This week was another good one! It was a different one though!

So it has been a weird different couple of weeks. We have kind of hit a dry spell in our area. We have great investigators and are progressing really well except they are not doing a few things to completely progress... coming to church is the hard one but it has always been the hard thing for investigators to keep or start doing.

On Friday we had a HUGE talent show! We played a duet together. Me on the flute and Hermana Hammond on the piano! I can't wait to show you the video!! It was soooo funny! So in our ward we have a joke with them singing "God be with you till we meet again" our Bishop always jokes with me that we are going to sing it in our sacrament meeting and I am always opposed to it and after that all the members sing it to me because they see that it bugs me! So we decided to do something funny for our song at the talent show. We played it and at first we played it all nice and beautiful and then halfway through Hermana Hammond ran her hand across the keys and we did a remix and did it faster and funner (I am not sure funner is a word)! The ward loved it! A lot of people have never seen a flute before so it was fun to show them. We also did a part of Karaoke and I was chosen to sing!!!! NOOOOO!!! haha But I did it! They had music in English and I got to pick! I didn't know 99% of the songs but I did know one of them.... "We are the champions" by Queen! haha It was so much fun!! Well the party started at 9:30 and lasted until 3 in the morning!!!! W e had to leave at 10:20 to be in the apartment at 10:30! It was sooo hard to leave! The talents here are amazing! There where a lot of dancers and music players! We didn't get to see much but in the next couple of weeks the members are going to show us their talent so that we can see it!

This week we cleaned the baptismal font here...... I really hate it! I did it in La Banda and now here????? UGH! haha but it was fun... I guess. It looks sooooo much better! I just hope that it stays clean! haha

I really don't have any updates on investigators. They are doing well. But this week has been interesting because I feel like that I have grown soooo much this week! We had a lot of experiences that were really spiritual and Ii felt the spirit a lot.

One experience we had was on Thursday. There has not been a lot of times in my life, if any, where I have received a strong witness from the spirit but I definitely got one Thursday! We were on the way to a lesson with M__________ and C________. We were going to invite them to be baptized and prepare for this Saturday and on the way there we were talking about what we were going to share with them and who was going to say what and so on, but I was talking and in the middle of my sentence I stopped and I felt very strongly that we should not go... I brushed it off and we kept walking.... again and the feeling was even stronger that we should not go.... I kept brushing it off because I really wanted to teach them, but once again I felt it but stronger. Suddenly Hermana Hammond said that she doesn't feel good about teaching them and I told her that I felt the same thing. We didn't know what to do. We felt like it was actually dangerous for us to go. We were very confused. We stopped in the park nearby and sat on a bench. We prayed. I received such a strong feeling of DON'T GO!! I have never felt the spirit like I had in that moment. It was really interesting. We didn't understand why and we still don't but we placed our confidence in the Lord and we didn't go. We still feel good about our decision to follow those promptings. Our district leader was really confused and a little angry that we didn't go. He has been pushing us hard to get M____ and C___________ baptized because they are the only ones in our area ready. It is really frustrating but I am not going to talk about it any more.

So after that experience, I have had a lot of interest in the way the spirit speaks to us. I have been studying chapter 4 in Preach My Gospel and there is a page where it talks all about different examples in the scriptures of the way he works. It has been really cool to study it and learn how to better understand the spirit! It's a great chapter to study!! I recommend it!

I can feel that the Lord is teaching me on a more intense level this past week! Not sure if it's because I only have 2 weeks left or another reason but I feel like I am on a high speed chase of pure doctrine! haha

So I guess that it is finally that time of the mission where I have run out of Pdays to write you all. I only have one more left!! I can not believe how fast my mission has gone and that it is actually almost over! So obviously that next week is me last day writing you and the last day for me to get letters from you and I have a very special request... because it will be my last week, I will need a spiritual boost.

Here is your homework...

Next week I would like you to write me what Padre Celestial has taught you in the past 18 months. What have you learned about Christ and how it has changed your life!! I know you all have grown sooo much and I would like to have your testimonies with me during my last week in my mission! It will help me a TON!!!!

In the reading this week I freaking LOVE 3 Nephi!!! It is just sooooo good! I am learning a lot about the Savior and his love for us and I am learning more every day! It was so nice to see the way the Lord shared His love for the people in the Americas and I get the chance to know how much He loves them! I love it here and the people here! I understand a lot about the willingness the people had to accept His doctrine when He was here because they were and still are humble and meek in heart and with open arms to the Savior of the world!

As for the reading this week....

Mon 3N 17-19

Tue 3N 20-21

Wed 3N 22-27

Thu 3N 28 y 4N

Fri Mor 1-3

Sat Mor 4-8

Sun Mor 9 y Ether 1

Hope y'all have a great week!!!

Hermana Creason

p.s. WE ARE ON THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!!!

WOW what a week!!!!! It really is just flying by!! 

Well this week was a little hard for us. Our area hit a dry spell this week. Our investigators are not really progressing. It's been hard. We were doing sooo good but then this week we hardly taught anyone and we couldn't find anyone new to teach. But there are weeks like that in the mission and there is nothing that we can do but move on and find the chosen! haha

Well this week we had fun! We had our interviews with president Chaparro. He is so great! I really like him! I'm just sad that I don't have more time to learn from him! But he will be so great for the mission!! He talked to me a lot about what he thinks that this mission needs. What is something that every area needs? Great question right? I was stumped but he just sat there and waited for my answer. So I thought and thought and I thought some more. I was thinking about every area that I had served in and what it needed and I immediately thought about charity. All of my areas needed a lot of love! That is what I shared with him! I told him that love is what every area needs. I told him about how when I shared my love with others, the mood changed, trust was stronger and the spirit was powerful. I learned a lot about charity in the mission! I still come up short having it but I know that it has gotten a lot better in the mission. Loving and serving!!! 

So not a lot of updates on investigators this week because we didn't teach very many but I have got some great stories that I want to share!!!

First off was yesterday!! Oh my gosh! It was CRAZY!! We had a family home evening with a less active S____________ and her family. We are teaching S__________'s friend, J______! He is the one that is sensitive to the other side of the veil. Anyways, he is great and he wanted to teach us how to cook a few things!! He taught us pizza, empanadas, and tortillas.... well it was an eexperience that I will never forget! So we are making the dough and having fun with her crazy kids, making a mess with flour and we are rolling out the dough for the empanadas. So I was filling empanadas and Hermana Hammond was putting sauce on the pizza. She came over to me and said in English....

"hermana... I have something to tell you... there's cochroaches crawling on the food..... 2 were in the pizza sauce...."

I will leave you time to go puke...

