Como estan mi familia!? this is my very last p day here at the ccm.. i cannot believe it! i have had such a great time here and ive loved every minute of it( haha well almost). but anyways, how are you all? how is life back home? im guessing you all are doing well? i´d really like to know.. so write me! haha, this week has been good for the most part. im really excited to leave and get out into the field. we had proselytismo this last week and i was really scared about it because they decided to put me in a trio with hna rodriguez and hna smith. one who knows only spanish and the other who knows only english. the night before i prayed for a solid 15 minutes for help from the Lord becuase i was so worried about it. and the Lord blessed us that we were able to have an amazing day! the spirit was with us the whole day and even though we were lost for most of the day we were able to have some amazing contacts. there was one guy in particular named gabriel who i think might just want to be baptized. it was a great experience. im so thankful that it turned out the way that it did. we´ve had some really good meetings here in the last week, we had a member of the seventy come talk to us, his name is Elder Marcos Aidukaitus he´s from brazil but he speaks english and spanish. he gave us an awesome talk on the kingdoms of glory. and then today we had a 3 and a half hour long meeting on the apostasy! it was crazy! but so informative.. im sure it wouldve been better in english haha but it was still really good. ive got four more days left! AHHHH!! im going to miss this place. argentina is such a great country. im sure uruguay is too! im hoping that we get to go to the temple when we get there because the temple just across the street is completely torn up. ill send pics on monday.
ive learned how to lead music katie! hahah are you still the leader? it took me a while but ive caught on to it. my roomate is crazy! haha hna ochoa speaks a little bit of english and she has told me that she wants to eat my eyes and fingers for candy. haha i kinda believe her. she also has a big giant picture of michael j fox in her closet! she LOVES him! hahahaha its soooooooo funny! ill send you a picture on monday of that too... i get to get back on on monday so please write!!! PLEASE!!!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
3/18/10
Greetings from Argentina! Another week down and one more p-day here at the ccm left.. i honestly cannot believe it! in two weeks from now i will be getting to my first area and meeting my trainer.. haha good thing its on april fools day. woohoo! im thinkin about maybe trying to play a joke on her. any ideas!? i want some good suggestions por favor. how are you all? thanks so much for your emails and letters they are so invaluable to me. i love you all so much! and miss you more than you know! i hope everyones week was good. mine was absoluteley great! i have been very blessed by the Lord this week. as you all know, we got a new group here last week and it has been very different. i was really quite worried when they came that i was going to hate it but the Lord has truly helped me! my new companion is from uruguay and she is very sweet, she has a very strong testimony but she is also very quiet. the other two sisters in my room are from argentina and are both very nice! while i have been here i havent been speaking as much spanish as i should and ive had a hard time speaking. i can understand a lot but when it ever came to talking i just wouldnt because i was scared that i would make a mistake, muy triste. on this last saturday i went into a latino district for the day because there were no other sisters that were here that could go out proselyting. it was crazy! i had to focus so hard! and even then i didnt really quite understand everything that was being said and then it came to teaching with my companion oohh boy was that hard! pretty soon she took over most of the teaching and i just added in when i could. it was hard for the both of us. i prayed alot that day for help and i could feel it but i was very happy when my district came back and i could be with them again. on sunday i got to talking to one of the new north americans hermana smith who is actually from st. george and wh i knew before my mission. we got into a great gospel discussion and after i decided that i would pray for help from the Lord so that i will be ready to leave when the time comes. it was amazing the answer i recieved back, i had the feeling that i should write down all of my goals and make myself a mini mission statement of what i want to accomplish everyday. i have it hanging above my bed and i read it everyday now! it has helped me so much with my attitude and my spanish! on monday i had the best day here yet! i spoke amazing spanish.. its starting to really click for me! i cant believe it but the Lord has blessed me immensely! i honestly cant tell you how much i have felt him in my life during my time here. especially this last week its like everyday i grow closer and closer with him and i can feel him always.
there are two new north american sisters here that i have so much fun with! we just laugh and laugh, im convinced that they are halfway crazy.... hahah just exactly what i needed! i really love it! i dont get to see them much but its so great whenever we´re together. we help each other alot. haha one of my roomates speaks a little bit of spanish which i found out the other day when she all the sudden told me that i was going to die! hahaha and then the other day she held up her fist and said i have a present for you! hahaha im watchin my back these days! hahah its funny! i love all the teachers and people who work here.. we all have our inside jokes.. its so awesome! hna george the presidents wife pulled me aside the other day and gave me a huge compliment. she said that everyone appreciates how modest and loving i am and that she considers me to be the example to all of the sisters... holy moley who´d have thought! it was crazy to hear that. but i have to go i love you all so much! keep writing PLEASE!!!!!!! i love you!
