Vamos Arriba Familia!!!!!!!

                      

This week was awesome! The bishop here in our area is awesome. I have transfers on Saturday and I should maybe only have one more area- maybe. I wouldn't be suprised if I end my mission here in this area. 
But our bishop is visiting our inverstigators and doing a ton. The ward is changing a ton. On Sunday we had 98 people! Normally it is 60. And 43 of them were less actives and 7 investigators!!! Sooo cool! We had ward counsel and the learders all said, "thank you for your work hermanas" and I just look at the bishop and think it is the bishop. He is doing a lot of visiting. The stake called our ward to ask what we are doing and we have to report to the area what we are doing here so they can teach the rest of the area!!! Cool huh!!! 

We had the baptism of Facundo. The grandpa, who was the president of the branch 30 years ago, baptized his grandson. He stopped smoking and drinking and is changing his life - the whole family! They love us a ton too. Today we are going to the forest with them! I love them soo much! 

Oh and our other investigators are going to get married in 1 month! They were going to get married in March but the bishop talked to them about keeping the commandments and now they are going to get married in 1 month. We have to plan it and they don't have any money either. Sooo, pictures from pinterest or whatever you can find of cheap weddings, send pictures!!! Sooo fun. Her wedding colors are black and silver! Then after the wedding, Milton the guy is going to get baptized!!!!!!! So many miracles!

I was reading in Mormon 7 this week about how God is a God of miracles . And YES he is!! We just need to ask and work the very hardest we know how. And family, I am learning the importance of callings. Read everything the church says about your callings and just do what it says, nothing more and nothing less. Then God can use you to do miracles.  Dad, finish in the stake presidency giving all you can. You can seriously help so many people come back to church just by visiting them. God knows that the stake needs you right now!!! VAMOS ARRIBA FAMILIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love you all. Have a great week! 

Love Hermana Bailey

Oh and guess what?  This week we have a video for all the missionaries all over the world.  Cool huh?

2016!!!!

Hermana Bitton

Happy New Year!!

I had a great week!! So this whole transfer I have been kinda stressed that I am not giving my all and wondering what more do I need to be doing before I go home. I only have 4 more months and it really causes me anxiety when I think about going home! I hate feeling like God sent me here to do something and I still haven't figured it all out. I know that Satan could be telling me all that to keep me discouraged and not animated. So yesterday I did a fast to help me know God's will so that He can help me know what more I can do. 

I am learning a lot about listening to my companion as a mentor and really learn from her good qualities.

My new year was fun. We taught some lessons, which was a miracle, because I thought everyone would be too busy to listen to us. Then we got to be done working at 6 and we went to the apartment and I slept for 1 hour!!! So great hahah! Then we went to a member's house (laura y gille). They are awesome. We played games and were with all the missionaries. We had to go to the pension at 10 so we watched fireworks in our pension. Then the next day we did a water fight with all the missionaries in the same house.

The next day there were 3 baptisms in our ward!!! it was sooo nice.  I will send pictures. It was 3 sisters and they have been listening to the lessons a long time and then my companion set the baptism date!! She is soooo great.  

So my companion was sad because we were walking alll day!!!!!!!!! And we went to a house and they weren't home either and so after that we sat down on the curb thinking what are we going to do. And then right after that, the family came running and said, "Sorry we are late, we came running." So it was a huge blessing that we sat down for 2 min before we left looking for other people. 

A week full of miracles! In church we had 4 investigators! It was a miralce. The members are helping us a lot right now and we are seeing soo many miralces. We are also going to do a family home evening with members and their friends this week!!! Woot woot Our next baptism will be 16 January. Anyways, I love you all and hope that you are working hard and trying to find that person to get baptized;) 

Oh sorry to hear about all the funerals. I will send extra prayers your way! Love you all sooo much.

Hermana Bailey

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!!!

It was sooo fun to talk to you all!!! I already told you everything on Skype but just to tell you again I love you alll sooooo much!! You guys are sooo great!  I am sooo glad to have such a big support system! 

I am really trying to see what more God wants me to do... I feel like I am trying but I still feel like there is something I am missing. I don't really know what that thing is yet.  I need to fast and pray to find out what God wants me to do! I hope that I can figure it out before this transfer ends. 