Are you done?? Good, so am I...

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

It was HORRIBLE!!! They were everywhere in the kitchen! Lets just say that the food came out and I was sooo sick to my stomach I couldn't eat! It was just crazy! Her kids are nuts and the youngest who is 4 nailed me in the face with a ball of dough. I didn't have time to warn Hermana Hammond and then he nailed her in the face too! I am soo surprised we don't have black eyes! 

Saturday tradition

This week we taught M__________ and C___________. It was interesting. They are so great and love to learn but they are sooo iintelligent and they are just soooo stubborn its hard to teach them. So this week we taught them about prayer. We told them how to pray and the importance of prayer. We explained it for a good hour and we thought that we had explained it clearly. They said they understood it. We asked one of them if they could say the closing prayer. M___________ hates praying. She thinks its just empty words so she wouldn't say the prayer. So C__________ said he would do it. We bowed our heads and listened. He then said... " I would like to ask you to keep preaching to us and to keep helping us learn..." I looked up and he was looking at us, I realized that he wasn't praying. I looked and Hermana Hammond and she was looking at him too. We listened to him basically share his testimony and then he said , " in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."........ yeah he was praying the whole time! haha we laughed about it forever after! haha

This week will be exciting! We have a huge activity this week on Friday! It;s a great big talent show!! We are sooo excited! We are going to do a duet with the piano and flute! We picked the hymn God be with you till we meet again. We are going to play it really pretty and nice and then at the chorus we are going to Rock and Roll it!! We are stoked!! 

So I have once again run out of time to write more but I pray that all is well and that you too are enduring till the end! After all we only have 3 more weeks!! 

Love you sooo much!!!

Hermana Creason

oh and the reading! i forgot the paper but on Sunday we need to be on 3 nefi 16

Oh wow there is a lot to tell you guys this week! I really hope that I don't forget anything and that I have enough time to write! haha

Well to begin with C___________ and M__________... they are great people but we found something out this week.... C__________ is a Hustler...... haha he got out of jail about 5 months ago and he was in jail from robbing money from a church... haha so that was fun to find out... haha we are really bummed about it because we don't know what to do about it. He doesn't know that we know and he has lied to us about a lot of things. Let's just say that the bishop was able to figure it all out. We are bummed because we want to keep teaching M___________ but we just can't teach one and not the other... our leaders told us to really pray about it and go by the spirit!

So we were kinda bummed because our progressing investigators are just falling through! Its tough but where there are hardships, the Lord is there too because we have AMAZING INVESTIGATORS that just came out of no where!!!

J__________: I am not sure if I have talked about him yet. He is a friend of a less active that we are trying to activate. He is the one that read the Book of Mormon in a week. Well we recently couldn't find him and then as we followed the spirit, we found him again. He then told us his issue... J_________ is a freaking medium!! Meaning that he can see the other side of the veil!! He can feel out energies too.  He said that he already knows if we are in his friends house because he can "feel" us..... that's a first... haha.   He has had a lot of bad experiences in churches because he said he can see evil things  or things that just aren't right. He hates churches. Well we invited him for a church tour of the chapel. He didn't want to go when people where there so we did it later Sunday afternoon. It was sooo good. He said that he feels really good in the church and that its very, very peaceful! We talked about the Plan of salvation and he loved it! He wants to be baptized!!! He is prepping for August 30th! He really, really wants this!

J_________ C.: he is the son of a member. He was actually baptized when he was 8 but his papers were lost and he isn't a member so he needs to be baptized again but the thing is... he doesn't want to... well didn't ;) He drinks a lot and doesn't have a desire. He said that missionaries have been teaching him for years but never wanted to. From the beginning we just clicked with him!! He is really great! He wants to change and he wants to know how THROUGH THE BOOK OF MORMON!! How great is that?¿?¿?¿? He really is great and he too is prepping for the 30th of August.

M__________: she is the girlfriend of a member. She is from Spain! She is so great! She came to church yesterday! She loves us and we are teaching her tonight! She is a fireball and we like her a lot!!

So a lot of funny things happened this week that I wanted to share with you that I KNOW will bring a smile to your face and make you WISH you were in Argentina!

So this week we forgot to buy something in the store so we went on Wednesday... when we checked out we got our change back and the checker asked if I had 50 cents.. I told him no and he said well we don't have enough change here so as for your 50 cents change, can I give you a band aid? .... only in Argentina is a band aid change!! haha We laughed forever about it! and to make it better as we were walking back to our apartment, laughing I looked at a cop that was leaning against a wall biting his walkie talkie when we got closer he was staring at something in the road and he was MAKING OUT with his walkie! I LOST IT!!! Oh how I love Argentina!!!!!

O____________ is doing great! He is in Buenos Aires this week and it has been very lonely without him here! haha But we text him every day!!!

As for the reading the reading this week.. Aren't the war chapters so much fun to read???..... haha well I came across a scripture I really liked. Its in Alma 43:37-38. here it talks about the Nephites and the war with the Lamenites. The Nephites did a good job and not as many died like the Lamenites but something grabbed my attention. The Nephites still died from the loss of blood because their protection was not enough. The more I thought about this scripture the more I thought about my personal armor of God and if I have enough armor, or is some of my spiritual body exposed to the attacks from Satan? I thought about the Armor of God, and how we have it in our lives. We have it as we obey the commandments of the Lord. So I thought if I am being obedient... not in everything... no one is but the thing is, if we are not obedient we aren't completely protected and we are vulnerable to the attacks of Satan and we fall because of the loss of blood. This loss of blood is SIN and we are staining our souls! It was a really cool study and I invite you to read it too and receive revelation!!

The reading this week!

M alma 55-57

T alma 58-60

W alma 61-63

T hel 1-3

F hel 4-5

S hel 6-7

S hel 8-10

Love you more than you know!!

Hermana Creason

 

On the bus to Salta

 

My hair is getting long

 

 

WOW!!!

Ok fist things first! Yesterday was transfers and...... WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY!!!! Me and Hermana Hammond are staying in Cabildo!!!! We are sooooo excited!!!!

So as for this week it has been a hard one... it was only hard because there hasn't been progress with some of the investigators and it was hard to find them this week. It was a little disappointing but its all good. It happens.

So this week we had to travel down to Salta and it was interesting. Wednesday is when we traveled. Our bus left at 2 in the morning and we didn't feel like sleeping before that time would be a good idea so we stayed up and did random stuff. Hermana Hammond took a 45 min shower and while she was there I was looking and going through some of my stuff and my memories in the mission. It was really cool to see how far I have come in such a short time! It brought tears to my eyes and a smile to my face! It was fun!

