11-25-09
Wow is it really thanksgiving? I cant believe it, I feel like we just started November!!! Time is just flying by way too fast!! Well I hope you all enjoy your thanksgiving, eat extra for me, because I will be spending my thanksgiving fasting, say what? Yeah we have zone conf. on friday and our president asked us to fast the day before to be more spiritually prepared, never thought I would be fasting on thanksgiving, but hey I guess there is a first time for everything right??
Well I have a ton to write, and almost no time to write it! Last week we had a
conference with elder Bednar and elder Snow, wow can we say amazing!! Elder Bednar just had us ask questions the whole time, and he responded to them, he had us promise we wouldn't write home his responses because he said he could be more honest with us if we could promise him that, so we all promised and well sorry, I guess I will just have to share my notes with yall when I get home, but it was truly amazing!! It was a conference with the mtc and the 3 missions in Buenos Aires, so I got to see Hermana Strasser, my best friend from the mtc! we both almost screamed when we saw each other, it was amazing!! She told me she is returning to byui when she gets home, so hey Ladd is there room for her... she is amazing!!!anyways it was so much fun, and very spiritual!! Then on saturday we had a baptism, Fernanda was baptized and it was truly amazing, she cried like the whole time and her husband was able to do the baptism, it was really very special! I'm so happy for her! If I have time I will try to send a few pics!!! Daniel is still progressing crazy fast, he is so excited for his baptism (next sat) and he still just seems too good to be true, keep praying for him please!! We are still trying to find more people to teach, we have a ton of investigators but I still haven't met even half of them, I asked my comp why we still count them as investigators and if we could take them off our list since she has only met them like once or twice but she got upset and said no, so we are kind of at a stand still with investigators, I'm going through the area books to try and find people we can go teach, can we talk about how the last few Hermanas who came through here did not know how to keep an area book, it's a bit frustrating! But hey I am still very grateful to be here in Almagro, the work is great and the members help us a ton!!
Well I thought I had more to tell about, but I cant think of it now, maybe its the
hunger... we still haven't eaten yet... so I think I will sign off for now, and try to send pics, love yall and happy thanksgiving, I'm grateful for my family and friends!!
LOVE YA
Hermana Gosnell
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wow, did you know that some missionaries actually have baptisms?? Well I learned that this last weekend! We had a baptism!! Ok so I will start with that, So we had a baptism planned for this saturday, well we had to move it to sunday because it was stake conference this last weekend so we couldn't do it on sat, well we went and taught Oscar his last lesson before his interview, and he told us he had drank beer the other day, I was a bit upset because he tells us no I don't have a problem, I just like to drink, I don't think the other hermanas insttiled in him how serious drinking is... so when he said that I got really quiet and looked at him and said, that is very serious Oscar, he got really serious and started thinking, when he said the closing prayer he begged forgiveness, he really seemed sorry. So after that we told him he might not be able to be baptized this weekend, but we would do the interview anyways, well long story short, he amazingly passed his interview! then sunday we had stake conference, far away, and we had SIX INVESTIGATORS AT CHURCH!!! It was amazing, for stake conference that like never happens!! I also saw hermana Palacios, she had to bear her testimony, she is leaving for her mission in like a week! Crazy!! Well during stake conference Oscar leans over to my comp and says hey can we post pone my baptism to next week, my work just called they need
me asap, she asked if it was important and he said yeah, and she said more important than god? he thought about it and said no, god comes first! It was amazing, so as soon as conference was over and we got back to our church building we had the baptism, it was a little rushed and stressful, but everything turned out great!! As soon as it was over we had to run to our next appt, it was with one of our investigators, she is amazing, she and her husband are separated, but when he started receiving the discussions he tried to start talking to her again, she started investigating the church on her own, reading the book of mormon and reading stuff on the website, well her husband got baptized and she told us she wants to get baptized too, but she wants to wait until she and her husband move back in together and have everything worked out, we tried putting a date with her, but she said no don't worry about it, well this weekend during stake conf. she told us I want to be baptized asap! We were both so shocked, when we went to see her after the baptism of Oscar she told us she just felt like someone had told her, hey you don't need
to wait to get everything in order, do it now! So she said I'm doing it now, she is
getting baptized this saturday!! She is absolutely amazing!! I'm so excited for her baptism!!
