Monday, September 28, 2015

wake me up when spetember ends

A little piece of home.....USA!!!

Wishing sissy a big happy bday!

Leadership meeting in Neuquen.......I love all of them!



sept 28, 2015

JK about the subject, i just thought it was appropriate cause septembers almost done lol. BUT HEY GUYS!!! how yall doing. We had such a GREAT week here in Roca. For reals I believe one of the best in my mission. But before I get any further...happpppy birthday to my beautiful sissy Brittt! Oh how I love you sister and hope you had the most special day! #26años

SO about this week!! We have 3 new greenies in our district and it is so FUN! ones from mexico and 2 from utah. So crazy to think that just a lil year ago i was in the same boat as these kids and couldn't speak nada. We are super pumped as a district to work together! We also had a huge stake activity here in roca and watched meet the mormons in a big theater! it was such a success and tons of investigators came so thats epic.

But the best thing that happened is this. SO Iara was supposed to be baptized on saturday right...well that did not happen but its totally fine because her dad is out of town traveling but is coming in a few weeks, and she wants her dad to be there for her baptism! So this will be good so she can be even more prepared than she already is! But heres the thing. Her mom is Silvana and she is so great. We had a lesson with her this week and the spirit was so there. We talked about temples and the young womens pres of the ward was there too and shared such a beautiful testimony with Iara and silvana. So we invited silvana to church on sunday. She was super hesitant to say yes cause she works allll night long saturday night and doesn't get home till 7 AM on sunday mornin..and church is at 9:30. But we made a promise with her that through this sacrifice she would literally be able to see a difference in her week and that she would be so blessed. She accepted!! SO sunday morning we decided to whip up some banana bread and went to their house at 8 am to have breakfast with silvana so that she wouldn't go to sleep! We ate and then us 4 were off to church. It was such a perfect sunday and she loved it. We have a lesson with them tonight again and we are so pumped. Silvana has a few problems like smoking and works at a club, but is such a great mom and person. I love her! So excited to see her progress.

Guys I just love being a missionary. I cant even describe it. I have the most amazing spiritual experiences every day that just lift me up and make me so happy. Yesterday we were walking home from church to eat lunch and we walked passed this homeless man. I got this prompting to turn back and talk to him...but I totally started thinking otherwise, thinking that he was only gunna ask for money like others do. But I followed the spirit and we turned around. His name is Jorge! We gave him a pass along card with a pic of Christ. We started talking to him and he had tears in his eyes. We got his address and invited him to church and then I asked if there was anything we could do for him..and he grabbed my hand and buried his face in it and started balling. It was such a beautiful moment. He didn't say much, but we all felt so peaceful and the love of our Heavenly Father. Im so grateful I was strong enough to follow that prompting to turn around. I love this work and love meeting Gods children each day. WHat a blessing it is so be in the service of our Lord and King.

Have a great week and I hope you all enjoy general conference! Hey and shout out to elder haynie thats so sweet he gets to speak.

Love hermana farrow

Ps: be a seeker of happiness Alma 27:18

pps: I went to the doctor for myself for the first time in my whole mission on wednesday this week...turns out my intestines are enflamed haha. So i was on a pretty gnarly diet this week of eating only rice, jello, mashed up squash, gatorade and water. I felt like i was eating baby food the whole time. And im taking some meds. but the pain has gone away a lot and i feel much better! I go again to the doc tomorrow but im am doing a lot better so no need to worry!! #intestinosenflamados

and brittany, gabi and camila wish you a very happy birthday!!!


Monday, September 14, 2015

Roca Happenings!

Sept. 14, 2015
me and Hna Himle on exchanges last week! She's from Bakersfield and we had such a fun day together. this is us with our facturas after a lonnng day

this is Marcos and Belen!!! cute lil fam and these are the delish canalones we ate

us and 2 cute girls from the ward!Add caption
selfies


HI fam!!

Happy first day of school to my hermanos bails chels and blakey!  so exciting you guys are little students! how fun. Well what a great week I had here. Good things are happening! Ya know our investigator Iara, the cute 12 year old girl, well she went to church again yesterday and is progressing very nicely for her baptism on the 26. we are so excited and I love her so much. Walking home from church yesterday, she told me and my comp she wants to serve a mission one day. music to my ears. she's so great. So the only thing that could possibly impede her baptism is her mama. her mom is so great, but she knows that baptism is a responsibility. We invited her and the mom to a ward FHE last night...and i was kinda hesitant for the mom to come cause usually FHEs are not the greatest, or not planned very well, or like no one comes haha. But I just prayed and prayed that she would enjoy it and at least be able to feel the spirit and feel something different about being inside the church. These prayers were sure answered! The turnout was so great and the sister who taught the lesson taught about families and literally the night was so perfect!! I was in awe and miracles are real. She told us she loved it and is excited to come to the ward talent show that we are planning on saturday! wooohoooo!