Then we traveled to Salta.. a good 7 hour bus ride. We were there until 4 and then traveled back.... we are still tired from the ride!!!

Well this week teaching wise has stunk... its been hard. Basically we are ready to find new people to teach because the ones we are teaching don't want to do anything and we feel like we are wasting our time... but we will see what we do with them....

I really don't have a lot to say about this week because not a lot happened.... OH we did find a family! The moms name is M__________ and she was a reference from the elders in our district. Well O____________ wanted to accompany us so he left with us. Well as we were teaching here her kids started showing up and were really interested in that we were saying! It was cool! She then said that for years she had seen the missionaries walk by her or talking to someone and for years she had been wondering when it was going to be her turn! She was so speechless when we came to her door and she felt so happy! IT was super cool to hear that from her and it makes me want to talk to EVERYONE!!! Her kids are super excited to learn more! W e are excited to teach them!!!

Well because nothing else really happened this week I guess I can share what I learned in our Book of Mormon reading...

Well I was really taken back in Alma 5.... I felt like such a sinner after I read that!! I felt like I am not even close to be ready to be at the judgement bar before God! I was just in awe at the way that Alma was teaching with so much Power and Authority! It was CRAZY!! I learned a lot from it! 

I know that we are not perfect but through the atonement of Christ we are!

I invite you to read Alma 5:14-34 and think about the questions that he is asking and answer about them for yourself. Then I invite you to do what I did. After I read that I felt so bad about my sins that I felt the need to kneel down and offer a prayer of forgiveness. After I had an overwhelming feeling of peace and love came over me. It was a moment I will never forget!

I know that the Lord is always ready to forgive us of our faults and shortcomings but it takes us to offer the prayer to receive it!

I love you all soooo much! This is my last transfer! I have 6 short weeks and 5 more letters home! WE ARE GOING TO EXPLODE CABILDO!!!! Wish us luck!!

Reading this week

m Alma 18-19

t Alma 20-22

w Alma 23-25

t Alma 26-28

f  Alma 29-30

s Alma 31-32

s  Alma 33-35

Hermana Creason



Wow what a weird week!

I am on early this week because we are going to the fair today!!!! I can't wait!!! haha

Well this week has been a different one. Not a lot of new things here. This week we had to travel to Salta because Hermana Hammond had to do some stuff for her Visa so we left Thursday night and it was a good 7 hour bus ride..... we left about midnight and tried to sleep.... I got about two hours in.... but its all good. We got to Salta and we waited to get her visa stuff done but we couldn't get it done so we have to travel back this tomorrow again.... its not fun but we make the best of it!!!

Hermana Hammond has become such a great friend to me!!!  There is a very clear reason why we are companions!! She has such a drive to improve and to do her best and its helping me finish my mission strong! Speaking of, next week is transfers!!!! I can not believe how fast this transfer has gone!!! Its unreal!!! The last six weeks have felt like a blur!!! Its going tooooo fast!!!!!!!

I don't want to leave Cabbildo!! I love it soooo much! The ward doesn't want me to leave either! Yesterday the bishop said that they need me here! It really touched my heart and I am truly blessed to be here.

Yesterday I talked in sacrament meeting. The Bishop didn't give me a topic. So I decided to talk on something that I have been studying this month a lot. I have been studying about letting go of my fear. Fear of anything. but mostly fear of man. I have been trying so hard to drop my natural man habits and submit to the will of the Lord. I decided to talk on that and I talked about how we can drop our fear and share the Gospel. I think it was really good!

This ward is growing like crazy and I love it soooo very much!

This week we had crazy little miracles and they were so amazing!

On Monday we had a lesson with M__________ and C____________ again! The lesson was sooo strong! The miracle was that they had no questions for us.... they wanted to listen! Usually they always start with questions and it just kinda throws off our lesson but the spirit was there from the very beginning! We talked to them about the Restoration again. It was so powerful! At the very end C__________ asked me if I had prayed to know that it was true. I took a moment to gather my thoughts and I said yes. When I said that an overwhelming feeling of truth came over me and I knew that the restoration was true! It was cool! We invited them to go to church this week and they DID!!! It was so good!! They are progressing a lot they just have a problem with praying. They feel like its just air coming out of their mouth. We are going to work on that this week.

On Thursday we had a lesson with V___________! OH MY GOSH THIS GIRL IS AMAZING!!!!! She is so great!! We talked to her about the power of prayer and with a broken heart and contrite spirit. We told her about the story of O__________and how prayer changed everything with him. She was touched and we felt prompted to invite her to pick a day to be baptized as a goal. We pulled a calender out and she looked at it. She didn't even pause and said the ¨"6th of August I am getting baptized." Its in the middle of the week, but this day has a huge significance for her so we are going to make it work. We feel so good about it and I really think she can make it. We have not been able to see her mom, and she does not want to see us. We asked V___________ how we can help but she said that just prayers will be fine. As we walked home, Hermana Hammond thought that we should write a letter of thanks to her mother for the opportunity to teach her daughter and to get to know her. We think that this will help soften her heart. We are going to try it and see what happens! If you could, please keep her in your prayers for the 6th of august!!!!

SO many other miracles this week but I will save them for another day.

So the world cup was nuts!!!! That week of semi finals and finals was soooo bad! Everyone kept calling us Germans! We started counting how many times we heard it but we finally lost track... haha We are still getting it! haha. Well the day of the games we could work until the game started but during the games and after we could not be outside! I have video taped the noise of when Argentina won semi finals so I will show you that when I get home!! Its NUTS!! Soccer here is a way of life and they take it VERY close to heart! A lot of people freak out when I tell them I have never really played it.... haha O_____________ is one of those! haha

Its finally warming up! Today is beautiful and soooo nice! Its not hot, its just perfect!!

Presidente Capparo is so great!! We talked a lot about having converts before baptism and he wants us to really focus on the recent converts! It feels like a different mission but its also really really good!!

Well because we are going shopping right after this I have forgotten my reading chart on where we are this week. I know that we should be at Alma 20 next Sunday..... I think...... oops..... haha oh well. Basically its 2 or 3 chapters a day so just base it on that! I loved the reading this week!!! I really love Mosiah! Its so interesting to read and I love applying the stories into my life! I always love studying about Alma the Younger and watching him go from a rebel to the church to the GREATEST MISSIONARY!! Its cool watching his change and its been cool that I can apply it to me in my mission how I have changed! I love the scriptures and am growing a huge testimony of them!

Well this is my week this week! I love the mission and I am so sad that its almost over! But I'm going to finish strong and drop all my fear!!!!

Love you all soooo very much!

