Maybe It's Emily

Ah, my recent convert's husband. It's my new companion's mission to get him baptized. We have some great investigators right now. Zapala really is a land of miracles. We have one girl who just committed to being baptized May 8! Her sister got baptized right after I got here, and if the missionaries have anything to say about that, their whole family will be members in at the most a year. They're all really great. About a month-ish ago their dad just passed away, and that void has left room for the gospel to work miracles. And that's my favorite part. Seeing the changes these people make. Like one of our investigators who has stopped drinking since the death of his brother a year ago and LOVES everything about the gospel. Or like another older couple we're teaching who at first were listening to us just to be nice, and after my new companion read 3 Nefi 11 with them magically agreed to go to church with us. Before they never would have done that. They did...

Mamma, don't worry about it. If you could send me stuff it would just be really sweet. It's not like I'm demanding it of you.... Or am I? I WANT IT NOW!!!!!!! Ok, not really. We have transfers today. I'm staying and my companion, Hna. Porter, is going to Roca, about an hour away from Neuquén capital. In two months with three companions! Hna. Porter has been here for the past six months, so it's really hard for the members to see her go, and really hard for me to be the one to come in after her. My new companion is Hna. Polasias? I don't really know how to spell her name, but we believe she's from Paraguay, and supposedly she's an awesome cook. Dang. More delicious food to eat. So yes, you heard me right, my first Latin companion. After only three weeks with my trainer, one transfer with my second companion, and now they want to give me a Latin. I'm gonna die!!! I won't be speaking English for a while now, so bear with me in my emails if my gramma...

First of all, before I forget, I didn´t say packages, but bubble envelopes. They don´t open manilla bubble envelopes, and the things you send in there shouldn´t be all that expensive. If you really really can, If you can send me some ibuprofen in a baggie or something mi cuerpo would absolutely appreciate it. I totally can´t handle the Argentine ibuprofen here, it´s awful. It´s so strong, it dopes me up! I'm like a drugged up wet noodle. So that would be so nice! Pretty please! So this has been a wickedly hard and frustrating week. Although we've been working hard, our numbers don´t show it. According to our numbers we've hardly done anything. But at night we come home and we're just exhausted. We're honestly trying! My companion and I have really been looking forward to pday for a break from Zapala. We got permission to go to Neuquén to do my DNI, which are the papers I officially need to be in the country. That and Neuquén has a lot of cheap stuff, way cheaper tha...

Emily didn't write one big letter this week. She wrote a little to each member of the family. So here are bits and bytes of everyone's notes. To Daddy: I feel so cheated, Easter and Conference went by WAY too fast! It's so not fair! I did get to see all of them, but it still doesn't feel like enough! I can't wait till they come out and I get to keep them and read them. It's funny to think you're still getting snow. Right now is the beginning of fall and it's muy linda afuera (very nice outside). But the other day it was so cold! Like Downey in the fall. Oh heavens, I can't wait for winter! I'm almost done with my first full transfer here! Qué loco! I now have a full 6 or 7 weeks here. And I'm beginning to understand a lot more and talk a lot more. Slowly, oh so slowly, but surely, it's coming. All the latin missionaries we were with last week made me practice, curse them! But I could have conversations! And crack jokes! Now ain't your...