Floresta - Post 6

February 2, 2015

#1 My companion is freaking camel.   Why?  Because one day she was drinking A TON of water and said "I feel like a freaking Camel!"  So now we are freaking camel and beached whale :) The best soul saving team EVER!

#2This week has been probably one of the most stressing but one of the most life-changing weeks of my life.  I want to start out by saying that I KNOW without a doubt that God remembers ALL of His Children. 

Let me tell you a little bit about Marcelo.  Tuesday we were walking somewhere, don´t remember were but on the way we passed 2 men sitting on the sidewalk drinking.  Normally i just walk by and don´t pay them any attention because they usually say not very nice things.  But i felt like i should say Hi, so i did.  They said hi back and we just kept walking along our way.  Later we were on our way to the Church to give the Bishop some papers he had asked for when we passed those 2 same men.  One of them said "Hey, are you the girls that said hi to us earlier?" I said Yes and waited for their response... nothing.  Super Awkward silence. SO i asked them if we could give them an invitation.  THey said yes so we invited them to church.  One said "No, I´m Catholic." WHich is the typical response we get here.  But the other guy, Marcelo, said "You know what, I would like to go. You know why?"  SO obviously we asked why.  He said "Because i lost my faith.  I have had a lot of things happen in my life and I have been looking for answers to my questions. I have visited lots of churches and I read the bible but i never find the answers."  SO I told him about the Book of MOrmon, how it can answer our questions, and how going to church will help him too. We set an appointment to go by the next day.  SO we shook hands to leave when he saw my Red and white Bracelet, he got excited and asked me if i was a River FAn (River is a big soccer team here) and i said yes.  He then showed us a river tattoo on him arm and was like "I AM TOO!" We laughed then continued on our way.  

So we go by the next date but we showed up about 20 minutes late and the Person in charge of the building wasn´t there to tell Marcelo we were there.  So we left and came back later. THe guy in charge said that MArcelo was there but he was super drunk.  SO we left the Book of Mormon there.  Thursday we went by to see if we could find him because we felt like he really needed out help, but he wasn´t there. A little later we were going to visit a former investigator when this super, abnormally happy dog started barking, licking, and happy-attacking us.  THen it ran behind us and i saw a man.  I thought it was marcelo but then i doubted.  THe dog came back to us and the man passed by and i saw the river tattoo on his arm.  I turned to my companion and said "HERMANA! IT´S MARCELO!" So yelled "HEY MARCELO!" like 3 times then he turned around and when he saw us he had a huge smile on his face.  He told us he was waiting for us Wednesday.  WE explained that we showed up late and left the Book of MOrmon.   He then told us that only some minutes ago they gave him the book of Mormon and the notice that he had to leave where he was leaving.  He told us "I´m an alcoholic and I have serious problems.  I have suicidal thoughts and I need help." We told him to read the Book of Mormon and Pray. I looked at him and I told him "MArcelo, it is not a coincidence that we found you again.  God sent us to you.  He loves you and wants to help you."  Then he said "I know." SO we told him we were going to pass by the next day. 

We pass by the next day and he comes out and he was still a little drunk.  He came out and told us that they had literally just kicked him out.   But He still had the Book of Mormon.  We started to talk to him when his friend came by.  He rudely interrupted us then Marcelo told him "Hey, I´m talking to them, Just wait over there until we are finished."  SO his friend walked away and we started to talk about repentance but his friend kept interrupting.  He said that he wanted to take Marcelo to his house to help him out.  We said that wasn´t a problem but the friend told us that he didn´t want us to help MArcelo and wouldn´t let us talk.  SO i cut him off and told him straight up "What Marcelo needs right now is to stop drinking.  Are you willing to help him with that?" He told us "NO"   He didn´t want us to take away his drinking buddy. THen my companion stepped in and was like "We have the means and the way to help your friend.  You can take him to your house and give him a place to sleep.  THat´s fine.  But his problems are much more than that and WE HAVE WHAT HE NEEDS." So we left Marcelo with his friend.  This next part is the part that breaks my heart.   

