Anyways ya! Buen día from Esperanza, Argentina! O my goodness it is probably the most beautiful little town ever... reminds me of a mix of like.. San Diego, a mini New York, Texas, the cabin.. I don´t even know. It is so clean and the weather is perfect. A little chilly at night and in every single building that exists but it´s no worries with a coat and stuff.
The language is beautiful and incredibly frustrating at the same time. It´s not even that they speak fast they just have this tendancy to chop of the end of almost every single word then squeeze all the words together into one giant one without really opening their mouth while they speak. It´s awesome. I will eventually learn how to speak Castillano pero I seriously wonder if my mouth could ever pronnunciate my words like they do. ..gosh, I hope so though. Also, everyone was right about them being very fair skinned. Cyd -- blondes are rare but they do exist.
Anyways, my companion´s name is Hna. Quintana. Gosh, I love her. Seriously. Before I left the MTC I had this great desire to not be just a huge burden to my trainer because of my Spanish and lack of experience etc.. I did awesome in Texas but here I feel like I might as well be a rock or something. Lol A lot of times people assume that I am from here until I start speaking and then they say things like ¨well... she can listen to us talk¨ hahaha so ya... my poor trainer is definitely having to exercise some patience with me. The other thing that is frustrating is that I can understand her perfectly but when we go to talk to an investigator or member or whatever I will look to her to ¨translate¨ ... I put that in quotes because she only speaks Spanish herself but ya... maybe it´s jsut a tender mercy to my that her Spanish makes sense. I forgot to mention that she is from Perú. :) She said when she first got here she had a hard time understanding the Argentines as well so... maybe that gives me hope? Also I suppose I need to remember that I have only been here for a week. She is constantly telling me that I am doing great though and that she is just so greatful that I can understand her. ...it would sure make things intersting if I couldn´t.
What else... ha I´m sure yáll have a ton of questions and stuff... o! church! :) I´ll send a picture next week but our little chapel is so cute. It´s in one of the building near the center of town with a beautiful plaque outside it. We had about 30 come yesterday and the Buenos Aires temple is being rededicated in September I think so the ward and stake leaders are doing a lot in the way of missionary work. The branch goal is for every member to bring 10 non-members each. It´s about a 8 hour drive there on probably 3 different buses so they have a lot of fundraising to do as well. We have a lot of reactivation work to do here as well. Hna. Quintana has been here for 2 transfers and before that the area was closed for about 2 years. She said they when they first got here only 4 people were regularly coming to church so she has made awesome progress.
We´re going to go to the grocery store after this as well as to get Grido. I had absolutely no clue what that was a week ago. My comp says she has to get it every pday. Come to find out, it´s ice cream!!! Ha, so stoked.
Anyways anyways, all is good here. Thank you all for your prayers and support. Stay safe and remember how much I love yáll.
-Hna. Morgan
I don´t know what my address is that yáll have but I have been told that the mission home address is:
Boulevard Argentino 7935
Rosario 2000
Santa Fe, Argentia
We usually end up getting our mail about once a month becuase we are a good 3 hour bus ride from the mission home and our district leader is even further.
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