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