Oozma Kappa

Dear Framily: 

What a Wheek! So, I`m training! 

You`ll have to excuse my brain in this letter, it`s a little fried from these past few days. Training is tiring. Great! But tiring. 

So I guess I`ll start from Mendoza. Hermana Fernandez and I traveled to Mendoza to meet our Hijas. We got to meet all six new missionaries before we knew which ones we would be training. Two from Chile, one from Peru, one from Brazil, one from the US, and one from Samoa. And...drum roll please...I got a chilean! Her name is Hermana Cortès, she`s 22, and quite fantastic. After meeting our trainees, we all separated to our different areas. So Uspallata is about two hours from Mendoza centro, up through and within the mountains away from everyone and everything. The drive is really pretty, but we only got to see it this morning coming back down to Mendoza for the District meeting tomorrow. Every other meeting is over the phone because the travel time is so long. But anyway, there`s that. Oh speaking of pretty drive, I have pictures that I won`t be sending because this computer doesn`t have an input. Please forgive. You`ll see Hermana Cortès next week. Or if you go to the mission blog you can see her there also. http://argentinamendozamission.blogspot.com.ar/ :) 

So Uspallata! The first couple of days hermana Cortès kept saying Oozma Kappa, from Monsters University, so that was pretty funny. 

It`s basically super chill. It`s small in the sense of population, and large in the sense of we have bicicletas because of the large distance. One of the wheels is popped on one of the bikes so we haven`t used them yet, but we do have them. 

The first day we got there was basically spent looking at the area book and maps and more at the map and area book, which was a little boring, and pretty confuzing. It`s hard becuase a lot of times the streets don`t have names. And when they do, the houses don`t have numbers. Basically a lot of the directions are "House 27 on Block 3 in Neighborhood such and such". Sometimes there are drawings too. But the Branch President helped us a lot. He took us to his house and marked on the map where all the members live and helped us figure out how to get to the less actives and investigators too, so that helped us a lot. We still got pretty lost and weren`t able to get a lot of lessons, but such is washing the area. It`s pretty slow at first, but pretty soon we`ll start finding our way around. Let`s just say we ask for directions a lot. Which is a great excuse to talk to people! Woot! 

So this week we met an investigator named Sebastian. He`s 23 mas o menos, and his situation is a little difficult because he has seizures which cause him to forget a lot of things. The lessons with him are very simple, which is always nice. The hermanas before us set a baptismal date with him for this coming saturday, and the president said everything was good to go, we just had to set up an interview with him. We had one lesson with him, and things went well. He does want to be baptised, and says he thinks it`s what he needs right now. It`s a little difficult because of his health, but we moved the date to the 14th because there`s still a few things the hermanas haven`t taught him, plus we want to really make sure he`s ready for this important step in his life. But we`re super excited to be teaching him! Lots of prayers for him would be appreciated. We really want to help him prepare to be baptized. 

Well, I`m super excited to be with this new little missionary. It`s exciting to work with her, fresh from the MTC, excited over everything that has to do with missionary work. She`s so sweet. Saturday, after a long day of knocking doors and not finding anyone, we talked together about Abinadi versus Alma, right where I`ve been reading lately in Mosiah. Alma baptised thousands, and Abinadi zero. But each one completed their mission from God just as faithfully. And really, that`s what`s important. I love reading Abinadi`s testimony, because you can tell in every word that he knows his is a death mission, per say. He knows they won`t listen, he knows they won`t let him go free, but he teaches anyway, and doesn`t hold anything back. Why? Because he was given a mission from God to that specific place, people, time, and he trusts that God knows why, even if he didn`t. And I add my testimony the same. I don`t know why God put us here in little Uspallata, but I know that God has a plan for us here. And for each one of you, wherever you are and whatever you do. Never lose trust in Him! 

Love you all! 

Hermana Cannon

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