Monday 27 June 2016

Last weeks email!

Last weeks email!


Sorry I didnt send an email last week, was a hectic day because we had ward activity for national flag day (they have public holidays for EVERYTHING here!)

First things first: Thanks to my Argentine companion I now drink Mate Cocido, which is a type of herbal tea that is super common here. Ive been here 16 months and didnt really have much interest, its kinda like green tea, but now i like it. Just in time to go home where there is no Mate Cocido... 

This week we went to the temple as a zone and had lunch there and a conference to say goodbye to our beloved President Thurgood and Sister Thurgood who finish their time here on the 28th :( 
Was a really special time to be with them in the house of the Lord.

In exciting news... I have a dog again! Her name is Tortilla, we call her Torti, she owns the to blocks in front of our house, and is rather cute haha. Those who know me know I dont like dogs except the ones i like... If that makes sense! And i like Torti, I even let her jump on me: Photo attached and I gave her my left over lentils on the way home-big step for me since i like lentils! 

We recieved a few tasty blessings this week! Starting with one day that we didnt have lunch and went to the temple to pick some stuff up and a member from my previous ward bought us lunch in the hostal! Was a miracle! Then a member gifted us cheesy bread! Then on friday we were in our area and walked past the ice cream store and saw the MTC President buying ice cream! We said hi and he said: "Hermanas! Do you want an ice cream? Of course you do! Come here!" and he bought us ice cream! Then that same day our investigator bought us Empanadas which were yummy! And today was the ward activity and they had pastries! The Lord blessed us since we had no food at home except lentils haha. 

I am truly loving my time here, its coming to an end, but thats okay, I know that there are exciting things in the future too!

I love you all and pray for you all!

Hermana Wilson

Photos: Torti our dog. District activity. Me and Alma, one of the young women here. 


Last weeks email!


Sorry I didnt send an email last week, was a hectic day because we had ward activity for national flag day (they have public holidays for EVERYTHING here!)

First things first: Thanks to my Argentine companion I now drink Mate Cocido, which is a type of herbal tea that is super common here. Ive been here 16 months and didnt really have much interest, its kinda like green tea, but now i like it. Just in time to go home where there is no Mate Cocido... 

This week we went to the temple as a zone and had lunch there and a conference to say goodbye to our beloved President Thurgood and Sister Thurgood who finish their time here on the 28th :( 
Was a really special time to be with them in the house of the Lord.

In exciting news... I have a dog again! Her name is Tortilla, we call her Torti, she owns the to blocks in front of our house, and is rather cute haha. Those who know me know I dont like dogs except the ones i like... If that makes sense! And i like Torti, I even let her jump on me: Photo attached and I gave her my left over lentils on the way home-big step for me since i like lentils! 

We recieved a few tasty blessings this week! Starting with one day that we didnt have lunch and went to the temple to pick some stuff up and a member from my previous ward bought us lunch in the hostal! Was a miracle! Then a member gifted us cheesy bread! Then on friday we were in our area and walked past the ice cream store and saw the MTC President buying ice cream! We said hi and he said: "Hermanas! Do you want an ice cream? Of course you do! Come here!" and he bought us ice cream! Then that same day our investigator bought us Empanadas which were yummy! And today was the ward activity and they had pastries! The Lord blessed us since we had no food at home except lentils haha. 

I am truly loving my time here, its coming to an end, but thats okay, I know that there are exciting things in the future too!

I love you all and pray for you all!

Hermana Wilson

Photos: Torti our dog. District activity. Me and Alma, one of the young women here. 

My Dog Torti!


Farewell President and Sister Thurgood :(


Well tomorrow we will oficially have a new President here in the Buenos Aires South mission.... President and Hermana Calquin from Chile.
We had a farewell this tuesday with President and Hermana Thurgood and the Mitchells who are also leaving and obviously I cried :( They have been so good to me these last 16 months! They have been with me in the hospital and we have laughed together and had many lovely moments in interviews, chatting on the telefone and in meetings. They really love us all so much and showed special interest in making sure that i was happy and healthy here. 
President Thurgoods final remarks were: "Elders, listen to your mothers and to your future wives. You will find that they are almost ALWAYS right." "Elders and Sisters, if i ever hear that any of you are not attending church, I will find you, and I will punish you! With a visit form me!" 

In big news! Our dog Torti now has a shirt, poor guy lives in the street and need a little swag! Im so in love with that dog haha.

