GARAGE SALE WITH YOUNG WOMEN
MISSIONARY MOMENTS
Elder Tanner Jorgenson
The weather here is really psyching me out haha. Today it's gorgeous, but Saturday man, Saturday was the worst. Near-freezing rain made it pretty hard to street contact anyone! We ended up bussing all over to parts of Madison I've never seen to contact less-active members. Ended up spending the whole day and having the only person to answer turn out to only speak Hmong so that was fun!
Church this Sunday was really good, we really thought Rebekah was going to come this time, but she called us with a headache at about 9:30. So that sucked. Plus summer's coming! So Rebekah (and all the other students) will be going back to their various homes in a week or two. I honestly don't know what we're going to do all summer! Hopefully at least a few people decide that summer semester is a good time to go to college haha.
But things are going well! This has probably been one of the hardest weeks of my mission, but honestly it's been one of the most spiritual times as well. It's a shame that we only truly turn to the Lord at times when we really need his help. But I can say that I'm so grateful that he really is there when we need it, and our adversity really is for our gain at the end of the day. We're coming back from a slump right now but I'm more committed than ever to open my mouth at all times! And I know he won't let me down, because he never has before.
Love you all! Talk to you next week!
Elder Jorgensen
308 Forest St. Apt #5
Madison, WI 53726
So this week was kinda tough, not a lot happened honestly. Except we did find this awesome Chinese student named Yasin (pronounced yee-shen... we're not sure he knows quite how to spell in English yet) who we're meeting up with on Friday. It'll be sweet to get some of the semi-active Chinese-speaking members involved in teaching and fellowshipping again. Other than that a pretty ineffective week! Everyone is stressed about finals.
BUT then Sunday was the most dreamy day haha, it just kinda floated by. First of all Rebekah AND Jie came to church! Which is a prayer answered right there. Especially since Rebekah leaves to go back to Marshfield next week. So Jie brought Elder Newman and I some gifts as well, two big canisters of green tea like direct from China, super authentic stuff. Hahaha after having Melissa explain to him how we don't drink tea he said we could have it anyways, totally keeping it as a memento. He was just beaming when he gave it to us, man why couldn't I get called to China for my mission I love these guys haha.
In other news, calling home went great, it felt really good to just kind of let everything go for 45 minutes! And we spent the day at Braden's with a couple of other Elders, and he is just AWESOME. So solid.
Basically, life's good! I know that I'm fulfilling my purpose out here and that what I'm teaching is the truth. The gospel of Jesus Christ blesses lives and I've seen it! I love my family a ton and am excited to work on the task of uniting others' families. Peace out til next week!
Elder Jorgensen
308 Forest St. #5
Madison, WI 53726
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So it's been an interesting week, haha here our success is like completely dependent on the schedule of the students. So with finals and graduation this week, let's just say it's been a little tough hahaha. Everyone running around frantically downtown or packing to move out or whatever. But it's been a fun week nonetheless! So it looks like over the next few weeks of pre-summer semester we'll become aimlessly roving the street referral-makers for the 1st ward elders hahaha. We'll see how it goes.
On the plus side Jie came to church again and we had a really good lesson with him. Xilu has been indispensable as a translator, it's been great. We've had some cool experiences too, yesterday we watched a homeless guy roll a joint on a crowded bus right next to us. Well I guess not really that cool but whatevs. He didn't even spill so props to him I guess. :) And we saw a sweet family of owls. Okay I give up trying it was a pretty boring week hahaha.
Love ya'll and have a great week!
Elder Jorgensen
308 Forest St. #5
Madison, WI 53726
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Sister Monica Adams
Hola todos!!
Happy Late Mother's Day!
It was so good to skype and talk with eveyone yesterday I can't believe that it is already Mayo! I feel like just last month we skyped for Christmas.. The time is just flying by!!
I dont' really have tons to tell since we just talked yesterday... But I wanted to say how grateful I am for my family 
In Argentina marriage isn't a very common thing. A lot of couples have been together for 20+ years but don't ever want to get married. It's always really cool to teach the plan of salvation and explain that we can live with our families for eternity. I love to teach and talk about the sealing power of temples. We are so lucky to have 14+ temples ALL in Utah and close to our house. Our mission theme is "Prepare the Patagonia for a Temple". When Hermana Crofts arrived in the Comodoro Rivadavia Mission... the MISSION was having about 9 bauptisms a month... The WHOLE mission... But this last month we had 25 as a mission. We are progressing as a mission and it's so cool to see the Lord preparing His children. This month the mission has a goal of 62 baptisms... We are going ot have a fast as a mission and this month we are going to be working SOOOOO hard to reach that goal! After this transfer we will be getting our new mission president. It will be sad to see President and Sister Rogers go, and it will be a big change but that's okay!
The gospel of jesus Christ is so amazing! I love learning new things and recieving answers to my prayers. We are so blessed to have the fullness of the gospel and the restored church on the earth today. I invite you to go to the temple this week: I miss the temple so much and can't wait to go when I get home. I love being a missionary! I love our Savior Jesucristo and will forever be grateful for his sacrifice for us.
Much loveeeeeee,
Hermana Adams
Hola Todos,
We just had conference with President and Hermana Rogers (that's why I am writing today) and this was the last time we will see them because they go home in the very beginning of July and then we have our new President and Hermana. We were all really sad to say goodbye to them and there were lots of tears from everyone.. But the good news is that they are from Utah so I will be able to see them again! They have been such great examples of the love they have for the Lord, this work and the people of Argentina. They love all the missionaries so much in our Mission and we can always feel that love when we have conferences or interviews with them.
Our new mission President y Hermana Salerno sound like good people.(I found this tiny story on them) http://www.ldsdaily.com/
He studied at BYU and has his masters in Buisness, he speaks portugues, ingles and italiano. His wife speaks ingles. They are very excited and nervous to come be presidents and it will be very fun to get to know them.
In several weeks we will travel to Puerto Mardyn and we will go see the Whales!! Every year they migrate from the south to give birth to their babies from June to December. I am super excited to go see them because everyone says that it's just so exciting to so see so many of them! I have heard that many people go the little town of Puerto Madryn around this time of year, just to see this migration! I hope I get to go there and serve, I've heard it's really pretty there!
Thursday we had correlacion (don't know what that is called en ingles) where we meet with the mission leader and talk about our investigators and we were talking with the Elders in our ward and I said how one of my goals in the mission is to teach a lesson in English (Don't know why, but I want to) so on Friday we had to go to Trelew and when we got back to Rawson we got off the bus and I noticed some ladies speaking English. So, I decided to talk to them. They are from Polland, one is here working as a Marine Biologist and the other was her friend who just arrived here from Polland to visit. They were surpised that we spoke English and we shared who we were and why we were here and what we believe and so it turns out that we taught them a lesson in English! It was a cool little milagro that showed me that our Heavenly Father truly does hear our prayers, knows where we are, and the intentions of our hearts, and blesses us to accomplish our goals.
I was reading in John 17 y Romanos 8 this morning for Studies. I love reading about the love that the Lord our Savior has for us. We are all children of a Heavenly Father who loves us SO much that he sent His son. He loves all of his children equally, and desires to bless them. I am learning to see others as He does, and have this same love for my investigators and the people here in Argentina.
Love you all. Have an amazing week!
Hermana Adams
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