... and some MORE!

1. Me n Hna Aravena celebrating my "1 year in Argentina". Later I`ll send pics celebrating with mate celestial :)

2. Playing with candles when the power went out... we had to do something to keep us from dying from the cold!

...and more pics...

1. Teaching my comp how to bowl :)

2. I forgot my name tag so i got to be an Elder for the day :) (pic w/ E´Herrera, one of my 2 district leaders)

PICTURES!:)

1. Mariana, Graciela, Eduardo, Roso, and Daiana`s baptism! :)

2. My awesome district! We have the pensioneros and the assistants in our district... i love it! :)

Lovin´ every minute! :)

This week was WONDERFUL, and it`s just gonna keep getting better! But of course it had its challenges as well... but ni importa!

It`s funny how the Lord blesses you... We had a few lil problems this week because my comp has a REALLY hard time being obedient with the schedule and getting up on time, which made life really frustrating for me cuz I wanted to work and couldn`t! But, even though it seemed like the week was going to be TERRIBLE with datos because we lost so much time, somehow it ended up being one of the best weeks this transfer! It seems impossible, but I know it was the Lord blessing me for being obedient and working, and teaching me patience with my comp who`s been struggling a bit. She`s starting to participate a lot more, though, and even took out 3 fechas this week! YAY! PS... it`s really funny every Sunday to report our datos to our District Leaders, cuz they cant believe we`re Hermanas and have such good datos... haha... sad, huh? At least we`re making them work a lil bit :)

Thursday night we were asked to give talks in sacrament meeting 3 days later (that`s the mission for ya... at least it wasn`t the day before or 10 minutes before like they sometimes ask), and it went super well. It was based on Elder Hales` talk about our duty from last conference... i loved it! Read it again... it has so many wonderful insights. I applied the same talk to us in general as members, and focused on how when we are examples, listen and love the people we`re around, and don`t have fear of sharing the gospel, missionary work comes naturally. It is SUCH an amazing talk from Elder Hales.. i love it! But I`ll leave it at that, and let yal read it in the ensign.

Well, thats about all for this week. Eduardo, Graciela, and Mariana (and maybe Brisa) are getting baptized on Saturday, so I should have some good news next week! :) I love you all TONS and TONS! Thanks for all the support and prayers!

Besitos,

Hermana Churchill

BRRRRRR!!!

Hey fam!

I`m FREEEEEEZING!!!! urgg.... winter is not my fav! But what can ya do. To make it even better, last night we had no power... meaning no heat, no light, nothing! Hopefully it`ll get fixed today. So we spent the night bundled up with tons of clothes, hats and gloves, and using candles to light the apartment. Let me just say, waking up in bed and being able to see your breathe because it`s so cold isnt necessarily my idea of fun. But those are the little moments that you just have to laugh at and enjoy! Hay que reir de la vida, no hacer que la vida se ríe de vos. It`s so true too! People waste so much time being mad or in a bad mood... it`s so much better to just go with the flow, accept whatever gets thrown at you, and make the best of it! .... and to be HAPPY! :)

A lot of things have gone on this week, but most of all I`m WAY happy about some updates I just got on Olmos... Remember Cristina, one of the 4 batisms we had the day before I left Olmos? Well, also right before I left we met tons of her grandkids who live close by, and they were all SO excited to come to church and LOVED the baptism.... and now I just found out that 8 of them have baptismal dates!!! YAY!!!! :) I`m so excited!!! The blessings just keep coming and coming! :) It makes me so happy to see families growing in the gospel! :)

This week Eduardo had his baptismal interview and passed! We were a little worried, cuz he has a VERY rocky past, but he`s changed so much to be baptized and is so excited! So next week we should be having 3 baptisms. The other 2 are Mariana and Brisa, who are 9 and 11. Their mom wants to get baptized, too, but still has to get married. Sunday, though, we didn`t think they were going to come to church, but in the middle of sacrament meeting Mariana and Brisa both showed up all by themselves!! (and the capilla is like 40 blocks away, so they came in bus!). I love little miracles like that, that just make the whole week a million times better.

