photos 893: Juan Suarez with his mom and his siblings...
895: Me and Juansito

Dear family and friends,

Well, this last week was........interesting. Terribly humiliating in many ways, and incredibly edifying in other ways. We were so blessed to see Juan Suarez get baptized this past Saturday. He is so awesome. He really is changing his life a lot, and was one of those souls that was very prepared by the Lord. He just needed a little understanding and to feel the Spirit, and he chose to act. he chose to change his life. He chose to follow Jesus Christ, and I as super duper happy.

I don´t even know what else to say. Um, basically, just pray for the members here in Junín. Please. The only reason they don´t close the branch is because we have a beautiful chapel, but besides that, nothing is happening. The members are asleep. It is a great battle here in Junín, and I am too weak. Good thing the Lord is on my side, because, well, I alone could not change anything. Pray that the members will recognize what they can do to help the work. Pray that they will be willing to sacrifice of their time, money and energy to work a little bit.

Although there a lot of difficulties in missionary work, I have a lot of hope. I love in Daniel 2 where it talks about how this work will roll forward. No matter what. We are in the last days and it doesn´t matter what anyone does to fight against God and His kingdom, God will win. I love being on the winning team. haha. Sometimes it feels like after all that we can do, it isn´t enough. Because the truth is that it isn´t enough. But, God recognizes our efforts and blesses us for them. And after time, we finally see the blessings and we recognize the wisdom of God in all that has happened. I have a huge testimony of having patience through the trials, and trusting in the Lord. Because it ALWAYS works out.

Keep being the best family and friends that you are. Love ya´ll lots....haha

Hermana Yingling

Dear family and friends,

This week was a hard one. Nothing seemed to go right. Usually that happens but just for a day or two. Not a whole week. Ok, that is a little bit of an exaggeration, but it was frustrating. But in the end, we still saw lots of little miracles and blessings from Heavenly Father.

We are going to have a baptism this weekend!! yay! His name is Juan Suarez. His is 14 years old, and he is awesome. we taught him about tithing this week and he came to church and paid his tithing! :) love seeing that. makes me super duper happy to see people start keeping the commandments. pray for him please so that he won´t have doubts and that he won´t fall to temptation so he can be baptized.

and yes. that´s all. no lot´s of time to write because that´s just how the mission is. sorry. love you all lots!

sarah

oto 62: Me and H. Nordhagen from Sandy, Utah on our first bus ride together.
photo 69: this is what we did for our p-day today. a picnic and played in the park. don´t know why, but i have always liked that. don´t worry, i definitely did some pull ups on the monkey bars. haha. isn´t the park pretty? actually i don´t even know if you can see what the park looks like from the picture, but it is beautiful.
photo 70: i liked the teeter tots. they are fun.
photo 79: we went with Miguel Medina and his mom, sister and neices. it was fun with the girls.



Dear family,
Ok, so this week was a good one. We have been working a lot in the part of our area that is harder. I don´t know why, but I just feel like we are going to be able to find some good people. It has been an adventure, because we haven´t seen tons of success, but we are trying to put our trust in the Lord knowing that all will work out if we are following the promptings of the Spirit. but, maybe not in our time, but it´ll all work out.

ok, funny story of the week. yesterday in church the branch president came up to me and said "did H. Nordhagen prepare her talk?" and i was like... "what talk?" i guess he had asked her to speak, but she didn´t understand what he had asked her and so she didn´t prepare anything. so, i was so lucky because i got to speak. haha that is the fun thing about being a missionary is that at any moment you will be called on to give a talk in church or at some church function. and you don´t get any time to prepare. haha.

anyway, there isn´t a whole bunch to write, plus i hardly have any time at all to write. pray that i will be guided and recognize the whisperings of the spirit, because i need that. LOTS. thanks for everything. and HAPPY VALENTINE´S DAY to everyone tomorrow!

love, sister yingling

Dearest dearies,

Ok, so, I know it hasn´t been too long since I last wrote. Better that way right? haha. I´m really learning how to speak english again. no jk. i try to speak as much spanish as i can, because it will probably be the only time in my live that i will have the opportunity to speak 100% spanish. I´m trying to help H. Nordhagen with her spanish too. We are so similiar and it is fun to watch her because i know that i was just like her when i first got here. She is a really good missionary. We have fun together talking about BYU and stuff that i haven´t talked about in the longest time because none of my other companions understood or even cared. haha.

I was sad to hear that my cousin has Leukemia. :( How bad is it? and since when did we ever find the where-a-bouts of Ruth? I hope she is doing well and I hope that she can find strength in the Lord during this difficult time. I will be praying for her.

Ok, let´s see what else. Oh, this past sunday was great, because I really saw a lot of blesisngs. I can testify that the Lord blesses us for our patience in trying times. I´m not talking about the success in numbers that we could have had, but rather other blessings. When the Lord gives us trials, they are to strengthen us and inspire us to fight and work for better. According to how well we can trust in Him with all our faith, he will bless us for our patience and for relying on Him during those trying times.

Anyway, i have no more time to write. Back to work. Back to the battle. Pray that I can be guided in my every action, because without His guidance, I won´t get anything done here.

Love, sarah

oh p.s. oscar is almost there. keep praying for him. i know your prayers are working because he is just about there. just about ready to make the decision. he has to wait for some roadblocks to get out of his way, and then he will be a free birdy to get baptized, so keep praying that his roadblocks will be removed. thanks for everything!

Ok, sooo dun dun dun. do i stay in junín? do i get a new area? do we even have changes at all? am i training?

Those are the thoughts that go through my head when we have transfer changes. haha you never know, because the Lord always has some sort of surprise waiting for you. The good thing was that I pretty much knew that i´d be staying in Junín because the president told me that H. Azcurra would be leaving before I would. But we didn´t know if she would stay one more transfer. Then she said that the president basically told her that she would be leaving, so we kind of were planning on that. Then she started saying that I would get a greenie because i´m the only sister that has time in the mission that hasn´t trained yet. Anyway, so she was set on that. Then we got the call. H. Azcurra was leaving.

So, we got up at 2:15am to get to Ramos Mejía wednesday morning. And we got to see all the changes. I´m not training. My companion is from Utah and I am super duper happy. Turns out she was in my ward winter semester my freshman year at BYU and we didn´t even know each other. Shows how involved i was right? haha. But i´m happy to have an american. And someone that likes sports. And someone that understands me and pretty much likes the same kind of food that i like (as far as we know). She just got to argentina the last transfer (1 1/2 months ago) and so the language is still a little bit difficult, but she is smart, and she´ll get. It´s going to be so fun! and we are going to work so hard and so good together. It is incredible how Heavenly Father knows exactly what I need and gives me what will help me most, and not necessarily what i think is better.

so basically, that is why i didn´t write monday because we had our P-Day yesterday instead of monday because of transfer changes. and i totally forgot to warn you. so don´t get all worried. Yesterday I couldn´t write because i spent all day traveling. haha. and monday we get to travel again, so i don´t know if we will get to do internet on monday, but i will do my best to write again. Anyway, there is a whole bunch that we need to do, so my time is short.

Love you lots!

Trust in the lord with all your heart....because it always ends up way better then you could wish for.

Love, sister yingling

p.s. super glad that faith is feeling better. i´ve been praying for you face! and maxwell too. poor little guy.

oh and abby. good for you not doing hw on sunday. i really have a testimony of keeping the sabbath day holy. and i know Heavenly Father provides ways and miracles to accomplish everything that we need to do, if we sanctify that day. i know. i´ve seen it in my life...time and time again.