THat night we felt like we needed to visit somebody that we had passed by for many times and they are NEVER home.  But we went.  On the way we found Marcelo, drunk, and sleeping in the street.  He only had the clothes on his back and his Book of Mormon. We woke him up and asked him what had happened,  He couldn´t remember and he started to cry.  He kept saying "I don´t know what to do with my life" over and over again.  We told him to read the Book of Mormon.  He was like "I still have it.   I won´t leave it anywhere."  I started to just cry.  THis man had nothing, NOTHING but he realized how important that book was. I told him again that God remembers him and loves him.  That´s why he keeps sending us to him.  THen we knelt down there in the street at night and said a prayer with that sad, broken man.  In that moment i truly understood how much GOd loves every single one of us.  He is looking out for us and does all that he can to help us in our trials.  He will NEVER abandon or forsake us. In Romans 8: 28-29 it says:

 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

WE were able to see Marcelo again on Saturday and he said he was going to go to church on Sunday.  WE helped him put some plans to stop drinking.  He didn´t go to church on Sunday. I don´t know where he slept Saturday night or what he ate yesterday but I know that GOd sent us to that man to give him hope.  ANd i will NEVER take what i have for granted again.  THe Gospel, my home, a job, a car. Whatever I have is a blessing given to me from my loving Heavenly FAther and i will forever be grateful to him

Now let me tell you about Maria Ynes.  WE met her last SUnday.  She had just moved into an apartment where some less-actives formerly lived.  We gave her the invitation to go to church and she told us that she would call us cause she wanted us to visit her.  A lot of people say that and never call us but we took down her phone number anyways.  Wednesday night my companion said she wanted to call Maria, so we did.  SHe answered in a very low voice and told us that she couldn´t talk right now because she was at a funeral home.  She told us she would send us a message or call us back.  

Friday we called her again and she answered and she said that her husband had passed away and that she needed help fixing up her apartment before she could move in and she also wanted us to visit her and help her overcome the pain of her loss.  SO we went bySaturday and talked with her.  We talked about how one day she could be with her husband again by following the example of Christ and living the Gospel.  We talked about the Book of Mormon and how it can help us in our times of need to find peace and comfort. She told us that she never practiced any religion but always had faith in GOd.  She told us that she knew that GOd had sent us to her because he knew what was going to happen.  She started to cry and told us how grateful she was that God sent us to her.  SHe couldn´t go to church this Sunday because she missed too many days of work but she doesn´t normally work Sundays.  SHe has a baptismal date for the 22nd of February.

Now to the gimpy arm part :)  Wednesday we were running late.  We had a zone meeting that morning and it was pouring rain.  We had to run to lunch, eat quickly, run to pick up our member, and hurry to Marcelo´s place.  On the way I was stepping up onto the sidewalk.  I thought I had lifted my foot enough but whien i stepped i tripped.  I fell HARD!  IT was actually pretty funny because one moment I was upright and the next i was wiped out on the sidewalk.  THe not so funny part was the pain in my elbow.  I couldn´t move it much or put weight on it. My companion helped me up and we rushed to Marcelo´s.  He wasn't there so we tried to visit a member.  But i couldn't move my elbow too much without pain and my arm started to go numb.  

So we called the mission nurse and she said to put ice on it and wrap it up and see how it was in the morning. So we went to the apartment, put some ice on it and made a makeshift sling out of my squirrel scarf :)  ANd we kept working. THe next morning we called the nurse.   I could move it a little bit more than the day before but not much.  Then she said what i DIDN´T want to hear. She told us to go to the hospital to get an x-ray to make sure it wasn´t broken or fractured.  SO we reluctantly went after weekly planning and lunch.  It was a huge trip and we almost got lost.  But we made it. When it came my time to take the x-ray, we went with the doc into the room.   He then looked at me and asked if i was pregnant. WHAT!?! My companion and I basically yelled in his face "NO!!!!!!" I couldn´t believe that he had asked me that!  THen i realized that they have to ask that to all the girls before talking an x-ray. The doc looked at it and said everything was fine.  I just hit it real hard and needed to keep it in the make-shift sling for a couple more days before i could move it completely again.  So yeah i had a gimpy useless arm this week.

