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| I made a cheesecake! Their cream cheese is like a mixture of cream cheese and sour cream so let's hope it's yummy! |
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| Christmas morning opening my present from Hermana Llerena. |
So there is a lot that I could tell you about what I learned
this past week, but nothing compares to what I learned about how I feel about
the sacrament. I have learned a lot about the importance of the sacrament and
the importance of attending every single week. Yesterday the Elders asked us 15
minutes before sacrament started to pass by to pick up their recent convert
because they couldn’t and even though we still weren’t at the chapel I felt
that I couldn’t say no. We went to pick him up and ended up arriving at the
chapel 20 minutes late. They were passing the water and my heart felt broken.
To the members it wasn’t that big of a deal but for me it was something that I
NEEDED. I couldn’t go through the week preaching the gospel without starting
new with Heavenly Father. Elder Fulanich found a way for us to take it after
church, but I will never forget how I felt. Heavenly Father taught me a lot in
those moments that I thought I would have to go through one week without the
Sacrament. Now, I can’t imagine ever missing one Sunday even if I'm sick. I
think sometimes as members who have grown up in the church we forget how great
of an opportunity it is to partake of the sacrament. I am so grateful for the
tender mercies of the Lord.
Now for something funny: I have mentioned that the
ingredients in Argentina are super different than in the States, but there are
more problems than just the ingredients when I want to cook something. Today I
was trying to make the cheese cake and first of all the blender wouldn’t work
so I had to do it by hand which wasn’t that big of a deal, but then the oven wouldn’t
work. You have to light it by hand but it wouldn’t light. It was frustrating
until I found out that if I held it a certain way it worked out. They don’t
have graham crackers either so I had to use these things that they call vanilla
cookies but they aren’t cookies as we know them. It was quite the adventure.
We were talking to the elders yesterday who were telling us
that they haven’t had water for 5 days because the city is cutting the power
and water by sections. My companion asked what they were washing themselves
with, juice? It was re re chistoso. Anyway, love you all!
Hermana Allen