hna crofts
Thursday, March 11, 2010
3/11/10
Hola hola hola! Oh my dear family, how are you all? my dear friends, where the heck are you? you all have disappeared on me... please reappear and write your missionary! haha so... for the last two days i have been the only hermana here. it has been awesome! not gonna lie i love being able to get done with class and immediately go to sleep. it was heaven. we also get really good food when the groups are changing. mmm mmm mmm! but now the new group is here and yikes there are a lot of people! i now have a new companion.... and she is a latina. she only speaks spanish and i dont have any clue what shes saying most of the time. oh boy! its insane! also all of my roomates are latina and speak only spanish haha i am definitely being prepared for the field. its crazy to think that i only have two and a half weeks left here and then ill be off to good ol uruguay! i really cant wait!.. so because my companion is latina they have been talking about moving me up and putting me in a latino district. so instead of me with a bunch of american elders it would be me with all latinos having all my lessons and church in spanish! i honestly dont know how i feel about it.. im scared out of my mind but i also know that if i do this than i will learn so much faster! i guess we will see what happens.. whatever comes its all good! im just happy to be in the service of God.
so from the last time i wrote much has happened obviously. proselitismo this last week was great! it was my last time with hna kleinman and we had a good time! its amazing how much we had progressed from that first time we went out! we were able to carry on full conversations about the gospel. we clapped doors and had a lot of success. i am going to miss her a lot. while we were out it seemed like it was only men that wanted to listen to us. haha i dont know why but 20 of the 21 contacts we had were with guys. i have now been proposed to 3 times haha there was even one time when a guy was driving his car down the street and he turned around tried to say something to us and then parked his car just to profess his love... i dont get it! haha i think its hilarious! we told him to come to church and he said are you coming i said no and he didnt listen to great to our message after that so we left haha! i sincerely love the children down here.. they are so precious! we saw twins who were almost as cute as my nieces and nephews. the more and more i go out to proselitismo the more and more i realize that i can do this! i can speak spanish and i can bring souls unto christ! its so awesome!
now some good news to all who care haha i finally shaved my legs!! yes, hna kleinman and i waited until her last day to finally shave all our amazing hair off our legs haha.. i have pictures to show but i cant send them yet. i wish i could but they have a rule here that you cant send pics til your last day. but dont worry i will! i wish you could all see some of the funny things they do here in the ccm, every third thursday the elders get a visit from a brother we fondly call edward scissorhands! haha he cuts there hair just like edward scissorhands would except he does a pretty horrible job and the elders are left with uneven hair and a humbled ego hahah i love it! thank goodness im a sister! the elders also have whats called corbata fea which is like ugly tie day haha! they all pick ties out of a backpack and wear them the next day. there are some really really ugly ones! one was actually once a pillow hahah! things are good here! the spirit is strong and the language is coming.. thank you all for your great emails! i would love a letter once and a while though. in like a week i would that you guys send stuff to my actual mission address and not here cuz ill be gone!! yahoo! i love you all and hope your all doing well! remember that god loves you!
love you always,
hermana amy crofts
Saturday, March 6, 2010
3/4/2010
Hola mi familia!!
How are you all doing? I´ve been thinking about everyone a lot this week. It sounds like everything is going well! We got the devastating news about Chile this Saturday. I guess some of the elders felt the quake.. I didnt. I had no idea anything even happened. We have some chilean missionaries here and it was a pretty weary couple of hours when they were trying to find out whether or not their families were okay or not. it turns out no one lost anybody which shows how much the Lord is aware of his missionaries. i guess that one of the mission presidents in chile had an impression that something like this was going to happen and he was able to prepare the missionaries in the area. im sure there is probably something about it in the news. crazy that so many natural disasters have been occurring so frequently!
