Hey everyone, I forgot to send a shout out to all the mothers and future mothers
who read this to wish you all a happy mothers day, a little confused? Well don't worry, here in Argentina they celebrate mothers day in October! So everyone had lots of fun parties here to celebrate mothers day! Too bad we cant call home for both mothers days!!
Well I don't really have much to report, another boring week here in the mission, we are trying to talk to everyone we see, and we get to hear all kinds of insults, its a good thing my companion still doesn't really understand anything!! But no, I'm not too worried, I've seen miracles before in my mission, I just need to keep having faith and I will see results, but in the Lords time, not mine!!
The heat has come, but then it rains and the cold comes again, I'm not excited for the heat to come in its full vengence, but I am kind of sick of this hot then cold stuff going on! I wish it would just stay cold! Unfortunately summer is coming, and oh I have the mosquito bites to certainly prove that, I have about 50 in total on my body, and well lets just say they aren't fun!!
Well that's about all I have, we went to the temple last week and it was soooo nice! It was my last time in the temple for the rest of my mission because they are closing it down in November, that makes me really sad, but whatever it gives me incentive to save up my money to come back and see what the temple looks like afterwards... they say it will be a million times prettier, hard to believe!!
Welp sorry this is such a short letter, but I gotta run,
Love yall
hermana Gosnell
Friday, October 23, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Spanish Bible
Hey guys, well I don't have much time, so I will write this fast! This last week we had our zone conference, and we got all kinds of new goodies, I got lots of nice packages and letters, thanks to everyone that sent me letters! I'm currently trying to write you all back! Also I don't know if many of you know this, but they just came out with and lds version of the bible, so the Spanish bible is the same as the English one now, its way exciting... well president and sister argyle ordered all the missionaries a bible with their name on it... so I got my very own new Spanish bible with my name on it, I was so excited!! Also this conference was amazing because in our interviews with president, well he didn't interview us like normal, he gave each of us a blessing, it was beyond words amazing!! When he put his hands on my head I could feel a spiritual power so strong that I had never felt before in my life and I started crying, and this is before he even started talking! Wow it was an amazing blessing, I am so blessed to be here in this mission right now, it is truly the best decision I have ever made, to go on a mission!!
Well not really much else is going on here, we left Romina and Richard, so we have
absolutely NO investigators,we are walking a lot and talking to a bunch of people and knocking on doors, we get home every night beyond words tired... but hey one day the Lord will bless us with success (alma 26:27)! My companion had her first bad contacting experience, she tried to stop a lady to talk to her in the street, and the lady went crazy and started yelling at us, telling us we are a bother to the people and we just need to go home and stuff like that! I thought it was funny, its happened to me before several times, but it had never happened to her, she says it doesn't bother her, but well she still talks about it so I know it does... poor girl!
Welp that is about all I have to say, and all the time I have to say it in, sorry its so short, but I gotta run!!
Love yall
hermana Gosnell
Well not really much else is going on here, we left Romina and Richard, so we have
absolutely NO investigators,we are walking a lot and talking to a bunch of people and knocking on doors, we get home every night beyond words tired... but hey one day the Lord will bless us with success (alma 26:27)! My companion had her first bad contacting experience, she tried to stop a lady to talk to her in the street, and the lady went crazy and started yelling at us, telling us we are a bother to the people and we just need to go home and stuff like that! I thought it was funny, its happened to me before several times, but it had never happened to her, she says it doesn't bother her, but well she still talks about it so I know it does... poor girl!
Welp that is about all I have to say, and all the time I have to say it in, sorry its so short, but I gotta run!!
Love yall
hermana Gosnell
Sunday, October 11, 2009
10-07-09 Conference Amazing!!!!
Hey everyone, I hope you all enjoyed conference as much as I did, well actually I don't think anyone could have enjoyed it as much as I did, but that's ok! Wasn't elder Hollands talk just amazing!! He had me rivited the entire time! He is amazing!! Well i actually don't have much time! But I hope everyone is good, So Romina and Richard, it looks like satan has gotten a hold of Romina good, she is fighting this a lot, and pretty much doesn't want to see us anymore, we have an appointment with them tonight and we are praying it will go well! Pray for us!
Sorry I don't really have much to write about, oh this is actually exciting, we might be moving! You see we live really far from the area we work in and we waste a ton of time and money, well I finally wrote my president about the situation and he called me on saturday really worried, he said he had no idea we were suffering like we have been, and sent our zone leader over to give us more money for now, and the zone leader is looking in to see if we can move!! Pray that we can!! Conference was a lot of fun, because we got some new elders in our zone who are hilarious!! Elder Arkansas got transferred, which was sad but a really funny elder who I don't know his name got put in, so that is good! And then another elder who I don't know what his area is, but he is in our zone, his name is elder Gaylord, he is freaking
hilarious (name sound familiar to anyone... Ladd?) Yeah anyways so it was lots of fun!
SOrry this is such a lame letter but I don't really have much to write about!
Oh one funny story, my companion was at it again, she hit herself in the head yesterday with a steel door... haha I almost died laughing, don't worry shes fine!! She didn't hit her head too hard!!
Welp love yall
Hermana Gosnell
PS Ladd if you were to send me a package, I would love to have... those sticky notes and stuff that everyone just loved here! and well I actually don't know what else... if you were thinking about food or candy well, um whatever, surprise me... haha love you... don't you just love L. Tom??
