Fwd: Fa, que paso a mi mente?

No se, Hna. Clark was telling me how to spell Puerradon and it took me about 5 minutes to  spell it right. I'm still not sure that I spelled it right in this email! Ah well, I don't live there right now so I don't need to worry about it :) This week was good, I'm happy today so that means that the week was good, then again I'm usually happy around this time on mondays, but hey, I guess they're good weeks then :)

Lets see...que paso este semana......We went out with LM (the Bishop's wife), and when we got to the house of our investigator, she wasn't there! So we walked around a bit with L and she told us about her friend who talked with the missionaries before but now she may be a bit more open to accepting this change. We got there and this woman has her walls FULL of things she's made! There is barely wall showing and then there are things hanging from the ceiling! We talked and invited her to read the Book of Mormon again with the intent on knowing if it's true or not. After we left and dropped off L she told us how good it was to leave with us and that it was an injection of the Spirit, I really liked that analogy. We also learned how to make dulce de membrilla, which is like this really firm jelly stuff out of a fruit that, in engish, is called quince (I'm not sure on that spelling) but apparently you can make the stuff out of pears or apples too....I'll see how things go when I have time and space to do that :) 

We were also asked to help out in the Primary sometimes by dressing up as a scripture character and talking to the kids about who we "are". Yesterday Hna. Sleight was Abish from Alma 19. It was funny, we were talking about what to do and who to be that morning and Hna. Clark was all, Ester has to be awesome, she continued to relate her story in her own way and ended with this moral: So have faith, fast, be hot...and you will be crowned! It was great. 

AHH! I forgot to tell you, Friday was Hna. Sleight's birthday. I made her a chocolate cake with maracino cherries. It's supposed to be a devil's food cake with two cans of cherry pie filling on the bottom and another on top with hot fudge on top too, but we did what we could and it was really good! I also forgot to tell Kellie Happy Birthday in her letter, so if you could tell her that for me I would appreciate it :)

The weather here has been getting colder and wetter, though it does seem to rain a lot on mondays when we wash our cloths and hang them out to dry...ironicaly enough. That's one of the picture, our lavaropa and the clothes line.

I'm happy Joseph is progressing and I'm anxious to hear from him when he's ready.

The dance sounds like a hoot! (Moms note,I helped, as a YW leader, at a down syndrome young adult dance that was very fun and dramatic and great)  

I'm glad the youth are so great! 

Good job Jaker! Is the student teacher from around here? Would I know them? Jacob probably won some points with a few girls that day ;D (Moms note, Jacob helped a girl in his drama class that had hurt her leg.  Jacob lifted her up and carried her to the teacher, rather heroic I think)

I'm sad to hear that Gordon passed away, I always liked him. 

Well Mom I'm about out of time, but I love you and hope this next week holds some happy surprises from the family and from the Lord. I'll try and get a letter to you soon! 

And I also found out that I need to write to only one address this week, so I'm attaching the other ones to this one. I love you so much Mom!

Fwd: fotos

:)

Para que es eso? March 12

 This week was weird and crazy and went by way too fast! We had our zone conference this last wednesday in Bahia. There were so many Hermanas there! All of the ones from my MTC group and then the rest! I think we were lacking 4 that are in Mar del Plata, but the rest were all there! I was so happy! And we talked A LOT about how to improve the ward council and the corrilation meetings with our mission leader of the ward. It was really good because I've been wondering for a long time how we can help this ward better. It was really great to hear Pres and talk with all the rest of the Hermanas! You know how you feel after church after a really long hard week? That's how I felt after this conference! Built up, ready to go to work again and excited that I'm alive! It was a really great conference. We also found a few people this week, one of which was talking to us about all the bad in the world and that in december of 2012 there'll be another Noah flood because we're all just so bad. What was I thinking of? This world is like Gotham city and the bad guys want to kill everyone so that it's "controlled" again and we as missionaries are like Batman! I make these connections sometimes, I'm not sure if that means I'm not focusing enough...but then again if I understand someone better because of them, I think they're ok. We aslo had our ward activity on saturday! It was the Iron rod! We set up caution tape with chairs and then blindfolded the people and told them not to let go of the "rod" no matter what. We as missionaries were to tempt them and make them leave the rod (kind of anti-missionary huh?) by offereing them different kinds of food, an easier way, talking them by the hand and leading them asrey. We only suceeded with one, and she was led away into "infierno". After we had a few share their expirience and their testimonies, it was a really great activity, I think we should do it with our ward :) Other than that we've been running to find people and getting really wet with all the rain that we're getting right now. See the pictures.
Things are good out here, still rather warm but getting wet and a bit cooler, We are four missionaries in D but we prosolyte two and two.

Oh the WAR guy, ok, is that his dad? If I remember right it's his dad...but I could be wrong about that.

