Week 6/7

April 15-25th, 2016

It’s my first week in the campo!! I already have a hard time writing in ingles!! It’s so hard I want to write everything backwards. I am currently in Roca for 12 more weeks with my new compañera Hermana Roman!!! She only speaks Spanish and I have been learning soooo quickly. It’s super hard but it will be so worth it because everyone else got gringas to train them in español and I got a Latina who doesn’t speak ingles. Haha all day every day the only thing I can speak is español and ask how to say things in español in español and get taught about how things work in español.... hahahaha its sooo fantastic and I’m not being sarcastic. I know the Lord has blessed me so much. I had to bare my testimony in español on Sunday to the whole ward and I did it with ease!! After they were surprised that I’ve only been a member of the church for a year and said that my Spanish was very good. It’s not perfect and I can’t say everything I want to without asking como se dice? but!! its sooo Awesome to be able to understand what’s going on at the lunch table when all the latinos are talking and I can chime in because I know what’s going on for the most part. I don’t understand everything but I understand more than I thought I could. I LOVE the blessings I’ve been getting. It is cold here (like November back home) it rains a lot too. Here there are grape vines in everyone’s backyard. no joke they are everywhere. They love apples here. apple juice too it’s like the fruit that is on every block in the summer here and apparently they are soo tasty. I’ve had an apple at least once a day if not more and I will tell you there are the best (so good with dolce de leche!!) My fist day my companion made us pancakes for breakfast which was soo sweet of her. she also made me a drink kinda like hot chocolate which was tasty. Here everyone drinks mata but we can’t because what they do is they spend hours just passing around a cup and drinking this herbal water from the same cup. we aren’t aloud to drink it because it takes sooo long and because we most definitely will get sick and here we get sick easily. I haven’t been sick yet but everyone I know has had problems with the food. Oh we can’t drink the water and in our apartment we have about 6 giant jugs of water and we use about one every two weeks and its purified and clean just like the jugs you can buy back home that are blue , yeah we have a ton of those and that’s all we drink. The roads are dirt mostly here and my shoes get filled with sand and rocks every day. We walk EVERYWHERE and the area is pretty large. Each day we take more than 20,000 steps. I’m glad I have my watch that counts that because it’s so cool to see how many we have at the end of the day. Me and my companion have 3 investigators ahora (can’t spell in ingles). One is Fabian who goes to church reads his scriptures and prays!! He has been an investigator for about 4 months or more and all the other missionaries couldn’t get him to pick a baptism date because he doesn’t feel ready. He tells them that they were all young when they were baptized. That’s where I come in. I’m a convert and I was baptized a year and a half ago! He was so surprised and I’m out of time and I have to go soorrryyy!!! I'll finish the awesome story next week!!

Week 5

April 8-14th, 2016

Hola Amigos!

It´s the last week guys! I wont be writting next week because I´ll be catching a plane to Neuquén on Tuesday and I´ll be starting my journey out in the field!! I´m so excited! It is totally going to be a culture shock for me, I just know it. Here they try and make it as easy as possible for us to transition to the field but it will still be a lot different. Everyone will speak Spanish around me and mostly likely absolutely no ingles. Here we get away with speaking English all the time. I´m so excited though! I know the Lord will bless me and I learn pretty quickly. I just can´t wait to get out there and start serving people!!! Till next week


-Hermana Jarvis

Week 4

April 1-April 7, 2016

Hola Everybody!

Conference was so good last weekend!! My favorite talk was by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf when he talked about creating new life from ashes and how no one is too far gone. It was super inspirational! I also loved when the prophet Thomas S. Monson said, "Choose the harder right, not the easier wrong." LOVE IT! It has rained a lot here lately. The thunderstorms shake and rattle the windows and I think it’s so cool. Every day (except Sunday) we do actividad fisica for about two hours with everyone outside. There is always a group playing soccer, volleyball and catch. On Friday the sisters all got together and decided to go play volleyball out in the pouring ran. It was so fun and we were all laughing and sopping wet. A new group of Latinos this week. Now all of us are leaving at the same time. We have one more full week left! It´s crazy how much I´ve learned and yet I still don’t know so much. We´ve learned por vs. para, past subjunctive, present subjunctive, imperfect, future, conditional, present progressive, past progressive, and commands! My weakness is definitely vocab. I try and learn a bunch of new words everyday but it isn´t easy. This week I memorized 3 Nefi 5:13 , ¨He aquí, soy discípulo de Jesucristo, el Hijo de Dios. He sido llamado por él para declarar su palabra entre los de su pueblo, a fin de que alcancen la vida eterna.¨ It´s basically my purpose, in my own words to sum it up.... I have been called by Him to declare His good word to his people so that they can have eternal life. I love it so much. We go proselyting again Saturday! I´m stoked to go speak with the natives again! Last favorite thing, our cook here is so funny he walks around while were all finishing up eating and passes our ice cream or whatever the dessert happens to be and says no joke, ¨Ho Ho Ho, falice navidad¨ We love our dessert here haha. Every time he sees me in for him to serve us food or any other time throughout the day I am eating a snack. So he always jokes with me about how I´m always eating and he´ll be like ¨Cada día¨or¨¨siempre¨with a big smile on his face. haha I love it. I feel like we’re pretty good friends. He showed a group of us his photo album of all the apostles and the prophet that have visited this MTC and eaten his food. He has so many awesome photos with them, his job is so cool! He gets to hang out with us, cook great food and meet Apostles of the Lord!! How much better does it get?? haha well Chao for now!

Love you all!

Hermana Jarvis