Argentina #33

Hello Everyone!

So this week was really awesome! We worked really hard and put a lot of baptismal dates and we had a ton of investigators in sacrament meeting yesterday! It was so awesome!  Here is the part that is even more awesome: Two weeks ago my Hna. Di Stéfano and I were walking to go to our interviews with President Lovell. We were in a huge hurry, but there was a man sitting on the side of the road smoking and we decided to talk with him. We talked with him a little, gave him a paphlet of the restoration, and told him the direction of the church. Afterwards, we realized that we hadn´t asked his name or his address and we felt so dumb because we always ask those two questions! But then we had interviews and really forgot all about him.

So yesterday, we were greeting everyone in the entrance of the church, and this man came in! At first we didn´t remember who he was, but then we realized who it was and we were so excited! He stayed the whole 3 hours and asked some really great questions and afterward he asked if we could teach him. And obviously, we said yes! It was just the boost we needed this day because we didn´t end up having Alumine and Marcelo´s baptism the day before. So we ended the week happy.

This is the last week of this transfer, and what did the office start to do yesterday in church? ¨Hermana Sandorf, I know transfers and you don´t and won´t know for a whole week...¨ blah blah blah. They do it because they know that I will react, but I can´t help it! Ugh! It´s like waiting to know the results of an audition, and I get so nervous every time! Even though it´s more than obvious that I will stay in Limay because my companion is a mini, I still get nervous!

It is so cold here in Neuquén! I am so glad that I am here because it is the warmest part of the mission....and I have to sleep with a hat and socks and long sleeves (which I can´t stand and have never done before in my life). And everyone says August is the coldest month, so we will see how that goes!

I love you all and hope you that you have a wonderful week!

Love,

Hermana Sandorf

Argentina #32

Hello dearest Family,

This week has been very interesting. We found an awesome family! The dream of every missionary. They are not married, but we can change that! They are so great! We have also found a couple of other great people! And although Satan is working hard to keep Aluminé and Marcelo from getting baptized this Saturday, I have faith that everything will work out great.

On the down side, yesterday I was throwing up and felt totally miserable. At about 10:00 pm, I was lying next to the toilet hating my life, and President Lovell called me to tell me that Papa had passed away. I was so tired and out of it, all I could say was "....oh....". And then I went back to sleep. Then a couple of hours later I returned to the bathroom to throw up, and I just felt so alone and upset. Being sick when you are thousands of miles away from your family is one of the worst feelings ever. So I was kneeling there barfing and feeling so distraught, and then all of the sudden, I felt a hand pat my back, and a huge feeling of peace (probably the strongest feeling of peace I have ever felt) came over me. And in that moment I knew that my Papa was with me, because no one else pats people´s backs like he does. And I felt happy.

 And I still feel happy. I know that he is totally having a blast seeing his parents and is jogging and exercising and I am just so happy for him! And I am glad that I didn´t have to see him suffer, so I can just remember him as the energetic man I said goodbye to in September.

I know that families are Eternal, and I am so glad that I have the opportunity to share this knowledge that makes me so happy and gives me peace. In the mission, so many people that we talk to ask us what happens to people when they die, or if we exist after this life. And I am always filled with joy to be able to give them the answer!

I love you all so much! You are in my prayers! I know that you are all strong and can handle the difficulties that lie ahead this week with the funeral and everything. We are one tough family! Our little family song came into my head this morning and it gave me a boost! Ya! I am a Sandorf/Wootton! It´s so great! Ok, I am done being a cheerleader now....talk to you next week!

Love,

Hermana Sandorf

Argentina #31

Hello everyone!
I hope that everyone is doing well!

So this week has been a little crazy! My companion has been sick and we had to go to the hospital and she will be having a little surgery tomorrow. She always says that the point of me having a mini missionary was so that I could keep working in my area  but since she hasn´t been able to work much, she feels bad. But we´ve worked out a system. She stays with Hna Catalan and I´ve been working with a couple returned sister missionaries in the ward so I´ve been able to keep working. One served in Washington D.C. so it is kinda fun to be able to talk about the U.S. and talk in English a little bit.