Hermana Creason

PS keep V__________ in your prayers and pray that I wont have transfers next week!!!! haha

Ok I have never had a better week in my entire life!!!!!!!!!! I have never ever been so happy and never have I been so undeserving of the blessings received this week!!!!!!

The first thing to say is O____________WAS BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!!!!!!! I honestly have never been so happy in my life!!! This week was such a spiritual growth for him and for me! I guess I will start at the beginning!!

Well this week we have been in daily contact with him so that he could have spiritual strength to press on and all! I gave him dads letter and he loved it! We also taught him about the priesthood and he was really interested about it. We talked about how this would be such a blessing for his family and help them to learn. He wants them to listen to us and I think that in time they will! We are starting with his mom! We already have a foot in the door because she likes to teach us how to make yummy things! haha so I guess its 2 pluses! haha anyway. So we had taught him everyday and we saw how he changed every day! We fasted with him on Thursday and it was the first time that he had fasted. He really enjoyed it but we got a text at midnight from him asking if he can brush his teeth while fasting.... haha oh its fun watching him learn! haha. Well he passed his interview and every time we leave him something to read, when we came back, he always asked us what it meant or what he thinks it meant. He has started marking his scriptures and reading them daily! Then came the day of his baptism. We went to his house that morning and we watched Finding Faith in Christ. It was a great way to start of his baptism day!!! Later that day we went and filled the font and studied, contacted a few references and then went back to the church to prepare. The baptism was at 7 and he got there at 6:30. Everyone showed up around 7:30 but he didn't mind. haha

The part of the night that I loved the most was when they left to go change and we waited outside with our cameras in a few moments O____________ and his best friend A______ (member) came out in white. In this moment tears filled my eyes. He had a huge smile on his face and he was ready to go. It was a beautiful service! The best one that I had seen in Argentina! Not very many people were there but it was soooo spiritual!

After the talks he was baptized! I cried! I didn't cry because it was another baptism, I cried because O___________ has become my brother and a very dear friend and now he has entered the door of eternity! We met him outside the font and he took my hand. I looked him in the eyes and said almost crying ."O_________, usted es LIMPIO." (O_________, your clean!) He looked at my with a firmer grip and said "por fin" (finally) "gracias Hermana"

I  honestly can not take any credit! It was all the Lord! The Lord molded us both this week and we both changed!

Yesterday O__________ went to church and actually beat us there!!! H e received the Holy Ghost AND the Priesthood!!!!!!!! He is GLOWING with the spirit!!! 

I honestly can not express the joy that I feel and the way the Lord has taught me this week! I have grown so much and I am sooo happy!!! 

O____________ has become a very dear friend and a brother to me and now, he has entered into the kingdom of the Lord! I feel so privileged to have been able to be here to witness this miracle!!!!

Thank you so very much for all your prayers and all your faith to help him this week!! I know it happened because of his faith and all the spiritual help he has been getting!!!!!

I have ran out of time to tell more but I will have ton to say later!!!

Reading this week

M Mos 11- 13

T Mos 14-17

W Mos 18-20

T Mos 21-23

F Mos 24-26

S Mos 27-28

S Mos29, Alma1

LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH

Hermana Creason

 

Making the yummiest treat!!! 

 

 

 

Wow what a week!

Well I think that I jinxed my self last week when I said that I was 100% better. I have learned that I have Dads immune system. I got sick this week again but I'm doing a lot better now. It was worse on Friday but its in the past and I'm moving on. So while you guys where watching fireworks, I was buying cold meds.... haha

No I actually had a really cool experience while I was sick and its really spiritual so I guess I will have to save it for when I come home because writing it down would not be enough.

Well this week has been an interesting. I guess I will tell you what has been happening with O________.

Oh my gosh this man has got to be one of my favorite stories that I have on my mission!! He has really been changing! We had a lesson with him almost every day this week to help him get ready for his baptism this week It has been really cool watching him change and apply the atonement in his life. Dad said something in one of his letters a while ago that said that O__________ is on his way to receiving a testimony that will help him. After that we have focused all of our lessons on him strengthening this testimony that he needs to have. I can see a huge change in him and it really is a privilege to see. I have seen so many things on my mission but to really see someone change and they change because they love the Lord and they want to do what is right it really is an honor more than anything!

So yeah he is prepping to be baptized this Saturday and it is going to be the best day EVER!! We had a lesson with him and our new Bishop yesterday and might I just add that our Bishop is AMAZING!!! It's so cool watching this little ward grow! Before we had less than 20 people going to church and yesterday we had 65 in Sacrament meeting!! Its just amazing!!! Anyway back to O___________. Well in the lesson the Bishop was asking him what the ward can do to help him get ready and feel like a special day for him, then he asked him a very good question. He asked "O__________, why do you want to be baptized?"

His response brought tears to my eyes. He said that he feels the need to be clean and to do the right thing.

That one response changed my mission. I know that I am here in the mission to help change lives but I feel like mine is the one that is changing! I honestly can never thank God enough for this chance to serve Him and for Him to mold me and teach me the things that he wants me to know.

As for my new President... I am so excited to work with them! Presidente y Hermana Chaparro! Tomorrow we have a big conference with them and we are going to get to know them and their family.

This week in the reading I came across a scripture I really liked in 2 Nephi 25:23

Here Nephi is saying how much the words he has been writing is worth so much and that he has worked so hard to do the will of the Lord by helping us know and understand the doctrine of Christ. I always am so sad to be done with 1 and 2 Nephi. I really do love them and learn so much from him and his family! But there are bigger and better things awaiting us in the scriptures this week.... and I am a slacker and forgot my paper that says where we read everyday....

But I do know that by Sunday we need to be at Mosiah 10... so I guess you guys can figure it out.... haha

Well sorry this letter has been short, well shorter than normal. I have been writing and responding to a lot of people today!

Just want to say I love you and that we need to make the next 2 months count!!!!!!!!

All my love!

Hermana Creason



 

Happy Birthday Chango!!

 

 

HOLA FAMILIA!!

 

Oh have I had a great week!! I really saw so many miracles this week it is crazy!!!!

So we have been struggling with some our investigators… they just are not progressing a whole lot. It has been hard.  But we have been really good at not allowing it affect our mood or our spirit! We are just going along with the flow the best we can! I also have the best companion that helps me stay positive!

Well this week I have recovered 100% and I feel great… except I pulled a muscle in my shoulder today but other then that, yeah I'm good!