SO that is how my week went.  And i will never forget the experiences that i had.  DOn´t EVER forget that you are a CHild of GOd and he loves you and is always watching over you.

Hermana Allison Scarlett

SHE'S COMING HOME!!!

This week the Buenos Aires North Argentina Mission emailed the flight plans to me and our girl is coming home after 18 months of faithful service!!!

She flies out of Buenos Aires, Wednesday March 25th at 8:30pm, arrives in Atlanta Thursday morning at 5:30am and has a two hour layover. She will arrive in CHARLOTTE  THURSDAY MARCH  26TH AT 8:30 AM

Any and all blog readers, family and friends are invited to welcome her home - bring horns, posters, balloons and anything else to let the whole airport know Hermana Allison Scarlett was missed and is warmly welcomed home!!!

Floresta - Post 5

January 26, 2015

OHMYLANTA! This week started off passing by so fast but when we hit Thursday everything seemed to move in slow-motion. Here's how my week went.

Monday: I used my Christmas money to buy argentine recuerdos and gifts in this cute argentine leather store :) Other than that not much happened

Tuesday:  While we were doing morning exercises i heard a weird noise coming from the kitchen area, so i went to see what it was.  I opened the door to the washing room and i saw THE FREAKING MOUSE!!  And Then i SCREAMED!   My companion almost died trying to get up and get to the kitchen.  ANd i was screaming "HERMANA!!!!THE MOUSE THE MOUSE!" And she was like "Shhhhh!  We have neighbors and it´s not even 7 in the morning!"  and i was like "I DON´T CARE!  THERE IS A MOUSE AND I SAW IT!" So we grabbed a tray, put rat poison on it, stuck it in the washing room, slammed the door shut and locked it up.  Every now and then i opened the window to look inside, saw it, and started to scream again.  It was an interesting morning.  THat afternoon we visited with some members and made some plans to meet their friends, neighbors, and family members.  Oh and my companion was blessed(or cursed, not sure which one) with luck by some gypsies.  It was interesting.....

WEdnesday:  Not much really happened.  We heard a lot of oldies songs in the street like "The tide is high" "Wake me up before you go-go" And another one i can´t remember.  Also we saw a truck that said "Kentucky, The best Pizza."  And i was like, "NO! KENTUCKY HAS THE BEST FRIED CHICKEN!"  We also saw kids playing with a football.  We had to do a double take because that was the FIRST time i have seen that in all my time in Argentina.

Thursday:  We went to San Fernando for the meeting for those who leave in February, March, And May.  Dan Clark, a famous motivation speaker and friend of President Ayre skyped us and it was basically a Keep on working to the end pep talk.  But it was WAY GOOD and WAY SPIRITUAL!  ANd yes i did cry.  THen we had a self-sufficiency class form a senior sister missionary from the area office.  It was interesting.  I decided to be self-sufficient i´m either going to raise chickens, or make bricks :P JK!  BUt it was good. We got back late.  Met some new people but nobody that was interested. BUT! In the collectivo i Saw a guy with a Carolina Panthers SNapback and I got really excited!  THAT´S MY HOOD!

Friday:  That day was crazy.  We had a meeting/interview with the zone leaders and then lunch and then we had to do weekly planning SUPER Quick.  THen we went and visited a girl who recently moved here from Bolivia.  She has less-active family members and a brother that came with her who isn´t a member.  So we made a plan with her to meet him.  He turned 20 that week so we made brownies and "popped by"  He had some good questions such as "DOes GOd really exist" and "How do you know that your church is the true church?"  SO we taught Lesson one with a big focus on the Book of Mormon (Because i LOVE the Book of Mormon and know that it can answer ALL of the questions we have!) SO we are hoping to see some progress there.  WE also met some other people name Juan Pable and Griselda.  They also recently came from Bolivia.  

