Dear Family,
I love you tons I hope you know that. I think of you all often, and even though it always seems like I am running around and never have time for you, it´s not true. I am literally running around. We went to the ¨coast¨ today, really it is the river Rio de la Plata. It is huge and in my area. We had a choriso, well chori pan. It is a delicious sausage on fresh baked bread. I am really going to miss Argentine food when I come home. So, since we took a lot of time to do all of that with the Elders. I don´t have much time here. About 5 minutes so. Know that this week was great. We are really starting to see some success in my area. We had 5 investigators at church this week, so yeah. Okay I am doing great I am really excited to print off a read all of your emails, I´ll respond to them next week. Sorry, I know it is short and you want to here more from me, but well that's life isn´t always fighting against the clock.;)
Love you muchisimo!
Aleta
Sister Aleta Bray
Aleta 25
On my Birthday!
Worn Out!
after pushing the car....okay it may have been slightly exaggerated....(explanation of car in July 18th letter)
Aleta Christmas Eve - Beunos Aires
Look at what I Got! Aleta Christmas Eve - Beunos Aires
Monday, May 30, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
what a week...
Dear family,
Thank you for the emails this week! Jaime! sounds like life is going great, I´m so happy for you. Dad, I like the poem. Mom, thank you for the updates every week, you are great! oh and yes, I bought a coat. I am going to try and buy a camera today we will see how it goes. We are headed out to play a few games with our district and make tacos. It should be fun!
Oh before I forget, last week I was on splits with Hermana Keele, from Utah, we are teaching English classes every Saturday and so the two of us were together, while our companions were teaching a lesson. Anyway, we went to see one of her former investigators and he is really great. I had a hard time focusing on the lesson at times because this guy is Scott in 20 years. Okay no, he does not look like Scott, but he talks and walks and does the same hand gestures and the way he sits....it was weird. He answered questions, I swear, word for word like Scott would. So weird. Oh and he knows English and speaks really well so that just added to the list of things. So there is a guy who lives in Vicente Lopez who could be my brother, huh, who knew.
This has been a week of a lot of walking. We have now contacted every member in our area and all of the former investigators. We have a few appointments for this coming week and a few that sound really promising. We have an appointment tonight with a family that the other Hermanas just love, but the father just could give up smoking. Well we stopped by last week and he said that he had finally given it up! So we really feel that now is their time. We are really focusing on ways that we can find new investigators. We trying to work with the members, but there aren´t that many that live in our area. So we are especially trying to focus on receiving referrals during our lunch appointments. I am still excited to be here and I know that we are going to see the Lord work miracles in this area. I know that everything is done in his time and that if we stay faithful and keep doing the things that he asks we will see miracles and we will find the people here in our area who are ready to receive the gospel.
Okay sorry it´s short, but we are heading out and the Elder´s area is like 1 1/2 bus ride from here so we have to go early. Love you all, you are in my prayers.
Love from,
Aleta
Thank you for the emails this week! Jaime! sounds like life is going great, I´m so happy for you. Dad, I like the poem. Mom, thank you for the updates every week, you are great! oh and yes, I bought a coat. I am going to try and buy a camera today we will see how it goes. We are headed out to play a few games with our district and make tacos. It should be fun!
Oh before I forget, last week I was on splits with Hermana Keele, from Utah, we are teaching English classes every Saturday and so the two of us were together, while our companions were teaching a lesson. Anyway, we went to see one of her former investigators and he is really great. I had a hard time focusing on the lesson at times because this guy is Scott in 20 years. Okay no, he does not look like Scott, but he talks and walks and does the same hand gestures and the way he sits....it was weird. He answered questions, I swear, word for word like Scott would. So weird. Oh and he knows English and speaks really well so that just added to the list of things. So there is a guy who lives in Vicente Lopez who could be my brother, huh, who knew.
This has been a week of a lot of walking. We have now contacted every member in our area and all of the former investigators. We have a few appointments for this coming week and a few that sound really promising. We have an appointment tonight with a family that the other Hermanas just love, but the father just could give up smoking. Well we stopped by last week and he said that he had finally given it up! So we really feel that now is their time. We are really focusing on ways that we can find new investigators. We trying to work with the members, but there aren´t that many that live in our area. So we are especially trying to focus on receiving referrals during our lunch appointments. I am still excited to be here and I know that we are going to see the Lord work miracles in this area. I know that everything is done in his time and that if we stay faithful and keep doing the things that he asks we will see miracles and we will find the people here in our area who are ready to receive the gospel.
