Week 77

August 22-August 28th, 2017



Well this is the very last week that I'll be in Argentina. Can you believe it? It's been a year and a half already!! I don't think it will hit me until I'm back home.  Still can't take it all in. It's honestly been the best thing I've ever done with my life. Words can't explain the love I have for my mission and the people I have spent 18 months serving. I LOVE it out here. If anyone is reading and thinking about serving a mission my advice is to do it because you'll never regret it. There is no experience in life that amounts to working in the Lord's Vineyard as one of His full time servants. It's an experience that will make you cry when you have to say goodbye. Work diligently, be obedient, have faith and pray ALWAYS and the Lord will bless you every day that you're out there in the field.

There is a member here that spent all Friday afternoon walking around town inviting his friends and loved ones to the multi-stake conference this Sunday with Elder Ronald Rasband. We ran into him while we were out proselyting and he introduced us to Jordan and set up a Family Home Evening the very next day. It is super awesome to catch members when they are sharing the gospel!! They honestly make our work soooo much quicker and effective.

This week we had 5 investigators in church!! Leticia has gone more than a week without smoking, she is reading and praying everyday and we sooo excited for her baptism on Saturday!!  Jordan the friend of the member I spoke of before. Then there is Mikaela and Pablo with their baby boy Logan who will be getting married and then baptized the 16th of September. And lastly but not leastly Tamara who is also a friend of a member that we found and let us right in her house and accepted to be baptized the 16th as well!! Needless to say we are very very pleased to see all these people progressing!! 

Hope you all have a great week!!!

My last email as a missionary,

Hermana Jarvis

Week 76

August 15-August 21st, 2017

Hey!

Today is a holiday and all the cibers are closed... so that means I have to write now even though p day has ended ( just so you know ;) )

I cant believe I only have two weeks left... my family sent me a to the second count down today and it was hilarious haha it actually made my day to see them so excited for my return. The truth is If anyone else had done it I would have just cried. I already have a few times.. I'm such a softy. This week I gave my last testimony in my last zone conference this week and well on my way up in front of everyone I started tearing up and had to wait a few seconds before I started to speak. I makes me sad to have to leave Argentina, my converts, companions, the strong spiritual influence, and well stop being a missionary. I wont be doing this work anymore and I'm actually scared to go back to normal life. Crazy right? I do believe that it is harder for one to go home than it is for one to come out here. I will never ever again be blessed in my life for waking up at 6:30... How sad is that? :( 

Well I still have just over two weeks and I'm going to make the best of them. 

This week we had a new investigator in church!! Her name is luticia!! She has stopped smoking for 3 days now and still going!! We made a 21 day calendar of our favorite inspiring scriptures to help her turn to the Savior every time she has an urge to smoke. WE ARE SOOO EXCITED!!  She accepted to get baptized on the 2nd! Vamos Arriba!! 

I hope you all have a great week!! 

Until next time

Hermana Jarvis

Week 75

August 8-August 14, 2017


This week was once again a week to remember!! I'll share just one of my favorite moments. Sister Lopez and Sister Torre had a bautism this saturday and we wanted to bring some of our investigators so they could see what it was like before they get baptized and well nobody could come. :( but just earlier that day we had knelt down and prayed to be able to bring someone with us to this baptism because we knew how big of an impact it would have on them if we could only find someone to come with us. Just 20 minutes before the baptism started we contacted 2 young ladies and got to talking with them. They ended up coming with us to the baptism!!!! We got there about 10 minutes before it all started and gave them a tour of the building and explain a few things that we believe. One of them had come with her uncle when she was little (7 years old) but then he moved away. We took them to the baptismal faunt and explained how the power of the priesthood has been restored and well we invited them to be baptized. They both excepted!!!  Nilda and Venesa told us that the it was ¨genial¨ and asked us for our cellphone number so that they could learn more and come to church. Of course we were just as happy as could be. I truly believe that God had his hand in the making and that He realy does answer prayers. I know that He loves us and knows what is best. Never doubt that He will help you with all things that are of a good cause. I know that if we do our part with faith he will do the rest. I know these things to be true and i share them with you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. 

Have a very wonderful week! And never loose faith! ¡Todo Saldrá bien! 

