Mundo Magico! :)

This week was a little bit of a slower week, with it´s ups and downs! Sadly, we had to stop visiting the Cristobal family. :( It breaks my heart, but they stopped progressing because they can´t come to church on Sunday´s. I pray that one day things will change and they can become an eternal family :)  We didn´t get to work as much as we would have liked to this week either! And when we did get to work, no one was home when we went to visit them! This week was the start of Winter Break for the school´s of Argentina, so all of La Plata was out celebrating! 

We spent all day Friday in another meeting with our new mission president, except this one was only for the newer missionaries and their trainers. It was a great opportunity to think of how I can continue to help my companion, Hermana González, feel more comfortable with missionary work and create habits that will help her all throughout her mission! :) We also had delicious, super cheesy pizza for lunch, so that was a plus!

On the bright side: there was a free activity in La Plata to celebrate Winter Break, so we got to go to that with the other Hermana´s in our area! It´s called "El Mundo Magico", or Magic World :) it was basically a cheap version of Disneyland, but it was still super fun! Mickey Mouse was there, and the Disney Princesses, and... Jurassic Park! Kind of an odd mixture. We got some ice cream afterwards too! It was a good day :) 

I tried something crazy this week! We had another Family Home Evening with the Paco Family this week, Rosana and Raul, and they cooked asado for us! (BBQ) Except, it wasn´t just an ordinary asado with chicken and beef! They also cooked Chinchulin, which is cow stomach/intestines! I just about died!! It took some convincing, but my companion and I decided to try it in the end! I think it must be an acquired taste ;) yikes! Haha!

Here´s a quote for the week :) 

"Decide to do something that will have eternal consequences." - Elder Richard G. Scott

(Thanks Grandma)

Take care, love you all! :)

Con amor, Hermana Orgill

Photos:

1- Our last visit with the Cristobal Family, Angie and Brigida 

2- I did not want to eat that... Chinchulin!

3- Mundo Magico with Mickey Mouse :)

4- My new buddy, Fredrico :) watch out, he bites... 

Abrir la boca! :)

Sorry I don`t have a lot of time today! We had our Zone Activity and we all traveled to La Plata to eat at a buffet, so we got back a little late! But it was delicious! Pizza, empanadas, pasta, potatoes, salads, flan, ice cream, and muuuch more! I never want to eat again ;)

My testimony that Heavenly Father is preparing people here in Olmos, Argentina to receive the gospel was strengthened a lot! My companion and I had the opportunity to find 2 new investigators this week, and a whole bunch of possible future investigators! We also had the opportunity to meet our new Mission President. He is amazing! He has such a strong spirit, you can literally feel it right when he walks in the door! I`m very excited to begin this new adventure serving with him in the Argentina Buenos Aires East Mission :)

Here`s my new mailing address:

Hermana Tayler Lynne Orgill

Argentina Buenos Aires East Mission
Rivadavia 599
Quilmes 1878
Argentina

And here`s a quote by Elder Holland to sum up my week :)

"Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don`t come until Heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Christ, they come!"

Con amor, Hermana Orgill

P.S. Our new Mission President lets us drink "Mate" in our apartments now! Mate is VERY popular here! It`s like a type of herbal tea, except I think it tastes like dirty water ;) everyone says it takes time to get used to though! I guess we`ll see :) 

Photos: 

1- One of the little member girls, Camila, wearing my missionary tag :) future sister missionary!!

2- Zone Activity at an Argentine Buffet :) 

3- Hermana Meeks and I- Our first "Mate" 

Mission switch!!

Well, I´m officially a missionary in the Argentina Buenos Aires East Mission now! My mission split in half this week, I have a new mission president and everything! We have a big meeting in the city La Plata to meet him, his name is President Nuñez from Chile. It´s pretty exciting! :)

Also, Happy 4th of July! I didn´t get to celebrate it much here, obviously since it´s a USA holiday ;) but it was quite the party this week with the big Argentina vs. Chile soccer game! There was absolutly NO ONE in the streets during the game and NO ONE answered the door for us. Argentines are very serious about their fútbol! Unfortunately for Argentina, Chile came out on top. But my companion (Hermana González from chile) was unusually upbeat the next day :)

Saturday we got the chance to help Los Hornos with another Tormenta Blanca, which is where the members and the missionaries split up and go visit as many people as possible. Even though I wasn´t used to being apart from my companion, the woman who became my temporary companion is amazing! She served a full-time mission in Chile and is now the mother of 4, with a 5th on the way. She is very Very pregnant, yet she still fulfills her calling as the Young Womans President and she spent her valuable Saturday morning visiting her fellow brothers and sisters. She is a great example of sacrifice and true conversion to the gospel! We got to visit 3 families together, it was a great experience! :)

Fast Sunday was amazing this week!! We had 85 members come! I think that is the most I have ever seen in the chapel here in Olmos :) I shared my testimony, along with my companion and the other companionship of sisters in our area, and even felt a little nervous looking out at all the people! It was amazing to see soo many people that I have come to know and love, all together to remember the Savior, Jesus Christ, on the Sabbath day :) Also, our recent convert, Baltazar, received the Priesthood during church! Hopefully he can make it to the ward temple trip on July 25th to do baptisms for the dead!

Have an amazing week everyone! Love you all :)

Con amor, Hermana Orgill

Photos:

1- Family Home Evening with the Paco family- Build our lives on the rock, which is Jesus Christ!

2- Future Missionary- Jazmine Bustamante! Received her call to Salta, Argentina :)

3- Olmos Ward Family Home Evening!

