9-16-09

So this last week has been a good one, we have had one gross experience, one funny, one annoying, and one AMAZING!! So I will proceed to tell you all each one!!
I will start with the gross experience, so we had lunch with the flia gamarra on friday, it was some kind of spinach thing, it was good and rice, with aji (some kind of spicy thing) I love aji, so I put a ton on my food, I actually really liked everything I ate, and we left and went to work... well I started to feel really sick about an hour later. But like really sick, but I wanted to keep working, and anyways since it was friday we go home at 6 to plan, so I was like I can hang on until then. So we walked around a lot and then ended the day with ruth and marcelo (los gitanos) I was feeling really sick and just wanted to go home, we shared with them the scripture we had wanted and i was ready to go, but as always marcelo left to go buy something for us to drink, I mentioned I didn't want anything because I felt sick, so Ruth said just buy apple juice, so he left, and I was like I hope I don't throw up, so Ruth showed me where the bathroom was just in case, we walked back to their room and I was about to sit down when I turned around and ran out the door and por suerte made it to the bathroom and started throwing up... it was so bad! For those of you who know me, I NEVER throw up!! I just wanted to go home, but well we live about 40min from our area in bus, or 15min in car... but car is more expensive, well I couldn't handle driving in a bus, so I opted for a car. We sat with ruth and marcelo for a bit for me to calm down, and then we left walking to find a remis place, well all the cars were being used so we left to find another one, luckily we found a taxi and took that. I told him I wasn't feeling well, but he just kept driving crazy, and well usually they dont talk to us but this one did, he talked a ton, and I didn't want to talk back but I had to, I looked at my companion and asked her to pray I wouldn't up chuck in the car... luckily I didn't! I got home changed as quickly as I could and curled up and bed and fell asleep, slept for a few hours and started throwing up again! It was awful... but that was the last of it! I slept the rest of the night, I ended up sleeping for like 12hours straight!! I was still feeling horrible on sat so we stayed in all day, I counted it up and I slept 24hours during a 48hour period... I got caught up on all my lost sleep! It was horrible, but well at least I am better now, Im just nervous to eat at the gamarra house now!!
Ok so now for my really funny experience, of course this has to do with my companion!! So after district meeting we had a lunch appointment really far away and so we took a bus, it was ridiculously crowded, I cant even explain how bad it was, well I was being pushed toward the back as more and more people squeezed on, some how my companion stayed up front. Well I finally got to the doors and stayed put so I could get off quickly, well I saw our stop coming up and motioned to my comp that we were getting off, I thought she would either start moving back or try to get off up front. So any ways I jump off and stand there waiting for my comp. She never got off, I start freaking up and she still isnt getting off. I see her face show up in the doorway as the door shuts and the bus starts moving... I take off running after the bus screaming PARÁ PARÁ which is stop in spanish, but of course that doesn't do anything! so luckily the bus stopped only a block away and she gets off and comes running over to me, and tells me what happened. So she wanted to get off the front but couldn't get around the people, so tried to push her
way back, but she is really sweet and only nicely asks people out of the way, here in Buenos Aires you cant be too sweet when you need to get off a crowded bus! Well she made it to the doors as he closes the doors, she started to panic and yelled WAIT!! IN ENGLSIH!!! HAHA it was so funny, she started touching the timbre like a million times so they just let her off a block later!! I died laughing, I thought it was so funny!!
So now for the annoying story combined with the amazing story! It all happened
yesterday!! SO yesterday started out horrible, but ended AMAZING! We had an appointment with the gitanos, and well ruth wasn't home, so we went to find marcelo, and he freaked out trying to find his wife, so needless to say we went and found something else to do. Then we had been told we had lunch with gamarra because they had signed up for the elders but since they aren't here anymore we could have it, which is good because we dont have time or money to go home, but i was a little nervous to eat there again so soon... they are the ones that I got food poisoning with, and they usually give us liver or heart to eat! But I thought they would be waiting for us! So we go and buy juice to bring with us to share with them, because their water is not the most sanitary, so we always bring soda or juice or something! Well we get there and no one is there, I was slightly relieved, and we turned around to leave right as oscar comes walking up and was like no my wife will be home soon wait. So I thought ok we will wait, emma got home 10min later