On saturday night we got invited to have dinner with our new investigators, Belen and Marcos and their 2 daughters! Which is like so cool cause we rarely get invited for dinners! Belen made canalones! (basically my fave food here). So it was all going well. And then some comments were made between them and then they just totally started fighting! :( like legit yelling at each other and they both were crying. Me and my comp were just sitting there with their 9 and 6 year old daughters. It was so sad. I honestly did not know what else to say except that Jesus can help their relationship! because I don't know! my parents have never had huge fights.... haha but my comp said some nice inspired stuff. It broke my heart to see all this happening in front of their lil daughters. But the good thing is Marcos and Belen really like us and want us to come back. SO cool the trust that they already have in us. We will see how this week goes with them! Also, remember how I said that I wanted to be a "counselor" after the mish....from this experience I don't know if that is still something that I want to do haha. But who knows!

OKay so we are already in our last week of this transfer. Cannot believe have fast these weeks have flown by here in Roca. We had interviews with president last week! It was just a nice short interview but went really well. So different with a latino pres, cause it was all in spanish! But hey guys i am doing good and pressin on. The days are long but weeks, transfers, months, and now YEARS are short. I love it here despite all the crazy things that we see and experience! Keep Iara and her mom Silvana in your prayers! I love you all y espero que tengan una semana llena de sonrisas y arcoiris haha. Les amo mas que saben.

Hermana Farrow

Monday, September 7, 2015

Hey guys!!!!

us on our way back from neuquen! bus full of gringos. shout out to elder sulzen there in the back

and our zone lunch in a "chinese" buffet, but only had fried rice and chow mein..wasn't really chinese food.. last week that was sooo rico!

one of my lil friends maite totally knows how to do the cup song so i was teaching her the words haha

  me and my amiga Iara yesterday takin a break after the lonnng walk home from church!

Sept. 7, 2015

Hola como estan queridos! This week was real good! Tuesday was "el dia de Roca" (it was our citys birthday) so there was a huge parade throughout the city and then at night a big concert. Iv e never seen more people in the street here probs because they are all usually sleeping the siesta haha. We live like right in centro so we heard the concert all night long and obvio we couldn't sleep...especially when the fireworks started going off at midnight!! So obvi we had to run up to our roof to take pics. So fun #happybdayroca

On Wednesday we left super early and bussed it to Neuquen. Elder Texeira from the 70 came! Like 75% of the whole mission was there so it was so packed. Before the actual conference, we had a meeting with just the zone leaders and sis training leaders and him and his wife. It was So SWEEET and we all sat at a table talking and I sat right across from him and he was literally staring into my eyes and preaching into my soul. haha but it was so special just to be in a lil room with about 20 missionaries, our president, and him! The spirit was so strong and he totes dropped the cane on obedience. He actually slammed his hand on th table. it was kinda scary haha. He is such a cool guy and I received a lot of personal revelation during this conference. So fun seeing other companions and missionaries too!

Oh yeah my comp had lice this week and so my head was so itchy this whole week but turns out it was just my mind playing tricks on me cause I didn't have it. But we will seeeee because our investigator Iara has lice too! uh ohh. but she doesn't know she has it, my comp saw it roamin around in her hair yesterday. oh boy. speaking of Iara, she came to church again yesterday and is totes progressing and so great. We taught her plan of salvation and she loved it. She bought us mini bible keychains and wrote us the sweetest little note saying "thank you for teaching me about Jesus" and other cute stuff. We are teaching her the gospel of Christ tonight!!

Tonight after the lesson we will be taking a bus to Villa Regina and go on exchanges with sisters over there. Exchanges are great...I think I learn more from the other sisters than they might from me. Being an hna leader is fun, a lot of work, and drama, but fun!

I sure love you all! Cant believe summer is finally coming to an end for you all and you'll be headed up to school this week! Gooood luck with everything. that'

I found this quote this week and thought id share it, might help someone who reads this letter "We often talk in church about coming unto Christ. Perhaps we should talk more about how Christ also comes to us. We sing "Who's on the Lords side? Who?" Let us also sing "Be still my soul, the Lord is on thy side". We never have more value in the Lords sight than when we are feeling completely worthless."

I know this is the truth! We are so loved. The Savior of the world is on our team, how can we fail?! Have a great week guys i sure love and miss you!

Hermana Farrow

ps i will hit my 1 year mark this week. WHAT


s so exciting! and once again i hope you had a lovely bday dad! love you big guy.