Other than that, life is good. I just found out my comp has the same homesick, "i want to go home" problems like my comp i trained had, but hey... i convinced her to stay in the mish, so I`m sure this one will be a piece of cake too! :) In other news, next week I hit my "1 year in Argentina" mark! Yay! Crazy how fast time flies, no? We already decided that we`re gonna celebrate lots since I didn`t get to do anything for my 1 year mark. :) I promise pics next time :)

I love you all! Really really :) Be good, and just be happy! :)

Besitos,

Hermana Churchy

Quedamos afuerra... stinkin Germany!

Even though the ENTIRE country of Argentina is depressed cuz we got booted out of the world cup, the work keeps moving forward! :) Luckily this last game everyone had permission to do weekly planning instead of having to go out to work, because it`s absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to work here during soccer games! Not a SINGLE person is in the street, NO ONE works, and... if its a school day they even cancel classes so that everyone can watch the game! It`s crazy!

Anyways, this week was way good. It was Hna Aravena`s birthday, meaning we ate A LOT all week...pizza, cake, asado (yumm), lechòn, chorizo, tartas, milanesas.... I don`t think I`ll ever be hungry again in my life! Even better is that it was all with families who are less active, but starting (or about to start) coming back to church, so we had a lot of really nice lessons with them. It KILLS me to see families who fall away from the church, because you really can tell that they`re missing something, but then to see them come back to me is just as great as seeing someone get baptized, because they`re able to renew those same covenants which will eventually allow them to live with the Heavenly Father, which is really the most important goal we can have!

Alright, well there`s not too much more to report this week. Eduardo has a baptismal interview on Tuesday, and we now have 4 baptismal fechas! (YAY!!! since when i got here there were 0). The work really is moving forward! This really is the work of God! There is nothing more important or that will bring more happiness than to participate in this great work! I hope everyone back home are being great missionaries, and always seeking opportunities to help this great work move forward, be it with your friends, at work, or even in your own family!! :) It`s the best way to be happy!!! :)

I love you all tons and tons!!! :) Be good and smile tons! :)

xo, Hermana Dev

Goodbye Olmos.... :`(

Hey fam!

Man, this week has been wonderful! It was really hard and we worked a ton, but it all paid off on Saturday and Sunday when Marilù, Braian, Ezequiel, and Cristina got baptized and confirmed!! J I think I already shared with yal their stories, but it`s been amazing teaching them and we`ve been able to see SO many miracles! Marilù and Braian we met about 3 weeks ago, and Cristina and Ezaquiel we started teaching only about 11 days before they got baptized!! They are all SOOO happy, too, now that they`re part of the church!

The Baptism was amazing! We had about 15 investigators there, and a ton of members! Also, Marilù told us a while before that she wanted to make a cake for her baptism, but then Friday night we went over for a lesson, and not only was she making a 3-tier cake, but also chipa, pasta frola, mini pizza`s AND mini alfajores! ... a TON of food!! We couldn`t believe it! Especially because they`re a VERY humble little family in the villa and live in a tiny wood house with very little money. But, she was so excited that she wanted to serve everyone by cooking for them. So, after the baptism we had a big party with everyone, and everyone LOVED it! Now the new investigators who came want to listen and come to church too because they loved the baptism so much!