Yesterday we went out with a less-active and we were going to teach her friend. She started going off about how the ward is suffering a lot right now and how they will probably need to combine the 2 wards here in Zapala instead of having 2 and that just made me soooo sad. I feel like God is moving his work forward but I feel like Satan sometimes is winning! But that is a lie! God always wins and I am sooo glad to be on his team. Hoorah!!! for Israel!!!! 

I hope you all have a good New Years. Oh yeah and for Christmas,  after I hung up the phone call, we went to a member's house with all the missionaries. It was really fun!  I love you all and hope you have a great week!!! 

Hermana Bailey

Feliz Navidad!

Hola family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Feliz Navidad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So things here in Argentina are going great!!!! I am soooooo excited to talk to you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will talk to you all on Friday the 25th at 1pm my time. Is that okay???? I am soooo excited!!!!!!!! 

Hey, so I met the family of Hermana Terry! They are sooo cute! I am sooo excited for you guys to come here!! Start practicing your Spanish hahah! 

So Grandma Bailey gave me 100 dollars in my bank account! She is sooo nice! I feel so blessed.  I can't think of 1 thing I want!!! Don't even worry about giving me a gift. The only thing I want is a family that is strong in the church and that loves God more than anything else! 
So just give me a letter of each of your testimonies!! And a list of goals that you are all going to do this next year that will help you grow more spiritually! hahaha

So this week was weird. It was like taking it back 1 year when I was with Hermana Bitton in Allen. We are doing great! She is a cutey. I think that I really have to learn something from her because God put us together again!!! I don't know why, but here we go. We are teaching this less active family right now and it really is their time to come back to church. It is soooo amazing. I love working with the Lord if that makes sense. He was preparing them all along. All we have to do is invite and teach and they do the rest!! It is so great to not feel like I am forcing someone to read the scriptures or go to church!!! And then the little 11 year old boy will get baptised hopefully in 2 weeks. 

I love the mission and I am sooo grateful for the talents that God has given me. My companion goes home in 2 months and she is super ready to go home!!! I feel bad for her that she is just kinda done with the mission. So pray for her and hopefully I can help her love the work! oh and the Christmas scripture is 2 Nephi 2 6-8 why Christ came:) I am soooooo grateful for you guys and Mom and Dad for always putting God first. I feel sooo blessed. Words cannot explain my gratefullness! Love you all and I'll talk to you on Friday 1pm my time:) 

Audio Clip: My Week Dec 7th

To listen, go to the following link and look in the My Week Dec 7th folder.

https://sites.google.com/site/hermanamedia/mp3?pli=1

My Companion Went Home!!!!!!

Soooo family,

We had transfers!!! My companion finished her mission. Her family is here in Argentina. Soooo fun! I can't wait for you guys to get here! My new companion is.............. Hermana Bitton again!!! hahahha Can you believe it!!! She was my companion in Allen. We were together 8 weeks! And the thing that is even crazier is that she has already served in the area where we are now!! Yeah super crazy! I am super excited. I can just avoid the whole akward new companion get to know you thing. So that is good. It's like being with family for Christmas;) 

This week was super special. My companion and I had a baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It was soooo cool. We were talking to this lady about how her son could get baptised, if he wanted. And the little boy said I will have to think about it. So then we were thinking he would get baptized in a couple of weeks.  Then on Tuesday we got a phone call while we were in a lesson and the Mom said that her son wanted to get baptized on Friday!!!!! So we were like UMMMMM OKAY :) :)         So we went to the house and brought the Primary President and planned the baptism. 

It was such a beautiful service.  After the little boy  got baptized he told his Mom that he felt super good and happy and that he wanted to share his testimony in front of everyone.  He got up there and said, "I know the church is true.  I know that God loves us." He just started to cry! It was sooo cute! I seriously loved it! The Spirit was sooo strong. The family is totally starting to come back to church! 

2 Big Miracles!!! 

So, right before the 6:00 baptism (remember we only had 1 day to plan) at 5:30 we still had not found baptism clothes. We had called everyone and all the wards here and nobody had baptism clothes. So we said a prayer and went to the baptism with my white shirt!!! It would just be a dress on this little boy. (very trashy lookin) Then we get there and there was a member there who had brought clothes. But she had brought men's white clothes. They were huge! The little boy arrived and the Mom, Grandma and Aunt were smarty pants. They used like one pin and fixed the clothes to fit the little boy and you didn't even notice the clothes were for a grown man!!! Soooo cool.  God seriously can do anything!!!!