If everything goes well, Aluminé and Marcelo should be getting baptized July 28th. I´m very excited! And yesterday I gave a talk in Sacrament Meeting without having to write down anything! Huge accomplishment! haha

This transfer is kinda the weirdest transfer ever for me, but we´re seeing a lot of miracles even with all of the trials! I love being a missionary!

Have a great week! I love you all and pray for you all of the time!

Hna. Sandorf

Argentina #30

Feliz Dia de Independencia! 

So it is Independence Day here today (if you didn{t understand that really complicated Spanish!)! But because it is winter here, they don{t have fireworks or anything. There was a little parade today, and everyone is with their families eating asado and drinking mate.

So they are going to re-dedicate the Buenos Aires Temple September 9th! It is so exciting! And so today, the church filmed the youth of the Stakes in Neuquen Province dancing a tradicional dance. It will be shown in Buenos Aires the night before the dedication in a stadium where they are going to have a celebration. We went and watched them film today because it was right by our area! It was cool! Everyone here is so excited about the temple because they haven{t had a temple here for 3 years now. 

We met President and Sister Lovell! They are awesome! I am so excited! And we had a big conference and I go to see a bunch of people I know- a bunch of people from my first district, Elder Kimball, and HERMANA ARCOS! My Mama! Happy little reunion! Everyone was shocked to see that I had learned the language haha. 

My companion was really sick this week and so I went out with the Relief Society President- Hermana Catalan. She is also the owner of our apartment, which behind her house. She is 72, and lives alone and she is hilarious! She LOVES to accompany us in lessons and stuff. And she loves contacting people in the street. But sometimes she is a little too bold..the other day we were talking with a Catholic woman, and Hna. Catalan was bearing her testimony, and she said: I was catholic once too....but now I know that catholics are confused and that their church is of the devil. 

Obviously, the woman freaked out. And I was terrified and also very entertained and wanted to laugh. Super uncomfortable moment! 

We have an investigator named Emiliano who is crazy. Seriously. He is thirty and thinks he was born to be an actor. He has serious ADD too. And, he has a bunch of conspiracy theories and thinks that the prophet is working with the pope and other religious leaders to conquer the world. We laugh a lot after our lessons with him. But he has some legit questions and does all of his homework- reading the book of mormon, praying, and going to church. We will see what happens! 

So yeah it has been an interesting week! I hope that you all have a good week! Love you all!

Bretleigh

Argentina #29

Hello!

So remember last week when I was freaking out about my mini missionary? I shouldn´t have worried about it because my companion is AWESOME!!!! My companion is Hermana Di Stéfano and she is from San Martin de los Andes. And we worked so hard this last week! I am still exhausted, although I think it´s because I am still recovering from my sinus infection. It was terrible! I have never had something like this in my life! I don´t understand why I get so sick here. Actually yeah I do....I shake hands with the entire world here! And I eat food that is made my people who have never heard of food safety. But it´s ok! Part of the experience.The other day my zone leaders sent elders over to give me a blessing because they said they couldn´t stand to hear me talk with my nose plugged up and coughing and everything. And now the last day or two I have felt better. Yay!

So we did not have a baptism last week because Norberto was in the hospital. And now he´s having a bunch of studies and everything done and is really depressed that his health is declining and doesn´t want to be baptized now in this situation. Ugh! What a stinker! haha He is such a stubborn old man!  He comes to church, reads the Book of Mormon, and prays. He passed the baptismal interview. Now we just have to find his doubts or fears and work through them. For some it´s a longer process, I guess.

 We have found more little kids to baptize, Aluminé and Marcelo. Aluminé (she´s 9) is the sister of a less active member. Marcelo (10) is her nephew. They are so great and so excited to be baptized. At the beginning of my mission I was against baptizing children because they can go inactive really easily. But Elder Aidukatis (in our Area Presidency) gave council a few months ago that we need to baptize children also because everyone needs this ordinance, and that someday they will remember and come back to the church. Plus, Leo and Julieta are going strong and coming to church and everything still, so now I feel better about baptizing children. I still don´t search them out, they just seem to show up!

