7-30-13 Formosa, Argentina

Google Earth shot of where Reinna lives...She hasn't sent other pics, so I have to improvise!

Sounds like you are crazy busy! And having tons of fun of course! Yep the weather here is starting to go back to normal and so far it has been like the perfect temperature, but people keep telling us horror stories about the summer, in Formosa it gets to be 50 degrees Celsius...now i don't know the exact temperature that would be in fahrenheit but i know that is crazy crazy hot! Yep I went to send my memory card yesterday with the pictures from the baptism and my area but they wouldn'}t let me send it in a normal envelope so i am gonna try sending it in a small package. oh yesterday when i was in Resistencia I got your package and a bunch of letters!!!!!!!! Thank you all so much!!!! I must say i loved all the maria stickers stuck to the package:) 

So my companion and I...I don't think I told you but we are the only two gringas who are companions in our entire mission! Yesterday was the conference for all the new missionaries and most of them have major struggles with their companions and one that came with me cried everyday for the first 3 weeks and still cries because she was put in her second white wash in two transfers and her companion is brand new also. I haven't cried at all, not in Wisconsin and not here...I think i am just a freak. But we have a lot of potential in our area and we are starting to see our hard work pay off, because oh yea me and my companion are obedient and we teach more lessons than any other companionship in our zone:) Every week has been getting a little better too. We have had a lot of stuff fall through though like our baptism this last week, but it was so last minute. We literally taught her everything in a week because she wanted to be baptised on a specific day. but...it didn't work out.

The language is coming. Every other day people tell me my Spanish sucks and then the other days they tell me how good i am doing so i don't really know, but i can communicate with people and i help in lessons as much as i can. It's tough because I am also learning still, so I listen a ton, but this week is the 11th week of my training so pretty much I am supposed to start running the show and next week is my final week of training! Its crazy! I am trying to think of anything exciting that has happened but really my companion and i just work hard every day. We teach in different spots with different people and different lessons, but in general it is pretty much the same. Well there are tons of funny things in between too :) But I will write you in a couple hours, we have to go eat lunch and then go to a district meeting and then we can come back and i will let you know what else has been going on, but i love you soooooo much! Thank you so much for all that you have done for me! talk to you later!!!!

Hermana Quick

July 22, 2013 Formosa, Argentina

whoa! So i don´t know what is up with today but i have a awful computer and it is super hard to read. i ate alligator this past week!!!!! Yep and now i know how to fry my up some empanadas. They are so good but of course to finish up my meal i went to drink some fanta and after i was bringing the cup down from my mouth there was a huuuuuge mosquito that probably had west Nile all over it in my cup!!!! it was sick!!! Oh and yesterday the water went out in our apartment so we couldn´t shower and it was Sunday so we couldn´t buy water and our water reserve is way outdated. yea this morning we had to take a bus to the pension of some other sisters and shower and brush our teeth and stuff oh yeah and go to the bathroom! It is cold here right now, just like you said, but it isn´t that bad. I am not hating it but i miss the heat a little. It kinda just feels like camping all the time because if it is cold out side it is cold inside and you never escape it. It is cold at night but for some reason it hasn´t been bothering me. I am so glad i brought the clothes that i did though. I was gonna try sending you some pics today but this computer is absolutely awful so i will put my memory card in my envelope tomorrow so that will be sent your way...i am a little scared to send it because I would be so sad if something happened to it, but this computer thing hasn´t been working. So it sounds like life there has been busy but awesome!

Okay I still haven´t read all my emails so I am gonna send this your way, but nope there are 3 more Sundays here and we are teaching some people who are so ready to be baptized and I am excited for these next few weeks. I don´t know my address but it is on puchini and jaquin de los santos on the corner. I don´t know if i will be training next transfer but i will be going to a new missionary training next Monday so i don´t know when i am gonna email you, but i am excited to see what is up! Hey i am gonna read moms email real fast, love you!!!!!!!!

Hermana Quick

oh crocodile kinda has a fishy taste but then kinda a chicken taste too...it is good though!

July 15, 2013 Formosa, Argentina

I have been taking way more pictures!!!! Just so you know, we are also gonna stop by the correo (post office)  to send our letters so i will get those to you! but guess what!!!!!! I had my first baptism!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy i was fighting back tears because it was seriously a battle to get him in the water, but he now has the priesthood and he will probably get a calling on Sunday. I am so happy for him. 