Saturday:  We had to go clean the church that morning, SO we put on our service clothes.  WHen I put on my jeans, THE BUTTON BROKE!  I don´t know if it was because they were goodwill jeans i´ve had for almost forever or because i need to lose some weight.... So we cleaned the church, changed, trued to visit some less-actives and didn´t find ANYBODY! SO we went to lunch and the sister had barely started so we helped her to speed things up because we had a meeting to go to after. SO we helped her cook, ate super fast, and we left flying to the meeting.  It was good.  Came back and we had an appointment with a member family to meet some of their friends. We came by right when they let in this man and we were all excited because we thought he wasn´t a member but it turned out to be a less-active from the elder´s area.  THey said that their neighbor had to run an errand and would be back soon. SO we waited and waited... He showed up about an hour and 15 minutes later and then we had to wait another 45 minutes so that their friends could come too.  So it was 8:15 and we shared the video "Gracias a ÉL"  The members shared their testimony, then we asked their neighbor what he thought.  He said he wasn´t very religious right now, that the video was nice but he doesn´t feel the need to get closer to GOd or Jesus Christ.  SO we testified about how we ALL need Christ.  THen I, for some reason thinking that the other friends were members, asked them how Having Faith in Christ has helped them in their family.  THe dad said "We aren´t believers."  AWKWARD!!!! SO we just testified of Christ and had to leave to get home in time.  That night after planning I just laid on the floor exhausted. I looked at my companion and said "I feel like a.........beached whale!" She just looked at me and started laughing!  THen she asked my why.  I told her it was because my body felt so heavy, that i couldn´t get up.  We laughed for a good while about that. Oh and i cut my bangs again :)

Sunday:  We went by to bring our investigators to church, BUT NOBODY CAME!  It was a bit sad, but GOd sent us something to make us laugh :)  We were knocking the door and i saw a guy walking towards the sidewalk, but i didn´t pay any attention so i turned around to knock the door again and waited.  THen i saw out of the corner of my eye that the guy stop right behind me.  SO i turned around and he looked at me and said "Over there too."  I looked at him confused and was like "What? WHere?" THen i realized he was drunk.  He said "Over there, GO and Preach."  My companion was trying not to burst out into laughter.  So I said "Okay Thank You"  THen he was like "Okay" And just walked away.  We both just started to laugh really hard.  So we went to church and we had to teach the gospel principles lesson so for the first hour we found an empty room and passed over the lesson.  It turned out good, thanks to the participation of the class members. Then we helped the Elders with their baptism.  That afternoon we were able to talk to a LOT of people. It was a good day.  Except for the fact that i turned 16 months in the mission. I forgot about that until my companion in church whispered to me "Feliz cumplemes!"  

But yeah we are good, I´m happy and determined to keep working hard until the end!  

Love you all

Hermana Allison Scarlett

P.S.  The computers won´t read my memory card so i can´t send pictures :(  

OH! THe mouse, I forgot to tell you what happened to the mouse.  WE gave it poison several times a day and yesterday it didn´t eat the poison so we searched in the washing room thinking we would find it dead.  But it wasn´t there... Yeah we are super confused but we hope somehow it left and died somewhere else :)

Floresta - Post 4

January 19, 2015

This week has been a pretty good week :)

Monday:  We had p-day.  We stayed at home to rest and clean.  It was nice to just relax a bit and organize (I know what you´re thinking, ¿¿Who is this girl??)  That afternoon we visited with some members to help them share the gospel.  It was good.