That's so cute about the moose a muffin deal! That's cute and creative :) I loved MORP, it was a lot of fun and not expensive.  
No I totally understand about it being hard to "let go and let God" but it ends up being easier to deal with when you do. I've not had a lot of sucess fully letting go but when I have it's turned out all right and I know that God is in charge and in control. He's a good boy, still hasn't written me for a while but still a good boy. Thank you so much for the packages, I'm beginning to think it's a kind of therapy for you, like retail therapy, and I'm happy to share in this kind too! We'll do some retail therapy in a few months :) April for Laura and Steve, ok. And yeah, Kim told me about the dance camp and I'm anxious to hear how that goes. My plans after my mission.....I'm not sure, I want to work for sure, but I don't have the money for school if I get back in the middle of December, so for now it's a tentative plan to work until I have money for school, finish a degree at UVU, decide what I actually want to do with my life/education and go from there. I do think I'll be living at home until at least the summer. We'll see how it goes. And I'm not sure when they'll send me home, because we're getting a new president and I don't know if that'll change some things or not. As far as you all coming to Argentina, to be honest I would love to see you all here, it's beautiful and I love it, but (driving here is a bit dangerous and) I'm not sure what the rule on that is. I'll ask and get back to you soon! You are going to rock that lesson with the YW! Divine Potential is something that everyone needs to understand better, that really we can become like God if we work hard and remember that He prepared the way! I love you mom and I hope all is well. Thank you so much for everything you do for me and for our family. I take A LOT of comfort in that my family loves each other and we want to be together forever and that we can and will be. A lot of that is thanks to you and to Dad. Thanks Mom :)
LOVE!
Hermana Aubrey Pixton

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Fwd: Fotos

I'm looking overwhelmed with joy at the packages if you couldn't tell

Fwd: "Las Quiero Mucho!"

Ha ha,  that's what a little blonde boy said to Hna. Clark and I as we walked by. It made me happy and slightly afraid that that sweet little boy will turn into a snakey man. But it was cute anyway, he was like.....6.
Yes, well! This week was rather slow and...fast. Slow because we couldn't find a lot of lessons, but fast because it's now monday again and we have a conference for our zone on wednesday. Weirdy. Monday night last week we did an FHE with a family about Alma 50, about how Moroni (que capo) strengthened the citys with lots of things. We used it as like a family, and how the city is the family and how the heaps of dirt and pickets and towers and things were things like prayer and faith and listening to your parents and prophets and helping in the home and, sí things like that. It was really good! Hna. Clark asked each person to take on thing and make that a goal for the week. She's so great! Tuesday we finally met our zone leaders and figured out more things about our investigators, we also planned the ward activity that we're having on Saturday. It's an Iron Rod thing, it should be super fun! Friday was when that little boy shouted at us. We also killed four of our investigators this last week, so we need to find new ones and find again the ones we have. Saturday we did a FHE with a less active family, I made alfajores for the first time and they were good, apparently. Sunday was fast and testimony meeting and there were testimonies shared about going to church and about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and Temples and missionary work, it was so good! I didn't teach the class because we didn't have any new members or investigators, but I guess I can always make my lessons better :) I also made an Argentine cake! I took pictures :) Hno Molina said I could finish my mission tranquilo now because I already know how to cook so I can get married after my mission. ...Yeah... I ALSO GOT THE PACKAGES! Thank you SO SO much mom! The card made me so happy and so did the garments! I opened the first one and my companion was all, I smell peanut butter! It was wonderful! The music, the pajamas, the tights, the poprocks! Everthing was so great! Thank you so much!
I'm doing well, tired, but good. This week went super fast! and this next week, I feel will go even faster.  Cilantro! Oh, meggie pope. She cute a hole in the screen! Just take it out, it's easier....I mean....listen to your mom..... :D Good job Karie! I'm not as famililar with Pippin as I thought I was. But I'll look it up when I get home. NYC! I loved that, tell him to write me before then so that I know he's still alive.   How's he feel? Any Prom plans pending?
It really has been such a great thing so have these companions, I've seen a lot of growth in myself. I think the mission is a great preparation for my life, I'm not sure how it's gonna go but I will be so grateful for my mission then, I already am! I'm not sure how anyone could not be impressed by you, I'm impressed by you all the time! Vamos a ver sobre esto chico. And yes, I intend on being at home for a good week before doing anything else. Another one! I'm being spoiled! But if you could find that loreal face powder stuff with the brush in (I think) classic ivory, that would be great! Thank you so so much mom! Oh! and pictures! I also need some of my friends, if you could print some off of facebook or something that would be so wonderful.
Thank you for all you do mom! I think about your example to me my whole life and am so grateful to have a mom like you! Give my love to the family (and tell them to write me ;P) LOVE!
Hermana Aubrey Pixton

