my Pday is on Wednesday next week! Just a heads up :)

Love you all! Have a great week!

Con amor, Hermana Orgill

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This week flew by! We spent most of our time this week contacting references and less actives. We found three really great less active families and hope to help them find the desire to come back to church in the next couple of weeks! We´re still working hard with Hernan, trying to help him gain a testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Sometimes it´s a little discouraging, but then I remember that my purpose is to invite everyone to come unto Christ! I can´t force them to choose the right path, only invite them and help them along :)

I had a cold over the weekend, but it passed pretty quickly. I´m feeling much better now :) What a blessing! It´s super hot here again! It´s supposed to be cooling down for fall, but it´s not! I´m still sweating bullets :) but I don´t want to complain too much, because I know that in a few months I´ll be wanting the warm sun back ;) 

We had a really fun district activity for Pday today, we got to play pool! Some members cooked us a delicious lunch of empanadas, grilled chicken, salad, and rice. Then we played ping pong at the church :) And to end it all off nice and sweet, Hermana Flores and I got some ice cream! 

Not too much else happened this week, but it was definitely a good one :) it´s always a great day to be a missionary! 

Love you all :) stay safe!! Thanks for everything!

Con mucho amor, Hermana Orgill :)

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