well this week has been rather interesting. I was somehow hit by a train of bad luck. on saturday during prosletismo i got really sick and we had to picked up about two hours in. it was not fun! there has been a bug or something going around all the north american sisters were sick. i was feeling rather bad that we couldnt be out proselyting when hermana george, the ccm presidents wife, had all the north american sisters come into their apartment and watch a movie. she wanted to make sure that we didnt feel guilty. she is such an amazingly sweet lady! we watched a movie called "i am david", it was really good and i reccomend that everyone should see it. its about the holocaust, she said she found it at deseret book. anyways so i was sick for 3 days out of this week but still went to class and everything and then i somehow had half of my big toenail fall off! dont ask me how, it just fell off! its pretty gross looking and just adds to how great my legs and toes look haha! oh and to cap it all off, i took a nap one day during lunch and after i woke up and used the bathroom i somehow ran head on into a door... i know i know pretty amazing huh? so i now have somewhat of a large goose egg on my eyebrow! i am now wearing my good luck necklace everyday and i havent run into a problem or a door since!
my companion and the group we have been here with the longest is leaving in 5 days now.. its really sad! and now that means that we will be the 6 weekers and like the seniors in high school. pretty hard to imagine i only have 3 more weeks here. (im pretty happy we only have three weeeks left cuz im going crazy). i am still trying to survive being with elders all day everyday! its hard somedays i want to kick them really bad.. i can do it though! theyre not all that bad. ive actually grown really fond of them but i can only take so much of them everyday. our teachers are all from here and now all our classes are being taught in spanish.. i never realized how much i love english! haha but the lord truly increases our understanding when we try our hardest. i love you all so much! please keep writing! dont forget.. ok? here is a little bit of my testimony in spanish.. haha errors and all.
yo se que la iglesia de jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos dias es la iglesia verdadera! y que jose smith fue un profeta y vio jesucristo y dios. mediante jose smith el evangelio de jesucristo fue restaurado. dios nos ama mucha y quiere nosotros a regresar con el. yo se podemos traer almas a traves sus ejemplos. le amo el evangelio de jesucristo y yo testifico que podemos hacer todas las cosas con Dios ayuda!
le amo mucho!
hermana amy crofts
ps.. im so excited for that package! YAY!!!!
How are you all doing? I´ve been thinking about everyone a lot this week. It sounds like everything is going well! We got the devastating news about Chile this Saturday. I guess some of the elders felt the quake.. I didnt. I had no idea anything even happened. We have some chilean missionaries here and it was a pretty weary couple of hours when they were trying to find out whether or not their families were okay or not. it turns out no one lost anybody which shows how much the Lord is aware of his missionaries. i guess that one of the mission presidents in chile had an impression that something like this was going to happen and he was able to prepare the missionaries in the area. im sure there is probably something about it in the news. crazy that so many natural disasters have been occurring so frequently!
well this week has been rather interesting. I was somehow hit by a train of bad luck. on saturday during prosletismo i got really sick and we had to picked up about two hours in. it was not fun! there has been a bug or something going around all the north american sisters were sick. i was feeling rather bad that we couldnt be out proselyting when hermana george, the ccm presidents wife, had all the north american sisters come into their apartment and watch a movie. she wanted to make sure that we didnt feel guilty. she is such an amazingly sweet lady! we watched a movie called "i am david", it was really good and i reccomend that everyone should see it. its about the holocaust, she said she found it at deseret book. anyways so i was sick for 3 days out of this week but still went to class and everything and then i somehow had half of my big toenail fall off! dont ask me how, it just fell off! its pretty gross looking and just adds to how great my legs and toes look haha! oh and to cap it all off, i took a nap one day during lunch and after i woke up and used the bathroom i somehow ran head on into a door... i know i know pretty amazing huh? so i now have somewhat of a large goose egg on my eyebrow! i am now wearing my good luck necklace everyday and i havent run into a problem or a door since!
my companion and the group we have been here with the longest is leaving in 5 days now.. its really sad! and now that means that we will be the 6 weekers and like the seniors in high school. pretty hard to imagine i only have 3 more weeks here. (im pretty happy we only have three weeeks left cuz im going crazy). i am still trying to survive being with elders all day everyday! its hard somedays i want to kick them really bad.. i can do it though! theyre not all that bad. ive actually grown really fond of them but i can only take so much of them everyday. our teachers are all from here and now all our classes are being taught in spanish.. i never realized how much i love english! haha but the lord truly increases our understanding when we try our hardest. i love you all so much! please keep writing! dont forget.. ok? here is a little bit of my testimony in spanish.. haha errors and all.
yo se que la iglesia de jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos dias es la iglesia verdadera! y que jose smith fue un profeta y vio jesucristo y dios. mediante jose smith el evangelio de jesucristo fue restaurado. dios nos ama mucha y quiere nosotros a regresar con el. yo se podemos traer almas a traves sus ejemplos. le amo el evangelio de jesucristo y yo testifico que podemos hacer todas las cosas con Dios ayuda!
le amo mucho!
hermana amy crofts
ps.. im so excited for that package! YAY!!!!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
2/25/2010
Greetings from Argentina!!!
