Hermana Aliza Pollock

This week was really good. We had Christmas, which we just had a party in the church with our zone, and we had an asado, which is just a big barbecue but better, and then we made sugar cookies and called our family. Probably the best part out of all the day. It was also really really hot this week, like I felt like my skin was cooking in the sun, so yay for living in an oven for the next 4 months!!! or with luck 3. But really this week was a little crazy because we also had two people get baptized this week on Sunday!!!! So like always, a good Crazy, but it was just trying to get them ready and all that stuff and the permission from their parents. But all went well, and on Saturday when we were not planning on cleaning the baptismal font, we looked into it and realized that there was still water in it and it was so dirty and it had cockroaches and millipedes and all types of bugs and dirt. So it's a good thing we came and looked at the font!! The baptism was so good, they we...

Well this week was really good! We have a lot of people finally progressing and I feel like after all this time our area is actually starting to progress, so it finally feels like all our work is paying off! But hey, we found this really awesome guy who told us that he used the bible to get him out of drugs and how he has been praying to God to help him change his life and start over. Then we came and he was like really didn't want to talk to us, he was scared because he knew that we were his answer when we said that we were missionaries. But he is so awesome and is really ready for baptism, he just has to stop smoking and drinking, so we are really hoping that he can resist for this week because it is Christmas Eve and Christmas. I have faith that it will all work out! This week we had Multizona and it was so much fun because it was all with Christmas activities. We did games and my team won!!!! We got ice cream as the reward!! Other than that, just a lot of working and ru...

Hey everyone what's up!!! Well this week was a little weird, I kinda forgot where to start because I forgot for a while that I got to write Wednesday, so let's go over the past 4 days. Ok, so what happened on Thursday was really crazy!! We contacted this guy who is actually from Buenos Aires who came here like 6 months ago. He told us that he was being taught by missionaries in Buenos Aires and was preparing to get baptized, but then the elders got changed out and told him that two hermanas were going to stop by his house and help him keep preparing. Then right before he could meet the hermanas, he had to move here for his work. We were talking to him and he asked me if I had a brother with blue eyes also in Buenos Aires and I told him no all my family is in the United States. He told me that one of the names of the Elders who were teaching him was Elder Pollock and said it was written the exact same way. Which just was crazy for me!!! Like how cool is that! It real...

Well this week was kind of crazy, but really nothing really happened. My companion has Bronchitis so we have been in the pension a lot, but going on splits every once in awhile. This week also I had tramites which is just to get my ID to live here and we had to travel out of our mission to Tucuman and do all my tramites there. It was so much fun!!!! We ran into 18 missionaries from that mission and we talked to them all! It was actually so fun. I didn't get back until today at 10:15 our time, which I was on a colectivo bus for like 17 hours, so yay how fun for that.... But but I hope you all had a good week and hope I have better stories to tell next week, but turns out this week I kinda went on vacation. I'll send pictures because we did take one picture with one set of missionaries from that mission, the Salta Argentina mission, and they bought us this ice cream shaved ice kinda thing that you can only find in Tucuman so that was really nice! The other picture is of m...

Hey everyone! Well let's see here... we should start off with the good and juicy stuff. Well, Sunday was kinda crazy. We went to this choir thing that the stake center here does, but it really isn't a church activity, just a lot of different choirs from all over Posadas came and sang christmas songs. It was really cool and they were all so good!!! (that is not the crazy thing) but when we were going back home to our pension, we had to drop a different Hermana off at a different pension and then we had to go and get on the last colectivo of the night. That was the craziest colectivo of the whole day!!! We started off with 4 drunk guys and then one started to get mad at the driver for something that happened, then the police came and took him off and then other people started yelling and saying how he didn't do anything. So then he came back on and we started moving again. Then these three other drunk guys started cheering him on and then the other came to the back of...