Presidente and Hermana Lovell got here yesterday, and we will meet them Thursday. It´s been crazy! Since we´re right by the office and share the church with the office we have seen all of the behind the scenes chaos! haha but I think now everything is under control.

So that is what is going on right now! I hope you all have great week celebrating the 4th of July! I totally forgot about it until I read mom´s letter! You do not even know how blessed you are to live in the United States! I will be celebrating Independence Day the 9th of July, because that is when Argentina became independent. Hna. Di Stéfano loves history too, and so someone is FINALLY teaching me the history of Argentina!

Love you all!

Hermana Sandorf

Argentina #28

Well, this has been a weird week!

So we not have a baptism because our investigator is in the hospital. His name is Norberto, and he is 74 years old. He´s awesome! Hopefully he gets better soon!

I have a severe sinus infection. I started antibiotics today. Everyone last week was asking me why I wasn´t in our apartment resting. I worked normally for several reasons:
1. I´m a missionary, and we always need to work unless it is a really serious illness. I´d feel really guilty. Plus my investigators need me!
2. It was the last week of Hna. Cruz, and I didn´t want her to have low numbers.
3. I couldn´t sleep anyway, even if I wanted to because I can´t breathe through my nose! I haven´t slept in five days and now am pretty much an emotionless zombie. I wasn´t in the best state of mind to comfort and help Hna. Cruz this week with her emotional roller coaster. But we managed somehow.

This morning I went to the mission home to drop off Hna. Cruz. It was so weird. The families of other missionaries were there and it just weirded me out. Do NOT come to Argentina to pick me up, ok? K, thanks.

So what am I doing this transfer? I have been given the wierdest assignment that there could possibly be I think. I am now senior companion, and I will be with a mini missionary. Mini missionaries are usually girls who are like 20 and are working on the mission papers. BUT, my mini missionary is like 28 years old, and she is a returned missionary. And she was married once, but now she´s divorced. So this is gonna be so weird! I have absolutely no idea what to expect. It will be great because she´ll be thrilled to be in the mission again, and want to work hard. But there is also the possibility that she will want to take control of everything. Today one of the A.P.s told me ¨Remember that YOU are the senior companion, and that this is YOUR mission and YOUR area and that YOU are the person set apart to be a missionary.¨ That advice just freaked me out more. I am just this immature little girl who doesn´t know anything about life, and I have no idea how this is gonna go. So wish me luck!

Ok, that´s all for this week! I love you all so much!

Love,

Bretleigh

Argentina #27

Hello Everyone! How are you all doing? I am great! But it´s getting really cold here! And here if it´s cold, no one wants to do anything. The people don´t go to work, the kids don´t go to school, the members don´t all show up to church! All because ¨hace frio¨. And I always want to tell them that that is the stupidest excuse, but obviously, as a missionary, I can´t do that. So I just think it in my head and smile.

We had our last conference with Presidente and Hermana Peterson. We each had a little interview with the two of them, and they said ¨Hermana Sandorf, we are so happy that we live in the same city as you so that we can watch you become a wife and mother and see you apply the things you learned on your mission for the rest of your life¨. So basically my mission president is going to stalk me for the rest of my life to make sure I turn out ok- How is that for pressure? haha just kidding I am way happy that we will always be able to keep in touch so easily!

One of our successes lately has been with an inactive family. We´ve been working with them my whole time in Limay. They started to come to church again 2 months ago and yesterday the son recieved the Melchesidek Priesthood (I can´t remember how to spell it in English). Hna. Cruz said goodbye to them yesterday and it was really sad because we´ve become really close with them!

So many changes are coming! Our New Mission President arrives July 30. Transfers are next week! Again?! My mission is flying by, and I don´t want it to! Also, Argentina is being really stinky with the visas. Very few of the missionaries from other countries have been able to enter. Next week only the missionaries from Argentina will be able to come. It´s especially a problem with the Hermanas because we are losing 10 hermanas and recieving 1. There are similar problems in all the missions in Argentina. A lot of mission presidents are having to close areas because they aren´t as many missionaries anymore. Hopefully the problem ends soon!