How is everyone this week? how are the olympics? I really enjoyed the letters and emails i recieved today and yesterday.. i love the updates, the inspirational thoughts and most of all just hearing from you guys! i love you all so very much.. you have no idea :) so anyways, i have now been wearing a skirt everyday for four weeks now.. who´d a thought i coulda made it that long. haha and secretly im getting used to it and liking it. i know i know... im shocked too! haha you should see my legs.. i have mosquito bites ALL over them and dont worry i havent bothered to shave my legs since ive been here. you probably couldnt tell them apart from the elders legs! my companion and i have decided not to shave until she leaves in 2 weeks.. oh sad day!!! i really love my companion she makes me laugh so hard everyday.. dont worry im still definitely not as serious as i probably could be but i think the Lord is okay with that. It has rained so much here in the last week. i cant believe the ccm isnt under water! i almost went crazy one day because i didnt get to go outside and play ultimate frisbee all is well though the sun is back. time is flying by!
the language is coming! this last week i feel like i learned so so much. i have become totally enveloped into this glorious work! i feel so extremely blessed to be here right now and have the opportunity everyday to better myself. i have started to read the book of mormon in spanish and i understand most of what it says! i can´t wait until when i can understand everything completely.. slowly but surely it´ll come. prosletismo was great this last saturday! my companion and i were able to have quite a bit of success which was awesome because i was thinking it might turn out really bad.. but my doubts quickly vanished! the people here are so very nice and genuine. i love how family based they are.. every saturday i see famillies out in the streets. its how it should be! we taught two guys that seemed pretty interested. we gave them books of mormon.. i hope they read them. we are getting a new area this saturday.. its going to be interesting!
so who wants to hear a funny joke courtesy of one of the elders from canada in my district.. probably he and my comp make me laugh the most here but anyways, why did the kid fall of the bicycle? haha because someone threw a refrigerator at him! haha dont know why its so funny but this week has been great!
personal study time is my favorite time of the day and this past week i have been doing a lot of thinking and i want to share with you how i want my mission to be. this scripture is found in helaman 10:4-5 it says Blessed art thou, Nephi, for those things which thou hast done; for I have beheld how thou hast with unwearyingness declared the word, which I have given unto thee, unto this people. And thou hast not feared them, and hast not sought thine own life, but hast sought my will, and to keep my commandments.
5 And now, because thou hast done this with such unwearyingness, behold, I will bless thee forever; and I will make thee mighty in word and in deed, in faith and in works; yea, even that all things shall be done unto thee according to thy word, for thou shalt not ask that which is contrary to my will.
This scripture has now become my mission statement. i want to unwearyingly declare the word, have no fear, not seek my own life but his will, and keep his commandments(or be 100% obedient). I KNOW if i do these things that the lord will bless me forever!! i love this gospel so much, my testimony has grown by leaps and bounds since i have been here! i could not be happier because i am in the service of Him who made me and whom i owe my whole life to!
I love you all so much!!! Thank you for your examples! Im praying for you all!
Hermana Crofts
How is everyone this week? how are the olympics? I really enjoyed the letters and emails i recieved today and yesterday.. i love the updates, the inspirational thoughts and most of all just hearing from you guys! i love you all so very much.. you have no idea :) so anyways, i have now been wearing a skirt everyday for four weeks now.. who´d a thought i coulda made it that long. haha and secretly im getting used to it and liking it. i know i know... im shocked too! haha you should see my legs.. i have mosquito bites ALL over them and dont worry i havent bothered to shave my legs since ive been here. you probably couldnt tell them apart from the elders legs! my companion and i have decided not to shave until she leaves in 2 weeks.. oh sad day!!! i really love my companion she makes me laugh so hard everyday.. dont worry im still definitely not as serious as i probably could be but i think the Lord is okay with that. It has rained so much here in the last week. i cant believe the ccm isnt under water! i almost went crazy one day because i didnt get to go outside and play ultimate frisbee all is well though the sun is back. time is flying by!