Tuesday: We had interviews with the president.  We learned a WHOLE LOT!  It was great and we put goals to be more bold with people.  That afternoon we put it in practice and we talked with a lot of people! But they weren't really interested but that´s okay.  We at least gave them the opportunity to choose :)  Also that night we had a meeting with the relief society president to talk about the families we could visit and we made plans to start up a monthly ward family home evening.  We really hope that it helps unify the ward and that people invite their friends to a fu activity in the church :)

Wednesday:  Was alright.  We went to visit a less-active family that lives a little far away.  They let us in the house but nobody was paying attention to what we shared.  I got so frustrated because they need what we have to share.  But it´s up to them to listen and accept.  IT rained quite a bit that day.  That night I cut my companion´s hair!  She had wanted to cut her hair and we always said i was going to cut it as a joke, but we actually DID IT!  It didn't turn out too bad if i do say so myself :)

Thursday:  We had weekly planing.  During weekly planning we got a text from ofelia saying that she wasn't feeling so good and wanted us to come over and talk and read the scriptures.  This is the same less-active who is also a die-hard fan of pride and prejudice.  We were in shock. When we visit her she NEVER reads from the book of mormon.  SHe just listens.  But we went by and read Mosíah 24 with her and then talked about trails and submitting ourselves patiently to the will of the Lord.  It was a super great lesson and we all felt the spirit.  I hope we see some progress there :)  That night we had dinner with a part-member family.  They come to church basically every sunday but the husband wants to get married and baptized "later"  and when he´s "ready" But he isn´t doing anything to prepare himself.  But yeah we ate cow heart....Yeah it wasn´t too bad.  The texture was a bit different and it didn´t taste bad.  But it was the HEART of a COW.  Yeah i am still stuck on that one too...

Friday:  We had divisions with the STL´s found a lot of really great people that said they wanted to go to church and accepted the baptismal invitation.  So i was super excited :)  we went and visited a recent convert and he had about 4 friends over to visit.  So we talked with them.  THey didn´t really have a lot of interest and they were joking around at the beginning but by the end of the chat they sat there thinking.  We caused some serious reflexion.  Maybe there will be some progress there in the future.  THat night it started to rain too. 

Saturday:  We went by to visit the people we found but we couldn´t find them :(  WE also had Correlation meeting with the ward mission leader that night and it took forever because they were having a birthday party and we had to wait for them to finish. But we got pizza, coca cola, empenadas, and birthday cake as an apology, so we forgave him :)  

SUnday:  We went by to  find the people who said they were going to come to church but NOBODY answered their doors or their phones.  So we went to church.  That afternoon we went to eat at the Bishop´s house. On the way it started to POUR.  It came out of NOWHERE! So we went home to put on our rain boots and it cleared up.  That always happens to us, but oh well.  We met Maria that afternoon.  SHe was a referral of her neighbor.  She is great and wants to go to church and accepted the baptismal invite.  She said once she went into a coma and remembers faintly the she saw an image of Christ and also an image of a Church that wasn´t her current church.  SHe said she doesn´t remember very well but that she is looking for that church. So we are excited to work with her.  It looks promising :)  

Other random things that i don´t remember what days they happened:

We started counting creeper points (When random dudes in the street hit on you or do creepy things)  I racked up about 5,000 this week,  IT was really interesting.....

We´ve been seeing a lot of slugbugs here but we decided to change it it hugbugs.  So we randomly hug each other in the street whenever we see one.  It is great :)

We have also discovered mouse poopies in our apartment..... SO we bought rat poison.  One night the Zone leaders called us to give us a sort of pep talk when we thought we herd a mouse.  SO we hopped up on our chairs and were trying to listen for the mouse.  Then i hopped down grabbed the broom and decided to see if i could find it.  So we were mouse hunting while the zone leaders were talking to us.  They asked us a question and we didn´t really hear it so we said something along the lines of "Yes, we do have the faith that there are people prepared to receive the gospel in our area."  THen they were like "Hermanas, did you even hear what we asked?"  We just kinda looked at each other and i said "Honestly Elder, no we didn´t. We´re mouse hunting right now.  We appreciate your concern and we understand what you´re trying to tell us."  They started to laugh and we ended the call.