Hermana Jarvis

Week 74

August 1-August 7, 2017


Hello everyone!!! This week was FANTASTIC!!!! I found out on Tuesday that Marcela got baptized on the 28 and confirmed as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on the 20th!!! I was so excited to hear I jumped up and down with Hermana Brown (we were all in Neuquen for a leadership conference) Then Lidia came to church on Sunday and she LOVED it!!! My 2 favorite moments were 1 in gospel principles she said, ¨wow I can finally understand.. I have never been able to understand these things before¨ we were teaching about tithing, fast and offerings. SO cool to see that the Holy Spirit really does light our minds and give us understanding. 2. Relief Society when we all read for the daughters in His kingdom book and had to write a summery of what we learned and Lidia chose to write and she wrote, ¨Hay mujeres en las que podemos apoyarnos y es una manera en que Nuestro Padre Celestial nos demuestra que no estamos solas.¨ or in english, ¨There are women (relief society) who can support us and it is a way that Heavenly Father shows us that we are not alone.¨  

On top of all of that I had my birthday this week and well my companion just had to break an egg on my head to wish me happy birthday haha its some kind of tradition here in Argentina. We enjoy some cake too don't worry. :)

Have a great week!!! 

Hermana Jarvis

Week 73

July 25th-July 31st, 2017

This week has been crazy !!! We found 15 new investigators and we´re only getting started! It's a great area. They're all great but this time we are working harder than ever and yet I feel like we haven't done anything. Fiama, Ariadna, and Alma are cousins that have all decided to get baptized and their parents and grandparents have told us that they want this for there family. They told us just yesterday and it was soo amazing to hear. We are SO excited!! We also have a few others that are already progressing right along. Andrea and her daughter Valentina; Lidia a single mom; Ines; Claudio and his grandma Leticia; Brisa; Carmen; Sibonay; Soledad and her daughter Melisa and last but not least Mayra!! I'll keep you all in touch with who else we find and what happens in the following weeks with the people we've already found!! We hope to have great progress! It's amazing watching people change and grow. Watching them stop smoking or drinking, starting to read the scriptures and learn how to pray, and how with just a couple days and weeks they start to become someone totally different. They start to be the person that Heavenly Father sees them as. It is a beautiful process taking part in this great work! Well that's all for this week. Until next time!! 

Hermana Jarvis

Week 72

July 18th-July 24th, 2017

Hello everyone!! I am now in Roca again!!! If you can remember it is were i started out! I was in this stake for my very first transfer! Ruth and Mateo got baptized almost a year and a half ago and now I get to see them again!! I have heard they are doing great things! I am now in Universitario (the stake center) and I have become Hermana Ventura´s companion AGAIN!!! She is the one from Mexico. I spent 3 transfers with her in Bariloche and it was a Blast being able to teach with her so we are supper excited about this transfer!! Its my very last area and my very last companion :((( 

Back in Cipolletti Hermana Brown and I had a investigator named Marcela who has now been coming to church for 2 weeks and will be getting baptized this month so I'm supper excited for her too!! She reads the Book of Mormon and knows that its true because she prayed about it!!! She is soooo awesome and has agreed to live all the commandments that we have taught!! I was supper worried to be honest about the word of wisdom but I taught it bravely and with lots of love and well she said, ¨its sooo true none of those things are good for our bodies and so I believe it. Yes I'll live the word of wisdom!¨WOW how people are prepared by the Lord. It's amazing out here.

well thats all for now! Ill be keeping you all updated!! Have a great week!! And remember that you have a Father in Heaven who so dearly loves you!!!