Monday, August 31, 2015

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we figured out theres a secret door in our apartment complex that leads to the roooof! entonces, photoshhhoooot!

on our way home from church yesterday with our cute lil investogator friend iara! love her and this canal


pics with a cute part member fam! we are working with them and two of these cute lil girls were baptized about a year ago. i absolutely love this lil boy, the lil baby. his name is bejamin and is 2 and my comp call him jimmy neutron and im like hna you cant call him that infron of the family hahaha. good times





August 31, 2015

Hi guys! so it has been a goood week. SO hate to break it to ya, but we did not have any baptisms. BUT HEY its alll goood!! Seriously these people will be baptized here in the next few weeks. Claudio is slowly gaining a testimony of Joseph Smith and the BOM. He actually went to have a baptismal interview with our district leader, but he didn't pass bc he smoked that day. But it actually was a tender mercy that he did, because we want him to have a solid testimony before he is baptized. The lil girl Pricilla will be baptized in like 2 weeks!

This week we were so blessed to find this girl named Lara! She literally is an angel and una investigadora de oro. She's 12 and one day this week we were walking in the street and she ran up to us and asked if we were from the church. She invited us in and made us pizza haha and we taught a ll about God and Jesus Christ and she totes wants to be baptized. Her fam is so great and hopefully will give her permission to do it! She came to have a lil tour of the chapel on Saturday with us, and then on Sunday she came to stake conference and loved it! We put a baptismal date with her for Brits birthday! the 26 of sept hehe! SUper stoked she's awesome.

On wednesday we will be heading to Neuquen to hear elder Teixeira speak to our misison! he's from the 70 and so that will be sick. Im so excited to see all my mission pals too!!

Yesterday we helped a recent covert in our ward named Alejandra make emapanadas to sell! We made 12 dozen! Im a pro and will be fun to help you all fall in love with empanadas, they're addicting. But yeah I am doing real good! The ward is all heading off to Buenos Aires tomorrow for they're annual temple trip!! They are all so excited. WHat a blessing it is for us to be able to drive 30 mins to the temple. They take a 14 hour bus ride. I love you all and wish you a happpy week! and HAPPY BDAY KEVLARRR on the 4th! love you poops! you da best dad iv e ever had.

Love,
Hermana Farrow

Monday, August 24, 2015

que hermosa la semana

August 24,2015
me and my fave hermana. se llama marta. ate with her evvvery saturday in my last area. gunn amiss this lady she is my grandma

me and my babies

and me and my bff hermana terrypoo with our matching argentina camisetas

the dogs had hunger so i fed them!!!!!!


HI FAM we had such a goood week lemme tell ya. This lil area of ours is being blessed. I love Roca. Every day is an adventure and the Lord is with us. So we have 3 baptisms planned for the 29 of august! next saturday, Claudio, Rocio, and Pricila!! We have so much faith that these people will really be able to reach their baptismal dates. Claudio is like a 50 year old and I LOVE HIM he is so funny and he really likes me haha. The only thing is, he does notttt believe in the BOM nor J Smith. He just cant accept it. But he comes to church and participates in the classes and knows a ton about the bible and what not, he just cant get over these doubts. Buttt he cant say that cause I know he truly hasn't read and prayed. But he will read this week and I knooow he will receive his answer. He wants to be baptized so bad! But he doesn't think he needs to know that the BOM is true. Hey keep Claudio in your prayers. He is such a good guy. Rocio is 15 and so cute. Her family members are all members of the church. SHe wants to be baptized, but I just think she is scared. But we are working oh so much with her. And then Pricila is a cute lil 8 year old who's mama is less active but we love working with her cause its so fun teaching lil kids. But guys you have no idea how much I love these three people. We were fasting on saturday, and in the evening we were walking around and I guess I just felt so close to the spirit I just started crying out of nowhere and my comp started laughing and asked whats wrong and I just said that I love these people so much and I just want them to be baptized so bad. Like I just desire their salvation! I just want them to be so happpy. I know Satan is working so hard on them cause he wants just the opposite. But the Lord is providing and Im excited for this week to see the tender mercies he will be putting in our path.

Okay do you guys remember me talking about Anyta like 7 months ago?? well she is a convert and I was with her in Cervantes. Well as I said I am back here in Roca (in the same zone) and i totally saw her yesterday at church!! I ran up to her and gave her the biggest hug and she like dragged me into a room to talk to her and we just started crying! ahhh I love her so much! Seriously the best reunions happen on the mission. She's not in my ward or in my area, but I will be visiting her haha! She is so strong in the church now and maybe wants to serve a mission! SO so awesome.