 

So Tuesday we had a lesson with a less active named L__________ and she is great! She is the only member in her family and we are teaching her sister and her mom. Her mom is super Catholic and we taught about the restoration. Hermana Hammond came right out there and said that the catholic church doesn't have all the truth.... the face of her mom was like a spiritual bomb went off in her head and the face of L_____________was like told you so kinda look! haha it was great!!

Well I guess I will get to my favorite part of the week and it was yesterday. So all week I have been trying so hard to focus on getting investigators to church so that the can really progress and all. I had taught a lot about the Sabbath day and the sacrament. Well it finally came to the day.... we went to look for someone and they couldn't go. We then got to church late and none of our investigators were there. We called everyone! We got a hold of O____________ and something happened to his brother and he wasn't sure if he was going to make it and no one else answered their phone... I started to lose hope. We waited and waited and waited... and the biggest surprise of my life.... V__________ showed up!! I am not sure if I explained her situation but she is not allowed to learn anymore about the church. Her mom forbids it... it's so sad because she wants to be baptized so badly!! It's hard but she has not been to Church for 4 weeks because of her mom and she just showed up to church! I almost started crying!! Then if that wasn't a miracle 10 min before sacrament started, O________ pulls up.... tears started in my eyes and then sacrament started and M__________ (O_________'s girlfriend) walks in..... tears are flowing at this point!

It really was such a blessing to see it!  We had 3 instigators in church and 16 less actives in church! I really can not express the gratitude that I have that I was able to see this happen! I know that my purpose here in Cabildo is for O__________ and V__________! I have such a strong connection with them! Stronger than any other person I have taught in my mission! I love them so much! They have been through so much and they are receiving such a strong testimony!

As for the reading this week! I hope that you are all caught up because it was a great reading this week! What I loved the most is that it really was all about the Plan of Heavenly Father for all of us as his children! I loved every part! That every thing that He has done for us is for our personal growth for us to be like Him! One verse that I loved so much and I have been applying this week in my work is in 2 Nephi 7:7-9

I love the part when it was "who is mine enemy?" and to bring it on!!! That is one thing that I have been learning here in Cabildo to really fight with Satan! I really hate him and I am so ready to fight him! One thing that I heard Elder Uchtdorf say was "I you want to punch Satan in the mouth... Preach the Gospel!"..... Gladly!

This weeks reading

Mon 2N 15-19

Tue 2N 20-24

Wed 2N 25-26

Thu 2N 27-28

Fri 2N 29-30

sat 2N 31-33

 sun Jacob 1-4

Love you all so much!!!

 

I just have one favor before I go... O___________ has picked the day of his baptism. July 19. He needs all the prayers he can get. Please have  place for him in your hearts. He needs some extra help from the other side of the veil and I have felt your prayers in my mission and I know that they can help him!!

Love you and miss you more!!!

Hermana Creason



HOLA family!!!

What a week!

Not a lot happened at the beginning so I will just get to the important stuff. First off I got the flu this week on Thursday and Friday. I was so sick. I threw up Thursday night and I spent the day in bed on Friday. Friday we had a ton of appointments so we figured out a way for me to be with a member in her home and Hermana Hammond worked with a member and I am so glad she did! She is so great!!! I remember when I was in Palpala and my companion was a leader and I had to work with the members and I HATED IT! It drove me crazy but Hermana Hammond took it like a champ and did it! but I spent the afternoon into the night at the family S___________. It was great! While I was there I got to talk to hermana S_________ and get to know her more! She has become my mother in Santiago! I love this family so much! They always take care of us! She made me soup and made me feel so much better. Later my district leader came over and gave me a blessing. I now feel 100 % better and I feel better now that I am not on happy pills.(I was taking meds that made me really loopy...) haha

Well as for teaching it was a good week. We are teaching a less active woman that is great, her name is S___________. She has been less active for a year and now her friend, J________, wants to listen to us. Well we taught him last week and left him the introduction and Alma 32 to read... but I guess we explained it wrong because in 5 days he read the intro TO Alma 32!!!! WHAT?¿?¿? yeah crazy!!! haha we had a family home evening last night with them and we watched Finding Faith in Christ!

We also taught V_________! She is still going strong.  Her mom doesn't want us coming over anymore but V__________  and her grandparents said that we can go over on Thursday nights when her mom is working.... I feel like I am a spy going over there! haha but she is already working of getting to the TEMPLE!!!! We have not even taught her about temples yet!!!! She is AMAZING!! I just want her mom to understand and to allow her to make this step in her life!!!

But one thing that me and Hermana Hammond are learning in life is that there are times when we are going to have to pay a token of the price that was made in Gethsemane that way we can understand the way the Savior knows us and that we can understand his Atonement! I have had so many moments in my mission and my life that I have been able to get to know the Atonement and feel His love from it.... that means that our investigators will have to too... that means V__________ and O________.... its not fun because they are going through so much and just want to be baptized but its all in the will of the Lord. This I know, as long as we take our trials and keep pressing forward with the Savior, all will be well!

Well I encourage you to keep reading the Book of Mormon! I too am a little behind but only a few chapters! IT IS AMAZING! I am learning so much from it! I will share a few things.

I really loved chapter 7 in Nephi. This is when Nephi and his brothers are returning with Ishmael and his family and they are so tired and grumpy and his brothers want to go back to Jerusalem. Nephi stands up and says no we can't. We need to keep the commandments of the Lord and his brothers got mad at him and tied him up and left him for dead. It is this scripture that stood out to me. Verse 17

Nephi prays and asks for STRENGTH to break the bands of his affliction. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE TO US IN OUR AFFLICTIONS! Usually when I am down and ready to give up, I ask God to change my situation BUT Nephi is a great example to us that we need to ask for STRENGTH to go through it and then have the faith to act as he did in verse 18

I am loving the Book of Mormon with every word I read and I am so glad we have here for us to learn and understand!

Here is the reading for this week!

Mon 1N 19-20

Tues 1 N 21-22

Wed 2N 1-2

Thurs 2N 3-5

Fri 2N 6-8

Sat 2N 9

Sun 2N10-14

I pray that your week is great and that you can feel my prayers!!!

LOVE YOU!!

Hermana Creason

 

Happy Father's Day

 

Santiago

 

 

HOLA familia!!! wow what a week. Not like the last one! haha

But first!!!!!! FELIZ DIA DEL PADRE!!!!!!!..... yesterday!

I would just like to declare to the WHOLE WORLD that MY DADDY is the best!!! I am so very grateful for everything that he does for me and my family! One thing that I will never ever forget is those long gospel talks that we have! I learn so much from him and his life and the way that he teaches me! I LOVE YOU DADDY! and I would also like the thank my grandpa and all my uncles for all their love!!