In other news, Sunday was also a VERY sad day.... probably one of the saddest in my life. I finally realize why people always say they just want to go back to the mission.... it`s because of the amazing people you meet there and the friendships you make. We got transfer calls on Saturday, and I`m now in Burzaco, which is close to Banfield where I started, close to Capital. My comp is Hermana Aravena from Chile, who only has a transfer here, but she`s way cute! I`m sure it`ll be really fun, but it was also SO sad leaving! It was really sweet what everyone had to say. What killed me most was seeing other people cry. One girl I love her I couldn`t even look at on Sunday cuz everytime I did she started crying. It broke my heart so much! And then when I said bye to my bishop and his wife it was even worse. They are SUCH amazing people, I can`t even describe it! It was cute right before I left, cuz bishop accompanied us outside, and started crying and telling me how grateful he was, and then said “I know you guys can`t give hugs, but...” And gave me a huge HUG! My bishop! That was a new one for me in the mission. I didn`t know what to do at first, but I thought, hey... President can hug us to say godbye, so bishop can too. Haha. It was so sweet though. I could not stop crying after I left. That``s the only thing I don`t like about the mission, is having to say goodbye to people you love so much, knowing that you probably won`t get to see them again. BUT... life goes on, and I know that someday I`ll see them again!

Anyways, today was transfer meeting and our last one with President Asay. President Stapley, the new one, gets here in about a week. A lot of my converts and investiators from Banfield came to say hi, so I was way happy. It helped a little to cheer me up after leaving Olmos. Also, I got my TRUNKY PAPERS today! WEIRD! (trunky papers are the papers you have to fill out about flight plans and going home, that they give to you 5-6 months before you go home).

Alright, that`s about it. I better get going. But I love you all! The work of the Lord is absolutely AMAZING, and every one of us is so incredibly lucky that we can all participate in it! Be happy and serve those around you... there`s someone waiting specifically for you! J

Les quiero muchisimo!

Hermana Churchill

more pics!

1. Cristina and Ezequiel
2. Hot chocolate and bread with marilu and braian :)
3. Making little alfajores with braian for the baptism!

trunky papers, my amazing bishop and his fam

1. me and hna fox with our trunky papers :(
2. My AMAZING bishop in Olmos! Their family is seriously like family to me now! It was so sad saying goodbye.
3. The sunset as i rode away from bishop`s house on my last day in olmos. i love the sunsets here!

1. MUD!!... this street was so bad that i literally had to carry my bike cuz you couldn`t even roll it along !

2. OLMOS = straight up CAMPO! (country). I LOVE love love bikes though !

Bikes!

1. MUD!!... this street was so bad that i literally had to carry my bike cuz you couldn`t even roll it along !

2. OLMOS = straight up CAMPO! (country). I LOVE love love bikes though !

¡Feliz cumpleAÑO a mi! 1 year!!!

Hey fam y amigos!

Yep, it`s true... i`m OLD now! Egh.. yuck... i don`t like that word... but I now have more than a year in the mish! Pretty crazy how fast time flies, eh?

This week ROCKED!!! Ok... well.. some of our numbers weren`t the best, but our big goal was to get people in sacrament meeting, and thanks to some awesome members who did divisions with us in the morning to go look for people, we had EIGHT!! YAY!!! We were way happy. We`ve had a lot more people progressing lately, but sacrament is always hard to get, so we really made that a focus. It`s so wonderful to see that hard work really does pay off!

Claudio also finally got confirmed (the one who got baptized but had some problems afterward). It was actually really cool, because we got to church RIGHT when it started, and saw Claudio with his aunt and uncle who are members (but inactive), so we were way happy. Then, afterward I went up and thanked his aunt and uncle for bringing him to the capilla (sometimes its hard for him to come), and they said "Oh no, we didn`t bring him, he brought us!" Que capo, eh? :)

We also are finding tons of people who are way prepared! This week, we went to teach a girl named Andrea, who`s 18 and the gf of one of our inactive members. When we went she told us that her little sister Celeste (16) had found a book of mormon in her house, and started reading it by herself, and when she saw that we were visiting Andrea asked her if she could listen too. Then we went another day and taught both of them, and she`s AMAZING!!! When we asked her what she wanted most in her life, she said she wanted to "clean her soul" and be clean from her sins. And she`s only 16!! It was way cool. SO, we have big hopes :)

Anyways, that`s the update for the week! Life is wonderful as always! Of course it`s filled with challenges and hard times, but that just makes it so much better! If not, we`d never learn anything.