Hermana Jarvis

Week 69

June 27th-July 3rd, 2017

Hello everyone! I´m Cipolletti this transfer and I'm still with Hermana Brown! We have been working for a few weeks and we´ve got a few families that are progressing. One we found yesterday night at the last moment. We had contacted Mr. Villalovos eariler this week and he had said we could stop by this weekend and that they might just be home but that it wasn't so likely. Well we went there last night and he was home washing the family car and when we saw him and said hello he smiled and said, ¨let me see what the family is doing.¨and he went i. He later came back out and said, ¨Passen¨which means come in. Inside Mrs. Villalovos greeted us with a hug and a kiss and so did her daughters (2) which is the culture here. They then said that we could sit down and offered us somehting to drink we declined and said thankyou. We then began to get to know them and they were quite lovely. It turns out that Mrs. Villalovos had read the pamphlet about the restoration all the way through and that the page about how Joseph Smith receive the priesthood (power of God) from the apostles. We then shared our testimonies about the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and that we have the same exact church with on earth today with a living prophet, 12 apostles, and even 70 general authorities like Christ had set up. She accepted to pray and ask God if Joseph Smith had really been a prophet of God and if today we have a prophet Thomas S. Monson. We also invited the family to pray about getting baptized on the 22nd and they happily exepted!! IT was full of miracles and super awesome. We will be stopping by and giving them a book of mormon this week!

Whoever is praying for us i thank you for all you are doing and i will tell you that we receive every blessing you ask for us. Thank you!! I hope you all have a great week!

Hermana Jarvis

Week 63

May 16th-May 22nd, 2017

Hermana Brown, my new companion

Week 61

May 2nd-May 8th, 2017

Hello everyone!! Im in cipolleti 2!! wahoo! Presidente talked to me the night before transfers and told me that i would be leaving Bariloche and going to Cipoletti. Mi compañera es hermana Brown from texas! she is FULL of energy and always excited. We found a family yesterday!! The baulde family and they are super awesome! They let us in and we shared a message and they want us to come back Tuesday! so tomorrow we will be going back and sharing another message about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ! We are super excited for this transfer. This ward is huge and they are working hard to feed all eight of us!! We have 8 missionaries here in Cipoletti 2 because this ward is full of members and well presidente wants to make it a stake but we've got to get to work. (it's lucky if you have 4 missionaries in your ward and we have double that here) sooo were rolling full steam ahead. We know the Lord trusts us and we have a great job to do! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!  

I hope you all have a great week and enjoy your mothers day!! 

til next time

Hermana Jarvis

Week 59

April 18th-April 24th, 2017

Hello everyone!! This week was yet another great one! Ailen got baptized and confirmed as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!!! She is such a sweet heart. Her boyfriend (RM) baptized her Saturday and gave her the gift of the holy ghost Sunday morning in church. It was suuuupppeerrrr sweet. She knows the book of mormon is true and has been reading it everyday for weeks. She marks it all up with notes and highlights her favorite verses. I love it!! She is just awesome and i have loved being able to watch her grow so much in the gospel!!

This week we will be having transfers and well who stays and who leaves haha its most likely that I get transfered to a different city with a different companion :( because I have been here with hermana Ventura for 4 months haha and well I've been in the Zone Bariloche for almost 9 months...but I´m not sure i want to leave because i love Bariloche and I love all the members here. I know that that the Lord has people prepared to hear the message of the restored gospel wherever i go and I´m willing to go where He calls me. 

Hope you all have a great week and disfrut of the spring weather there. We are entering deeper into fall now and the cold wind is picking up. Soon there will be snow!! haha Have a great one!

