When the heats killing you, it rains mangos!!

I dont have time to write.. but im alive, sweating and super happy.

Im sure that God is super pumped when he can give us blessings and we finally see his hand in our lives. ahhh Im so grateful we have a Heavenly Father who loves us so much.

 Im super excited to see you all in 2 months... but like I dont want to live here... Theres so many people who I love, so many miracles.. Im addicted. hahahaha

I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!! 

Talk to you next week!!

And in the words of a old man here who has 90 years... be careful of those cars and the temptations... 

hahahah i have no idea. hahaha

LOTS OF LOVE

Hermana B

waterfights, mangos... and cockroaches? HELP

So I just got to start this off by saying I just hung up the phone with the elders from our district...

hahahhaha they called... saying that they bought a chicken because everything was closed... and they dont know how to cook it. In the stove top or in the oven, and for how long.. and hahahah I just died.... Im sure our moms are all so proud of us. hahahahah poor guys.

So this week was a little crazy. hahaha we have to be alert contantly inthe streets because everyone has started throwing water balloons.. and at us, and at everyone.. its the tradition here in January and Feb. We've managed to dodge a lot of groups of kids wandering the streets looking for people to soak.. but yeah... we got soaked quite a few times this week. hahaha its a good thing its so hot here. hahahahhaha 

We're teaching some really awesome people here. Like Lorgio... he wants to be baptized so bad, but hes from Bolivia and so he needs to do a lot of paperwork so that he can marry his girlfriend and then get baptized...Pray for him!so that he keeps working hard to have his family forever!!

And Alejandra, a young mom with her two little girls... she accepted baptism and all our invitations and then pretty much fell of the face of the earth. We are working super duper hard here, the members are calling us to go to appointments, theyre giving us whoever they know and working so hard with us. I absolutely love it! When the members are working side by side with us, its when miracles really happen... wow... Like a sister told us this week, no one is too old, too busy or too sick to not help the work of the Lord. ahhh I cant even explain the miracles.. the lords hand is here in Ledesma.. and its because these people are opening their hearts to see it. Almost everyone that ive met this week has been someone that i swear I know them from before... I know im supposed to be here. 

This week was a week of miracles, of killing cockroaches, hiding from water balloons, eating mangos, breaking two beds and living it up in this wonderful life that God gave us. He trusts us to be here, and we wants to be good, and to come home. I know he loves us. Just look up, and ask him, and tell me that you dont feel his love. He loves you all!!!

I love you crazy peeps too!!!

Today I have 16 months in the mission... as my comp, my daughter is telling me, im old. hahahaha I feelit hahahah

LOOOOVE YOU ALL

Hermana Bower

p.s. how can we kill of these freaking cockroaches??? We've been killing them off like a whack a mole.... or just dance... hahahha

Little towns, big bugs

Okay... this week was so spiritually packed, it just like punched me in the face.... or maybe that was the heat... we literally have not stopped sweating since weve got here....but thats a other topic...

We've literally been guided by God so much this week.

We did a Family Home Evening actividad in the church and got to lead a bunch of youth into running into the walls, and climbing chairs looking for a tree... we were doing the dream of lehi... hahaha

and we had huge changes to our schedule this week that all of our studies are like super short so we can leave to work... and so we WORKED OUR BOOTIES OFF THIS WEEK!! And im really sunburnt, and my comp is really new to the mission, her body is dying because shes not used to this... but it was awesome...

We had a guy tell us the first time that we met him that hes going to marry his girlfriend, and hes going to get baptized. 

and then we went and talked to his neighbor, and she said that she doesnt like talking to anyone that knocks on her door, but she felt really good when she saw us, and we walked passed her and when we turned back to talk to her, she knew that she needed to listen to us. She also told us shell be baptized with her little girls... 

and then... well i cant tell all the awesome things this week but we did go to another small town and had the sacrament in the house of a member.. we had the church service in her house. there was 11 people... and it was so full of the spirit... to see that God really knows his children... and it doesnt matter if youre the only member in your town, and if you live really far from the church in another town... God knows you, He loves you, and if you stay firm in your faith, he provides the way. I felt so much love in that little house as we huddled around a table with the sacrament trays. We tried super hard to have a normal service. i gave a talk.. hahaha and as we sat there with the flies and mosquitos eating us alive, i felt really the sacrifice that Jesus Christ did for everyone of us. As we ate that bread and drank that water in silence, I could see the sacrifice. Really feel the sorrow and the love he felt... he did that because he loves us. Do we take the sacrament because we love Him?

Afterwards the members were super excited and took us to see their friend that they havent seen in 26 years... and they were like super happy to see her and then they got down to business and said, "We're here because we love you. And because we want you to know what makes us so happy too." They got to share the joy of the gospel and this lady, their friend... and i was touched. really. Do we want our friends and family to be happy? And if we do, why arent we sharing this glad message? They got to testify to her that she'll see her parents again one day... it was a day of so much testimony and so much amor. God loves us so much. I hope you all never forget that... but he also loves his other children... he wants them to come home too... talk to your missionaries... visit people with them.. talk to your friends... give them this message of eternal happiness and hope. 

I love you all!! I know this church is true, and that god really has a plan for us.. i can see it everyday. Hes guiding us... I taught a class of the youth yesterday... and I asked them.. do you know God lives? They said yes. And then I asked, How do you know?... they were a little speechless... until one kid said, I KNOW he lives because he sent Jesus Christ for me. He was born FOR ME.

Thats just awesome. hahaha

HASTA LUNES!!!!

Hermana B

Where the Llamas live and the sun buuuurns

I dont even have time to explain this crazy week... well two weeks... hahaha
BUT HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!
I cant believe we're in a new year..
I couldnt write last week because well.. opening a new area... we
didnt know where we could write... but hahaha here we are...
Im with my new comp my hijita hahaha Hermana Granda from Ecuador.
ANd I just got to say that wow... we love this area. Our branch
president and alot of people went to the greet us... and they were
running and giving us hugs... they are sooooooo excited to have
hermanas here... theyre so great!! Hermana Chaparro.. the wife of our
mission presidente served here too... and she baptized soooo many
people. hahaha she was so excited for us. We have two branches that we
take care of... I just love it here!! Its so freaking hot though...
osooo hot... ill write more next week about all the miracles weve
seen. Please pray for us that we can kick some butt and do the work of
the Lord.
LOVE YOU ALLL
Hermana B

 My area is Ledesma, Jujuy. Its a little town.. with a branch.
I have two Branches here... Ledesma, and Fraile...
Fraile is even smaller of a town and a branch...they dont have a church building.. and wow..
this area is MY FAVORITE!!!!! But its needs a lot of work thats to the loser of elders that were here before us.. they were destroying this area... if I see them one day.... :0
My "daughter" hahahah is Hermana Granda from Ecuador. Shes awesome. hahahah We get along just fine.. hahaha shes really an awesome person. :D
Im not wearing pants... like just no.. theyre terrible pants... Im
going to burn them... my new comp doesnt know about the pants so we in
skirts.. hahahaha and yes its so much hotter here... like so much.. im
already so burnt. but today I bought a hat so yeah... im good now..
but like wow.... its sooooo stinking hot here. Its like my first area, Santiago... woooow... 
I just sweat and sweat here...
its crazy here learning EVERYTHING!!! And we get lost alot... like trying to find the house of a member to eat lunch and we were in two different taxi's with the elders... looking
forever.. and walking and sweating and wow.. hahaha