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Fuuuuuuuu. Woot! Feb 27

That's kind of the noise I made just now. It's been a long but short week! I feel like I've been companions with Hna Clark for more than just a week! She's really awesome! We work and we teach and she's still really new but wants to know the area and the members and the people and find and teach and do the things that missionaries do! It's so great! We've had an emotional week and it was nice to get to sunday night. Hna. Vargas leaving was hard, and then some investigadores are avoiding us and there´s some hard things about missions. You love people so so much that you don't want to see them hurt. You want them to be so happy and when you can't help them anymore it hurts. So that was the fuuuuuuuuuuuu. But now we are ready to re-activate this ward! We have a wonderfully thought out plan that involves going into the area of the other Hnas and finding all the menos activos that will let us help them come back into activity. We're going to focus on one family for right now and a few singles, and then work them into the ward and then reach out for more, there's a lot of work to do and apparently we're the missionarys to do it! Onward ho! This last week we found a few less actives that aren't on the register, we also found two new investigators(!) and went to our stake conference! It was really great to sustain our leaders, I teared up when they read off the names of the first presidency and the 12, I'm not sure why, maybe because I know a bit more about they battle they fight and the joy they expirience. Being a missionary is as close as I'll ever get to being part of that presiding group. Elder story! So we hadn't met our elders yet (our district leader or zone leaders) and every night they ask if we need anything and generally it's folletos or tarjetas or something part of the work like that, but we like to shake it up sometimes and ask for chocolate or letters or other random things. One night Hna. Clark was talking to the elder and looked at me "Do you need anything right now?" "......Love" She smiles "Hna Pixton needs love." I was repenting as she told him that, but his response was ".......I don't...have....any of that....." I laughed a lot. Poor Elder, I'll try to give him some slack. The 25th I completed 9 months! Gah! Weird! Oh! and Hna Clark was in Dave Bourne's ward in provo! Yeah! we were talking about provo and where she lived and that came out! Also that she lived on the bottom floor of Belmont apartments! Not in the ward of the 3rd floor but still! How cool huh! Today it rained a lot and I made chocolate chip bars for the FHE tonight, aaaw, I missed cooking. I love it a lot. In the rain.....So good. I'm very happy :D
Look at you being all cool and techie with the crying faces! I was very impressed :) Auditions are over for Pippin? What happened? No one tells me these things because Jaker doesn't write me! It's ok, I will accept chocolate as a peace offering ;) No but really, what happened? I'm glad he's working :)

Logan Temple! Hna Sleight has lots of pictures by that temple! That's happy to me. I'm really happy you both had a great date and time together. 

Perky and popular.....I may need to try these. 

It's great that Jojo is over with Jack and Laura while Steve's away, a really good service. I think I remember a bit about the early missionary but not much, that would be very helpful, it's always nice to see someone elses life and how they handled things. August....I'll miss him by about 4 months. Wow. But I'm proud of his goal! Do it bro! I can imagine still being guarded about that, relations are funny sometimes. 9 months......."killing" Hna Vargas really made me think about how fast this time really goes, she told me that it was like a dream, something she knows happened but it was so fast like waking from a dream. I am very happy in the mission, I know it's where I'm supposed to be right now and I've had several expiriences that have reafirmed that. Right here, right now, with these people in these circumstances.

I can't even imagine where I'll be in another 10 months. I figured out that they'll probably send me home in December at the end of that transfer, because the end of October is only 17 months, I might feel horrible to only serve that long and not complete my time I've promised. It's an interesting limpo huh. Everything works out in the end, if it's not working out, it's not the end. I hope I can be a sourse of some kind of comfort. I marvel at the timing of God, those letters were supposed to be sent a long time ago but I got around to doing it just in time for them to arrive to give you comfort. How great the wisdom and the love! I love you mom and your letters reassure me that all is well in Zion and that I don't need to worry about it because you are in God's hands. He is there, I know it. We are all in the hands of the Lord and his are the best hands there are.
We get mail tomorrow so I'll let you know next week if I got the package! Thank you so much for that Mom! I am happy. I am safe. and I am as healthy as I've permitted myself to be :P We'll drink more water this week :) Love you Mom and have a great week!
Love!
-Hermana Aubrey Pixton

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9 months and a birthday! Feb 20