Hermana Jarvis 

Week 58

April 11th-April 17th, 2017

Hello everyone!! this week was the best week of my life! Saturday morning we met Elder Nelson!! Our mission presidente rented a colectivo that started from esquel, went to el bolson, bariloche, villa la aungostura, san martin, cultral Co, y lastly zapala. We filled a double decker bus with missionaries and headed to neuquen. We stayed the night in a hostel witch was my first time staying in a hostel and it was way better than I had seen in ¨The Way¨. Anyyyways then the big day arrived, the choir practiced and then we sat in silence and waited. When Elder Nelson finally arrived we all stood up until he sat down. After we started the choir got up and sang (I was in that group) and Elder Nelson got up and went and sat where he could be looking directly at us with his wife. We sang and he told us what a great job we did (it honestly sounded wayy better then what we were expecting, even though we had all practiced a ton we were quite nervous) the area 70 spoke, Elder Teixera spoke, their wives spoke and then the big moment came. Sister Nelson got up and spoke and what a talk she gave!! She asked us if any of us were surprised that they are here today serving a mission. Every single one of us raised our hand. Then she asked if we´d already had the worst day of our life, we again All raised our hands. then she asked if any of us had had the best day of our life in the mision and we All raised our hands. Lastly she asked and how many of you learned more from the worst day of your life than from the best day of your life and once again every single one of us raised our hands. She said and i quote, ¨I´m so proud of you¨ hahaha then she chuckled. She began to talk about the pre existence and if we could only see 5 minutes of our life BEFORE we would be filled with so much joy and would know exactly what to do in whatever great problem we face in life. She talked about how we all rejoiced when we heard God´s plan and that we ALL desired to follow the Savior. She also said that she bets we had a to-do list titled ¨things to do on earth¨ that we promised people we would go out and find them and bring them to the light of the gospel, that we knew we would have a hard life and that we REJOICED, and then we were born and that list of things that we wanted to do started to fade away. she said, ¨I bet on that list you wrote, Serve a mission and now you might be surprised that you're here but your spirit is not. Your spirit knew long before. She talked about the star that announced the Saviors birth and how it had to be put into orbit eons before so that if would appear on that exact day and that we were ¨put into orbit¨ too so that we could be here in the generace and in these last days. She said a lot of amazing things and my eyes were opened to so many more truths of the gospel. I defiantly cried when she spoke, I knew that my Heavenly Father knows me and loves me and that those were the exact words that i needed in that moment. 

At the end of it all Elder Nelson spoke. He spoke of the life of Christ and the resurrection and what that truly means to us. He then asked us to share with him all the times that Jesus Christ appeared after He was resurrected. He asked us who the first to see Him was and there was silence. No one answered for a minute and then I spoke up (remembering what Joseph Filetti taught me about mary magdalin)  and said mary magdalin. Then he asked who came next and someone answered the ¨other women¨ and then he said and when Jesus was done visiting first the relief society (what we call the of women the church) he then visited 10 apostles because two of the 12 weren't there. We talked about who and why and the list continued on. with the fishers who He made into fishers of men and when Jesus visited the americas in the Book of Mormon and when he appeared to Joseph Smith in the first vision and then we talked about the kirtland temple and how Jesus appeared on a very special day (7 days after the dedication) on April 6th following the pattern of the solem temple and so on and so on. We talked about how the jews save a seat for the Messiah every April 6th because they know that he will come that day and how He did. The apostle Nelson bestowed an apostalic blessing upon us all and I wrote his words down franticly without watching because i did not want to miss a single thing he said. It was amazing and beautiful and He finished by testifying of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior which strengthened my testImony of him as a servant of the Lord even more. 

 I will never forget one of the things he said. When he said it the spirit told me it was true and what a peaceful feeling it was. I left that building feeling sooo ready to work, to testify of Christ and to bring my brothers and sisters to the light and truth of His gospel. I know that this is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that God has called a prophet and 12 apostles and that He speaks to us through them, just like he always has. I know that Jesus is our Savior and that if we live His gospel we will receive eternal life. We must do our part for He has done so much for us. His grace makes us whole and worthy. I know that He lives and loves us and i say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Hope you all have a great week and remember that our Heavenly Father loves  every one of us perfectly!

hermana Jarvis

Elder Nelson visiting my mission!!

Week 56

March 28th-April 3rd, 2017

Hello everyone!! These past few weeks have been pretty awesome. This last week was general conference and we brought 5 new people to church!! Conference was super super inspirational and I loved Elder Ronald A. Rasband's talk about follow the Holy Spirit the first time He tells us to do something and not second guessing ourselves!! We have a baptism coming up this week!! Her name is Aylen and she watched all the sessions of general conference this weekend!! She is supper excited for her baptism because she has been searching for the truth for a while and she's finally found it. She was a reference from a member actually (the bishop of a different ward in our stake/ mission counselor to President Casariego) We saw him pulling into his auto shop a few weeks ago and said hi and he stoped us and said ¨hermanas I have a reference for you :)¨ and we said ¨Really?! Who?!¨ He then told us that one of his sons was dating a non-member and that she had been to church with them a few times in his ward and that she was super interested. He said my sons work here, ask for Santiago and he´ll explain everything. So we did and we set up a day to meet with her and she was super excited. We taught her the restoracion of the gospel and invited her to be baptised. She accepted and then said, ¨I love how you guys explain everything so clear and simple. I actually understand the para que (why) to everything.¨ she is super awesome and well you'll be seeing photos of us together shortly :) She told us that she had been praying and going to church and that each time she went she could feel a special peace in her heart and knew it was God answering her prayers. We are needless to say VERY EXCITED!!! I love the gospel and I love watching people be converted through the witness of the Holy Ghost! There is just nothing like it. 