Sorry I don't really have much to write about, oh this is actually exciting, we might be moving! You see we live really far from the area we work in and we waste a ton of time and money, well I finally wrote my president about the situation and he called me on saturday really worried, he said he had no idea we were suffering like we have been, and sent our zone leader over to give us more money for now, and the zone leader is looking in to see if we can move!! Pray that we can!! Conference was a lot of fun, because we got some new elders in our zone who are hilarious!! Elder Arkansas got transferred, which was sad but a really funny elder who I don't know his name got put in, so that is good! And then another elder who I don't know what his area is, but he is in our zone, his name is elder Gaylord, he is freaking
hilarious (name sound familiar to anyone... Ladd?) Yeah anyways so it was lots of fun!
SOrry this is such a lame letter but I don't really have much to write about!
Oh one funny story, my companion was at it again, she hit herself in the head yesterday with a steel door... haha I almost died laughing, don't worry shes fine!! She didn't hit her head too hard!!
Welp love yall
Hermana Gosnell
PS Ladd if you were to send me a package, I would love to have... those sticky notes and stuff that everyone just loved here! and well I actually don't know what else... if you were thinking about food or candy well, um whatever, surprise me... haha love you... don't you just love L. Tom??
9-30-09 Double!!!!
So as a mission we reached the double!! It was def a miracle of the Lord! It reminds me of the story in the Bible about Gideons army, he had 10,000 soldiers and the Lord made him go into battle with only 300, so that they couldn't brag about their own strength, and that is def what happened in this mission! We had to get a ridiculously high number of baptisms this weekend, and only with the help of the Lord could we do it! There is no way we can brag on our own strengths, it was a miracle given to us from an all knowing and loving God!!
Well even though the mission saw a ton of baptisms this last week, we didn't see any here in Tonelero! But a little miracle we did see is that Romina and Richard have finally decided to get married!!! We are all very excited about this, the only problem is they want to wait until November 20, but the way they do things here in Argentina, is they have to wait at least 28 working days from the time they go and request the marriage, so they would have to wait a long time anyways! But we were also able to put a baptism goal with Romina, after 2 months of trying!! It was amazing! We also got to have another amazing lesson with Elder Campero, he extended his vacation with his family, and came with us to see Romina and Richard last Friday! It was an amazing lesson, and I must say I very much admire Elder Campero. We had lunch with him and his daughter in law that afternoon, and I had asked his daughter in law what he does, cause I've always wanted to know what people
like them do, I know they have a lot of work, but with what exactly? Well she had
mentioned it to him and he pulled out his scriptures and read to me from Doctrine and Covenants about what the responsibility of a 70 is, it was really cool! Basically they are responsible for missionary work. And well later that day we were able to see how seriously he takes his calling! We had the appointment with Romina and Richard at 5pm and he had a sealing of a dear family friend at 6:30, he got to our appointment a few minutes late, and to show how important it was to him to be on time, he was running... I'm not sure how many blocks he ran, but we saw him turn the corner and he was running to get to the appointment and he apologized a ton for being the few min late that he was... mind you he is like a 60 year old man... or older!! So when he caught his breath we asked him what time he needed to leave to get to the temple for the sealing, and he said no, I can't do 2 things well at once, so lets focus ourselves on this appointment and nothing else! I was so surprised! He def missed the sealing, but the lesson was amazing and Romina really started to understand! Our leaders aren't messing around when they tell us missionary work is important!!
Well this week has been a really good week! And I can't wait for this weekend, I'm so excited for general conf, and I get to watch it in English this time because I'm not with a latin!! YAY!! I hope all is well, and thank you to everyone for your letters... I love hearing from everyone!!
Love yall
Hermana Gosnell
Well even though the mission saw a ton of baptisms this last week, we didn't see any here in Tonelero! But a little miracle we did see is that Romina and Richard have finally decided to get married!!! We are all very excited about this, the only problem is they want to wait until November 20, but the way they do things here in Argentina, is they have to wait at least 28 working days from the time they go and request the marriage, so they would have to wait a long time anyways! But we were also able to put a baptism goal with Romina, after 2 months of trying!! It was amazing! We also got to have another amazing lesson with Elder Campero, he extended his vacation with his family, and came with us to see Romina and Richard last Friday! It was an amazing lesson, and I must say I very much admire Elder Campero. We had lunch with him and his daughter in law that afternoon, and I had asked his daughter in law what he does, cause I've always wanted to know what people
like them do, I know they have a lot of work, but with what exactly? Well she had
mentioned it to him and he pulled out his scriptures and read to me from Doctrine and Covenants about what the responsibility of a 70 is, it was really cool! Basically they are responsible for missionary work. And well later that day we were able to see how seriously he takes his calling! We had the appointment with Romina and Richard at 5pm and he had a sealing of a dear family friend at 6:30, he got to our appointment a few minutes late, and to show how important it was to him to be on time, he was running... I'm not sure how many blocks he ran, but we saw him turn the corner and he was running to get to the appointment and he apologized a ton for being the few min late that he was... mind you he is like a 60 year old man... or older!! So when he caught his breath we asked him what time he needed to leave to get to the temple for the sealing, and he said no, I can't do 2 things well at once, so lets focus ourselves on this appointment and nothing else! I was so surprised! He def missed the sealing, but the lesson was amazing and Romina really started to understand! Our leaders aren't messing around when they tell us missionary work is important!!
Well this week has been a really good week! And I can't wait for this weekend, I'm so excited for general conf, and I get to watch it in English this time because I'm not with a latin!! YAY!! I hope all is well, and thank you to everyone for your letters... I love hearing from everyone!!
Love yall
Hermana Gosnell
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