We have some big miracles coming! We will be having a baptism this Saturday! I´m pretty excited!

I hope you are all doing well! Love you!

Hermana Sandorf

Argentina #26

So this week was great! We saw lots of miracles and were able to find a lot of great people who really have the desire to listen to our message.
This last week was so cold! We had to use every winter clothing item we had. I slept with a hat and socks and everything! And we didn´t have water 2 mornings because it froze in the pipes. And winter doesn´t even start until the 21, so we´ll see what happens! At least I´m in the warmest part of the mission. Today is way better- 41 degrees farenheit. My companion has been miserable with the cold since she´s from Buenos Aires. She is awesome, and the least trunky dying missionary I´ve ever seen, and I am just hoping that all of our hard work pays off and we see a final baptism in the next two week for her sake. We have a lot of baptismal dates and every thing, and I have faith that someone will be baptized.
Today for p-day we took a hike as a district. Basically the entire Patagonia is like the ugly part of Utah and Arizona where the Indian reservations are.

That is all for today! Love you all!

Bretleigh

Argentina #25

First of all, this week we found a ton of absolutely incredible investigators. Seriously. They all really have real questions about their life or religion or whatever, but it´s amazing to me that the Gospel always has the answer to every question.
We were walking in the street the other day, and a boy of 14 stopped and talked with us because he had questions about religion. He has been look for the right church for four years, but has never talked with Mormons before. We explained the Restoration in the street. And the story of Joseph Smith had even more significance in this moment, because this boy is in the exact same situation. He listened and had tears in his eyes. It was amazing. Like really.

I don´t know if I´ve told you, but we teach English Classes during the siesta on Saturday (when no one is willing to listen to us) with the Elders from the office. Since it´s free, and we´re gringos and really know English, people are actually willing to come! We have ten students and we´ve been teaching two months and it´s going great!

We have a lot of investigators who have baptism dates, who are reading the Book of Mormon and praying and going to church, but they all say that they haven´t recieved their answers yet. We talk a lot about the Holy Ghost and we read example in the scriptures, we have had some really unique and very personalized lessons with these people. They are all so stubborn! hahaha But we are being patient, praying a lot, fasting and doing everything we can think of to help them. We are at a point where we just have to trust Heavenly Father. Just like normal life. Heavenly Father has His own timing and knows what is best for us. I have been learning this my whole life, but apparently it hasn´t sunk in yet. Haha.

Ok I have to go! But I love you all so much! Have a great week!

Love,

Hermana Sandorf

Argentina #24

Hello everyone!
So this week was a bit difficult because it is a party week in Argentina. May 25 is the day of their revolution. I am not sure how the story goes exactly, I have asked a ton of people and the story is always different. The thing is is no one here knows much about history. It bugs me because that is exactly what I want to know about Argentina! haha but that is ok!

So on May 25, we worked as usual (all the Argentine missionaries were a bit bugged by that), but for lunch we went to the church for their activity. They sang their national hymn (it´s pretty cool, but nobody knows the words very well here), and then we ate the traditional food: Locro! It pretty much stew/chili. It has every meat, bean, and vegetable possible in it, with cheese and cilantro and it pretty good! Not too flavorful (nothing here has much flavor), but yummy. I enjoyed myself.

It was hard to find new investigators this week because everyone was on vacation and partying. But we found a couple of awesome people!

Also, Leo is the greatest little convert ever! He comes to every activity, and every sacrament meeting. He makes his family pray together and read their scriptures. He is just so great! It makes me way happy.

So I hope everyone at home keeps on being happy even though Papa is sick. We are so blessed to have such a united family! Seriously I feel so blessed!

I love you guys!

Bretleigh

Argentina #23

Dearest Family,
I am sorry to hear of the struggles you´re having back home. Keep your chins up! I´m praying for you all!