I was so excited to hear about hna crawley! She made it back to her mission after surgery! I have kept in contact with most of the people from the mtc and Wisconsin and everyone has been doing great but not everyone is in their originally assigned missions yet. Dang dad you are a driving fool! Thanks for having connelly write me, I love hearing about what he is up to, is he going to sell in Texas? so my fingers are really tired because my keyboard is super sticky so i am going extra slow today. Oh! I got a letter from Abril and you and grandma quick, i couldn´t believe it when she was talking about moving but i am super excited for them! yay! 

So this week has been crazy. Our leaders said we probably had more lessons than any other companionship in the mission because we were pumping 'em out trying to find those prepared people, it was exhausting, we had divisions again on Tuesday and that was pretty good, i don´t know i will write more details in a letter, but i came back Wednesday and we did work, we found out the next day though that the poorer part of our area turns into a jungle! like there are hut shack and things that seem to go on forever! we hadn´t spent much time there because we don´t have address for anyone and we are only allowed to be there until the sun goes down and then it gets sketchy, but it is super cool! next Monday we are gonna eat alligator with a family out there and they are gonna teach us how to prepare it too and armadillo! yeah we are so stoked! We met a guy from Miami the other day so that was really surprising and then some random chipa man stopped us and tried talking to us in English and before he left he said may the force be with you! Ya it made our day. Oh i had a fever like i got pretty sick this week too and my companion was freakin us both out by talking about west nile crap, but she wanted me to stay home and just go on divisions with some members but  i refused! Tylenol kept me alive and we did a ton of work, but i thought i was gonna die at the moment, i am back to normal now. O i am gonna send this love you soooooo much!!!!!

Hermana Quick

Well i don´t think you are online but i love you and the family so much i just can´t describe it! I missed you all a lot this sunday but i am so glad that i am having these experiences here, but i pray for you all everyday! I am doing great, and i am learning so much more every day, oh and i hope you all are reading your scriptures every day! If you don´t satan can getcha, our baptism almost didn´t happen only because our investigator didn´t read for 2 days, and then that night he did and he was fine again but the book of mormon is so powerful and the blessing we can receive from just reading is amazing not to mention it's a commandment, but it is amazing. I love you all so much! Oh i got a letter from Austi too!!!!!! written on her favorite notepad with her favorite pen and it made my day, thanks! I hope you are having a great summer! good luck in your softball tournament! I hope mom´s business is hopping! Love you!

Hermana Quick

July 8, 2013 Formosa, Argentina

Dad i wish i could tell you how much your emails mean to me! They just make me so happy! I am so glad that this last week was so awesome! It sounds like you were the cemetery man!   I am so glad everyone is doing great! I am so glad that mom went! She wasn´t hurting too bad traveling, right? Oh we made flan yesterday but it was from a box! dulce de leche flavored, yeah i eat a ton of dulce de leche like my companion has a major sweet tooth and it is rubbing off. So this week was really hot and then it was super sad, it started raining in morning and there was only 10 people at church! It was fast and testimony meeting and all the members there bore their testimony, i didn´t because we ran out of time, but three of us missionaries didn´t but then i had to direct the music. Oh i am with the same companion! Which i am really glad because we have a legit baptism this weekend! This will be my first baptism of my mission! Oh but my companion and i are the only sister companions in formosa (actually i think in our whole mission) who didn´t have a change. Every companionship here changed even the elders in our zone except one and us. We have divisions this week and i am super nervous because this i am the companion who is staying and my comp is going to a different area. it will be me and another white girl well she has been here a transfer longer than me and she served a transfer in the states Spanish speaking, but i am still nervous because i am gonna have to be in charge...i know though that the lord will help me every step of the way because this is people's salvation. The Spanish is still coming, slowly but surely. I am not super confident and some days are better than others but i know that eventually i will get there. Oh! on the fourth we were in a zone conference and elder Zeballos and his wife came. But during their talks there were fireworks going off outside! It was some saint thing, but it was during the day so i don´t know what the point of fireworks is during the day. me and three other hermanas sang mas cerca dios de ti and it was good. i am so tired of singing! So far it has been a musical number a transfer, but whatever, it isn´t hard it is just time consuming. i don´t wanna practice that if we could be finding some prepared people instead. Okay i am gonna send this real quick and then write my president. then i will be back! Love you sooo much!

Hermana Quick

Sorry i would love to exchange emails but i can´t...I need way more than an hour to email everyone! I will email you first next Monday :) Have so much fun at the Burg! They have awesome lazer tag in town and next door is a good burger place if you are feeling crazy! Also remind mom to keep her eyes closed while swimming in the Great Salt Lake! I love you all so much! I feel so much more pumped for my week knowing that you are all doing so great :) love you!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and the gospel is true!

Hermana Quick