January 20th email:
Hello everyone! This weekly e-mail isn't going to be as detailed as normal because today for P-Day we took a tour bus around the city of Buenos Aires (way cool!) Just want to say I love you all and miss you. And also that I'm doing good :) I hope to have lots of emails waiting for me next week because emails make my week so much better :) I love you all and love to hear from you. I'm trying to do my best to keep in touch and if I´ve been slacking tell me! I'll catch-up next week. LOVE AND MISS ALL OF YOU <3
PS: Any of you who have served missions I would love to hear some different ideas and success stories about finding people to teach.
January 28th email:
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| Last Day Together :( |
Today we had transfers and I'm still in the same area but I have a new companion! Her name is Hermana Pilliza and she is from Ecuador but has lived in Spain for a little while. She has been in the mission for 6 months and is really short. When I was with Hermana Mowry I felt pretty short but now I feel like a GIANT! She seems really sweet but very different from Hermana Mowry. I'm really excited to learn new things and to work with her here. It's strange though because she doesn't know the area or the members or anything so I'm leading the area. It´s kind of a stressful thought. And crazy. I mean I'm kind of directionally challenged so..... we'll see :) (Editorial comment - "kind of directionally challenged" is an understatement!)
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| Me and my crazy Trainer :) |
SO Hermana Mowry went to another area and Hermana Dunn also. Hermana Escobar stayed (this is her last transfer in the mission) and her new companion is Hermana Keith and she is AWESOME! I'm really excited for this transfer. However Hermana Pilliza said that she forgets things a lot so I need to remind her of things, but then I was like, I forget things a lot too! And then right before we left I was searching frantically for my wallet and Hermana pilliza was searching frantically for her agenda. We just had to laugh. We are going to spend a lot of time looking for misplaced things this transfer. But yeah we're going to work hard and have lots of success. As for the people we are teaching, we have Simon, Adrian, Oscar, Nacho, y Mariella. I'll tell you more about them next week. I don't really know what else to day. I'm happy and safe and enjoying my time in the mission! Love and miss you all!
February 10th email: SO this week has been pretty flipping awesome :D
First of all, we had a Sisters Conference where all of the sister missionaries gathered together in the mission home and talked about a lot of stuff in classes or sessions. We talked about getting along with companions, how we're all children of God and also Representatives of Jesus Christ and how if we want to love and serve others we first need to love and serve our companions. My companion and I are doing much much better. There are still some rough moments and sometimes I just need to remind myself we're from different places of the world with different cultures and I need to have a little more patience. But we're doing really well. Also they talked a lot about the vision of missionary work, how to gain it, and how to keep it in focus. Everyone always says the vision is Baptise! But for me it´s so much more than that. So I set out to figure out what my own vision is.
Sunday, I had my first baptism, Simon. He's super awesome and was ready for this. It was kinda stressful trying to get everything planned and ready and we had to work out some last-minute kinks but it was great. I spoke about Baptism (my first discourse to give in spanish!) everyone was laughing because I got up there all smiley and I was just like "What a great experience this is to have the Baptism of Simon today. I'm happy, Simon's happy, We're all just really happy." Everybody chuckled and now it's a joke, but that's how it is. And it was true :) So what I was honestly expecting for my first baptism was a huge grand experience where everyone is just whalloped by the Spirit, but that's not how it was. It was just a simple and beautiful experience where we helped a Child of God make a covenant with his Heavenly Father. Just so simple, sweet, and beautiful.
And today we went to the temple as a mission. It was such a great experience to be able to go in and just feel peace and the love of my Heavenly Father and remember a little bit more of why I'm here on my mission. My Vision for my mission is to help others accept and live the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ through making and keeping sacred covenants. Yes, that includes baptism, but it includes so much more. It includes the things we have to do each day to continue to progress and to make all of the covenants necessary in order to return to live with our Heavenly Father again. That is my vision and I will keep that as my focus.
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| My District - Playing Pool on P-Day |
Funny moment for the week: Recently, more and more Young Single Adults (unmarried members between the ages of 18-30) have been moving into our ward and are helping us out with missionary work. Two in particular, named Harold and Edgar (Edgar is from California), are pretty cool. One morning, Harold came with us to an appointment and after he went back to his house. About 2 hours later, we got a call from his roommate Edgar and he was asking us for a huge favor. Edgar had left to travel about 1.5 hours to visit his Grandfather and accidentally locked Harold into the apartment and couldn't get out! SO we run to the rescue. When we got to the apartment, Harold dropped the keys out the window and we came up and unlocked the door from the outside. We couldn't stop laughing! He had been locked inside the apartment for 4 hours! Their door has 1 lock on the inside and 2 on the outside, so they don't lock the second one on the outside because you cant unlock it from the inside. We we're just laughing really hard. Pobrecito. But yes that´s my week. I love and miss you bunches!
Ciao!
Hermana Allison Scarlett
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