Also pray for me because they chose me to be in the choir and well its a choir of 10 hermanas and 10 elders.... I have no idea why they chose my voice to welcome Elder Nelson to Neuquen Argentina but I'm in the choir and I'm practicing a ton every night.  I just hope I can pull it off. We're singing ¨Asombro me da¨

ps we went to bosque arrayañes early today! It was a great hike! check out the views

until next time 

Hermana Jarvis

we went to bosque arrayañes early today! It was a great hike!

Week 53

March 7th-March 13th, 2017

Leo and Euge will get married Thursday and we are super nervous because we they have to have their lab results and all ready or the government won't let them, so keep them in your prayers!! Also Carolina (a new investigator) came to church with us yesterday which was a miracle!! She has got to feel that the church is true because she cried and told us that she felt something and just didn't want to go (that was the morning before, Saturday) but we read in joseph smith history where satan once again tried to destroy God´s plan and make it so Joseph wouldn't pray and we explained that that was her and that she had to go, even if it was just one time because she would never know if it really is the same as when Christ was here on earth and never give Heavenly Father the chance to testify to her that our words were true. Soooo she changed her mind and went with us Sunday with NO problem and liked it and stayed for the classes and said she had a good time. We will be seeing her this week and following up on everything and I just hope and pray that she could feel it. That she recognized the answer and that she´ll desire to keep learning and going. 

Love you guys!!

Hermana Jarvis

Week 52

February 28-March 6, 2017

Today has been crazy! First of all we got special permission to write late we spent all morning at the registro Civil with Leo and Euge. They will be getting bauptized the 18th of March!! They will be getting married the 16th and guess who will be the two testigos?? US!! Hermana Ventura and I because we both have IDs and residencies in Argentina!! Whoot whoot! Im super pumped!! They are a young couple of 20 and 21 years old and have a little girl named Nallara who is 4 years old. Euge stoped smoking a few weeks ago and they are rocking and rolling on through everything. We are super excited and all the work is SOOO WORTH IT. Today we made tacos for lunch Mexican style for my companion and they were quite delicious haha. I even ate the aji (Chile) Im quite proud of myself haha. Well that's about it for this week I hope you all have a great one!! 

Hermana Jarvis

Week 50

February 14-February 20, 2017

This week has been amazing!!! The Palavecino Family got baptized!!! The mom Natalia, the father Pablo, and their two oldest daughters Ipi and Mika!!!! It was such a blessing to be see them make such wonderful promises with our Heavenly Father!! Even though they are still building their house and trying to get at least one room done so that they can take shelter in their own space they knew that the blessings of making this amazing covenant outweigh anything else they could ever do. Nati told us yesterday that now she feels so much more confidente about the future and ¨Es segura¨ because she know Heavenly Father will provide it all! We also had a member of the 70 come visit us in our consejo de los lideres and I learned SO MUCH!! it was awesome!! After the conference President chose 4 missionaries to represent the mission in a video that would be used to capacitar mision presidentes in Buenos Aires and the rest of Argentina! He ended us choose the assistances and US, my companion and I!!! We were asked a few questions about how we felt in the conference and what we learned. I won't lie the first question they asked me was how I felt and I almost starting crying with joy as I explained the spirit I felt and how grateful I was to be apart of the Lord´s work. One of the last questions Elder Teixeira asked us was, ¨What advice would you give to a new missionary?¨ I responded with, ¨I would tell them to enjoy every second of their mission because ¨jamas¨ will we have another opportunity to be so blessed to work with the Lord side by side in His vineyard. Never again in life will we be blessed just for getting up at 6:30 in the morning so love every minute of it.¨ Sunday the family Palavecino got confirmed and Sister Teixeira (who was born in Africa and speaks portagis and english) asked me to translate for her in front of the congregation. So i did! It was an awesome experience and I will never forget it. In her testimony she spoke right to Ipi (12 years old) and explained how she got been eating at a restaurant and there was a young girl siting with her parents and grandparents and the whole time she was on her cellphone. She explained that she wanted to see what was so important and looked over her shoulder and that it was all trash, that she was liking whatever post on facebook or instagram. Sister Teixera said that she couldn't help but feel sad thinking of how she misses her father and grandma and how all she wanted to tell the girl was, ¨Talk with them! Don't waist the time you have¨ She lifted up the for the strength of the youth booklet and said. I don't think she had this. She began to tell all the young teens that they need to draw close to the Lord that they need to follow his teachings and follow the counsels in for the strength of the youth. She testified and I translated every word. At the end she dedicated her personal true to the faith that she had in her wallet and gave it to Ipi. The palavecino family is soooo amazing and they are sooo converted to the gospel!! They are going to get sealed in a year in the temple for all time and eternity!! And I´m planning on being there along with my companion :)

