Sorry so long without an update. Yes, I am alive haha. Hermana Call and I are doing well. Just steady hard work. We are teaching lots of people right now and trying to hurry and get them to church etc because here in Argentina school starts Feb 28th which means it will be more complicated. I am actually happy that school is starting because there have been so many people coming and going for vacations that is has been hard. Plus, after a week of terrible humidity and heat, we have had rain and overcast. Hna Call almost cried with joy. She is from Pocatello and loves the cold and has been dying poor thing but now she is happy.
We have a baptism planned for this weekend. One day we were walking home to the pension and we saw a private geriatric home. I paused for a second to say hi to the old ladies through the gate and there was a man visiting what it looked like his mother. He called us over surprisingly and told us he was a member and asked when the Sunday meetings were. He said he wanted to go and take his mother because she is dying from cancer and she wanted to go to find God before she passes away. Well, they have both been going to church and she wants to get baptized. Although about every other sweet old lady in the geriatric is senile, she is thankfully completely sane but just has lots of physical limitations. So we go to the geriatric home a few times a week and lets just say it is my smile and laugh for they day. We teach Inez and then say hi to the rest who are lonely and they cry when we leave because they think we are their family now. I never thought this was part of the mission but I love it. We will see how we can get her baptized! Crazy no? All in San Rafael we baptized kids and here so far more the ones on the other side of the hill haha. All amazing children of God!
Hope you like the pictures. One day it was like 115 with humidity and I was sun burnt from the previous day so we went out in sunglasses and hats at 1pm to survive. It was fun!
The Lord is always waiting for us to rise up and live they way He knows we can. Lots of the youth in the ward went to Argentina´s first EFY las week and had life changing experiences. They came back and shared with me their pictures and I have been thinking a lot about the theme. It almost made me cry to see these poor kids who have nothing and struggle so much to stay strong in the gospel come back so happy realizing there are more youth like them out there. “Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations” (D&C 115:5). I invite us all so to the same.
Love you all,
Hna Thatcher
***DISCLAIMER***** We can't figure a way to rotate these pictures on Emily's Blog. Sorry they are sideways.
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