Be happy. Smile lots. Be good. I love you all tons and tons!!! :)

Hermana Churchill

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

No, I`m not coming home yet... that`s still a ways away. But, by "mission accomplished" I mean our goal here in Olmos. In January when President sent me here to open the area, the goal was to divide our ward into 2 wards because it covered such a large area, but they needed more members and activity or else they wouldn`t be able to divide it. So, we went to work! And now, just yesterday, our Stake President came and announced the division!! YAY!!! It`s pretty cool to be here the whole time, and to be able to see the division. It was sad to say bye to half the members, but exciting to see the church grow at the same time!

In other news, my tooth isn`t black anymore!!!! YAY!!! haha how sad. I`m still not ALL done, and have to travel 6 hours once a week for 3 more weeks up to Lomas, but I`m so happy! It`s so relieving getting it fixed!

We had a rockin experience yesterday. We have a really high baptismal goal this transfer, and we have some awesome people who are going to get baptized in the next few weeks, but we haven`t been able to get our goal, so we`ve been praying a LOT, especially since we`re already half way throught the transfer. Then yesterday, we had a little time without citas so we went to contact a reference we had gotten from an investigator of ours. We found her and her son, and started teaching her about the restoration and baptism. She told us she had listened a little to the missionaries before but never got baptized cuz she didnt want to change her life. We taught a lot about baptism and authority, and at the end of the charla she asked "So, if I want to get baptized, what do I have to do?" We explained and took out fechas (baptismal dates) with her and her son right there in the first charla, and they`re both already super excited to come to church and prepare to get baptized! :) Just shows that Heavenly Father really does answer prayers when we do our part and put our trust in him.

Man was it a good Sunday! That all happened, we had 8 investigators in sacrament meeting, and later at night we had a special devotional to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of building the chapel in Olmos, and 7 more investigators came! YAY! I love life! There`s good days and bad days, but ya just gotta keep smiling and working, and everything works out great!

Anyways, I love you all tons, and I`ll talk to you next week! Chau for now! Be good and smile tons!

xo, Hermana Dev

PICTURES!!!!

1. 1. Waiting to go to the island… 3 de Abril! J 2. BIKES!!!!! 3. Camilo´s baptism! 4. Thanks for the package mommy!! J5. Raul, me and hna fox at transfers meeting… now she´s in Banfield 2 where I was before! 6. Visiting Hna Bach´s family on Monday when we got to stay in Banfield! They were super sweet.

what the... 1 year?! che!

HOLA!!!! :)

Yep... it´s true.... believe it or not I hit ONE YEAR IN THE MISSION this Thursday! :) :) Pretty crazy, eh?

It´s been an awesome week here in Olmos! Things are already getting a lot better! Last transfer had a lot of challenges, which really kicked us emotionally (even though the work went really well last transfer and we finished strong), but this transfer we´re pumped and WAY excited cuz it´s gonna be amazing!! We finally have a ton of people who are progressing and (hopefully) will get baptized this transfer! Can I just say Olmos is by far the best area there is?? It´s AMAZING! Our bishop is one of the best people I´ve ever met in my life, the members go out of their way to do anything they can for us (like Sunday when we didnt have lunch so 2 different people from the RS brought us lunch), the recent converts are super strong and help us tons in visitas, and.... ugh! I can´t even explain it! I´m so in love with this ward!

Well, we had some fun experiences this last week. We have a member (Maria Soledad) who just got baptized in December who´s 18, and always comes out with us. On Thursday she came with us, but our plans fell, so we asked her if she knew anyone we could visit. So she took us to her friend Rosa´s house, where we had an awesome lesson, and found both her and her sister. Her parents were busy inside, and while we were there some friends of their´s came over, but we only got to say hi and they went inside too.