Baptism and Birthday= Best week ever :)

What a crazy week! It rained and was cold, and then the sun came out and it was perfect outside, and then it rained again and now it´s cold again!

We had a baptism on Saturday for our investigator, Baltazar (Balta). Satan was working hard on us and him the entire day! It poured rain, the gas wasn´t working in the chapel so there was no warm water to fill the baptismal font with, and Baltazar´s girlfriend got sick and couldn´t make it (she´s the one who introduced him to the gospel in the first place). My companion and I spent a couple of hours boiling water in our apartment and then carrying it over to the chapel to help make the water in the baptismal font not so icy cold. It was a miracle that the baptism was a success! It just goes to show that the Lord and the Spirit are stronger than anything Satan can throw at us! :) 

Thanks for all the birthday wishes :) It was a great day! My companion and I made banana chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast, watched Treasure Planet while we cleaned the apartment, and then ate pizza for lunch while watching Tangled. I also got to buy some Trix cereal, which is a treat for me because it´s really expensive here! It was a day well spent :) Although I have to say, seeing our investigator come unto Christ was the best birthday gift I could ever receive! This gospel is amazing :)

Love you all! Let the Holy Spirit guide! Take care and have an amazing week :)

Con amor, Hermana Orgill

Photos: 

1- Baltazar´s baptism :)

2- Family Home Evening- We are the Hands of the Lord on the Earth! 

3- Visiting less actives with our Ward Mission Leader!

4- Hermana González and I, exhausted but 100% content after Balta´s baptism :)

Feliz Día del Padre! :)

Happy Father`s Day to all of you dads and future father`s out there! :) Thanks for everything you do! 

Well, we visited our investigators as much as we could this week, even more than usual. We received counsel from our leaders that, if we will put forth the effort and go the extra mile to help our investigators feel the spirit more often, we will see miracles. And now we have a baptimal interview with one of our investigators tonight, Baltazar! We pray that everything goes well, we`ve been working with him for a couple months now! He is great and has a very sincere testimony! All in the Lord`s time :)

  

Today we ate lunch with Hermana Meeks and Hermana Ccorahua again, but this time we had homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches! It was more than delicious! :) Plus, we watched Tarzan while we ate, which made it even better! It was a great week :)

"In short, I am here because I love my Heavenly Father and his son, Jesus Christ."

"The church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity or prosperity.  It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.  And are we not, all of us, in need of repair, maintenance and rehabilitation?  We come to church not to hide our problems but to heal them."

"This is our high and holy calling - to be agents of Jesus Christ, to love as he loved, to serve as he served." - President Uchtdorf 

Have another amazing week :) never forget how much your Heavenly Father loves you! Take care :)

Con amor, Hermana Orgill

Photos:

1- Happy Father`s Day :)

2- Baking cookies with the Relief Society to give out for Father`s Day!

3- Homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, yum!!

4- Happy Birthday to one of the sweet little member girls, Aylen! 

Winter has arrived!

Brrrr! It is cold! But the Lord`s work goes on! :) This week, my companion and I had a cool experience together, even though it started out with a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day! Everything had gone wrong that morning! It was windy, freezing cold, our appointments fell through, none of the references or less actives we had planned to visit were home, and to top it all off, my bike chain broke while we were at least a 40 minute walk from the nearest bike repair shop! We were pretty discouraged. So we said a little prayer and began our 40 minute walk home. Well, before we got even 2 blocks, we saw a woman walking along the street with an armful of groceries. We stopped and offered to help her, which is when she told us that she had met with the missionaries before and had even visited our church a few times. She agreed to meet with us the next week (this upcoming wednesday). All we could think was, wow! When we got back to our apartment, we looked for her name (Raquel) in our area book, which has the records of all investigators taught in the past, but her name wasn`t there! So if we hadn`t had the delay of my broken bike, we may have never had the chance to find her! The Lord works in mysterious ways :) 

I hope we can all look for the Lord`s hand in our lives this week. It is always there, even if we don`t recognize it at first :) love you all! Have an amazing week! 

Con amor, Hermana Orgill

Photos:

1- Last time seeing President and Hermana Thurgood

2- We took a bus as a ward to Stake Conference in Los Hornos!

3- Stake Conference selfie :) Hermana Gonzalez and I

NDH :)

Wow, I have never had so many NDH`s (Noche de Hogar or Family Home Evening) in one week before! We had one with our investigator, Balta, one with a less active family, Rosana and Raul Paco, and one with a recent convert family, the Huallpa family. We shared a different message in each one of them, played a game, and then ate dessert! They were all a lot of fun :) sorry I don`t have much time to be more specific!

My companion and I taught the Gospel Doctrines class on Sunday. It was about the gift of the Holy Ghost. My companion had a cold and had lost her voice, so I had to talk most of the time. Luckily the spirit was with us and everything went well :) it was a great Sunday, Balta came to church and stayed for all 3 hours! Also, we had fast and testimony meeting, which is always a spiritual boost for the week! 

Today was more of a relaxed P-day. My companion and I made tacos and watched a church movie together with the other two hermanas in our area. It was great, tacos are delicious!! :) 

Here`s a quote I read this week from the October 2014 Liahona:

"Calm seas don`t carry barges to the promised land- stormy seas do." (Ether 6:5-8) 

Take care :) love you all!

Con amor, Hermana Orgill

Photos:

1- Hermana Gonzales and I :)

2- Tacos!!

3- Noche de Hogar with the Huallpa family!