the language is coming! this last week i feel like i learned so so much. i have become totally enveloped into this glorious work! i feel so extremely blessed to be here right now and have the opportunity everyday to better myself. i have started to read the book of mormon in spanish and i understand most of what it says! i can´t wait until when i can understand everything completely.. slowly but surely it´ll come. prosletismo was great this last saturday! my companion and i were able to have quite a bit of success which was awesome because i was thinking it might turn out really bad.. but my doubts quickly vanished! the people here are so very nice and genuine. i love how family based they are.. every saturday i see famillies out in the streets. its how it should be! we taught two guys that seemed pretty interested. we gave them books of mormon.. i hope they read them. we are getting a new area this saturday.. its going to be interesting!
so who wants to hear a funny joke courtesy of one of the elders from canada in my district.. probably he and my comp make me laugh the most here but anyways, why did the kid fall of the bicycle? haha because someone threw a refrigerator at him! haha dont know why its so funny but this week has been great!
personal study time is my favorite time of the day and this past week i have been doing a lot of thinking and i want to share with you how i want my mission to be. this scripture is found in helaman 10:4-5 it says Blessed art thou, Nephi, for those things which thou hast done; for I have beheld how thou hast with unwearyingness declared the word, which I have given unto thee, unto this people. And thou hast not feared them, and hast not sought thine own life, but hast sought my will, and to keep my commandments.
5 And now, because thou hast done this with such unwearyingness, behold, I will bless thee forever; and I will make thee mighty in word and in deed, in faith and in works; yea, even that all things shall be done unto thee according to thy word, for thou shalt not ask that which is contrary to my will.
This scripture has now become my mission statement. i want to unwearyingly declare the word, have no fear, not seek my own life but his will, and keep his commandments(or be 100% obedient). I KNOW if i do these things that the lord will bless me forever!! i love this gospel so much, my testimony has grown by leaps and bounds since i have been here! i could not be happier because i am in the service of Him who made me and whom i owe my whole life to!
I love you all so much!!! Thank you for your examples! Im praying for you all!
Hermana Crofts
Thursday, February 18, 2010
2/18/10
Wow!! I cant believe another week has gone by already! This week was quite the week. so much has happened this week.. its been trying, its been wonderful, its been sad, its been funny. I never knew i could experience so many emotions in one week! well anyways, thank you for the amazing valentines package that you sent. i absolutely absolutely loved it! you have no idea! thank you for the cards, the pictures and a special thanks to lydia for the amazing necklace and pop rocks.. i love you! sounds like you all had a great time.. bbq at the park with games? not fair! but wow.. tommy is learning english just about as fast as im learning spanish it seems like. la, i loved those pics you sent and the letter thank you very much.. im going to really try to apply that talk to my life. well ok so here is what happened to me this week... on saturday i went to prosletysmo but instead of with my regular companion hermana kleinman i went with hermanas gardner and sepulveda. hna sepulveda is latin and hna gardner is freakishly smart and knows alot of spanish so... haha it was really a great experience! but it was also one of the most humbling moments in my life. this time was much different from last time. the hnas are very hard workers and i learned so much from them. hna gardner is like thee most courageous and determined person ever! every single person that we passed she talked to and when we knocked or clapped doors she made sure to do it twice if they didnt answer at first! but i felt so inadequate out there compared to these amazing missionaries. they would start teaching in spanish and i would stand there and try to think of what words were... i sincerely wanted to teach just like them but i just cant do that yet. so most of the time i just stood there and tried to make it seem like i knew what was going on. we did have so awesome expericences though.. we met a family on the street and hna gardner and hna sepulveda started to teach and they seemed really interested. they taught them the whole first lesson and i just played with the kids.. but at the end of the lesson i was able to bear my simple plain testimony but with such a power! i knew it affected them for the best! im so grateful that the lord gave me the opportunity to share with them the things within my heart! it is exactly what i wanted and needed at that time. also there was a time where i thought that this young kid was mocking us while we were teaching and i was able to bear my testimony with authority to him.. he wasnt mocking us it turns out but i think it mightve been exactly what he needed to hear... at the end of that day i was feeling down and very humbled because my spanish is not very good and then i came across the scripture that austin wrote down for me in ether 12:22-28.. it was exaclty what i needed to hear at that moment. thank you thank you austin! i know the lord will help me but i needed to be humbled first... i love that i could have this experience and grow from it. later on in the week the first three week group left. it was really sad.. its so funny how close you can become with a group of people in 3 weeks. i especially loved the hermanas! i really hope i get to be companions with hna gardner out in the field.. it would be so amazingly fun! im trying my best and working really hard on my spanish.. pray for me and my spanish! ill need it haha anyways mom youre going to be getting a few calls from hna. gardners sister and hna. kleinmans mom. hna gardner is wondering about some of my skirts.. and hna. kleinmans mom is coming to st. george, you guys should do something! please keep sending me letters or emails.. turns out i can print emails off. i love this gospel! i know the Lord lives and that through him everything is possible! i can even make a difference with as much spanish as i know.. i love you all so so much!