This week was great! We found a couple of really awesome investigators! And we saw some huge progression with some of our investigators. Little Miracles everywhere- I love it! Also, Hna. Cruz and I had the opportunity to work with the new Hermanas this week before their trainers came and picked them up. I had to be senior companion for 4 hours, and although this might sound dumb I was super nervous at first! But then I calmed down and it went well and now I don´t have as much fear for the future when I have to do it for real. Hopefully I have a while to wait though!

This work is so important! I am so happy to be here! I hope that you all have a great week !

Love,
Bretleigh

Argentina #22

Hello everyone!

So I loved talking to you all yesterday on the phone! It was awesome! It made me so happy!  I´m glad you are all doing well.

So here is what happened this week:

We had another baptism! Julieta is 9 years old. Her dad is inactive and her mom isn´t a member, but she has been going to church all of her life with her Grandma. She has the strongest testimony, and her parents decided that she is finally old enough to make this big decision. It was so great!

As for transfers: I am staying with Hna. Cruz in Limay another transfer! I am super happy! This whole week the Elders from the office tried to convince me that I was opening an area and training, and finally I actually believed them, and was almost crying because I was scared and it was terrible. But thakfully, that is not the case!

Today I went to the Mission Home to say goodbye to Hna. Sosa. It was so weird. Also Hna. Arcos was there with her companion too, and so I got a photo of me, Hna Cruz, Hna Arcos and Hna Sosa all together! It´s the greatest thing ever!

I am so grateful for all of your support, my dear family and friends. And lately I have been thinking a lot about the Plan of Salvation (is that how it´s spelled in English? I seriously can´t remember! What is happening to me?!), and how I am so grateful to know that we can all continue to be friends and family for the eternities. It is such a huge blessing!

I love you all and hope that you have a great week!

Love,

Bretleigh

Argentina #21

Hello!
I really have no time today to write. Did I tell you guys that we sing in the ward choir? It´s actually a decent choir. We bring investigators so that we can go. It´s nice to be able to practice a little. We sing some fairly difficult stuff, or maybe my choirs skills have died- I don´t know.
This weekend is going to be crazy! We are going to have a baptism (yay!), it´s transfers, and I am going to call you guys! I´m pretty excited.
That is all I have time for. Sorry! Love you all!
Hermana Sandorf

Argentina #20

Hello! How is everybody doing today? I have had a great week!

Thank you for the package! I LOVED IT!!! But I think Hna. Cruz was even more excited than me. She has now tried reeses, rolos, macaroni and cheese, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. And she loves it all! It´s so weird that before now I never would have gotten so excited about these kinds of things. Do you know what I did today for lunch? I went to McDonalds. My first fast food in my mission. Hna. Cruz has never been, and the Elders in my district wanted to go, so we went! And it was actually really yummy! But now I am disgusted with myself haha. Don´t think I am going back anytime soon!

We had a baptism this weekend! Leo was baptized. He is eleven years old. He has been going to church with his friend for years but the missionaries never tried to teach him. Hna. Cruz and her last companion taught him and his mother one lesson, and then I came to Limay and we kept teaching, and Leo wanted to be baptized. He is the sweetest kid! And he reads his scriptures and prays everyday. Now his step dad is listening to our lessons too, and he wants to be baptized, but they are not married so it´s gonna take awhile. But we are working hard to get the whole family baptized!

Also, we had a recent convert, (the last baptism before I got here), who passed away on Friday. Hna Cruz is really sad, but now we realize even more how important this work really is! Because of Hector´s baptism, he is now in Paradise, in a peaceful state. Wow. I am really so happy to be a missionary! I really just love it.

I love you all!

Hna. Bretleigh Sandorf

Argentina #19

So this week we had Zone Conference, and it was awesome! I learned a lot. And our song went really well. It was the last Zone conference with President Peterson, so that was pretty sad for us. The next day, Hna. Cruz woke up extrememly sick with severe pain, and it was really terrible. I was very concerned, and we couldn´t call Hna Peterson because they left for Uruguay for a conference, and so I talked to the Assitants but they don´t really know anything or where a good clinic is, and so I had to use my own judgment. Oh. Boy. But luckily I have practically every remedy in the world and have watched my mom take care of people all my life, and so I knew what to do! And now she is all better! Yay!