SECOND!! We don't have transfers!!!!! YAY!!! This is the first time that I have not needed to change companions or areas my whole time here in Argentina!!!! We are so stoked!!! haha

Ok so i have got some updates about a few perople but I guess I am not very clear in my letters. In particular V________.

Ok so yes you are right that V__________ is the teenager that wants to get baptized but doesn't have permission, and I think that in a few of my letters I have mixed up V__________'s name and V____________.... I keep doing it in my planner too!

V____________ was the one baptized last week. She is 11 and just great! Hermana Garibay and I actually taught her a lot but she never progressed and so we dropped her.  Well out of the blue she showed up again and progressed like crazy! Her brother is a member but he is less active but she had a great desire to be baptized and she did! It was great!

 

Well as for O__________... Crazy story this guy! I feel like we are on a huge roller coaster with him!  Well Monday night we found him. We went to his house just to pass by and ask what happened because he still was not answering our phone and he wasn't home but Hermana Hammond had to use the bathroom so his mom let us in and used her bathroom. As we left, O___________ pulled up on his motorcycle!! We talked with him and he thought that we were so mad at him but we explained that we are just really concerned about him because he was fine the day before his baptism. He was shocked. He said that he had been struggling so much. The day before and the day of his baptism he was hit with lots of thoughts about his dad who passed away... he was extremely depressed and Satan was working EXTREMELY hard on him! It was really sad actually because he really wants to be baptized but every time that he is set on it, something happens! Keep him in your prayers!

And just as far as the cockroaches go, I HATE THEM!! Haha! I have definitely gained a HUGE respect for cleanliness!! Haha

 

M___________ and C__________…. Well its not going to great. Turns out they were dating but now they broke up and we don't know where he lives and she is heartbroken… she is so angry at God about it but we have another lesson with her tonight so we will see.

 

OK now I am at the part of the letter that I have been waiting for!

 

I would like to let you know that I have finished reading the Book of Mormon in SPANISH!!!!! WOOT WOOT! Haha I am so excited! I have learned a lot this time! It nearly took me 10 months to read it but it was great! But now that I have finished I need to start again and I would like to do it with you!

 

I am thinking that we should read the Book of Mormon as a family! I have totally figured it out too! I really hope that you have not started recently but I have figured it out how if we do it just right, we will finish the Book of Mormon the night I am home! LETS DO IT PLEASE!!!!

 

Here is the plan!

Monday Intoduction and 1 Nephi 1-3

Tuesday 1 Nephi 4-6

Wednesday 1 Nephi 7-10

Thursday 1 N 10-12

Friday 1N 13-14

Saturday 1N 15-16

Sunday 1N 17-18

 

 Let's do this together! I will let you know the revelation I get as I read and I hope that I will get revelation in return! 

LOVE YOU SOOOOOO VERY MUCH!!!

Hermana Creason

 



 

Our District

 

 

 

New baptismal font

 

 

Oh my gosh!!! This was the worst best week of my life!!! It was absolutely nuts!!! My companion wrote home what happened every day and I just might have to do that too!

Lets start and the beginning of it all....

Monday....

So monday was a great day! We got to write home and just kinda chill and then we went out to work. We had an appointment with M__________ and C__________ and the lesson was really weird. They always ask questions really deep and hard to answer, let alone in Spanish.  He asked us when we believe an embrio actually receives a soul..... uh ok... haha we explained to him that we believe its at the very start. He then asked a bunch of other questions that really have nothing to do with what we were talking. I was really frustrated. I was so ready to leave the lesson. I asked if there ws anything that we could do for them and they said to please keep coming and then he had a look on his face of deep consern and like he really really ment it. We told him absolutely.  I then asked if we could say a prayer and he said that he would like to..... O_o..... well it was our fault because we didn't teach him how a prayer is so he basically bore his testimony. It was so touching. He said that never in his life as he listened to other religions and other types of churchs, has he felt a peace and a desire to know more. And her we are 19 and 21 year old GIRLS teaching him basic gospel principles! It was cool!

So then after the lesson we went to O__________ and he told us that he got a job and he could not get bapized at the schedual time that we had the baptism. We then called V_________ and she couldn't do it the time he could so we set 2 baptism times on Saturday. No big deal.

Tuesday

Tuesday was really nice.  O_________ had his interview and it was a great day up until the night. We got home after working and found a few cockroaches in our apartment and so we decided to spray them with raid, well we found out that they came from our wall... we began to spray the wall and we went to bed.

Wednesday

We woke up in the morning and found 67 dead huge cockroaches on the floor throughout our apartment! I felt like I was in another world!!  I took a ton of photos but I am not going to send them because you guys acted badly the last pictures of cockroaches I sent because this story just gets worse. Well we called an exterminator and when he got there he said that it even smelt like cockroach... EWWWWW!!!! Well he ended up sprayed our apartment and we had to leave and sleep in La Banda.... I don't think I am not going to have a transfer without going to La Banda! haha Well right after we finshed sparying our apartment we went down with him. We live on the 3rd floor and at the very bottom in the hallway there is a big box in the floor that has all of the plumming underneath it. Well he told us to go outside and he used a CROWBAR to open it .  Me and my companion were so afraid because at that moment we knew what was underneath. As soon as he opened it, it was like New York City for them!!!! DISGUSTING! So he sprayed the crap out of them and a good 300 tried to escape in the hall.... After he was done, he closed the lid and climbed in his car and drove away.... LEFT THE MESS!!!!!! We felt so bad that there were a good 300 dead cockroaches in the hall of our apartment building so we went to sweep them up.... I prayed the whole time that the spirit would just shield my eyes from this battle scene!

So after it was all done we had about an hour before we had to head to La Banda so we went to the familia M____________... it was TERRIBLE! They were not respectful at all. We talked about the atonement and they then asked why can't we have wine instead of water... they know why.... just wanted another excuse to drink more wine than they already are. We are so mad at them! I think they noticed how disgusted we were with them because when we left, we didn't set an appointment to return.  We will pray and see what happens.

ok....

Thursday

was a good day. We taught Valeria. and this is where it is sad... we are no longer allowed to teach V_______ anymore.  Her mom forbids it and we can't do anything about it.  Her mom doesn't allow her to come to church.  She can't be with her boyfriend who is a member.... it is so sad and we are really bummed about it!

Friday

We had a ward activity and it was good.