So that is the most exciting stuff, there is so much to do here! Oh after our appt with Fernanda we left for our other appointments but everything fell through, and we were starving because we hadn't eaten at all, we didn't eat lunch or anything because we were in a hurry from the baptism and then the lesson right after, well we ended up going to a members house, the family Feresin, they are amazing, the mom asked us what we ate that day and when we didn't say anything she got up went into the kitchen and made us a huge dinner... she is amazing, I'm pretty sure she earned her spot in heaven for that... haha :) But seriously this family is so much fun! They have a son on a mission in Neuquen, he actually was just comps with one of the elders from my district in the mtc!! They have this crazy tradition where they break eggs and pour flour all over the missionaries that end their missions here, I saw it happen with hermana Winters her last night here... it was so funny, they told me you don't want to finish your mission here, than asked me how much time I have! I just told them about a year or so, they laughed, they are now trying to find out when I end, they know I will end my mission here, they just aren't sure when it is I finish! HAHA it is a game for them... they are so much fun, I just have to think
of something to get them back for the eggs and flour thing... if you have any ideas... let me know, I still have a few months to think though!! Welp that's all I got for now, oh yeah I'm going to a conference with elder Bednar tomorrow, I'm so excited!! And next week we have our zone conference... time is just flying by!!
Love ya'll
Hermana Gosnell
me asap, she asked if it was important and he said yeah, and she said more important than god? he thought about it and said no, god comes first! It was amazing, so as soon as conference was over and we got back to our church building we had the baptism, it was a little rushed and stressful, but everything turned out great!! As soon as it was over we had to run to our next appt, it was with one of our investigators, she is amazing, she and her husband are separated, but when he started receiving the discussions he tried to start talking to her again, she started investigating the church on her own, reading the book of mormon and reading stuff on the website, well her husband got baptized and she told us she wants to get baptized too, but she wants to wait until she and her husband move back in together and have everything worked out, we tried putting a date with her, but she said no don't worry about it, well this weekend during stake conf. she told us I want to be baptized asap! We were both so shocked, when we went to see her after the baptism of Oscar she told us she just felt like someone had told her, hey you don't need
to wait to get everything in order, do it now! So she said I'm doing it now, she is
getting baptized this saturday!! She is absolutely amazing!! I'm so excited for her baptism!!
So that is the most exciting stuff, there is so much to do here! Oh after our appt with Fernanda we left for our other appointments but everything fell through, and we were starving because we hadn't eaten at all, we didn't eat lunch or anything because we were in a hurry from the baptism and then the lesson right after, well we ended up going to a members house, the family Feresin, they are amazing, the mom asked us what we ate that day and when we didn't say anything she got up went into the kitchen and made us a huge dinner... she is amazing, I'm pretty sure she earned her spot in heaven for that... haha :) But seriously this family is so much fun! They have a son on a mission in Neuquen, he actually was just comps with one of the elders from my district in the mtc!! They have this crazy tradition where they break eggs and pour flour all over the missionaries that end their missions here, I saw it happen with hermana Winters her last night here... it was so funny, they told me you don't want to finish your mission here, than asked me how much time I have! I just told them about a year or so, they laughed, they are now trying to find out when I end, they know I will end my mission here, they just aren't sure when it is I finish! HAHA it is a game for them... they are so much fun, I just have to think
of something to get them back for the eggs and flour thing... if you have any ideas... let me know, I still have a few months to think though!! Welp that's all I got for now, oh yeah I'm going to a conference with elder Bednar tomorrow, I'm so excited!! And next week we have our zone conference... time is just flying by!!