SO Yeah, that´s my week.  Love you all and SHARE THE GOSPEL!!!

Hermana Allison Scarlett

P.S. no pictures this week because this computer doesn´t want to read my memory card....

Floresta - Post 3

January 12, 2015

THis has been a very interesting week.

Last Monday:  We played water balloon volleyball as a zone and ate ice cream.  It was fun and yummy!  We also made brownies for a less-active member because it was her birthday :)  SO we went over that afternoon and visited with her family.  Her pareja hung around and chatted a bit until we pulled out the scriptures.  We are working on that :)

Tuesday:  We had a district meeting.  It was good :)  This day we found someone whose name is Jose.  We went by to find a less-active that we didn't know and he came out.  SO we chatted, taught him a bit about the restoration and invited him to be baptized and he accepted!  He had started going to a different church a couple weeks before and was really open and looking for the correct path.  We were excited.  The problem was that he worked and studied A LOT!  THere wasn't a moment until saturday that we could visit him.  Also that day we were practicing our whistling in the street.  SO i did the whistle that guys so to girls in the street and i didn't realize there was a man about half a block in front of us and he heard it!  He started to look around panicking and my companion and i just acted innocent while the man was trying to figure out who was whistling at him!  It was way funny!


Wednesday:  We visited with a member who had invited a friend over.  Her friend had listened before and went to church once.  But she is not married to her pareja.  SHe was sweet but doesn't want to get married right now.  Also i saw a shirt that said "This image is not available in your country." I just about died of laughter!  ALso, i have a hatred of pigeons and they are everywhere here!  So i like to torment them.  I saw a little one and i started to chase it and it started running away, then it opened it's wings to fly away, but instead it fell head-first into the sidewalk.  IT WAS SO FUNNY.  That night we called Jose and he said he had read half of the pamphlet we left him and he said he wanted to go to church and be baptized.  We were excited!  He hadn't prayed so we committed him to pray about it.


Thursday:  We had weekly planning.  IT was good.  Made a organized list of all the active and less-active members.  That afternoon we visited with a family that had recently re-activated.  We also visited with a part-member family.  THey aren't married and the mom is a member.  The dad isn't She reactivated about a year ago and he started going to church with her.  He doesn't want to commit to anything yet.  He keeps want to do it all "Later"  so we talked about the importance of acting "NOW".  It was a good lesson and the fed us yummy food :)  We also went by Jose's house and left him a pamphlet. We tried to call him but he didn't answer so we left him a message and he sent us a message saying he got the pamphlet and was reading.  SO we were happy.


Friday:  We decided to explore another part of our area.  We found another part-member family.  The husband wasn't there and the son-in-law didn't want to listen.  BUt we have an appointment to visit again and meet the husband this week.  On our way bach in the collectivo there was a short little guy next to me with red hair.  SO i tried to say to my companon in a quick hushed voice in english "Hermana! He's a leprechaun!"  But i said it so quick and hushed that she had a hard time understanding me.  WE got a good laugh afterwards when i explained to her what i was trying to say.  THis day we couldn't get a hold of jose :(

Saturday:  We visited a less-active member.  She wants to reactivate but "Later"  THat seems to be the problem here.  Nobody wants to act now.  SO we had been sharing the scrip´ture in The Book of Mormon in Alma 34:31-34 which says:

31 Yea, I would that ye would come forth and harden not your hearts any longer; for behold, now is the time and the day of your salvation; and therefore, if ye will repent and harden not your hearts, immediately shall the great plan of redemption be brought about unto you.

 32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meetGod; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.

 33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so manywitnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinatethe day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life,which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do notimprove our time while in this life, then cometh the night ofdarkness wherein there can be no labor performed.

