Ok, I´m going to explain the photos in this email....

002: We went to the track!! I went running, and my district leader apparently looks like Leonardo Decaprio so in this picture we were pretending we were in the movie titanic (which i have never seen, so i don´t really know). Me, Elder Paxman, and Elder Castro.

014: I was giving our stats to our District Leader and H. Salazar started attacking me with the plundger..haha.

015: We were wearing our rain ponchos that we bought for ooober cheap...too hot to wear my rain coat and to rainy to only use an umbrella... H. Salazar pulls the look off well don´t you think?

more coming...
024: All the Hermana´s at our new missionary meeting. I missed mine because of my stay in Atlanta, GA, so I got to go after being a missionary for 1 month already. We ate yummy food...

029: So I had a race with an investigator we are teaching. He doesn´t want to marry his spouse, so my companion decided to say that I would race him and if I won then he had to get married, if he won then he didn´t have to. Well, I knew I would win because God was on my side, but still.... she didn´t even know that boys ran faster than girls and so I told her that and she got a little worried. haha This is the shirt she made. The front says "corre yingling corre" and on the back "Yes for marriage!" haha. He still isn´t married, but now he is telling people that he has to get married...so we´ve made progress. We ran 4 blocks total...maybe 400 meters, and H. Salazar was really worried because he started off really fast. I knew he would die, so I just stayed close, and at half way I had already pulled ahead. He stopped running and I kept going to the end. It felt so good to go "fast" again. He hitched a ride in his neighbors car...haha it was really funny. He really hit the wall....badly.

030: I don´t know why, but she loves to take pictures of me eating...haha
51: eating again....a hot dog. Hot dogs aren´t my favorite food, but here we seem to eat them a lot (well more than I´m used to) and I think I like them more because they are american food...haha.

053: Andrés and Nicolas. Some of our two favorite boys of a recent convert. This was after we helped their mom rearrange her whole house. It sounds like a lot, but really she just lives in a garage, so it wasn´t a lot. I loved it. Everyone knows how much I love to rearrange and organize stuff... :)

058: Us again, but the whole crew this time.
063: Dilan and Dustin, their mom, mom´s boyfriend and family, and grandpa. Plus another boy named Facundo...or something. I´m not exactly sure.

070: Dustin coming out of the font. He is so cute!! E. Castro baptized him.

010: This was last night. I´m using my athletic training skills to help her leg heal. She has a sprain and maybe a slight strain. The side walks are really uneven here, and we were running home saturday night and she kind of tweeked it a little. This morning we called the doctor and it was weird to talk "medical" terms again...but I liked it. I miss anatomy...a lot. And I´ve already forgotten everything. I wish I could have my anatomy books sometimes, but that´s ok. It will come back quickly.

009: Damian (left) and Marcos. Marcos baptized Damian. Marcos is the brother of Damian´s girlfriend. I never taught him, but it is always good to see someone be baptized. :)

008: Daiana coming out of the font. She always went to church and we thought she was a member. She is only 11 years old, and when we found out she wasn´t a member we made sure we got the signature of her parents asap so she could be baptized. She is great. :)007: Before Daianas baptism on Saturday April 23. From the left. H. Salazar, Hermano Horton (second counselor in the bishopric), Daiana Iglesias, and ...ME. haha. Funny story about H. Horton. We at lunch at his mother´s house the other day, and she started talking about how their last name is english and sometimes they drop the "H". she asked if I knew any horton´s and I said no. the she asked if i knew anyone with horton without the h. haha I started laughing and said, yes...my boyfriend. haha she thought that was really funny. So I have a question for andrew (because I´m assuming this stuff will go on my blog) where did the "H" go on your last name? Hermana Horton wants to know...haha.

004: For Easter (aka Pascuas) they do a thing called Rosca´s here in Buenos Aires. A member gave us this one. it is kind of a sweet bread with random stuff. this one had prunes, almonds, and banana something with those red, red cherries. Kind of a weird mixture, but it tastes good.

003: Last P-day. We made "tortas fritas" kind of like scones (well the kind my family makes) but they puff up differently. But different at the same time. I´m going to make scones for H. Salazar one day. She thinks it is weird to put honey and butter on bread. The first thing our American zone leader said when she gave him one to try was, "where is the honey butter?" haha I laughed really hard because that´s what I wanted too.


Dear family,

I hope you liked the pictures. Oh and HAPPY EASTER...or FELIZ PASCUAS!! My second easter away from home wasn´t so bad. I didn´t get to do an easter egg hunt but i was given a choclate egg. A white chocolate egg. I don´t usually like white chocolate, but this one was home-made by a recent convert and it was actually really yummy. I can do the white-chocolate in small doses. Anyway, that was my easter.

I´m learning a lot from the scriptures..and I love it.

I´m seeing how necessary this gospel is in everyone´s lives...and it is hard to help them understand the importance. The importance of the gospel only comes with time...time immerssed in the gospel. Never let doubts keep you from building your testimony. That´s satan´s tool...he loves when people just stop doing the little things...because eventually he will get them to stop all together. And then, a few years down the road, you will wish you never had, and it is 10X´s harder to come back. Staying faithful is the safest route...and in my opinion, the easiest. Maybe a little harder every day, but much easier than trying to change your whole life once you have already fallen away.

I´m greatful everyday that I was born into the covenant. I love to look back on my life and notice where I have been blessed, and count the many different ways that my life is better because of this gospel. And there is nothing worse about my life. That´s the cool thing. The gospel is always a win, win situation. Keeping the commandments more and more never hurt anyone. Only good things come from it.

Anyway, peace out!

love,
sarah