So there is an ice cream shop chain here in Argentina called Grido. And it really is the best thing ever. There wasn´t one in Pico, and so we could only go when we went to Caleta or Comodoro. But now, it´s everywhere! And every p-day, all of the missionaries of our zone meet up at Grido, and we eat the most delicious ice cream ever. And it is super inexpensive too.

So I don´t like to say when we are going to have a baptism because I´m always afraid that I will jinx it. I know- I need more faith. But I am sure that we are going to have a baptism this Saturday! It´s all planned, and as far as I can tell everything will go smoothly. I´ll tell you more about it next week after the baptism.

I can´t believe how fast the time is going. Yesterday I was talking with Elder Presley, the secretary about my first day in Argentina, because he was saying how I didn´t say anything that entire day. I was in shock haha. But so much has changed since then, and I can speak Castellano now! Yeah, I don´t know every word in the world, and sometimes I have to stop and think about how I should congegate a verb, but for the most part I can do everything I need to with the amount I speak. Obviously, I want to learn more and speak like an Argentine, but the worst part is over! haha

Oh, and I figured out exactly where I am! My area is in the southern part of the City Neuquen, to the west of the mission office. Hope that helps!

Love you guys! Have a great week!

Love,

Hermana Sandorf

Argentina #18

Hello everybody!

I am really bad a writing home, huh? That is because even though a ton of stuff happens everyday,  I don´t really know what to say to you guys. But we are seeing lots of miracles! I love the mission because ever time there is a disappointment, there are a bunch of blessings and miracles after.
We found some really great investigators this week, and we have a ton of investigators that are progressing nicely, even though some are progressing super slow, and Hna Cruz realized that she only has 10 weeks left in the mission and now is a little panicked that she won´t be here for some of their baptisms. We´ll see what happens! The nice thing is she was already a hard worker, and now she is working even harder instead of slowing down and being tired and sad, which is what some missionaries do when the end is near.
Mom, yes, I still sing! Haha. I´m singing in a quartet for Zone Conference this wednesday. We´re singing Yo Sé Que Vive mi Señor (Bri gets to translate that for you guys).
I have a little story. So in my ward there is a kid who just returned from his mission like a month or so ago. And this is how our conversation went (obviously, it was in Castellano):
Kid: Where are you from, Hermana Sandorf?
Me: From West Bountiful, Utah.
Kid: Bountiful? I had a companion from Bountiful.....Do you know of any one with the last name Wanlass? Brady?
Me: BRADY?!!!OH MY GOSH!!! YES!!! (that part really was in English)He´s my friend,  his sister is one of my best friends in the whole world, and his family is my other family. I love them so much!

It was a super happy moment for me! haha

I am seriously loving my life, I love being a missionary, and I love helping others learn more about our Savior.

Have a good week!

Bretleigh

Argentina #17

Hello Everybody!!!!
Sorry that I didn´t write last week! It has been crazy!!!! You have no idea! I will try to start at the beginning, but a lot has happened!

Conference was AMAZING!!! It was waaaay too short. Our district spent the weekend in Caleta Olivia for the conference. There was a Gringo room, so I watched conference in English with 3 Elders. It was great! And since we weren´t in the chapel with everyone else we ate a bunch of food and I talked in English for the first time in quite a while. It was super fun! But I LOVED the talks so so so much.

That weekend it was also transfers. We all gathered as a Zone after conference saturday to hear the results: It was time for me to leave Pico Truncado. I was super sad. We left for Pico Truncado after conference on Sunday. I packed up my stuff and said goodbye to Florencia and Familia Funes. Tears were shed, but I kept it together pretty well through it all. In the morning we left on a bus back to Caleta to drop off Hna. Sosa. Then I got on another bus headed to....