 34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that Iwill repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this;for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the timethat ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power topossess your body in that eternal world.

But seriously it is WAY important that we do not dealy or hesitate.  We need to do what we know is right and act NOW because we never know when is our last day.  Also that night we visited a less-active member that made us pizza.  It was yummy.  We have a lot in common for example we are both DIE-HARD Pride and prejudice fans, we both LOVE to read, and we both prefer pizza WITHOUT tomato sauce.  She really loves us but she doesn't want to pray or read the book of mormon or go to church or anything.  She really loves her neices and nephews so we shared in 3 Nefi 14:9-10 and realted her relationship with her sobrinos to her relationship with GOd.  It was good.  I hope we can help her.  

Sunday: We got up and got ready to church and went by to bring jose to church we hadn't been able to communicate with him for 2 days but we decided to try anyways.  On our way i felt my arm bump into someone, so i said sorry and stepped aside so they could pass us when this guy stepped in front of us and asked us where the floresta train station was.  I was a little flustered and told him it was in the other direction.  THe next question was "And what do i have to do to go out with you two."  Uh I had a little internal freak out and was like "NO!  We are missionaries and we don´t date!"  ANd basically shoved the pass-along card with the direction of the church in his face and tried to get away.  But then he started walking with us.  AHHH! I wanted to die!  HE started to talk about cualquier cosa and i just wanted him to go away.  I don´t like it when people put me in situations like that!  HE walked with us until we got to JOse´s house, and he wouldn´t go away!  He had just come back from being in a bar all night.  He wasn´t super drunk but i smelled alcohol.  While we were knocking Jose´s door he asked us if he could go to church.  We couldn´t tell him no and jose hadn't answered his door.  SO we went to church with this guy (his name is christian)  On the way he asked us what we do on the weekends, Where we lived, what our names were, if we drank alcohol, etc.  Of course we told him that we DON´T go out on the weekends and we DON´T drink alcohol and we couldn´t tell him our names or adress.  It was interesting but when we got to the church we dropped hime off in the priesthood calss and hid in the bathroom frantically asking the elders when they were gonna get here.  about 30 minutes later he told us he was tired and wanted to go home, so he just left.  It was seriously a sigh of relief.  We felt so uncomfortable with him.  He is a child of GOd too but he is a child of god that came from being in a bar all night and didn´t have the right intentions.....  ALso that afternoon we went to find a former investigator and out came his dad.  He was chewing cocaine.  So we gave him the invitation to church and then he started to lecture us on how his son goes to church but doesn´t respect him as his father and how important it is to respect yuor parents (don´t forget he was chewing COCAINE!) and before we left he gave my companion a Big Slobbery kiss on her hand.  I WAS DYING OF LAUGHTER!!!!

Oh and I can´t forget what happened to us this morning!  We decided to take out the trash and throw away our food because the whole week the had been randomly cutting off the lights (That tends to happen durin the summer in capital)  SO our food went bad and it stunk.  SO we went to take the trash out when we heard a Huge "BANG!"  My heart dropped.  A gust of wind had slammed the door shut.  YOu need to understand that the doors here are different.  YOu can´t open the door from the outside without the key. And our keys were inside.  SO we thought we would call our zone leaders... but our phone also was inside.  So we went downstairs to see if the guy in charge of the building could help us out (Oh, and we didn´t have shoes on....)so we were with him trying to jimmy it open but we couldn´t so we had to call a locksmith.  It was quite the adventure.

ANd now here i am :) Enjoying the mission like always.  It is seriously the BEST to be serving the lord and i DON¨T WANT IT TO END :(  BUt everything happens in the LOrd´s timing for a reason :)

Love you all!

Hermana Allison Scarlett

I taught my companion how to make a blow torch with perfume and a candle - Thanks for teaching me this valuable skill Mom!

Mimicking cool painting

This cat hangs out the window and watches me exercise every morning - FREAKY!