Feliz Pascua! I hope that everyone had a really great Easter/Conference weekend! It was a true joy to listen to the prophet and apostles and other inspired servants of the Lord speak to us. I loved conference! It was so refreshing and strengthened my testimony that God knows us and loves us and listens to our prayers. I know that Jesus is the Christ, the same resurrected Lord, who has restored His church on the earth upon the foundation of prophets and apostles!
Other than Conference, our week was a bit uneventful. We had a bit of trouble finding people at home or willing to receive us. But we had an investigator who is struggling to get married come to conference and they talked about marriage and family and faith! So I hope that answered her doubts as much as conference answered mine.
Yes, so conference was live, by satellite (2 hours later than the MDT) and I got to watch in English! They had an english with me, our elders from Tunuyan, and like 3 others from our district, and the senior couple! It was really a treat to watch in English, athough when the spanish talks rolled around, I wanted to listen in Spanish!
Easter in Argentina is an interesting experience. Even if you're not Catholic (whicheveryone is), it's still really culturally traditional to not eat meat during the Holy week. It's kind of funny. And everyone makes homeade chocolate easter eggs filled with candy, and they are beautiful and delicious(one of our investigators gave us some). There's a dish here that they make during the semana santa called humita, which is like a mixture of liquified corn, peppers, tomato sauce, onion, and other delicious stuff, and they eat it alone or they put it in empanadas and it is so delicious for a corn lover like me! The corn is really cheap right now, so I'll have to take advantage of that.
I attended my first consejo, which is where the zone leaders and the sister training leaders all meet with the president and the assitants and talk about stuff for the mission. Of course, I didn't go in, only my comp is a sister training leader, but I sat in the offices all day haha. I studied and talked with the other missionaries, it was kind of fun.
Ooo! Also, I remember now, that we went to harvest grapes for service this week! It was so fun and just an all around cool experience. The senior couple live on a vineyard in a little town about an hour away, so our district went to help harvest grapes on the vineyard! It was way fun. You cut the bunches of grapes off the vines with scissors and put them in huge buckets. My arms and face were really sticky by the end of the day, because the juice spills down. I'll try to attach a pic.
Well, my spirit and faith have been lifted by the guidance of our prophet and apostles.I encourage everyone to study conference and heed the words of Elder Nelson, who said "How are we going to change from what we have heard this conference?" I love you all! Have a beautiful week!
Love,
Hermana Pyper
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