Okay sorry it´s short, but we are heading out and the Elder´s area is like 1 1/2 bus ride from here so we have to go early. Love you all, you are in my prayers.
Love from,
Aleta
Monday, May 16, 2011
43 really?
Dear family,
really it has been 43 weeks, huh, I lost count along time ago. I just know that I have been here for a while and I still have a while left. So I have been really bad at acknowledging peoples birthdays. Sorry. I remembered right after we left the Internet place the last two weeks. So...happy belated birthday to everyone! There are a lot of you, so friends and family with birthdays in May happy birthday. especially a belated to Scott, 29! and an early to Matt, 31! Woohoo. Okay so my birthday was this week and it was good. My companions made me a card. The next day was Hermana Keele´s so we had cake for the both of us that morning. It was fun. My companions birthday is this week, on the 18th. So we are just in full birthday mode around here. It is pretty fun. One of the members here went and bought us chocolate bars, yum. They are like aero bars, but a different brand and just as yummy.
We do have a few investigators, yeah. None of them came to church yesterday, but we are working on that. Oh and we have been visiting all of the members that live in our area, there are three yankee´s, north Americans, that live in a row. They work for the embassy here in Argentina, well they move every two years. So they are assigned to Argentina for the time being. One of them her name is, oh and I´m not kidding, Elizabeth Bennett. Well she is great and from Arizona, but she lived awhile in Squim, I think. Well I said I was from Anacortes, and her face was priceless. She was very excited and said that they go to Lopez every summer, it is their favorite place in the world. So they are going in about 5 weeks. How cool is that. Down here in Argentina and I meet someone who has been and is going to my town. Pretty cool. Well that is about all I´ve got, sorry it´s short...
Love you all have a great week,
Aleta
ps. Thanks for your letter Kammie, I´m so happy for you!
really it has been 43 weeks, huh, I lost count along time ago. I just know that I have been here for a while and I still have a while left. So I have been really bad at acknowledging peoples birthdays. Sorry. I remembered right after we left the Internet place the last two weeks. So...happy belated birthday to everyone! There are a lot of you, so friends and family with birthdays in May happy birthday. especially a belated to Scott, 29! and an early to Matt, 31! Woohoo. Okay so my birthday was this week and it was good. My companions made me a card. The next day was Hermana Keele´s so we had cake for the both of us that morning. It was fun. My companions birthday is this week, on the 18th. So we are just in full birthday mode around here. It is pretty fun. One of the members here went and bought us chocolate bars, yum. They are like aero bars, but a different brand and just as yummy.
We do have a few investigators, yeah. None of them came to church yesterday, but we are working on that. Oh and we have been visiting all of the members that live in our area, there are three yankee´s, north Americans, that live in a row. They work for the embassy here in Argentina, well they move every two years. So they are assigned to Argentina for the time being. One of them her name is, oh and I´m not kidding, Elizabeth Bennett. Well she is great and from Arizona, but she lived awhile in Squim, I think. Well I said I was from Anacortes, and her face was priceless. She was very excited and said that they go to Lopez every summer, it is their favorite place in the world. So they are going in about 5 weeks. How cool is that. Down here in Argentina and I meet someone who has been and is going to my town. Pretty cool. Well that is about all I´ve got, sorry it´s short...
Love you all have a great week,
Aleta
ps. Thanks for your letter Kammie, I´m so happy for you!
Monday, May 9, 2011
wow...25!
Dear family,
It was so great to talk to you yesterday! I loved hearing your voice. I am determined to make this skype thing work for Christmas :) I hope mothers day was great for everyone. Thank you so much for all of the emails this week, Jodi, Brandi, Dad, Mom, Betsy. Everything just sounds great with you. Okay to answer a few questions. If I remember correctly I had chosen a few paint chips before I left and there was one that is blue. I think it was one of the middle colors, not to dark not to pale. It is kind of a slate blue, with slightly off white trim. That was for my room, for the bathroom, I didn´t have a preference, yellow sounds good, just please not to bright. Go ahead paint a way, I look forward to seeing all the changes when I come home.