The next day we were on the complete opposite side of our area, and we had about half an hour extra before a cita, so we decided to clap some doors (yes, clap. There´s no such thing as knocking in Argie). We started going, and talked to a few people, but nothing great. Then, we clapped a door and were waiting, and I looked behind me and saw a little house a little down the road and said "I wanna go to that one!" But, seeing as we had just clapped a door, we had to wait to see if someone would come. After a few seconds I got impatient and said "let´s go!" SO we rode over to the other house I had seen and clapped. A woman came out right away, and was super amable (nice) with us! We started talking, and she said "weren´t you two in the quintas (crop fields) yesterday?" Turns out that she was the friend of Rosa´s parents we had just met the day before! We shared a folleto with her (Teresa) of the plan of salvation and she LOVED it! She kept saying how priveledged we were to have this knowledge and to be on this path. Later that week we went back and had one of the best lessons I´ve ever had. Just like everyone else here in Olmos, she has to get married to get baptized, but we´ll get her there! It´s really neat seeing how the Lord leads us to those who are prepared to receive the gospel.

So... life is good! We should have some awesome updates this transfer! I´m gonna get going so I can send some pics. I love you all tons and tons!!! Take care and be good.

Besitos,

Hermana Dev

BEST EXPERIENCE EVER!!!!!!

We had the most INCREDIBLE experience this week!!!!! By far one of the best I´ve ever had in my mission!!!

Alright... so I gotta back track a lil. Remember the Gaspari family? They´re the members who we went to EVERY week, who the parents have just started coming back to church, but the kids no, but we´ve gotten to be super good friends with the daughter and have worked with her a lot. WELL:... this family LOVES the missionaries and always tells us about their missionaries who baptized them. They were baptized in 1979. The sad thing, though, is that in 1986.... 24 years ago... they lost contact with their missionary and are always super sad they cant talk to her anymore.

WELL.... one day we were talking about the missionary, and I offered to write down the name and send it to my parents to look up in the yellow pages or something. But then when they showed me the last letter they had from her, I noticed that she was from Genola, UT, a tiny town where my sister-in-law Dani´s mom´s family is from. So I thought "hmm.... maybe I should just ask Dani if maybe her grandparents would know her from their stake or something." So I sent Dani an email and told her about everything and the name (rosalee davis), and she wrote me back right away and said "No way! That´s my AUNT!!" Well... turns out this missionary was the wife of Dani´s uncle, and although they had separated since then she was still able to get me her new address super easily. Then, I decided it would be even more fun to call her with them! So... here´s the good part...

We decided to surprise the family. They already knew we were getting the address for them, and even just that news made them cry. But, we had a cita set up last Thursday, so before we bought a phone card, and when we got there we told them that the "activity" of the night was going to be calling Rosalee! Everyone started crying they were SO excited! After waiting 26 years, they were finally going to get to talk to their missionary! We called, and apparently Rosalee´s daughter had told her that day that we were going to call, and she said "I´ve been waiting for HOURS for your call and I´m already crying! I can´t believe you´re calling from Argentina!" I told her she wasn´t the only one, and that I had some people waiting to talk to her. I then handed the phone over, and for the next hour the whole family talked and cried, and I translated when they couldn´t understand. It was SOOO incredible!!!

Afterwards the mom just kept hugging me and crying, saying how she would be eternally grateful for reconnecting them. I´m just so happy and thrilled that I could help. I already knew that I was supposed to be here in Olmos for a reason, but this just confirms that I´m supposed to be here, and I was called of God to be in this place at this time. I am so incredibly grateful for this experience. It also showed me how incredibly important it is that missionaries keep in contact with their converts and other people from their missions. So... if yal haven´t talked to people who you introduced the gospel to for a while... CALL THEM! You mean the world to them! Literally.

Anyways, that´s my happy experience for the week! Hope you enjoyed :) I love this work. I love my mission. I LOVE the gospel! There is absolutely nothing else that could bring so much happiness! Life is wonderful. So... smile and enjoy it! :)

Love you all!

xo, Hermana Dev

PICTURES! YAY!