Saturday

Well this is baptism day... it was a great morning.  We had a ton of banana bread for the baptism and about to start our studies and we got a text from O__________.  He said that he was not going to go to his baptism and that he was really confused.  He said that he couldn't drop his catholic habits. We dropped everything and ran to his house!!! He wasn't home... we called and called and called but he kept cutting off our calls! We talked to his mom and she said that he went to a park to play soccer. We found a taxi and asked him to take us to the nearest park. When we got there, he was not there. e were devastated. We had no idea what to do. We called V___________ and her mom had not signed the baptism form for her to be baptized.... at this point we had no baptism. We were stunned. We sat on a bench and prayed because everything is out of our hands and we needed to give it to the Lord. After the prayer we just sat there... about 5 min later V_____________ called us and said that her mom signed the paper!!! YAY!!! It was 2 hours before the baptsim!  The baptsim was great and her mom cried at parts. After the baptsim her mom said that she wants to talk to us this week!

This work is nuts! It drives me crazy and it makes my hair fall out BUT I have never felt the hand of the Lord in the things in my life! There is no way I could have done to prevent or to prepare me of what happened this week but it was an experience I will never EVER forget!!!!! That is why it is the worst, best week of my life!!!!!

We are not going to give up on O__________! I know that he is my purpose and that  that man will make it to the waters of baptism!

Love you all so very much and pray for you always!!!
Please keep a special prayer that we can find O__________ again and help him!
love
Hermana Creason

 

GIANT empanadas - YUM

 

 

HOLA mi familia!!! como esta?¿?¿?  I am now on the double digit countdown!!! How did that happen?¿?¿?¿? Wow what a week!! It was a good one again! This week I will talk more about what had happened!

Well to start off I guess I will just follow your questions.

As for new investigators, we taught 2 last Monday after I wrote you.  Their names are M________ and C_________! They are great but the problem is that they are really proper and they use really big words.... hahaha They would ask us something and we would just sit there.... its been a while that I didn't know what they were saying and that I was praying so hard for the gift of discernment!  It was funny. We explained that we are young and clearly learning the language but they didn't dumb down their words.... haha so I have been trying to broaden my vocabulary this week because we have another appointment with them tonight! haha

As for the M___________ family... they have not been progresing and our area is really big and their are a lot of people that we teach, that frankly are progressing so we have been focused on them. It's so hard because I love this family but they just are not doing or completeing the commitments that we leave. We have plans to go this week but this week will be a busy one for us!

It will be busy because we have 2 baptisms!!!!!! O________ and V______________!!!

O_____________ is getting baptized this Saturday!!! He is so ready and he said that he feels great about it! His interview is tomorrow and we know that he will pass! He has been taught the gospel for 14 years! haha! V___________ is also getting baptized! I am not sure if I told you much about her. S She was actually one of mine and Hermana Garribay's investigator but she never progressed so we dropped her. She is 11 and her older brother is a member but less active. Well we found her again and she is so pumped to get baptized! It was such a surprise to see her change and see how the Lord really did just prepare her heart!!! She went to church yesterday and had a blast looking through all my stickers! haha

V___________ still does not have permission but she is a jewel! We had a lesson with her on Thursday and we then asked her if she would like to go out and teach with us! Her face lit up and she was so happy that she could! We went and taught an old man, sadly the lesson wasn't that good but V___________ loved every moment of it! She didn't make it to church yesterday because of family problems but she is still going strong! I pray all the time for her that she will make it to baptism!

Transfers is in two weeks.   Not this Monday but the next. I really hope that I stay here! I love Cabildo a lot and my companion!!! I think that I will still be here because I am still her trainer. The greenies are in training for 12 weeks and this is only week 5. I don't think that president would split us up and then after her training I only have one transfer left so there is no real point of me transferring.... I really hope! But seeing my history of always changing and every trasfer something happens, I really have no idea!

We finally got a heater just when the sun decided to come out! We had stormy weather here for 3 weeks strait and now it feels like a perfect autumn day for watching little league baseball! ;)

The work is going good! This week really flew by! We are doing great as a companionship! We are starting a diet because we didn't eat so healthy this week! haha and we really should eat healthy here! I really love my companion! She is so great and she is helping me push to be my best!

I remember one of my companions told me that when you get to your last couple months, the Lord really tests you to help you see what you have learned in your mission. I can feel that he is doing it now! I have had so many opportunities to apply different skills that I have learned, or applied new talents that I developed this week and it has made me think more and more of my mission. I recently found a talk that is called "an opportunity of a life time".  It talks about how the mission is something that if done right, it will be holy ground for me in the future! It is a beautiful talk and I love it with all my heart! I can see that I am not the same person I was and that Padre Celestial has so much in store planned for me! and I can't wait to see what else hes got!!!! haha

Well I love you all more than you know and pray for you always!

Love you long time!

Hermana Creason



 

I am FREEZING!!!!

 

Happy Memorial Day from the Cabildo Sisters

 

 

Hola mi familia!!!! como estas?¿?¿??¿?¿

Wow what a great week! Not a lot of new info but it was a good one spiritually!

This week we improved in all of our numbers/goals and we are improving a lot!!! I feel so happy!!!!

I will have to admit that at the beginning of the week I felt a bit down. not down as in sad or upset, more like I felt like I wasn't growing spiritually anymore and my spirit was hungry for some growin! haha. I took one day to study/ think about how I am doing spiritually! I'm not saying that I am struggling, it was just time for me to ponder. I wondered if I had done all that I was meant to do in Argentina or if I had let moments go by. Wondered if I should have had more baptism and wondered what I need to do be better help my investigators prepare to be baptized. As I studied, I came across a talk that I received in Georgia. It was actually a letter that my mission president got from some one. Its called the vision to baptize. It talks about the vision to baptize and what it means to have it.... It changed my life!!!! This week I have grown so much because I have come to know WHY I am a missionary!!! The talk talks a lot about the remission of sins and why that is so important. My eyes have been opened and I know want to baptize the WORLD! haha only because I understand now.

Yesterday I was studying a story in Acts. Its the 2 chapter and I came across something really cool that learned a ton!!! In this chapter Peter is testifying that Christ is resurrected and that the people need to repent and be baptized..... well doesn't that sound familiar! haha well I like what happens later in verse 37. It says that his testimony was so strong that the people where like..... oh um.... what do we do?¿?¿?¿?¿? and right after Peter says very directly REPENT AND BE BAPPTIZED. So direct! Then a few verses later says that 3000 people were baptized!!!!!! WOWOWOWOW!!!!!

I am not saying that I need to baptize 3000 people but I should try because I have come to realize that baptism is the ONLY way to receive a remission of our sins! The whole gospel of Christ revolves around it! U have been marking all of the scriptures that talk about a remission of sins/baptism/clean... DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY THERE ARE?¿?¿? The whole point of the gospel of Jesus Christ is for us to be CLEAN!!!!! The prophets teach us to be clean, so we need to follow the prophets. The scriptures tell us the need to be clean, so we need to read the scriptures. We take the sacrament so we can be clean, so we need to go to church. EVERY commandment or part of the gospel that the end result is for us to be CLEAN!!!!