love,
Hermana Crofts
ps... donde está mi cartas???
love,
Hermana Crofts
ps... donde está mi cartas???
Thursday, February 11, 2010
2/11/10
Hi everyone!!! wow! thank you all so much for all your letters... you have no idea
how much they´ve brightened my day! for the future tho could you send me things
through dearelder.com becuase i dont have very much time to read them on here and i
want to be able to have them and read them whenever i want to. we only get 30 minutes
every thursday to email. but we have like 3 hours to write letters so if you could
please use dearelder. thanks for setting up a new email address for me.. that will be
very helpful. well this week has been crazy! saturday was a very humbling experience...
we went out into the middle of nowhere in buenos aires
said theyd come pick us up in 7 hours. everything is soooooo different here! men dont
wear shirts and women decide not to wear bras.. dont ask me why! and to avoid us they
do crazy things like pick their nose or run into there house or... try to sweep us
away with a broom. not to mention they would sick their dogs on us sometimes. dogs
here equal no bueno! but we were able to talk to a couple of people and set up
appts for this saturday! please pray for me and hna kleinman to have the gift of
tongues we will need it! i love the feeling of the spirit here.. it is in everything!
it has been hard here but it has been amazing as well. the lord has comforted me in
my trials and i am trying to maintain a happy positive attitude! its not too hard to
do though... i LOVE this gospel my testimony grows everyday times ten. i wish my
spanish would do that too haha to practice i always try to talk to the latino
missionaries. there are two sisters across the hall that i like to joke with...
it involves alot of charades but i get my point across. this saturday my goal is to
go out proselyting and not be scared to talk.. because it hit me this week how
every person i talk to this is my opportunity to change their lives and give them
the happiness and joy i feel everyday. who cares about formalities and what they
think! this is what God wants so they better just listen! i have gotten sick a
couple times from the food but its ok... i survived. everyone here is very nice and
i love my companion even though i hardly ever get to see her. I will try to write
more next week! I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!
Hermana Crofts
ps.. keep those letters coming por favor :)Thursday, February 4, 2010
2/4/2010
Hello family?? Do you know where your missionary is? I would love a letter! we get dearelder.com letters back here pretty fast. it's crazy down here.. different but its nice. i'm in a district with all elders and me. so in all of my classes there are nine elders and me. i don't have a companion to be with all day. i pretty much only see mine on at night and at meals for a couple minutes. it's cool but it can be frustrating sometimes to be with these young men all day. they are like my little brothers now though and i think we will all just get closer. i have been studying really hard, and my spanish is starting to come. i can already pray, testify, say my objective, the first vision, and teach most of the principles of the restoration in spanish! i love being able to study the gospel all day and to push myself to expand my understanding of spanish. im trying to stay completely focused. Our teachers are all native and its nice also because there are as many latino missionaries here as there are english so it almost makes you have to speak spanish. so down here they do a thing called prosletismo where they send the missionaries out to contact people in buenos aires. normally when you first go out you go for two hours but for me its a special situation, since my companion has been here for three weeks longer than i have i get to go out for seven hours. talk about getting thrown into the fire! so i have been studying as hard as i can so i dont get eaten alive by these people... im quite nervous! the food down here is either really good or not to great... its always a surprise. ive been trying to get used to eating meat and potatoes every week.. not an easy task. the fruits really good though! PLEASE WRITE ME!!!! i need you! ive got my heavenly father and all these people but i need my family here on earth.. i love you all very much!
Hermana Crofts
Hermana Crofts
1/28/10
Hola mi familia!!
