October 3

WAAAH! Yes, conference was awesome! We all went to the stake center which is in centro and watched the broadcast, Hna. Vaughan y yo got to watch it in English and hear their voices and the funny thing Pres. Monson said that we're scripted, like We love you Bob! Elder Nelson! Que Paso!? that one was such a shock to me. I loved Saturday first session, probalmente porque Laura came with Hna. Alcoria and we got to bring Maria! She was having a really hard time and one big thing was she didn't know if God loved her or not. After Pres. Uchdorf's talk I was in tears thinking about Maria and what she had just hear one of the 12 say. She only could come to one session and I know that that one session had to have been the first one on Saturday! Yes, our Heavenly Father answers prayers! It was really cool to sit among all the missionaries and hear the prayers for us and the talks directed toward us, I really hope I can be that real missionary everyone sees missionaries as. It was also really cool to see the unity of the church, the break between sessions on Sunday was fun, we brought this lentil sopa stuff Hna. Arancibia had made and were heating it up, lots of families stayed in the gym area of the church and ate and drank matte (which smells really.......feo) and shared their food with everyone, the Hermanas in centro made a torta and were sharing it with anyone who came to get it, the meshies gave us chocolate cake stuff with dulce in it, and we had soup left over so we compartir-ed it to the people who wanted some, it went pretty far and it was fun to see the look of surprise on their faces when they realized, yes it was good, hermanas can cook. I thought it was funny Angry Birds was mentioned in conferencia, they bajar-ed la caña on a few this, por ejemplo my former life of computerness. It was so good though, this time out here has really helped me see that you need to make real connections and not just electronic ones, though those ones are usually easier/more convenient, but the real ones are more worth it. I LOVED the talk on how dads are their daughter's heros. That was so good and all us Hermanas teared up.
This week otherwise was really different. I was sick. yes but I am better now and Hna Clark will let me work again. She was such a mom this week, I got really sick (flu-ish kind, no nausea or anything like that) on Tuesday during our district meeting and so I got a blessing (Gracias Elderes!) and was put to bed with the instructions to sleep until I felt better, that happened to be on Thursday but then we got up from our prayer and I was super dizzy and weak so Hna Clark told me to get in bed again. It was rather funny to me. So I don't have a lot to say about the work of this last week. BUT Hna Arancibia got to go work with Hna Clark and that was good because she's been in casa with Hna Vaughan this little bit, we still don't have much of an idea what's going on with her foot but she's sick of not working. Oh, yeah, so you know the argument that is all, soccer is football because you play it with your foot, we discussed this last week and found that 1) it's spelled "fut" down here 2) you would play it with your "pie" here and 3) no, don't argue in different languages, it's pointless. Hna Clark y Hna Arancibia were able to fijar TWO fechas this week with people! Maria and a joven named Marco (he's the brother of the man named Sebastian I'm pretty sure I've told you about but I'm not sure) Those dates are still valid and I'm happy! We'll try to get a lot more investigators this week. Oh, yeah, The man Wilson.....he called and we think he may have been posessed, not really but it was a bit freaky, he was yelling and wouldn't let us finish sentences and it was weird. Ha ha, Hna Vaughan asked how he was doing and we told him that he "died" (meaning we stopped teaching him) and because of Hna Hebe Rodriguez who really did die, her eyes got so big and was all, Another one! It was funny. Hna. Vaughan also got left on the bus! The bus driver closed the door before she could get off and all of us were shocked, then ran after the bus. Hna Aracibia was yelling in her Spanish accent "My companion!" It was rather hilarious and I stopped running after a few steps. We love Hna. Arancibia's english, it makes us happy daily as I'm sure our spanish does her.
I do have to say, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!!!!! Yay! But she's on a disney cruise so I guess it's ok if she doesn't get this......yeah, disneycruise......awesome...Anyway! I hope you peeps get to go on the halloween cruise, that sounds exciting with light fun and I'm so glad to hear about Jacob's jobs! For the win! It maked my heart hurt that you're alone. You may need to buscar alguen concinar con. O algo. How're grandma and grandpa? I've been thinking about them a lot lately. OH! could you search for things that are distincly Argentine that maybe I could comprar for the fam? A lot is the same here, and I'd like to get distinco things for yawel. Except these really feo pants, don't ask for those ones. So yes, ideas for me would be helpful but I could probably dig something up without them. Bombillas for everyone! Or matte, whatever, maybe alfajors.... ;) How's kim doing? Thank you so much for the pictures and letters every week Mom, they help so much to let me know you all are safe and happy.
Well that's about it this week. Anyone can email me at this address and I will answer them, I'll write a letter if they aren't family but I will answer them. Love you Mom! Let our neighbors know you love them and see if you can help them. I get so sick of people saying they don't know their neighbors, I hope to know all of them and be able to help where I can, we'll see if I can do that when I get home though, I'm a bit worried about these "when I get home goals" como, I want to go to the Temple every week, because we're 5 minutes away and not 5 months, I just hope I don't let stuff get in the way. ...anyway :) Oh! I saw a Havanna sign in centro and they were selling chocolates, I thought of you. Don't forget that I love you and things people say and do remind me of your love all the time and I thank my Father in Heaven for that tender mercy. I'll send those really old letters tomorrow and hopefully you'll have them before too long. Hasta proximo Lunes!
-Hermana Aubrey Pixton