CAN YOU TELL THAT MY MIND IS BLOWN?¿?¿? haha I feel like I am just of fire with this discovery!! Of course I knew this before but you know that moment when things just CLICK? yeah I basically got hit by a spiritual meteor!!!!! haha

Well investigators are going great!!!

V___________ is still going strong. She doesn't have permission still but she is going to fast (we are too) so that she can show the Lord that she really wants this. Of course she went to church yesterday.

O_________ WENT TO CHURCH TOO!!!! Oh it was amazing! We passed by his house but he wasn't there. So we went to church. In the middle of class he showed up!!!! He is getting baptized June 7th!! Please pray for him!!!

Well love you all so very much!!!

Hermana Creason



 

Yep - I am still me!!!

 

 

Argentina Pride

 

Wow what a week!!!

Lots happened this week but not anything really exciting.

Well I guess

I will just get right off telling you about V___________... her baptism date was Saturday but when we went over on Thursday we had a lesson with her and she told us that her mom said no to baptism.... and because that she is under age, she can't get baptized without her mom signing the baptismal form.... sad day. She almost began to cry!!! She wants to follow the savior so badly but she can't the way she wants to!!!! PLEASE keep her in your prayers!! She told us that she has already considered serving a mission!!! She is 16 and not even a member and wants to spread the gospel to the world!!!!S he is amazing!!! We were a little bummed when that happened... but she is still going strong. She didn't go to stake conference yesterday because she didn't have a way to get there. We hope to be able to talk to her mom this week and help her with questions and stuff like that! hopefully we can get this worked out!!!

and O___________,,,,, what a headach this guy! hahaha Well I am so happy that he has the desires to be baptized but he also didn't go to the conference so he can't be baptized this Saturday because he does not understand the Sabbath day and to keep it holy... we have an appointment with him this tomorrow so we are going to have him repent and get in line with the gospel!!!!

We are also teaching a less active family. The M________ family! I am not sure if I have talked about them yet... they are great! They have been inactive for 14 years but want to go back, but the are so afraid to do it! Saturday we felt like we needed to go to their house so we did. They were surprised to see us but we gave a very strong lesson! We talked about how in the pre mortal life, we were not in families. We were just one great big one! and when we came to earth, this is where we received bodies and FAMILIES! I had never thought about it before! but really our family is a blessing that we receive in THIS LIFE and its our choice if we strive to keep this blessing for eternity! We were promised in the pre mortal life that if we choose to come to earth, we will be resurrected BUT the blessing of an eternal family is only for those that live the gospel of Jesus Christ! It was a very powerful lesson and they began to cry!  It really was the best lesson that I have ever taught in my mission! The spirit witnessed to their hearts AND to mine that those words are true!! It was an experience I will never forget!!!!

Still no bishop yet but our ward is starting to work a little more!... a little.... haha! I really love Cabildo! It is a great area! My companion is GREAT!! We have so much in common! We are already best friends!!

This week I have been studying a lot about how to have a humble heart and trying to give up my natural man! It is so dang hard!!!! but I know that it is necessary!! I will study more this week and let you know how it went!!!! haha

I am glad to hear that you are all doing well!!!

Well ran out of time!!

Love you all soooooooo very much and pray for you every day!!

Hermana Creason



Trainers and Greenies

Hermana Hammond and EMPANADAS

LOVE YOU

 

Wow what a week and what a great opportunity it was yesterday to talk to you guys!!! It was such an up boost!!

Ok well what a week! As I told you last week I am now a trainer! My companion is Hermana Hammond! She is from Alpine Utah and is AMAZING!!!! I was really nervous to train but she is so ready to work and is really trying to do her best!!! We are going to have a great time together!!! We just click and we have already become real friends! haha She knows a lot of Spanish! A lot more than I did when I got here!  We were tracting in an area that I had never been in before and we decided to knock some doors. I told her to pick one and invited her to do a door approach. Her answer was... Alright! She is great! The woman that she talked to warmly welcomed us into her home and we shared a Book of Mormon with her and said that we can return! It was an experience that I think Hermana Hammond will remember!

OK FIRST THING THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY!! After it happened I have been dying to tell you!!! Yesterday after I talked with you guys, we went and studied and then we left to work. The whole time during my studies I was thinking about when dad asked how O_________ was doing. Well I had thought about it so much that we decided to go find him!.............. WE DID!!!! Him and M__________ (his girlfriend) where there!!!!! We talked with them about desires and that we need to put them in practice. My sweet companion in the middle of the lesson asked if they had a baptismal date and O__________ explained that he had one but things happened. A little bit latter my companion spoke again and she invited them to be baptized for the 24 of May. They kind of looked stunned but O__________ took a second and thought... he then said yes!!! M__________ declined but still wants to learn more but what an experience for her!!!! So O_______ is now preparing for baptism the next week!!!!!

I can feel that miracles are going to happen this transfer!!!!!!!

Ok I feel better that I got to tell you this!! haha

Oh mom I am not trunky........ ok not that trucky... haha no I really am fine! I am actually feeling trunky for the mission! Like I already miss it! haha!

Training is going good! For the new missionaries there is a 12 program that we do every day for 12 weeks that helps the new missionaries and they get to study more. So we are doing that. I really like doing it to. Its reminding me the basics and the best ways to teach. Really every day I tell myself that I want to be the trainer that I want Kenzee to have. I want her to have success in the mission so I am going to help Hermana Hammond have success in hers! I really don't feel like I am training, she came pre trained and ready to learn more!

This week is going to be a good one! We are getting V__________ ready for baptism. She is nervous but I am PRAYING that she gets baptized this week! We still don't have a bishop but we have stake conference this Saturday and Sunday. Hoping that we get one soon! This Saturday we also have Zone conference and its our last one with the Levrinos..... so sad!!!! I can't picture this mission without them!! but I will only have a few months with the new one so I guess we will see what happens.

I just wan to say one thing!!

I want to wish a very very happy mothers day to Sheila Creason!! My mom is the reason that I am here! Well yeah I guess my dad is too but my mom is my best friend, my sister! Hermana Hammond has a lot of quotes and my favorite is "Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a Mother!"

LOVE YOU MOMMY!!!!!!!

Came across a chapter that I am absolutely in love with! I just opened my scriptures this morning and I want you guys as a family to study tonight for scripture reading. Romans 5.

LOVE YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH!!!!!

All my love and more

Hermana Creason