hola family and friends, so i keep learning that more of my friends read these then i thought, haha go facebook. and just so you know everyone in argentina has facebook too, we have pudding, jello, peaches with dulce de leche, weird cake, and cookies, but really cookies are gealletas but really they are crackers, cookies, toast, really anything like that. random fun food fact for all.
i got to talk to my mom yesterday, sorry to all those who didnt make it. but really im just awkward on the phone cuz i never know what to talk about. just like i dont know what to write about. thats why all you ever hear about are the people we teach.
so julieta. she got baptised! woohoo. ya that was a good stresser last week, i was just really afraid something would happen that she would have been able to cuz thats what happened with all the people i get realy cose to and stuff happened but she got through it and so did i, but im pretty sure im gonna come back looking 5 years older instead of just one, ya stress! :) but all is good. in fact today on our day of preperation we were walking near the plaza and she passed us with all her friends and stopped and talked to us and all her friends looked at us all puzzled. but then we passed them again and she pulls us over and introduces all her friends to us and they start asking us questions and trying to speak english, its funny. (in the states its not a big deal when we meet people from different countries or who speak a diff language but no one here really knows english but they all try to learn it so they always want to practice with us) and then one of the friends asked the question that i love, " so why is you church different then all the others" and julieta didnt miss a beat just jumped in on that, and talked about how we only pray and worship God and Jesus Christ and we dont have saints or pray to the virgin and thay we have a prophet. it was soo cool! then the girl asked about joseph smith and again julieta jumped in on it. :) so we talked a little more and the girl was a little confused and the girl asked how can we know that our church is true and that this man is a prophet. and julieta told her to pray, that its not like the recited prayers but praying with your heart in faith. yep that was julieta, its funny cuz she is kinda sassy but super smart and has her glasses on a beaded chian thing like mom but she is only 17. it was just awesome. we dont have to be worries about her being imbarrased for the decision that she made.
i dont have much else to say. i have strengthend my testimony of prayer, this last week was a doozy and what helped was just accepting what was going to happen, knowing that whatever happened that i would have to be ok with it becasue i had done all i could and it was time just to have faith that my father in heaven would do the rest, and thats what he askes of us. after i was able to see the blessings of it, really the paitence in the hard times is the key and its the hardest but with paitence and faith all can be accomplished.
part for friends,
namely erik cuz now i know he reads this,( yep im not forgetting you!) but if there are other that read its for you too :)
- so i never remember what i write in past letters, but i wanded to through down a shout out :)
i know that what im doing is the work of my lord and savior jesus christ, that only in and through him can we fins peace in this life. and why peace? why jesus christ? becasue he was chosen before this earth was even created to come down and die for us, becasue we are childern of a father in heaven who loves us and the only way we can return to him,( which is our grand reason for being here on this earth ; to be tried in our faith and realise that there is more to this life then just having fun, that there are things we need to do to prepare for after we die.) is because christ took our sins and pains and every bad thought or hard time, he paid those to our father in heaven so when the time comes that we need to be clean to enter into the kingdom of God we can say that we fallowed christ and tried to repay him for what he paid for us. we will always be indebt to him, but the only way to accept this gift from him is baptisim. so basically its the only way to be clean, to get rid the dirt we collect in this world and find peace, its a different feeling then anything else in this world. i know that this is the true work of my savior jesus chist and the only way to truely live life to the fullest, is to live it in line with christ. and it all starts with prayer. the work is hard but its worth it :)
i will try to send pics next time ! i was going to but i ran out of time, love you all and il be calling again in december! dont worry its only 7 months away, that like 5 transfers hahaha
love hermana hanson
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