1. Happy bday to me :)

2. Conference!! Noelia, a member from our ward, gave me this ring (& we both have the same bday!)

3. Happy Birthday Jesus! (Hna Bach got hungry... hence the partially eaten cake... ) (ma... this is for you :) aren´t you proud? )

yay! happy birthday for me! :)

AHH!!! NO TIME!! K... get ready for the quickest letter ever.... :)

HAPPY CONFERENCE/ EASTER!!! Wasn´t it amazing?! I hope you all got to watch it and enjoyed it!! I sure did. It´s amazing how inspired the speakers are each year. I LOVED how focused it was on family! Honestly, for a little bit I was thinking "Heavenly Father, I still have 7 months left... dont make me think about this stuff yet!" haha. no no no... it was amazing! I always say the thing I learn most here is how to raise a family (and who not to marry.... :) ), so conference only added to the many lessons!

My birthday was good too! Thanks for all the sweet birthday notes! Some members said "oh how sad, you have conference on your birthday so you can´t just relax." But really.... it was the BEST birthday present ever!!!! :) ANd, luckily we had investigators there so we got to stay and watch! YAY! Now we have to wait another 6 months though.... bummer....

SO this week has been a crazy rollercoaster of emotions! There was some very tough days, but we finished strong! My comp is wonderful. It was hard at first cuz she missed her other area, but now its great and we´re learning a ton from each other! It was actually one of the best weeks we´ve had... we did 2 divisions and found 18 new investigators, and 2 new fechas!! YAY!!! It was so wonderful! The Bustamante family came with us to conference too, which is the first time in 2 years!! (they´re the ones from Peru who went to church for 10 years but never got baptized).

Anyways, sorry this is short and sweet, but we gotta get to work!! I hope you all have a WONDERFUL week, and put those things you learned in conference in action! Overall, just be good, love lots, and serve those around you. It´s the 3 step plan to happiness! :) haha. Anyways... love you tons!! Chaucito!!

Besitos!

Hermana Dev

"The Hills" : Discontinued :(

Yep... that´s right... "The Hills" are no longer the hills. Sad, eh? Today we had transfers, and Hermana Hill went to Montegrande, and I now have a new companion. It was really sad... we both cried... but I´m sure it will be GREAT with my new comp too! Her name is Hermana Rindlesbach, and she´s from Holiday, Utah (SLC area). The mission has been a little rough for her, but by the end of this transfer she´s going to LOOOOOVE it! :) hehe... i have my ways.... :) She rocks though, so I´m positive we´ll have a blast with tons of success!

This week has been a little bit of an emotional rollercoaseter with everything going on, but all in all life is great.... as always :) We had an AWESOME baptism this week!!!!! Yrene and Carlos, 2 people we found the first week we came here, as well as Claudio, a 16 year old "capo" who came to church all by himself (who we´ve been teaching like CRAZY!) all got baptized on Saturday! It was a blast. I can´t wait to send pictures! About 40 people came to the baptism... man our ward is amazing! We have A LOT of work to do now, since that was the only fecha in Olmos (when we switched with the Elders we gave them ALL of our investigators who had baptismal dates, and here there was only 1), but there are some INCREDIBLE families we´re teaching right now, so I´m really excited for what´s going to happen this transfer!

Lately I´ve been reflecting a lot on the mission and everything... I think that means that I´m old. ;) But really, I´m so grateful for this time I have here to share my testimony with others and to serve the Lord 24/7. The mission really makes you realize how imperfect you are and how many weaknesses you really have, but it´s been an amazing learning experience, that constantly inspires me to want to be a better person. When you think about life and everything that goes on, you start to realize what´s really important. People always think we´re SO deprived because of all the "rules" of things we can´t do, but you realize that watching television or listening to the radio or ... drinking mate.... really aren´t that important! :) Anyways, if any of this rambling makes sense... the reason I say it is simply that I hope you will all make the best of the time you have. Focus on what´s really important like strengthing you testimony and family, rather than the things that only distract and waste our time. I never knew how precious time really was until I came here. Cherish it.

