Week 42

December 20-December 26, 2016

Hope you all had an amazing Christmas!! We spent Christmas Eve (La nochebuena) with the Italians (Massi family) and they made us a 3 course Italian dinner with fresh caught trout and salmon and fettuccini, lasagna and ravioli!! All home made right in front of us!! The coolest thing ever. We took them gingerbread cookies and they just about died of happiness- they were passing around the plater and all taking pictures with them! It was a very Merry Christmas for sure. 

So this week we spent a good chunk looking for apartments because the mission is getting 30 more elders and they are giving our ward elders along with us. (it has just been us, the hermanas forever) It will cut our giant area in half which is perfectly fine with us because we just don't have time to visit all the neighborhoods and it's a huge area for just me and my companion. 

We also got to teach the plan of salvation to Antonia and she seemed to really love it. She has been reading the Book of Mormon almost every night before she goes to bed and she always says, ¨thank you so much for always passing by¨ and that just made my heart swell. She´s awesome so keep her in your prayers!! :) 

If you haven't seen the video from light the word that came out yesterday for Christmas you should go watch it now!! It will just put a smile on you face with gratidude!   

https://www.mormon.org/christmas/in-25-ways-over-25-days/jesus-disciples-followed-him

https://www.mormon.org/christmas/in-25-ways-over-25-days/jesus-disciples-followed-him

We have transfers this Thursday so I'll be staying or leaving we never know. I would honestly just love to stay because we have a some great people we´re teaching and I just love them so much!! BUT If I get called to somewhere else I know that I´ll make amazing memories there as I did here. I hope you all have a very happy new year and that you all make a great goal like to serve others more this year because being more like Christ is one of the best goals that we could ever make!!!

Until next week 

Hermana Jarvis :) 

Week 41

December 13-December 19, 2016

So this week was yet another crazy week!! We went to San Martin de Los Andes and did intercambios with the two sisters there. It was very spiritual. Then we got back to Bariloche and had our zone conference with president. We sang christmas hymns talked about the birth of Christ and the blessings we have to share this amazing gospel with everyone. We had a big sleepover  with El Bolson and San Martin so our apartment had 6 awesome sister missionaries and we made pancakes and smoothies for breakfast before the conference and it felt awesome to get together with everyone. Oh this week I learned what athletes foot is!! Because i got it... I was talking to my companion and telling her that my foot was just on fire. and she had me show it to her and yep it was athletes foot. I used the cream that mom and I had bought jokingly at the dolor store and I'm all cured wahoo. So now for the more spiritual stuff. Natasha wants to get baptized so we are rolling full steam ahead with her. She's been to church soo many times and she has a testimony of the Book of Mormon. She's already in alma!! She has a few things she has to put in order in her life like GET MARRIED or just live the law of chastity. We then found a new investigator last night that is just amazing and we taught her the restauration and committed her to being bauptized on the 21 of enero (January). Her name is Griselda and she live just around the corner  from us. We were walking home yesterday and we saw her outside and as our goal is to talk to EVERYONE... we did. And she was awesome!! I see miracles like that everyday on our mission. Last week we found this Italian family on the way to lunch and we asked if we could come in and share a message with them and they opened their gate and said come on in!! Do you want some lunch too??  I thought they were joking... but their mother in law was in the kitchen making pasta and they had us sit down at the table and eat with them and teach them about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith!! It was  just awesome!! They are the Massi family and their mom is from Italy visiting them because this couple just had a little baby boy and guess what his name is?? Bautista ( baptist ). We got an Italian Book of Mormon and were going to go and give it to them because well he is from Italy and yes he speaks Spanish but his native language is Italian. Those are just a few examples of the amazing adventures and miracles we have had these past few days. Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!! FELIZ NAVIDAD!!

Hermana Jarvis 

Week 40

December 6-December 12, 2016

We did intercambios/ exchanges with El Bolson this week so I got to be Hermana Sant´s companion again for a day!!! It was sooo awesome!! We went and visited Norma and invited her to get baptized this last Saturday. AND SHE DID!! Norma is now a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!! She was super excited to get bauptised because that means she can enter into the celestial kingdom with her little boy that past away under a year ago!! She was so happy to find out that he is just waiting for her in paradise and is not damed or just sleeping but that he is actually rooting her one just waiting for her to be able to join him in the presence of our Father in Heaven. So she wasn't too sure if she wanted to get bauptised this week or wait tell next week when her friend gets back from vacation. I told her that both would turn out very nice and then I told her that the truth is that God has been waiting for her all this time. Even more when we started teaching her and she wanted to get baptized but couldn't because she was living with her boyfriend and they weren't married. (what happened was a few days before I got there to be with Hermana Sant for intercambios her boyfriend got mad and hit her... so she left him...) Last transfer we had taught her the law of chastity and we had been trying to help them either get married or move into separate houses and well live the law of chastity but her boyfriend wanted to wait a year to get married and she said she would wait for him so we all were going to have to wait a year until she could be bauptised. But when I got there she had moved out of her ex-boyfriend's house and had decided that she had had enough and wanted to get bauptized. She literally asked us, ¨So when can I get bauptized now?¨which was just AWESOME. Yes so back to the story, I was telling her that both this week and next week would be good and then i felt like i had to tell her something so I did. I said the truth is God has been waiting for you all this time and now your ready to get bauptized and He is still waiting with His arms stretched out. I then said, ¨I know that if you get baptised this week it would a step of faith.¨Then Hermana Sant told her how Evelyn (her best friend that's a member that was the one who shared the gospel with her in the first place) will see the change in her as soon as she sees her because Norma would be getting the gift of the Holy Ghost and Eve would defiantly be able to see the change in her and the glow that she would have.Then we told her that it would also be awesome for Evelyn to be there. I totally thought that Norma was going to choose to wait for Evelyn to get back from Cordoba but she turns to me and says, ¨I just feel like I should do it this Saturday¨ It was SO AMAZING I definitely started crying.. :)  and then hugged her goodbye.  She got bauptised on Saturday and she got the Holy Ghost Sunday in church!! WHOOHOOO I was so happy and we've still got two more weeks of this transfer to see even more miracles!!! That was the best part of my week, to see another one of God´s children enter into the waters of bauptism and to be able to know that She KNOWS that its all true. Every last bit <3 I love this work. I love the mission and I love my Savior Jesus Christ!! This Christmas share with everyone you meet a warm smile and a cheerful Merry Christmas and look for opportunities EVERY DAY to serve those around you. Even if it's just helping someone carry their groceries to their car or opening the door for a few people. Look and pray for the opportunities and you will feel the Joy that this season brings!! Love you all and I hope you have a fantastic week!!! 

Hermana Jarivs

ps here is a pic of me and Hermana Farr-My newest companion