Hope you all have a great week and love your families!!! They are a blessing!!! Thank you for all your prayers and support!! Remember that you are all children of our Heavenly Father and that HE LOVES YOU!

Hermana Jarvis

Palavecino Family got baptized!

Pablo & Natalia and their two oldest daughters Ipi and Mika

Training with Area President, Elder Teixeira, in Bariloche!

Training with Area President, Elder Teixeira, in Bariloche!

Week 48

January 24-February 6, 2017

These past two weeks have been amazing and packed full of spiritual moments. The best of all is that for two weeks now we have had 6 investigators attend church with us... thats just mind blowing to me!! We found an amazing family who lived in Utah for 15 years but never went to church or got baptized and then they moved back to Buenos Aires to be with their family and felt like they had hit a wall. Nati ( the mom) explains that in Utah they were living the Mormon life and didn't even know it. When they got to Buenos Aires she says that they were just culture shocked. They couldn't stand that groups of people would be out in the street drinking and that everywhere they went people were smoking and they could just let their kids play outside anymore because it's not safe. Well two missionaries were walking by one day and saw their licenses plates and ran up and knocked on the door and wanted to talk to the owner of the car (they were utah plates). Well the family Palavencino started listening to the missionaries and prayed to know if their message was true. Nati and Pablo have very strong testimonies and know that God has restored his gospel here upon the earth once again!!! They moved here a few weeks ago and have been building their house from the ground up literally. They don't have anything not even a house or furniture. They are super super humble people and so warm hearted and full of love. We´re helping they spiritual as well as temporally at this point. A few times a week we go over and help them out. We´re super excited because the Lord has been blessing them in sooo many ways and even though they have nothing they are always happy and counting their blessings. They know that they have to work for what they want and that as long as they have their family and Heavenly Father everything will be alright. 

I love this work and I know that the Lord is with us. Every single day we step outside our apartment and get to work He blesses us with miracles. He loves us and understands each one of us perfectly. Without a doubt I know that He lives and that He is our Savior, Lord and King. Heavenly Father has given us this life to grow, learn and progress so lets make the most of it and help others, love others and choose to do the right always!! May God bless you wherever you are. En el nombre de Jesucristo, Amen. 

Hermana Jarvis

family Palavencino

Week 45

January 10-January 16, 2017

This week was incredible!! We found a bunch of new investigators!! Mirta, Natasha, Gonzalo and Luciana all come too church with us this week and we about died of happiness! Luciana we found knocking on doors looking for a woman named Alejandra who told us she lived in a certain house at the end of the street so we just asked around and knock on a few doors but we never figured it out. Luciana came out of one of the houses and when we found out that she wasn't Alejandra we shared the gospel with her anyway. We taught her about the restoration right there in her yard and we invited her to get baptized!! she said that she had never been baptized and that she would really like to. We set up a time to visit her the next day and ask if she knew anyone else that would like to hear our message and to invite them to our lesson.  When we went to visit her the next day we brought a member (hna Nunin) and taught Luciana and her mom. We invited them both to be baptized and her mom said that she wasn't so sure yet but that her daughter Luciana (13 years old) had told her she wanted to get baptized and that she had no problem with that. At our next appointment with her we showed up and she was swimming in her pool out side with a bunch of her friends and we thought okay well we´ll at least share something with her mom inside. Luciana told us that her mom was inside waiting and that we could just go on in. We sat down with her mom and talked for a little while trying to get to know her better while  Luciana and all of her friends dried off and got dressed. then they all came to listen to our message and sat down with us. We taught them the plan of salvacion and they loved it!! We invited all of them to get baptized too and they all accepted. One of them was Gonzalo who said that he had been wanting to get baptized  but didn't know which church to go to. It was AMAZING!! They both went to church and Luciana´s mom already signed the permission form and welp they will be getting baptized January 28 at 7!! All I can say is that I am so grateful for all of our blessings!! I know that the Lord is preparing people and leading us directly to them!! That's all for this week!! Hope you all have a great one!!

