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| My new companion - Hermana Salazar |
Yes, I have been transfered and I am with a new companion, Hermana Salazar de Honduras and this is her last transfer in the mission. She is AWESOME! She is my grandma in the mission (trainer of my trainer) and we get along super SUPER well. We are always smiling and laughing and walking, but I am loving every second of it!
As for the area, it is GIANORMOUS! and we are the only missionaries here so we have a lot of work to do. I love VIcente Lopez. It´s kind of like Gastonia. It´s got industious parts and off of the main roads there are a lot of houses. HOUSES! I´m really happy that we have houses :) The Presidenta de Argentina lives here. She has a huge estate surrounded by a brick wall. All we can see is the top of the trees. Also, this is the ward where our Mission President lives. He lives on the completely opposite side of the area, but we´ve seen his wife a couple times. (My mission president and his family are the best, fyi).
As for my week. Last monday night my companion and I recieved the call for transfers and we were super excited. So we ordered ice cream and started packing. We were both leaving so we had to clean really good and leave all the information for the area nice and neat. Then I got sick. I started vomiting and had a fever, but we had to pack and organize and clean and all that. It was a rough night with only 2 hours of sleep. We got up the next day called 2 taxis to take all of our stuff to the offices, met our new companions, and went to our new areas. When my new companion, Hma Salazar, and I got to our apartment we had to take all our stuff up 2 flights of stairs, and 2 times I had to run up to the apartment to throw up again. But finally we got all of our stuff to the apartment. Then we went to an internet cafe, had to run outside to throw up again, did our grocery shopping and went back to the apartment and my companion sent me to my bed to sleep. So I slept until 6, which is when P-day ends and we are supposed to go out and work, but my companion could see that I still wasn´t feeling to good so she said we were going to stay in so I could sleep and get better. I agreed so I slept until the next day. When I woke up I felt a lot better, no fever, no feelings of nausea, only a little weak.
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| Top paper is area in Congresso Bottom paper is Vicente Lopez |
The following days we walked, A LOT! The investigators that the Elders had been teaching weren´t home or weren't answering their phones so we started looking up addresses of members that live close by and we walked and walked a lot! But we were happy, chatting and enjoying our time together as missionaries. And the whole rest of the week that´s pretty much all we did, was walk and talk with people. Here in Vicente Lopez, it´s a higher class area, so the people in general aren't very interested in listening to religion, but that doesn´t matter. The least I can do is open my mouth and invite people to listen.
Saturday the Relief Society had an activity celebrating the 50th anniversary of Relief Society. We went by to get to know the sisters and it was a lot of fun. Sunday the bishop asked us to give our testimonies, so we did, and afterwards I was sitting in the pew thinking "What I´m doing right now, really is kinda crazy. I´m a 19 year old girl form Gastonia, NC living in argentina in an area where I know almost nothing and nobody, teaching people about Jesus Christ and his restored church, speaking SPANISH with a companion that i´ve only known for a week. I get to put on a plaque everyday with my name and the name of the person who i´m representing, Jesus Christ." And then I thought of a phrase mom said to me once "The church must be true, because if it wasn´t the missionaries would have destroyed it a long time ago." I am so imperfect and yet I have every day for 18 months the opportunity to invite people to come to Christ. I really have the greatest calling in ALL of the WORLD! Oh how I love to be a missionary!
SO yeah, I´m good, healthy, and happy :)
Remember,
The Church is True
The Book is Blue
And Moroni is on the Ball!
Hermana Allison Scarlett
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