and didn't say anything about lunch and didn't start fixing it, oscar left to go wash his face so I told emma not to worry about the food that we were fine, because we had dinner that night and we didn't need to eat, and they are the hardest to convince because oscar was like no give them food, so I told them I had been sick and still wasn't hungry and wanting to eat, which was mostly true, but they still made us food. Not after emma freaks out and was like no I didn't have lunch with you guys, alicia didn't tell me and I saw her today why wouldn't she have told me, plus I signed up for the elders not you all and since the elders aren't here it isn't for you guys, and all these things! Which makes me really sad because they never treated us this way when hermana ladd was here. In fact most the members dont really treat us that great anymore now that ladd is gone! The gamarra and the sampayo are the worst! They always talk about all these wonderful amazing things hermana ladd did... but the funny thing, SHE NEVER DID THEM!! At least the hermana ladd I knew never did, and as amazing as they talk about her, Im surprised she isnt translated yet... because she is better than perfect in their eyes... because well she is like a really good person! And the gamarra used to tell us that whenever we needed lunch
to just come over and they would make us something! Well I guess that is out now! Well they whipped us up something, like a spoonful of rice each, half a fried egg and almost raw lentils with like a whole onion each... it was GROSS!! They dont usually feed us like that! I couldn't eat it all because it was so disgusting! I scarfed what I could down, so did my comp and then we shared a scripture and left quickly, because the whole time they talked about hermana ladd did this and you all don't, and how we should be more like her! I just didn't want to listen to it anymore!! They would talk about how she would always come over and spend her pdays with them all day long even though it was her free day... SHE NEVER DID THAT!!!! I was like fed up! SO still being hungry, we went to ruth and marcelos to complain, we didnt ask for food, because we were just going to go to the gas station to grab something later, but ruth asked if we were still hungry and then left to call marcelo and see if he would bring us some asado he was making for his family,
which he did, and it was SOOOO GOOD!!! Ruth and Marcelo are one of the only ones that dont treat us any differently... I just love them, they are truly amazing!! Also the flia bacarreza and flia campero treat us just the same, the rest are varying degrees of what gamarra are like towards us! We have a lot of trust to gain!! So after being with ruth, we left to go to our other appointments, no one was home so we did some contacts and then caught a bus out to our branch presidents house because she was making us waffles, because she has a waffle maker, I havent hadd waffles since our north carolina trip! So we got out there, and it was AMAZING!! She had maple syrup, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, cut up strawberries, It was like I had died and gone to heavan!! I was so excited, my comp and I scarfed them down, they were the best waffles ever!! We ate a ton!! So while we were eating her father in law comes home, he is here visiting because they are going to bless their new daughter this weekend, and they had to do it this weekend because oh her father in law is an area 70 and could only make it for this weekend! SO he comes in sits down and starts asking us about our investigators and stuff like that! He is really cool but I was so nervous, then he was like well do you have any
investigators close by we could go visit, which we don't and I was like dang no we dont. Then he was like ok well if you would like I could meet you somewhere and come with you on a visit! I had to contain my excitement! I was like yeah actually we have an appointment with romina and richard tomorrow and we want to teach them tithing!! I was wanting to bring a member but I couldn't think of who would be good to invite... well I think he is PERFECT!! I couldn't believe it, he is meeting us tonight and we are going over to teach them, I was so excited I told him all about romina and richard and everything, he seems really interested. I just cant even believe it, I cant wait until tonight!! I mean this guy has a ton of power, he just has the spirit with him, as soon as he walked in yesterday you could just tell he was a man with the spirit! This is going to be awesome! I am a little nervous because Im the sr comp and I have to teach like amazing, pray for me that I do well!! Well That is all my stories, I think this is officially my longest letter EVER I hope you enjoyed all the details I was able to put in, I know I left out a lot... but hey when you only got an hour what can you do?
Welp I love yall, hope all is well... and well THE MISSION IS AMAZING!!

Love ya

Hermana Gosnell