Also last night we had a cool lil experience, we asked the bishop of the ward to give us priesthood blessings. This is something that our mish pres told us we should all do. SO we did, and it was so sweet! The bishop now has more confidence in us and I think could feel of our animo! I don't know how to say animo in ingles.

But yeah guys this week is gunna be such a good one! Please pray for my investigators! They need your prayers! My faith is growing so much. Im so grateful to be back here in Roca. I loove this work it is so rewarding and so great and so hard and tiring. I don't think iv e ever been more tired7had more energy in my life. If that makes sense? I sure love my fam! Cuidense mucho!! Im off to play futbol!



Hermanita Farrow

Monday, August 17, 2015

Hello

Aug. 17, 2015

This is all I got this week.....but she sounds great!!!!  No pics;(


HI FAM! okay so first of all Im in love with garrets wedding pics. SOS TAN CAPO PRIMO!!! Te quiero!! SO excited for you guys. Tiffany is a beauty and i looove her dress omg. SO this week was fantastic. For reals such a grrreat week. I love my new area. The members are soo great and we gunna seee miracles this transfer. We went to Neuquen this week for a meeting with all the leaders of the mission. It was literally the most powerful and awesome thing. We have a goal as a mission to baptize 175 people before 29 august. That means 2 baptisms every companionship. We are so pumped. I know we will do it without a doubt! At the end of the meeting, we all sang the spirit of God and like I tell you the truth I have never felt the spirit like that. SO amazing to feel of the power and reality of this work. Our new mish pres is awesome and has so much faith. My faith is increasing and I am a happy camper here in Roca. My district and zone are so awesome and were already so united. We already saw miracles this week. Its amazing to see the Lords hand in this work, I know he is blessing us as a mission, and is blessing me personally. I am gaining a love for my Savior and his gospel that I never knew I could have. He lives and stands shoulder to shoulder with us day to day. Trust in Him! Thats what I am doing! I love you all! ps farrows in the narrows...classic hahaha.

Hermana Brookie!!

Monday, August 10, 2015

Transferrrs!!!

Aug. 10, 2015

Well hola! Happy pday day you guys! wooow so I finished the longest, and greatest transfer of my life. 8 weeks long! But spent with the best comp ever. I was transferred this morn to ROCA, my area is called Universitario. SOo I was already in this zone a few transfers ago when I was in cervantes. But hey  its all good and for some reason Im back in this zone! Im pumped to be here and work and work and work. My  comps name is Hna Llamo from Peru! SHes about 4 feet tall and super cute. Elder Sulzen is in my zone haha so that ll be fun to talk about good ole Esco memories!

Wow so this week sure was a good one. We had a ward talent show this week that us misisonaries planned and put together. Me hna terry and the elders all sang and did the Cup Song from pitch perf. It was so fun and everyone loved it haha. Also, for a relief society activity this week, me and terry taught all the lady's to make hummus!! They loved it and were super excited to write down teh recipe and make it!

OMG before I forget HAPPPY BURTHDAY BROTHA BLAKE!! Oh how I love you and send you the biggest birthday abrazos y besos from Argentina. te quiero hermanito

This week we got a random text from someone asking if we were the American missionary girls...obvio we said yeah. Turns out it was this guy named Nacho who we had given a lil passalong card to a few weeks ago. he asked to meet us in the park that day. SO we went and we just had the coolest lil talk with this guy! Hes new to Neuquen, so we obvi gave him the welcome haha. Hes from Mendoza, AR. Hes like 25...and has no friends here so he wanted to get to know some peeps. We talked ot him for a lil but them had to go cause we had an appointment. But we asked if we could sing him a song and then say a prayer with him. We sang lead kindly light..and not kidding, the spirit literally was so strong.Afterwards he told us that not only his ears were filled, but also his whole body  was filled with something he'd never felt before. I love the way just singing a simple hymn can bring the spirit so strong, just in a random park. Turns out he doesn't live in our area, but still such a sweet experience and such a nice kid.

Aw man I don't have too much more time and I'm sacred to send pics cause this computer says theres a virus, so ill save that for next week. But I am stoked for this next transfer. I love this work that I am a part of. On the hour and a half bus ride I had over here to roca this morn, I just looked ou the window the whole time with tears in my eyes as I said a prayer of thanks. I am so blessed. So grateful for my mission. Yesterday was so hard saying by to the members and friends Ive made in Neuquen. These are eternal friendships im making and I just have so much love for these people. Especially so hard saying by to Marisol last night! She is the best and is my Argentina mom.

I love you all and wish you a happy week!

Love hermana farrow

ps so sad sugar and honey are gone! but its for the betta, they always kinda bugged me. and i absolutely loove the pic of my cute grandparents and Molly! love you all chau chau