Merry Christmas

Dear Family.Merry CHRISTMAS!!!Thankyou so much for the letters. It sounds like things are going welland full of interesting stories. Okay, This week was a bit crazy. We had planning and that always takes a while, now we are changing a little bit how we do it. Well, I guess we are just doing part of it more thoroughly than before. It´sawesome, but a lot of work. So then we got a phone call letting us know that we had a training meeting for all of the trainers and their companions. Oh no, I´m getting a head of myself. On Tuesday we got togo to the Church office building in Bonpland to do a simulization ofthe new ¨open chapel¨program that they are launching here in Argentina. That was awesome, we got to do a run thorugh with the employees that work for the church and see how it works. It´s pretty cool. They have the recording that they use in the visitors center and a big wood cut out of the Christus. So that´s what we did on Tuesday in preparation for the actual event on Friday. It was pretty cool to be able to participate in the first one in Argentina. So we headed out to that on Friday morning, but we had to leave early because we had the open chapel activity. OH Wait. I almost forgot about the most exciting part. On the way to the church for the meeting, the train hit someone. I don´t know how bad it was. They weren´t any ambulances or anything, but that´s what we were told. So of course we all have to get off the train as they wait for the police. Well It was an adventure to jump off the train. It is about 8 feet up of the ground.Oh the fun we have in skirts....It was really nice of the Elders to help all the sisters down off the train though, that made things slightly less awkward. So then it´s gonna take forever for the next train to come so we just start walking. We walked to the next train station and just as we walked in the train pulled up. Well we were in the wrong side of the tracks....well we all brake out in a run down the platform, up the strairs that go over the train tracks and down the other side. It´s a good thing the Elders were out in front because just as they got there they yelled out ESPERE ESPERE. (wait wait) The train whistle blows the doors were about to close and we were booking it down the last few steps of the bridge. Thanks to the elders and them talking to the driver we all made it on the train and got to San Fernando. That was awesome. So then we had to leave early to make it back to vicente lopez and it started to rain just as we got off the train, so all of our preparations to look nice were in vain, but hey we´re missionaries right, we look pretty ragged most of the time. So we got to the church and got everything set up and it was so great.This program will be so powerful when people learn about it and invite their friends to it. So we gave the tour to 10 people, but they were all really awesome and we recived 20 referals.So that was probaly to most enternaing part of the week. It´s great being here. We also saw a lot of miracles, one being Luis. He´s an elderly man we met on Saturday. We were walking by his house and out of the corner of my eye I saw something strange. i took a double take and turns out it was a turtle turned over on it´s back. Poor guy, well it couldn´t move and like every house there was a big metal fence. I rang the doorbell and few times and that´s how we met Luis. Turns out the turtle tends to do that, not really sure how, but it happens. Well we got to talking and he was interested in the messege and he came to church yesterday. yay. So things are well here. I hope all is well with you. Love you all.I´ll talk (and see) you on SUNDAY!lots of love,Aleta