Hermana Jarivs

Week 44-quick note

January 3-January 9, 2017

Elder Neil Anderson is going to come here in a few months to bariloche for a special meeting with the missionary liders here (IM INCLUDED IN THAT GROUP!!! :D) and I'm super excited. He is coming just for our mission Nueque but the even cooler part is he is going to be staying in MY stake in Bariloche and everyone from our mission is going to have to travel here and wow I just hope I stay here one more transfer so that I get to be here and soak up a little extra time with him haha!! Yeah I'm already more than halfway done with my mission its sooo crazy!! I don't want to go home :( haha!! Talking to my mom was super awesome I showed off my Spanish a little haha we also sang her a hymn in Spanish and she was definitely tearing up :) 

Thanks for all your support!!
Hermana Jarvis

Week 43

December 27, 2016-January 2, 2017

We had transfers on Wednesday and Hermana Farr got sent to Roca and I got a new companion!! Hermana Ventura is her name and she's from Mexico!! Whoot whoot!! We also ended up get two more hermanas instead of a set of Elders so that was a big surprise!! They don't have their own apartment yet so they have been staying with us. At first I was like "great four hermanas in a one bedroom apartment- this will be interesting" but now I am loving it. We all had a pajama party for New Years and we got two giant kilos of ice cream, made brownies, banana bread, pizzas, oven roasted chicken, empanadas, salad and a few more things that I cannot remember at the moment haha. It was super fun because I found this board game that someone had made with the plan of salvacion and it was super awesome and hilarious. We joked around laughing so much we didn't even get to finish the game because we kept changing the rules up ever five minutes to make it even more hilarious. We had a great time together and I am soo going to miss them when they get their own apartment :((

Well this week we made a goal to serve someone every single day and each day there would be people in their yards or in the street cleaning and we would offer to help them all. Most of them said no but a few said yes and we got to serve at least one person everyday. Two days this week we found a lady named Verna walking home with large heavy grocery bags and me and my companion ran up and just took the bags from her and started walking with her all the way to her house and she was so grateful because she is supposed to have knee surgery this week and the doctor told her she cannot carry anything heavy or walk very long but she was having all her kids over for New Years and wanted to have food for them so she walked to the store (like everyone here) and was carrying it all back alone. It was awesome we helped her inside her house and then she invited us to come back again and sit down and teach her about Christ so we're going to visit her this week :) She is super sweet!! We also have been teaching a girl named Sofi who is 16 years old and half believes in Christ and half believes in buddism. This week me and my companion have a meeting in Neuquen so well be traveling for a few days and I'm super excited to see what president has to say this transfer.

Hope you all have a very very happy 2017!!! Don't forget about the wonderful tool we have for our life!!! Las escrituras!! Usenlas y aplicenlas a su vida porque son para nuestro provecho!!! 

  1 Nefi 19 23-24

 23 Y les leí muchas cosas que estaban escritas en los libros de Moisés; pero a fin de convencerlos más plenamente de que creyeran en el Señor su Redentor, les leí lo que escribió el profeta Isaías; porque comparé todas las Escrituras a nosotros mismos para nuestro provecho e instrucción.

 24 Por tanto, les hablé, diciendo: Escuchad las palabras del profeta, vosotros que sois un resto de la casa de Israel, una rama que ha sido desgajada; escuchad las palabras del profeta que fueron escritas a toda la casa de Israel, y comparáoslas a vosotros mismos, para que podáis tener esperanza, así como vuestros hermanos de quienes habéis sido separados; porque de esta manera es como el profeta ha escrito.

Hermana Jarvis