Yes, this weekend I will complete 9 months in the mission, where has the time gone?!!!! This morning I "killed" Hna Vargas. She and Hna. Clark are going home this week, I told Hna. Vargas to add you on Facebook and if Hna Cassidy Clark from California doesn't add you, well, you now have the info to add her :) ....If you want..... I'm so glad you got to talk to L! I know her as Hna. E, that's her husband's last name and sometimes the women here don't take on the name of their husbands for identity reasons, and others. Pero bueno. I am now companions with Hna Clark! Again! But different! Yes, Hna Amy Clark is from Utah and has 3 months in the mission, her trainer was our very own Hna. Vaughan. Yes, I'm a step-mother again. But I'm really excited about this next transfer! E will be baptized this transfer! That's one of my goals. Also for the members to come to church! Yes! Vamos! In all honesty, my mind is so shot right now. Sorry that every 6th email is really bad, it happens with transfers. But I really am excited to work with Hna. Clark.
This last week Hna. Vargas and I did a lot of things to help her prepare to go home, it was really rather sad, killing people is hard! I hope I don't have to for a while. Yesterday was my 22nd birthday! I'm very happy with how everything went! We got to church and I gave a talk on the mission of Alma the younger, then we sang (again) and our mission leader told me happy birthday in his talk. We visited a lot of people because it was the last day for Hna. Vargas and we had to do a lot of things. We went to the Bishop's house and his wife had made me a cake! It had a little flower that said Feliz cumple and that made me super happy! Then we went to E and C and they had made scones/donuts and then we went home to find that Hno. P had made me a cake and that Hna. M made brownies! AND Hna. Vargas made me a super cake! We have cake still in the house. To say the least.
Harry Potter weekend!? How could that get better? Rootbeer and pizza? Show! I always love those things that we learn in shows, there is always something. We had an activity this last week and watched Nanny Mcphee 2, it was cute and the ward was happy. Snow! No snow! What? Sad days. Chocolate generally makes things better. I have a lot of cake so that helps too ;) I'm glad you celebrated too even if I can't be there, but you're right. I am very happy and doing what I know I need to be doing right now. I love you mom and thank you so much for all you do!
Love you!
Hna. Aubrey Pixton

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Fotos de...cosas Feb 20

I got cake! and we made all the "me voys" for Hna Vargas. Snap! I need a picture of Hna Clark!

Wet and white! Feb 13

C WAS BAPTIZED!!!!! I am very happy about this! It's not like it wasn't going to happen but this has been a rather interesting week and I'm happy that the baptism happened this week! Ok, it almost didn't happen this week, through miscommunication the font was not filled for the service on Saturday night, but I think that the Bishop saw how sad we were and suggested that it be in the morning before sacrament meeting and to have her confirmation that morning too and we were all for it! E and L (her grandmother and niece) weren't able to come because of a bad night, but C came and the font was filled and she was so happy! We talked a little bit about it later and she was so happy to be baptized, it was very special for her. And remember D, G and L? They killed us this week. I cried. In the lesson. Yeah, it was sad. But I have a lot of hope for this next week. Gah! This is the last week of the transfer and Hna. Vargas is going to leave me! I have no idea where I'll be (mentally, emotionally, ...physically ....grammatically.. :D) next week! I have so much to learn still and I'm not sure that I'm ready to give what I know to someone else. But we'll see, everything in the mission is inspired so I'm sure it'll be fine. Today Hna. Vargas and I went to the park and played Uno (I found it amusing that that was actually langually correct here) and then on some of the big toys they have there. We're doing a NdH (family home evening) with them later on today so I'm happy. C came to the park today too :) I´m going to do all I can to help her progress in this, it'll also help when E can be baptized. Onward!
I'm glad the eye doctor wasn't anything horrible. And I'm happy that the play was fun! We'll go to another play in 9ish months ;)  In his emails to me, Joseph sound great! and Kim too, I've yet to hear from Jaker but I can understand if he's working things out right now. When do Laura and Steve move? THANK YOU for the fudge recipe! that's something else they don't really have here. But we can make lots! Valentine's day...oh yeah! That's tomorrow. We'll tell the elders to bring the other elders chocolate, cause I'm not sure if they could just bring US chocolate, that may be read wrong..... No but they're great elders. We don't get to have district meetings every week with them but they're good elders on the whole. Whitney Houstin died? Weirdie, we have some music sung by her on the cds of Hna Vargas. Sad day! But happy day that you all got my letters! I tried to make them all cool and Christmasy. and que raro that they didn't get there until now! 2 months! weird, but hey, they got there and that's important! I turn 22 this next Sunday! Hna Vargas wants to make me something but I'm not sure what, plus it'd be the day she leaves me, so we'll see how it goes. Weird to look back a full year huh? We went on a drive up the canyon for my birthday last year :) This year I'll let go of a very good friend. Ugh, I'm not gonna think about that until I have to. Well that's about it! I love you and I'm so SO happy that the family is more together! We weren't evern that far apart before but I'm happy that you're all doing well. Buy chocolate, but not too much, because you can get it for half price soon enough! Ja ja ja ja. But really, indulge a bit and I will write again next week! Love you!
Hermana Aubrey Pixton

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Fwd: Fotos! Feb 13

the cemetaries here are a bit different, and Hna Molina makes really good noodles and sauce