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