Aug. 25th Email (with pictures!)

"This week has had it´s ups and downs. we talked to Veronica (investigator who has loads of faith), and we found out that she is having a lot of family problems right now. It´s hard to see her suffer so much! We waited for her in church but she didn´t show. I was so sad! We found out that she is sick, so i understand this time. Let´s hope she comes next week! Also, her family doesn´t want her to listen to us. That´s hard! When we arrived at her house the other day, they started to blast spanish music and it was really hard for us to bring the spirit in with random music in the background. haha, but she really does want to learn more and she kept appologizing because of the music. She felt so bad. We made an appointment with her for next time in the capital (chapel) here in Adrogué, so that we can talk without the distraction of her family. 

I got a virus that´s been going around here. Woooooooot haha it started with a HUGE migrane throughout the day, I could barely function cause my thoughts would not gather correctly. I was so out of it, it was bad! Also, my body was super weak and i coud barely walk, let alone speed walk (which is what we usually do here) haha. It was rough, but after a day or two that left and i got clogged nose and cracky throat which i´m fighting right now. It´s not too bad cause i took a lot of the emergency first aid things I have, so that´s a huge blessing!

A lot of our menos activos don´t want to come to church aparently... that´s really hard too! We decided that we´re done with 'telling them in loving ways', we are going to be straight forward with them haha talking about how, really, faith without actions is dead. And that we can believe, but if we don´t change our life because of what we believe it doesn´t do any good for anybody. We really are working hard with these people, but none of them have come to church yet. 

Oh, also, funny stories. there was this one time when this older lady was walking with us and she obviously could tell that i wasn´t from Argentina. So she asked me where i was from. At this point, she was super nice and just chatting with us. I told her i was from America, and she thought that was cool, and then i said 'estoy acá porque soy una missionera de la iglesía de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Días', and right after I said it, she RAN for her life!! haha it was kind of funny. I have also come to realize that there are a lot of drunk people here at night.. ya, slightly creepy. The other night, we were walking and a drunk guy started to yell at us asking if we were saints or wiches... ya.. creepy! He kept yelling it, and then started saying that we were wiches... we ran for our lives after that haha. Kinda freaked me out but whatevs, i´m protected right? So ha. Lol but ya, that´s my life right now. Not anything too exciting, but hey ;)"

LOVES!!! 
-Hermana Alldredge

She DID send pictures! So here are a few of those. I was also able to chat with her for a *short* time because we were on our emails just before she had to get off the computer! It was so cool to see her respond to my emails, and know that she really is ALIVE! Hahaha, it was weird but I am so grateful to have had that opportunity. Anywho, here are the pictures. Enjoy!