Maybe It's Emily

Daddy! You get the official Email, how special are you? Na, it's that I finally got my camera to work on the computer so I'm emailing photos to mama. And Mama, I know you're reading this, make sure the cuter pics get out. There are some for only the Georgeson's pleasure. POR FAVOR! (These are from the MTC. I expect more now that she has figured out how to use it.) Anyway, it's been a thrilling week here in Zapala! First of all, we just finished another transfer here, and I'm still here with Hna. Polacios. It's been a lot better with her. A lot. We're looking forward to working together and learning together. It snowed!!! On Wednesday like just over a foot. It was a freak snow storm because it never snows that much here. Although it was pretty the first day or two, the roads are now serious muddiness and we still get pelted with snowballs by the occasional adolescent hooligan. Hip hip hooray! And supposedly it's going to snow again this week. Oh Zapal...

Aw, I miss tennis, believe it or not. It's rough right now because everybody is getting ready for the FIFA world cup (in AFRICA!!!) and I can't even watch it. *tear* Oh well. The Lord will give me even greater blessings now, right? Tell Adam CONGRATS!!!! That's awesome. With tennis and his room (tee hee hee). Hooray for cleanliness! And thank you for the recipies! The only thing is... There's not too much here that we have back at home. Well, there is, but there are a lot of different things. As far as I know there's no canned pumpkin here. I've been told that I can just use butternut squash instead. And there's not applesauce. Or chocolate chips. Or brown sugar. They have something called black sugar, which is supposedly like brown sugar. Only black. There's no maple... anything. Also, no molasses (therefore I cannot make my own brown sugar. Oh well.) The recipies that you send, just make sure they're as simple as can be. But thank you!!! Word to th...

How lovely! This upcoming Sunday we have stake conference. Elder Zivic, an area seventy, will be here. Everyone is really excited to have a general authority here. I've fallen into the habit of taking notes in every meeting, in every conference, fireside, you name it, I'm taking notes. I have a firm testimony that what they say really won't benefit you if you're not going to remember what they said. Therefore, TAKE NOTES! And hurry and write down what you remember from the conference so that it can bless you even more. This past week has been heartwrenching. Really. It makes you realize the power of the Atonement and the power of Christ that helps us more real. More tangible. If that's even how you spell tangible. One of our recent converts has no money and no food for her kids. We've been trying to work with our Bishop and the R.S. president to help out. It's been a slow process but we're getting there. She hasn't been able to come to church for th...

AHORA! Estoy in Neuquen. Which is meaning I'm in Neuquen right now. I had to come back to do my DNI or apply for my temporary residence. I'm illegal right now! Okay, not really illegal. Legally illegal. Okay, we're moving on from this conversation. We had to wake up at 3 this morning to get to our bus at 4:30. I'm so out of it! But alas, naps on the bus! We would stay here in Neuquén and try to relax, but silly us, we had already put appointments that we really REALLY don't want to cancel, so I guess it's a sacrifice worth making. More than I guess. I'm not going to lie, talking to you all last night was awful. It made me want to go home so bad! Thank goodness we called last thing at night- going to appointments afterward would have been a nightmare! It's true, missions really do bless your family and I believe it. Even if it's not neccesarily with the temporary things, at least the spiritual things. Or at least we are more able to show and speak of ...

Oh check out my mad Argentine skills! It's another great day aquí in Zapala. Recently my challenge is to learn all the lessons in Preach my Gospel. My mission president challenged me to go through all the lessons and go through every little reading, every little activity, do every itty bitty thing to be able to understand. And i'm loving it! I've just barely gone through a page of the first lesson, but I feel so smarty now! I'm diggin it. Lately my companion and I have been working a lot to find new investigators, so lately we've been doing a lot, and I mean A LOT of walking from house to house, doing contacts and knocking doors, trying to find the ones that really are interested and are not just being polite. We have 4 baptismal dates and my companion is like " More, MORE!!! MWA HA HA!!!" I think she was baptism-date deprived when she was younger. Just kidding! We're really trying to find the ones that the Lord has prepared and want to follow him and ...