We had an improptu farewell this morning for Elder Lowe :( He broke his hand about 5 weeks ago and they put the cast on badly and well his bones are setting incorrectly so he was told yesterday that he is going home so they can break the bones and re-set them, not nice! Good thing his mum is a doctor. He was supposed to finish with me, so he´s just a couple of months early, but sad all the same.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone in 2 months, but really happy to still have a bit more time here!

Love you all!!

Hermana Wilson

Re: Farewell President and Sister Thurgood :(

Ooops, attached the wrong photo, that one is with Elder and Sister Mitchel, not the thurgoods haha. 

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Micaella Wilson <micaella.wilson@myldsmail.net> wrote:
Well tomorrow we will oficially have a new President here in the Buenos Aires South mission.... President and Hermana Calquin from Chile.
We had a farewell this tuesday with President and Hermana Thurgood and the Mitchells who are also leaving and obviously I cried :( They have been so good to me these last 16 months! They have been with me in the hospital and we have laughed together and had many lovely moments in interviews, chatting on the telefone and in meetings. They really love us all so much and showed special interest in making sure that i was happy and healthy here. 
President Thurgoods final remarks were: "Elders, listen to your mothers and to your future wives. You will find that they are almost ALWAYS right." "Elders and Sisters, if i ever hear that any of you are not attending church, I will find you, and I will punish you! With a visit form me!" 

In big news! Our dog Torti now has a shirt, poor guy lives in the street and need a little swag! Im so in love with that dog haha.

We had an improptu farewell this morning for Elder Lowe :( He broke his hand about 5 weeks ago and they put the cast on badly and well his bones are setting incorrectly so he was told yesterday that he is going home so they can break the bones and re-set them, not nice! Good thing his mum is a doctor. He was supposed to finish with me, so he´s just a couple of months early, but sad all the same.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone in 2 months, but really happy to still have a bit more time here!

Love you all!!

Hermana Wilson

Tuesday 21 June 2016

Gino got baptised!


Photos

Gino got baptised!



Hey all!

This week was great! Cold but great. They say it is the  coldest it has been at this time of the year in a looong time, it is even thought that it might snow here in Buenos Aires this winter because it has been such a cold autumn. That will be crazy! 

Saturday our investigator Gino was baptised, he is such a great kid! He has been recieving the missionaries for a while and wasnt really sure if he wanted to take that step, but monday we had a really great lesson with him and he just stands up and says "Im going to be baptised!" haha, we asked if he would prepare to be baptised on the 2nd of august and he said, "No! This saturday, im going to be baptsied this saturday, the 11th!" And so it was! We sung a great song at his baptism, all his family came and they are all preparing to be baptised too. Gianluca baptised Gino which was really special because Gianluca was only baptised himself a month ago, although his family were baptsied about a year and a half ago, and just 2 weeks ago Gianluca was sealed for time and all eternity to his parents and sister in the Buenos Aires temple! THIS is missionary work! It was so joyful to see how they have helped each other and love each other. When Gino came out of the water they just stood there in the water hugging, it was so sweet! 

Things here in Ciudad evita are good, I have made great friends with all the amazing families here and we have some lovely people we are teaching. 
We have this lovely old lady called Marta that we are teaching, and she says some of the funniest things! The she calls us: Las Mormonitas, which means "the little mormons" or "Palomitas" which means little doves haha and she will pray and be like "God, please look after the little mormons, the beautiful doves....... a big kiss God, see you later, amen" haha its really funny haha. President went to a lesson with her and he has to be only a few years younger than her and she calls him "dear" she was like "Do you know what its like dear, do you understand dear, how it is to have these angels in my home?" 

I am quite confused about my feelings towards dogs... on one hand sometimes i feel so overcome with compassion for them because there are s many in the streets and then i also feel really annoyed and kinda grossed out coz they bark at us and follow us round. We have a multitude of about 6 dogs that follow us everywhere stirring up all the neighbourhood dogs and annoying the people and we dont feed them or anything! We are just like "Sorry everyone there are NOT our dogs!"
I saw a homeless dog the other day that someone had made a house out of cardboard and dog food bags, i quickly sunk my camera out and snapped a pic!

This week i am getting my hair trimmed.... pray for me haha! I dont trust people with my hair, but its pretty damaged, gotta cut the tips.

Love you all!!

Hermana Wilson

P.S Saturday was my 16th month in the mission .....


Monday 6 June 2016

Selfie

Fierrita Ferrosa sent me this photo form transfers. Its Hermaan Dias, Hermana Fierro and I