I love you! Smile EXTRA big this week.... after all its General Conference, my birthday AND Easter! Party time! :) Be good!

xo, Hermana Dev

The party just NEVER ends!!!! :) :)

FINALLY! Sorry this is so late. We changed our p-day this week so we could go to the zoo! It was pretty darn exciting. But! Now I{m going to try to do the best I can to remember what we did in the last 2 weeks :)

1. On Wednesday we went to eat lunch with our bishop, but decided to show up an hour early in jeans to paint their house! We had a wonderful time, and later he made us an Asado....yummmm... in which i tried morsilla finally! (Blood sausage... yuck.). We´ll hope that´s the first and the last time I have to eat that :) Our bishop and his family are amazing!! They have barely anything but would literally give you everything.

2. We´re having a baptism this Saturday!! A big one too! Claudio, who´s 16 and came to church on his own, is getting baptized, as well as Carlos and Yrene, the mom and son of the family we found the first week we came to Olmos (when we were in Los Hornos). And, a little girl Gisell is probably getting baptized too, who´s Dad just got baptized in Decemeber. So fun!! We´ve been working like CRAZY with Claudio, because before the Elders were teaching him but barely ever could go, so he still needed a lot of the charlas. He just had his interview on Tuesday, though, and he´s good to go! :) I´m way excited!!!

How do I even explain the rest of the week... basically I´m IN LOVE with Olmos! It´s been tough because without bikes (still) we walk a TON and can´t get as much done as we would like, but at the same time we´ve had so many awesome charlas and have gotten to meet so many incredible families. I can´t believe how blessed I´ve been to meet so many AMAZING people here and see the change the gospel makes in their lives. It makes you realize that the hard times and challenges and trials really don´t matter at all... because there´s always something that makes it all worth it! So... hang in there... tough it out... and just BE HAPPY!! :) :) There´s nothing better :)

I love you all TONS!! :) be good. smile lots.

Besos!

Hermana Dev

P.s... GENERAL CONFERENCE IS NEXT WEEK!!!! YAY!!! On my birthday too.... what a sweet birthday present!! :) I have a favor to ask though... that each of you invite someone (or more than one person... even better!) to come with you to conference. I promise it´ll be great and they´ll love it!! They just need an invitation to come... and you´re the one to give it to them :) Anyways, that´s all I want for my bday :) Let me know how it goes!! Love ya! Chau!

Pictures!!

1. :)

2. Mom... dad.... i´m really sorry.... i finally gave in and bought some new shoes.... could you loan me 4 bucks? ;) haha. These are our shoes we bought for the mud (when it rains here ALL the streets flood and get crazy muddy)

3... and these are our shoes after the day of rain....

4. "The field is white, already to harvest!"

Beach pictures!! :)

1. The beach! :) Ok... really this is the river... but still way cool...

2. On our way to the beach we found this sign...

3. Just hangin around...

4. Hermanas :) This is on the boat ride we took to get to the beach

MORE PICTURES!? This week... the zoo and St. Patty´s Day!

1. GREEN EGGS AND HAM sor st. Patrick´s day!! :) I knew you would be proud mom.... :)

2. After the zoo we found cotton candy! You have NO idea how excited i was :)

3. Playing around in the Lion Den at the zoo!

Flood pictures!!

Here´s the pics from the flood!

1. Trying to catch the water... but as you can see, we got SOAKED cuz it was coming so fast. That´´s our garbage can we´re using, since there was nothing else!

2. SOAKED!

3. This is the problem... it was raining tons too, but later we found out the canes were plugged so our roof turned into a swimming pool. But, of course "The Hills" would have their own private pool :)

4. After 3 hours of catching water... VERY happy and tired!