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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