Love ya'll
Hermana Gosnell
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Cockroaches City!!!! 11-12-09
Hey hey everyone, well I must say, I am one very blessed girl, this area only has a
few major problems, there isn't enough time to teach everyone that wants to be baptized, and there are too many members that want to come with us on lessons!! HAHA ok well it isn't all roses and stuff, but really compared to my other areas, wow the work is crazy! I feel like I'm in a completely different mission! We found a family that said they wanted to be baptized (a family of 5), but well when we went to pick them up for church they weren't ready and didn't come with us, it was a little sad and we were upset because we didn't have time to go pick anyone else up, but when we got to church and started counting how many investigators came on their own... we had EIGHT!!! But then our ward mission leader came and told us a man had come to church for the first time, he had been investigating the church online for a while and found the meeting house, and he is very interested in learning more!! He even came in a suit and everything! We taught him a quick lesson right after, and he seems really interested! Also we have a baptism this weekend, his name is Oscar, I'm worried he might not make it, I just don't feel like he understands what he is doing, but I'm praying he will make it to his goal! There are so many different miracles I just don't even know where to begin! One of them is we went to see an old investigator, she had wanted to get baptized but wasn't married, well I week
before I got here she called the hermanas and left a message saying she was getting
married and wanted to start coming to church and get baptized, we went to see her my
first day here and she came out to see us and was in a huge hurry, she said hey I don't have time to talk right now I'm getting everything ready for my wedding, we asked her when it was and she said tomorrow! WOW!! Then she said hey I get home from my honeymoon on the 12th, come see me after that, and we asked her if she would be willing to get baptized this month and she said yes yes as soon as possible!! She seemed so happy!! I just couldn't believe it! Wow there is so much to do, I just hope and pray I don't ruin anything here!!
My companion is amazing, I was a little nervous being with a latin again, but wow she is so fun! We have a lot of fun together, and I'm grateful to be with her, because my spanish was starting to get a little bad!! I feel like I will probably only be with her for one transfer, but I'm praying we stay together longer!!
Oh and there is one real problem here, our apartment is smaller than a postage stamp and has the whole world of cockroaches living in it... seriously they are everywhere, we have to wash our dishes before and after we use them because cockroaches are seriously taking over our lives! I will probably be bringing several of them home, because I see them crawling on my suitcases, it really grosses me out to the extreme! But I just try to pretend they don't exist!!Well I think that is all I needed to write about, oh also, if anyone out there would like to write to my comp, that would be great, she told me her family doesn't write her letters, so she runs to the bathroom to hide when they hand out letters, we have zone conference in like 2 or 3 weeks, so if you send them this week they should get here for this zone conf, try to write them in spanish, but if you cant, well I can help her translate them! Welp that's all I got,I love you all and you are in my prayers!!
Love,
Hermana Gosnell
few major problems, there isn't enough time to teach everyone that wants to be baptized, and there are too many members that want to come with us on lessons!! HAHA ok well it isn't all roses and stuff, but really compared to my other areas, wow the work is crazy! I feel like I'm in a completely different mission! We found a family that said they wanted to be baptized (a family of 5), but well when we went to pick them up for church they weren't ready and didn't come with us, it was a little sad and we were upset because we didn't have time to go pick anyone else up, but when we got to church and started counting how many investigators came on their own... we had EIGHT!!! But then our ward mission leader came and told us a man had come to church for the first time, he had been investigating the church online for a while and found the meeting house, and he is very interested in learning more!! He even came in a suit and everything! We taught him a quick lesson right after, and he seems really interested! Also we have a baptism this weekend, his name is Oscar, I'm worried he might not make it, I just don't feel like he understands what he is doing, but I'm praying he will make it to his goal! There are so many different miracles I just don't even know where to begin! One of them is we went to see an old investigator, she had wanted to get baptized but wasn't married, well I week
before I got here she called the hermanas and left a message saying she was getting
married and wanted to start coming to church and get baptized, we went to see her my
first day here and she came out to see us and was in a huge hurry, she said hey I don't have time to talk right now I'm getting everything ready for my wedding, we asked her when it was and she said tomorrow! WOW!! Then she said hey I get home from my honeymoon on the 12th, come see me after that, and we asked her if she would be willing to get baptized this month and she said yes yes as soon as possible!! She seemed so happy!! I just couldn't believe it! Wow there is so much to do, I just hope and pray I don't ruin anything here!!
My companion is amazing, I was a little nervous being with a latin again, but wow she is so fun! We have a lot of fun together, and I'm grateful to be with her, because my spanish was starting to get a little bad!! I feel like I will probably only be with her for one transfer, but I'm praying we stay together longer!!
