Dear family,
Hey the date is 7/11. you need to go to a 7/11 and get a free slurpie. yum. one time we did that in high school for our run. haha. ok, ok dad, don´t worry, it was at the END of our run. haha.

Ok, detail shmeetails. I am in the ward Libertad and it is split into two areas (A and B). we work with elder castillo (argentine) and elder jimenez (from utah). This is how my week went last week...

Monday:
we went to the mission offices in Ramos Mejía and I found out that my new companion (Hermana Reales) is awesome. We also learned that we didn´t have an apartment and that we didn´t have ANYTHING for that matter. We stayed the night in Ramos Mejía and worked in that area.

Tuesday:
we moved all our stuff to our new apartment and moved all our furniture in and everything (we have a big fridge and a microwave!!! :)...although I still haven´t made use of the microwave yet... oh yeah and we have AC and heating...not by duct, but still. a whole lot better than a space heater) then we had to get copies of keys so we could get in and out of our apt (actually it is a house that is pretty old, but has been remodeled some what, so it is pretty nice). we met our landlord Delia (we are going to teach her tonight... :D) and we got so sick of not doing anything that we didn´t put all our stuff away and decided to go find some people to teach. because it is a new area we literally had nothing. ZERO. so we started knocking doors. we found some people that were pretty receptive. Oh yeah and we met our bishop and a few members. We didn´t have a ward mission leader and my companion is GREAT and used the spirit to let the bishop know what´s up and that now that we have 4 missionaries in one ward, we MUST have a ward mission leader.

Wednesday:
spent a good portion of the day arranging everything and going shopping because we didn´t have any food. then we knocked doors all night. i think i understand more how Andrew´s mission must have been. knocking doors all day. It´s kind of fun, but then again it is fun teaching people too.

Thursday:
guess what we did. that´s right. knocked doors. oh and the elders brought us some directions and names of old investigators they had in their area book that now belong to our area.

Friday:
tried to visit some of the names we were given and found a guy named Alexis. He wants to learn more, so that is great. oh, and we knocked some more doors.

Saturday:
knocked doors. we were sad because we didn´t find anyone to bring to church (or anyone that could come to church on sunday for that matter...).

Sunday:
I love sundays because we get to go to church. Ok, Sunday always was my favorite day even before the mission, but I like them on the mission too. We walked to church sad because we didn´t have an investigator. Then we had tons of miracles. First, the Elders brought a lady in to Relief Society (Marta). turns out she lives in our area, so she is our investigator...and the Elders already set a baptisimal date with her. Wow. They are great. Now we need to do the same for them. Also, we got to know some of the members and they are all sooo excited to have sister missionaries in their ward because they have NEVER had sister missionaries. One sister (sister widman) told us that she had been praying to have sister missionaries in the ward. :) haha Then we visited Alexis and had a really good lesson. He didn´t want us to enter his house because of his dad. but then his dad came out and started telling us about how all churches are horrible because they are just businesses. he didn´t even let us speak to bear testimony. so after he left we started talking with alexis more (he is about 22 years old fyi...). anyway, he told us that he thinks basically the same way as his dad, but he doesn´t want to think like that. he wants to change. he wants to find peace and find answers to his prayers. so we gave him a Book of Mormon and bore our testimonies and promised him that he will find the peace he wants if he will read and pray about the Book of Mormon. He said he´ll do it. and he wants to go to church on Sunday!! wahoo! sunday was full of miracles.

anyway, that´s all folks! until next week.

Love, Sarah