Next Miracles

So, Saturday! We had to go to this member's house who lived 22 kilometros (14 miles) away from the city. We had to take the bus to get to their house and do a service project, but because it was Saturday, the bus wasn't coming back until 9 at night and we had to be back at 7.  So we tried to find people that could take us back in a car. But no one could so we called members for bikes!!! hahah We found 2 bikes and 2 helmets. My helmet had little cartoons from a little five year old. hahah.   We took the bikes in the bus so then the bus driver looks at us and asks, "Are you guys coming back on bikes?"  We were like ummm yeah... hahaha. He said "that is dumb."  So we were like, "nah we can do it!!" Well, this 14 miles was in the middle of the desert and all up hill and tons of wind! We made it 7 kilometros and we were dying. We had been riding for 1 hour and we hadn't even hit the half way mark. We said a prayer and put our fingers up like a hitch hiker.  Just after that a truck pulled by..... yeah.... but guess what?....... It was a member!!!  He took us into town! It saved our lives- huge miracle.

 

So my comp and I had 4 investigators that came to church yesterday. That morning we had gone to look for our investigators to take to church and everyone was sleeping.  I was sooooo angry!!!! Then we got to church and guess what little miracle God gave us?! The pastor's kids that we are teaching came to church because we went to their church!  They were only staying for the classes so I was soo sad and I told the 18 year old girl to stay. She asked her brother to stay, but he didn't want to so she stayed with us. Then she told us she doesn't go to church with her family because she doesn't feel anything in church. Then in Sacrament meeting she cried!!!! She totally felt the Spirit. It was the primary program. Seriously sooo crazy, and the people sing sooo bad but still the Spirit was sooo strong. We are going to baptize the pastor's daughter!! 

Anyways, got to go. Word of advise that I am learning this week: put God first!!! You should put more time in the scriptures than in wordly things.  (Get out of the magazines and into the scriptures). Satan is sooo strong right now and we have to hold on tight to the iron rod!  Family, I love you sooo much and I don't want you guys to  get too casual in righteousness! Besitos 

Hermana Bailey

Beautiful People!!!

Wow family, I still have 5 more months so let's not get trunky ;) When I have one more week left we will know I will be home soon hahaha. But having my companion going home is actually kinda hard for me... but I love what I am doing. And Mom, having you come would not cut into my mission because you would come at the end of my mission and be there for the final dinner and the other missionaries. And other missionaries are going to have their family come. And President said it is awesome to have the parents come.  But the only thing I am worried about is getting you guys here because you don't speak Spanish hahaha. But maybe you can go with the parents of Hermana Van Boreum or you can bring Uncle Ron- haha I know he would love to come. Or just go with it - you will figure it out. But I really do want you guys to come! I totally will plan it:) You can get to know my converts!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Serenity, Hope and Tanden and Jackson are all sooooo cute. Wow this world is sooo full of beautiful people. I am just loving my mish sooo much. I love the cute people here. Last week we were contacting a lady in the street and this little boy came up to us. He is probably 7 and then his 2 little friends came up too and they were like, "Can you give us a picture of Jesus?" We were trying to help this woman because she was telling us her life problems. Then like 10 LITTLE KIDS came over and were just surrounding us and then the lady left and the little kids were asking us all these questions and we told them why we have Christmas and gave them stickers. It was sooooo fun!!!! I seriously loved it!!! The kids notice something different with us. It is sooooo coool!!! 

Anyways, so much going on and I need to write in my journal becuase I have not been very good at that. 

For Hope--My house has stairs and no comfy furniture haha.  I will send a picture of my kitchen. :)

Love you all.

 For the Christmas call umm I can do it any day of the week of Christmas so you let me know when you want to do it and I will try and talk to those memebers..

Oh and cool spiritual thought: So yesterday in church I was kinda frustrated with the members. It was Fast Sunday and they were just up there complaining about their problems and just other things were bothering me because people are just not even to the level of spirituality the way that God wants them to be.  I was sooo frustrated and I realized that He still loves his children sooo much even though we are sooo imperfect and that he is so merciful. I love God soooo much. My mish is really helping me understand God on a whole different level.  ANYWAYS I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT NAVIDAD AND KEEP BEING RIGHTEOUS. ITHINK THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK IS READ YOUR SCRIPTURES. GOD IS SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE FRILLS AND GIFTS! BUT YOU CAN GIVE GIFTS TO SHOW LOVE BUT ENJOY EVERY MINUTE OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH THE FAMILY. 

LOVE HERMANA BAILEY