Oh and there is one real problem here, our apartment is smaller than a postage stamp and has the whole world of cockroaches living in it... seriously they are everywhere, we have to wash our dishes before and after we use them because cockroaches are seriously taking over our lives! I will probably be bringing several of them home, because I see them crawling on my suitcases, it really grosses me out to the extreme! But I just try to pretend they don't exist!!Well I think that is all I needed to write about, oh also, if anyone out there would like to write to my comp, that would be great, she told me her family doesn't write her letters, so she runs to the bathroom to hide when they hand out letters, we have zone conference in like 2 or 3 weeks, so if you send them this week they should get here for this zone conf, try to write them in spanish, but if you cant, well I can help her translate them! Welp that's all I got,I love you all and you are in my prayers!!
Love,
Hermana Gosnell
Friday, November 6, 2009
11-3-09
Ok so well transfers have come an gone, and well as always it didn't go the way I was hoping or expecting it too!! Long story short... I'm in Almagro with Hermana Mora, who is from Mexico, I'm so excited because I have always wanted a mexican comp! She seems way chill!! And well Hermana Reese went to Vicente Lopez, which means they closed the area of tonelero, but not just to hermanas, but also to elders, there aren't missionaries there... I don't know what happened, but well there we are, all the members are quite upset, and well to be a bit honest I am too... I loved tonelero, and this last week we found several people who I'm dead certain will get baptized, but seeing as how there aren't missionaries, I don't know how that will happen! I still am reeling from everything, all the hermanas had changes, oh ladd, cano is with collinwood in tigre... problem?? Yeah everything is so crazy I'm still up in the clouds, I guess it doesn't help I didn't sleep almost at all last night!! Wow my last few transfers are going to fly by now that I have to get to know a new area, I'm not too very excited about it, but well apparently there is something the Lord needs me here for, I just need to figure it out!! Well I'm sorry I don't have much info about my area, I hear the members are amazing and the missionaries here baptize all the time, I should be having a goodtime then!! Welp I'm starving, I haven't eaten ANYTHING all day... I'm gonna go now, hope everyone is doing well!!
Love ya
Hermana Gosnell
Love ya
Hermana Gosnell
10-28-09
Ok I'm going to start off this email by letting everyone know that my pday next week
will be on TUESDAY!! Not wednesday, we have transfers next week I'm nervous to find out if I stay, or go, or who will be my next comp! I'm actually hoping to get a latin comp, my spanish is getting worse talking english all the time, so I'm hoping for a latin so I can go back to spanish 100% of the time!! Pray for me!!
Ok lots of things happened this last week, before I talk about those though I wanted to mention something I forgot last week, When we went to the temple I was looking at the name of the person I had, I was noticing it was an english name so I showed my comp, as soon as I did that I realized not only was it an english name, the girl was from KENTUCKY!!! I kid you not, all the way here in buenos aires argentina I did the work for someone from kentucky, I felt very honored to have that priviledge!! Her name is Jennie Mae Holbrook, she was born on may 11th 1817!! I was so excited the whole session about it!!!
Ok so that was cool, oh and last week for district meeting we went and did contacts with the elders, we were walking and talking, and well my old luck came back... I totally biffed it in front of the elders... slightly embarrasing, but I just jumped up and acted like nothing happened. well I scraped up my knee pretty bad and got blood all over my skirt, but don't worry the elders didn't notice!!
Oh and well according to my comp I'm starting to attract admirers here! It all started when we went to a supermarket to buy a milk or something, well apparently the cashier guy was making googly eyes at me, I didn't notice it, all I noticed was he was annoying me with how slow he did everything!! hAHA she still mentions it all the time! Well then it didn't help that we went to buy somethings in liniers last week, and I was looking a tennis shoes because mine are pretty trashed, and the ones in liniers look like the real thing, but aren't so they are wicked cheap! well the guy that helped us find shoes, well he was definitly trying to flirt hard core with me, like tying my shoes for me and everything, slightly awkward! Whatever he gave me a good deal on the shoes, maybe I should have flirted to get a better deal, but well I think Ive forgotten how to flirt!