NEUQUÉN! In an area called Limay. Yep, I made the 20 hour bus ride back to the City of Neuquén.  But instead of dropping of missionaries, the bus kept getting more and more headed to their new areas. We stopped in Trelew for an hour, and I got to see and talk to Elder Kimball from the MTC! I got to Neuquén on Tuesday. My area is just a few blocks from the Mission Office. I share a ward (Yay, a WARD!!!) with Elders in the Office. I am surrounded by tons of missionaries! And there is so much to do here because it´s a big city. It is the total opposite of Pico Truncado. I LOVE my new area a ton already!

My new companion is Hermana Cruz. She is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is so sweet and a super hard worker! She heads home in June, so I´m pretty sure I have come to ¨kill¨ her. We are working so hard, and in the short time I´ve been a lot of amazing things have already happened. I love it here!

Easter was just a regular Sunday for me, except there were talks about the Atonement. I am so grateful for my Savior! Right now I see His sacrifice work in the lives of so many people, but especially in my life as I try to become better. The more I teach the Atonement, the more in awe I am.

I love you all so much! Have a good week!

Love,
Hna. Sandorf

Hermana Sandorf and Florencia

Argentina #16

Hello, everyone. My heart is a little bit broken today. Remember Maria? She asked US to be baptized during a lesson a few weeks ago. But she lived with her boyfriend and he did NOT want her to be baptized. and so we didn´t know what to do. Until one day we went to a lesson with her 2 weeks ago, and she had separated from her boyfriend because she wanted to be baptized! We were amazed! We never even mentioned separation. She was super excited and so many miracles continued to happen in her life. And this last Thursday she had her baptismal interview and everything was great and she was so happy! Like I have never seen anyone as happy as she was as we told her about the plans for her baptism. But hours before her baptism, he ex called her and apologized for the way he had treated her, and blah blah blah, and said that if she didn´t get baptized he would change and become a better person. And she bought it. She backed out of her baptism. She told us, ¨I know that God prepared a way for me to be baptized, and I know that I am making a bad decision, but I love him, and he´s going to change.¨ Oh my gosh you all know how much I can´t stand those words, ¨But I love him¨. It is the dumbest excuse ever! If I ever even think about giving up my life dreams for a man somebody please slap me!!! Because it is the stupidest thing ever! Ugh!

Ok, this email sounds like I am mad. Actually I´m not. I´m just sad and dissapointed. Not with God, because He did everything in His power for Maria. And not with me, because I know we also did everything in our power. I´m just sad that someone that I love very much knowingly made a bad choice, and now she will have to suffer the consequences. But oh well. Agency is what we fought for before we came here, right?

Other than that, I am happy! And I am super excited for General Conference! It´s in Caleta, so I will be with my whole Zone this Weekend. And this weekend is also transfers, but we won´t be in our areas to be able to pack and say goodbye to people, so I don´t know how this is going to all work out. It´s going to be crazy!

It´s starting to get really cold here is Pico Truncado! It still messes with my mind that we are in opposite seasons!

I love you all! And I hope that you LOVE General Conference! Have a great week!

Hermana Sandorf

Argentina #15

HELLO EVERYONE!!!

I am sorry, but I don´t have much to say again. There are some big miracles in the process of happening, but I don´t like to count the chickens before they are hatched, and so I will just suprise you all soon with an awesome story!

We had interviews with President Peterson this week in Caleta Olivia. We were there for a whole day (7 am to 9 pm) because there weren´t buses. It is really common here to have strikes and the strikers block the route (there is only one route to travel) for a few days. It´s a little annoying, but there is nothing we can do about it!

I introduced Hermana Sosa to pancakes, and she is addicted. I taught her how to make them and now she makes them everyday for her breakfast.

Did you know that Yogurt here is a drink? It´s more of a liquid here and it´s what we drink for breakfast.

Hermana Sosa and I both think that everything is hilarious. There have been moments when we are teaching and something a little funny happens and we burst out laughing for like five minutes. But the investigators seem to like us more after so I guess it´s ok.

I am SO EXCITED FOR GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!! We have to travel to Caleta, but there is going to be an English Room so I am pretty excited! I feel like everyone here misses out because they don´t actually listen the voice of the Prophet, and I love the way he talks. It is going to be great!

LOVE YOU ALL!

Hermana Sosa and Hermana Sandorf