So as for things new with me...not much since yesterday. The area is really big and really pretty. There are a lot of really big houses here, that is a bit of a change from Tigre. We did a lot of walking this week, trying to learn our way around. I think it is working, I am pretty good with the map, and my companion is very grateful for that.
Okay I dodn´t have too much more to say, I am off to explore Unicenter (mall). Next week more updates I promise.
Love you all,
Your Aleta
It was so great to talk to you yesterday! I loved hearing your voice. I am determined to make this skype thing work for Christmas :) I hope mothers day was great for everyone. Thank you so much for all of the emails this week, Jodi, Brandi, Dad, Mom, Betsy. Everything just sounds great with you. Okay to answer a few questions. If I remember correctly I had chosen a few paint chips before I left and there was one that is blue. I think it was one of the middle colors, not to dark not to pale. It is kind of a slate blue, with slightly off white trim. That was for my room, for the bathroom, I didn´t have a preference, yellow sounds good, just please not to bright. Go ahead paint a way, I look forward to seeing all the changes when I come home.
So as for things new with me...not much since yesterday. The area is really big and really pretty. There are a lot of really big houses here, that is a bit of a change from Tigre. We did a lot of walking this week, trying to learn our way around. I think it is working, I am pretty good with the map, and my companion is very grateful for that.
Okay I dodn´t have too much more to say, I am off to explore Unicenter (mall). Next week more updates I promise.
Love you all,
Your Aleta
Monday, May 2, 2011
goodbye Tigre......
.......hello Vicente Lopez 2.
Dear Family,
Yes it has happened. I have been transferred. It is really weird, not gonna lie. I feel like I just got here all over again. Everything is new. The zone leaders called last night and said I was being transferred. I said ¨no¨.They said Yes¨ Well they won obviously. So then Elder Larson said, ¨Hermana Bray you are going to Vicente Lopez...2¨ wait what? There is no number 2 only 1. okay okay. so I asked ¨huh, who is my companion?¨ ¨Oh Hermana Salas¨ okay so here is where i start to get worried. I know very well that Hermana Salas is great, she´s from Chile. She actually came to Argentina the same day I did, so that´s cool, but that is not what had me worried. I also know that she has spent all of her time in the south. Which means that she is also being transferred......or if you haven´t put that together yet. We are opening an area. They decided to split an area of Hermanas and now there are 4 of us here. Two in one area and us in the other. We have no clue what we are supposed to do. We don´t even know how the area is split up. I guess we will find out though. It will definitely be a new adventure this week, well all transfer I think. Hopefully it will be fun living with 3 other people. I´ve grown pretty used to just one other person. Okay okay, I guess that´s all I have to say about that. I don´t really have any more time with all the running around and I need to unpack some so I can find things like my scriptures :)
Lots of love,
Aleta
Dear Family,
Yes it has happened. I have been transferred. It is really weird, not gonna lie. I feel like I just got here all over again. Everything is new. The zone leaders called last night and said I was being transferred. I said ¨no¨.They said Yes¨ Well they won obviously. So then Elder Larson said, ¨Hermana Bray you are going to Vicente Lopez...2¨ wait what? There is no number 2 only 1. okay okay. so I asked ¨huh, who is my companion?¨ ¨Oh Hermana Salas¨ okay so here is where i start to get worried. I know very well that Hermana Salas is great, she´s from Chile. She actually came to Argentina the same day I did, so that´s cool, but that is not what had me worried. I also know that she has spent all of her time in the south. Which means that she is also being transferred......or if you haven´t put that together yet. We are opening an area. They decided to split an area of Hermanas and now there are 4 of us here. Two in one area and us in the other. We have no clue what we are supposed to do. We don´t even know how the area is split up. I guess we will find out though. It will definitely be a new adventure this week, well all transfer I think. Hopefully it will be fun living with 3 other people. I´ve grown pretty used to just one other person. Okay okay, I guess that´s all I have to say about that. I don´t really have any more time with all the running around and I need to unpack some so I can find things like my scriptures :)
Lots of love,
Aleta
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