Well the next day we had to go exchanged the shoes cause the ones I bought were a little too small, well he exchanged them for me no problem, and as we were leaving he said ciao linda, for those of you don't know what that means, he said bye pretty girl! It made me feel awkward, and I just hope I never have to go to that store again!! But now my comp and all the members are making fun of my for it!!
Something really cool happened after that really awkward moment though, I was looking for some basketball shorts to wear at night because it is getting hot now,so we went to this one store and there was only one worker, she was helping us find what we wanted, and while I was trying the stuff on she started talking to my comp asking her if we were part of a church or something, so my comp tried to tell her what we were, and I was listening but not getting my hopes up, everyone that works in liniers lives far away, well she then asked well do you have anything to read, I want to learn more! I couldn't believe my ears, I got dressed really quickly and came out and started talking to her, and come to find out she lives just a few blocks away from there!! She is amazing! We have taught her once, and I can just sense such a desire from her to learn more! Pray for her please, her name
is Patricia! Also we have a few others, but I don't have time to really mention their stories, but their names are Alejandro, and Maria Adriana, remember them in your prayers please!!
Welp I gotta run, but thanks so much for your prayers, the work is starting to move along here in tonelero finally!!
Love you all
hermana Gosnell
will be on TUESDAY!! Not wednesday, we have transfers next week I'm nervous to find out if I stay, or go, or who will be my next comp! I'm actually hoping to get a latin comp, my spanish is getting worse talking english all the time, so I'm hoping for a latin so I can go back to spanish 100% of the time!! Pray for me!!
Ok lots of things happened this last week, before I talk about those though I wanted to mention something I forgot last week, When we went to the temple I was looking at the name of the person I had, I was noticing it was an english name so I showed my comp, as soon as I did that I realized not only was it an english name, the girl was from KENTUCKY!!! I kid you not, all the way here in buenos aires argentina I did the work for someone from kentucky, I felt very honored to have that priviledge!! Her name is Jennie Mae Holbrook, she was born on may 11th 1817!! I was so excited the whole session about it!!!
Ok so that was cool, oh and last week for district meeting we went and did contacts with the elders, we were walking and talking, and well my old luck came back... I totally biffed it in front of the elders... slightly embarrasing, but I just jumped up and acted like nothing happened. well I scraped up my knee pretty bad and got blood all over my skirt, but don't worry the elders didn't notice!!
Oh and well according to my comp I'm starting to attract admirers here! It all started when we went to a supermarket to buy a milk or something, well apparently the cashier guy was making googly eyes at me, I didn't notice it, all I noticed was he was annoying me with how slow he did everything!! hAHA she still mentions it all the time! Well then it didn't help that we went to buy somethings in liniers last week, and I was looking a tennis shoes because mine are pretty trashed, and the ones in liniers look like the real thing, but aren't so they are wicked cheap! well the guy that helped us find shoes, well he was definitly trying to flirt hard core with me, like tying my shoes for me and everything, slightly awkward! Whatever he gave me a good deal on the shoes, maybe I should have flirted to get a better deal, but well I think Ive forgotten how to flirt!
Well the next day we had to go exchanged the shoes cause the ones I bought were a little too small, well he exchanged them for me no problem, and as we were leaving he said ciao linda, for those of you don't know what that means, he said bye pretty girl! It made me feel awkward, and I just hope I never have to go to that store again!! But now my comp and all the members are making fun of my for it!!
Something really cool happened after that really awkward moment though, I was looking for some basketball shorts to wear at night because it is getting hot now,so we went to this one store and there was only one worker, she was helping us find what we wanted, and while I was trying the stuff on she started talking to my comp asking her if we were part of a church or something, so my comp tried to tell her what we were, and I was listening but not getting my hopes up, everyone that works in liniers lives far away, well she then asked well do you have anything to read, I want to learn more! I couldn't believe my ears, I got dressed really quickly and came out and started talking to her, and come to find out she lives just a few blocks away from there!! She is amazing! We have taught her once, and I can just sense such a desire from her to learn more! Pray for her please, her name
is Patricia! Also we have a few others, but I don't have time to really mention their stories, but their names are Alejandro, and Maria Adriana, remember them in your prayers please!!
Welp I gotta run, but thanks so much for your prayers, the work is starting to move along here in tonelero finally!!
Love you all
hermana Gosnell
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