All Is Well - January 23, 2012

Dear family and friends,

I got the computer with the awful keyboard again, but this place is full (mostly of adolescent boys playing internet computer games, drinking orange soda and smoking) and there is no computer to switch to, so I am going to just deal with it again. Excuse any missing letters or apostrophes.

My second week of training went well. Hermana Hobbs is fantastic and we are already growing to be good friends.

She grew up in a whole slew of little towns in Southern Arizona because her parents are adventurous sorts that liked to pick up and move every few years. They would often move to one small town, spend a few years building a house there, then sell it and move to another. Once they even lived on an Indian reservation in the little town of Havasupai in the base of the Grand Canyon.

Anyways, Hna Hobbs is bringing a great energy and spirit to the work and it is fun to be with her as she is learning Spanish and discovering Argentina and South America for the first time. She’s really cute too and I would send pictures but I keep getting old defective computers! I will send them as soon as I can.

The work is going well. We are trying to involve ward members more in our teaching and this week we taught a lot of lessons with a lot of different ward members. We have some great investigators, but progress is slow. It still feels like a unique joy and privilege to help people learn more about their Savior Jesus Christ and draw closer to him, even if it is with little baby steps.

This week I gave my second talk in church here in Barrio 4 and my 3rd talk in Argentina. It went well. After teaching impromptu lessons in Spanish all day every day it hardly makes me nervous at all to get up and give a prepared talk. Which is crazy because before my mission giving talks made me quite nervous.

Sorry to keep writing short emails without many details. I always have a list of interesting things I want to share but these computers are really slow and buggy and the keyboard is terrible. I am going to hunt for a better internet cafe so next week I can finally write a better email.

I hope all is well at home. I would love to hear from more of you! My contact info is on my facebook.

Love,

Hermana Parker