week 7

Dear Family,

Let's see. I'm getting really excited to go to Argentina. I just get all bubbly inside when I think that I'll be teaching Argentinians soon. I met with the Argentine Consul today. We had to do finger printing (that was fun and something I have never experienced...are reason to get your hands dirty) and he mostly just taught us all about Argentina. i was lucky because he is from buenso aires and so he mostly talked about buenos aires. i guess he said that buenos aires is the 3rd largest jewish populated city in the world. if i remember correctly. I was kind of shocked by that. Mostly because of wwII people immigrated there when they weren't welcome in Germany anymore. But now I realize I will probably be teaching a whole bunch of Jewish people. Something I was not expecting at all.

He also said the mail is terrible down there. He said if anyone tries to send any kind of food or medication through the mail, it will be confiscated. And same with valuable things. so basically paper is the only thing that makes it through the mail. So i guess if you want to send anything, we have to make sure it can be sent safely. he said the safest way is through a private mail like FedEx or something. Usually things can get there fine through that. So that was good to know. Though it'd be some usefull information.

Oh, and when I got my immunizations this week I saw the guy that is in Grandma and Grandpa Yingling's ward again, and a lady named Susan that I guess is in Erik and Aubrie's ward. That was fun. Oh and I learned that a girl H. Springer knows is from Indiana. She knows some Yingling's!!! crazy huh? I've never met anyone that actually knew other yingling's that i didn't know. I guess he lives in Jeffersonville, Indiana and his name is Tom Yingling. Maybe a good phone call conversation for Dad and Grandpa.

This week has been a really great week. We finally were able to help our "investiagator" Marcos recognize the spirit. It was really, really cool to see it just click! we were all so excited. Oh and he is "quitting" smoking. It has been hard, but he is doing it. :) We aren't sure how real that whole word of wisdom experience is...just becuase our teacher isn't really addicted, but I think it is pretty real. he knows because he taught this person.

Anyway, our other "investigator" is Pablo. He commited to baptism this week! that was sweet! Now we are just teaching him everything and helping him understand the importance of church.

This week on Sunday H. Springer gave a talk. That means I will for sure go either this coming sunday or the next. I'm grateful I didn't go, because I didn't feel quite prepared although I was more prepared than before. she gave a really great talk about the gift of the Holy Ghost. Then in Relief Society President Brown spoke. We didn't mean to, but we just happened to sit in the most obvious section. Pretty close to front and center. Right where he was looking. He asked all the sisters who had a chance to eat with him at lunch to raise their hands. so we raised ours. he looked at us and said, "oh yes. i remember you two". before he said that i started getting worried that he woudl call on me to do something like he loves to do. but i was trying not to worry. well sure enough, he asked me to stand up and recite our purpose in spanish. fortunately he said h. springer could do it with me too. haha we sounded like robots, but did it correctly. thank heavens hermano concha makes us recite it every single day. i was soooo grateful. because it was hard to remember under pressure. and good thing h. springer was there because she was less nervous than i was. haha i'm such a little dummy when it comes to stuff like that.

anyway, this week was filled with sunshine...which made everything better. we went outside for class one day. sooo nice!

thanks for all your support! i love you all!

love,
Sarah


but speaking of mail, thanks for my package!!!! yay! and on valentine's too! best day ever! :)