July 4, 2016
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good day lovely fam and
friends,
I hope you are all enjoying the
warm weather, bbq's, and fireworks for us...because Hermana Ahlmer and I are pretty
cold down here in Olavarría, and a bit sad we're missing out this year. :) But it’s all good…we used your celebrating as
an excuse to have our own little party today.
We made some good old fashioned hamburgers and completed our feast with
some Argentine potato chips too.
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| Our 4th of July BBQ...we did the best we could :) |
You do
what you can right?? Haha, let’s be
honest, I can't believe it’s already July…mostly because the time is just
flying by, but also because it is so cold and cloudy every day. So yeah.
I am enjoying training Hermana
Ahlmer, and introducing her to the best of Argentina…including the food (empanadas) and the city of Olavarría.
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| One of the super cheesy and poetic murals of Olavarria...deep stuff! [I don't want to return to see you I want to see you return] |
She in turn has served me
by dying my hair back to its natural color!
Turns out she went to hair school before her mission, and the Argentine
sun and water have made me blond, which I wasn’t liking too much! :)
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| When your comp went to hair school... |
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| Hoping she got the color right :) |
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| I'm a new woman! |
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| Back to being a brunette |
This week, I had the lovely
blessing of getting sick…again. :( It was pretty awful. But at least this
time it came on super fast and left fast too, so it wasn't too bad. It’s
just what happens when you’ve got to be out all day saving souls in this cold
weather. ;)
We had a successful week igual
[just the same] because Marcelo came
to church!!! Did I tell you about him? I think so... anyway he came
for the first time this week and we were super excited!! He participated in all of the meetings and
seemed to really enjoy it. The members in our ward here are super great
and took good care of him – making him feel important. :) But yeah, it
went super well and we are super happy!!
Next, we taught Juan and
Alejandra this week. In our lesson we
were open and honest with them, and asked them to tell us what they are
thinking. They both said that they think
listening to us is the right path for them to take in their lives. When my cute comp invited them to be
baptized, THEY ACCEPTED!!! Now, the down side is they have a long way to
go (they need to officially get divorced from prior spouses, get married, stop
smoking, etc.) before they can actually be baptized, BUT we are more than happy
to help them start preparing for that special day in the future. Even
though we might be transferred to another area and not be here to see them
enter in the waters of baptism, we are going to have the privilege to help them
get ready and couldn't be happier for them. They are both so great!
As we left the other day, Juan asked
us if we liked lemons and gave us a huge bag of like 15. :) THANKS! Receiving the lemons immediately
reminded me of a story that a member in my ward in Bahìa shared in church back
at the beginning of my mission. Hermana Turner said that her husband had
a friend at work that had lots of lemon trees and gave their family boxes and
boxes of lemons. She was super grateful and excited to use them!
She started making anything and everything she could come up with to use all of
them, and was in heaven because her house smelled like fresh lemons for
weeks. After a while, she started running out of things to do with the
lemons and was worried they were going to go bad so she asked a friend for some
more ideas so that she wouldn't have to waste them. Hermana Turner said
her friend’s response was so simple yet had a big impact on her. She
said, "Why don't you share them with your neighbors and friends? That way
none of them will go bad."
Hermana Turner then related the
lemons and her experience to our testimonies. In order to keep them from
going bad, we must SHARE THEM! We are so blessed to have the knowledge of
our Heavenly Father’s plan for our happiness and should want nothing more than
to help others have this same knowledge. That's why I’m sitting at this
computer screen, on the other side of the world, freezing on the 4th of July.
:) I want nothing more than to share my testimony of my older brother and
Savior Jesus Christ and help others know that HE LIVES and HE LOVES US. I
invite you all to reflect on the testimony you have this week and share it with
those around you!
Wishing you a super happy and
warm 4th of July, and a delightful week of summer!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Bartholomew
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