I have arrived here in the beautiful country of Argentina... FINALLY! The travelling part has been okay. I was able to meet some very interesting people. The sister that i was on the plane from St. George with was so cool! She had a very amazing story. I learned alot from her and her faith. When I got to Salt Lake I went to my gate and met up with some Elders and Sister Gardner. They are all going to my same mission and we made the rest of the trip together. On the plane to Dallas I sat next to an interesting man who works in oil and served a mission in Brazil many years ago. He gave me some good advice. In Dallas, I was able to get to know Sister Gardner much better. She is a nurse and is serving as a medical helper person in the mission. We had the same shoes! haha but she knows spanish alot better than I do so she will only be here in the MTC for only 3 weeks. Im going to be here for NINE weeks! But back to Dallas, as Sister Gardner and I were walking around trying to find a good place to eat, a man came up and said you guys stand out like a sore thumb and then offered to buy us lunch. It was so nice of him! So after a long long wait in Dallas we got on the plane and I sat next to a really awesome man from Buenos Aires. He spoke english and we were able to talk about Uruguay and Argentina. I was going to give him a pass along card at the end of the flight but i chickened out... I know I know! We got to Buenos Aires and it was much more different than i thought it would be. It was humid and so so crowded. I felt a little out of place. But a lady came and got all eleven of us and took us to the MTC. Its a very nice place! Air conditioning and relatively good food haha my companion here is herman kleinfeld shes from orem. I dont know too much about her yet but ill fill ya in when i do. Shes really nice. The president here is awesome. He and his wife are from west jordan and they got here about two weeks ago. I just had a meeting with him and he has a good spirit. His wife is so kind! Im in good hands here. Well, I bet you werent expecting a letter in such great detail but i even surprise myself sometimes! The only way you can expect more detailed and great letters is to write me letters! haha I love you guys all so much! the spirit is strong here.. i can already feel spanish coming into my brain. Ill write ya next week :)
Love, Hermana Crofts
ps. Lydia, thats not my name! I love you very much and miss you
Pss Emma I saw elmo down here and he told me to say hi to you
pss Tommy, ball and uh oh
psss Josh and Johnny, BLAH (tongue out)
LOVE YOU ALL!!
I have arrived here in the beautiful country of Argentina... FINALLY! The travelling part has been okay. I was able to meet some very interesting people. The sister that i was on the plane from St. George with was so cool! She had a very amazing story. I learned alot from her and her faith. When I got to Salt Lake I went to my gate and met up with some Elders and Sister Gardner. They are all going to my same mission and we made the rest of the trip together. On the plane to Dallas I sat next to an interesting man who works in oil and served a mission in Brazil many years ago. He gave me some good advice. In Dallas, I was able to get to know Sister Gardner much better. She is a nurse and is serving as a medical helper person in the mission. We had the same shoes! haha but she knows spanish alot better than I do so she will only be here in the MTC for only 3 weeks. Im going to be here for NINE weeks! But back to Dallas, as Sister Gardner and I were walking around trying to find a good place to eat, a man came up and said you guys stand out like a sore thumb and then offered to buy us lunch. It was so nice of him! So after a long long wait in Dallas we got on the plane and I sat next to a really awesome man from Buenos Aires. He spoke english and we were able to talk about Uruguay and Argentina. I was going to give him a pass along card at the end of the flight but i chickened out... I know I know! We got to Buenos Aires and it was much more different than i thought it would be. It was humid and so so crowded. I felt a little out of place. But a lady came and got all eleven of us and took us to the MTC. Its a very nice place! Air conditioning and relatively good food haha my companion here is herman kleinfeld shes from orem. I dont know too much about her yet but ill fill ya in when i do. Shes really nice. The president here is awesome. He and his wife are from west jordan and they got here about two weeks ago. I just had a meeting with him and he has a good spirit. His wife is so kind! Im in good hands here. Well, I bet you werent expecting a letter in such great detail but i even surprise myself sometimes! The only way you can expect more detailed and great letters is to write me letters! haha I love you guys all so much! the spirit is strong here.. i can already feel spanish coming into my brain. Ill write ya next week :)
Love, Hermana Crofts
ps. Lydia, thats not my name! I love you very much and miss you
Pss Emma I saw elmo down here and he told me to say hi to you
pss Tommy, ball and uh oh
psss Josh and Johnny, BLAH (tongue out)
LOVE YOU ALL!!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Farewell to ALL!!
Hi it's Sister Crofts... this is my first ever post! Ill be leaving for Argentina tomorrow morning. I'm really excited and kind of nervous. My little sister Lisa and hopefully my mom if she learns how will be updating my blog! Best of luck to everyone and I'll be seeing you soon.
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