Hermana Maxfield in South Carolina & Uruguay

This week was sooo awesome!! To start we got to have a mission-wide conference with Elder Godoy. He dropped some fire knowledge and just brought the spirit so strongly. It was super cool to be with the whole mission together ahhh good day.  This week we saw miracle after miracle. We have a friend named Lorena whose daughter is a member. She's been investigating the church for 3 years now. We've had a few video calls with her, but multiple people in the ward reached out to us telling us that there was pretty much no hope with her #ouch. Well, Lorena came to church for the first time in 6 months today. I think the members were more shocked than us haha. She was so sweet and asked us such sincere questions afterward.  Another miracle came when we were walking back after a lunch appointment and it started POURING, like not raining, pouring. Randomly, we saw some members in their apartment who were having a bday party and they invited us in and offered to give us a r...

  Hii everyone What a weeeek!!  Started off getting a random vaccine from a south american doctors office, that looked like it belonged in a horror movie, in hopes of not getting deported haha. Do I know what it was for? No. But my arm really hurts Other than that, this week was pretty dang good!! We were walking down the street one day when we met Irene, who we ended up talking to and sharing a scripture with. Halfway through, she told us she was a member of our church, but just hadn't been since she was 14. She invited us over for dinner the next day and we ended up having a really powerful lesson about the Book of Mormon with her and her husband who is not a member. Then on Sunday they all came to church, it was the best miracle ever!!  The second-best part of this week though was definitely the ward party. My comp and I have turned into the party planning committee because this ward hasn't had any activities since covid. So, we planned weekly FHE, ven sigue me, and a ...

  Helllooo my friends!!! We had quite the interesting week here in Malvin!! Our ward building is also the mission office and this week we had 30 new missionaries come!! Which meant a lot of transfers and missionaries moving all around, so our house became the rest stop hahah. We hosted like 7 different missionaries on various days, and it was so fun!! But we also have no food now jajaja.  After a really slow couple days, because all our lessons were canceled, we had one of our friends randomly text us and ask if we could give her a tour of the temple grounds. We were like Sure ,jaja it's about a 2 hour walk from our apartment and she wanted to do the tour at 8am. We had actually never met her before because she was a referral, and so we ended up teaching her the first lesson, on the temple grounds, with some rando temple worker that decided to join!! Ahaha the spirit was SO strong, and she was just so excited about the blessings a temple can provide. By far, the best part of t...

  HoLa Another week in da South América. We had a pretty awesome week, I still don't understand much hahah but I just smile, nod, and say si a lot. It seems to work.  We had a rather interesting lesson with someone named Sylvia this week. It started out super good, she loved the book of Mormon. Then she started telling us she loved Israel, then with no explanation she just started absolutely blaring Israeli music in her apartamento and dancing and the next thing I know she grabs our hands, and we are doing some sort of Israeli circle dance in her apartment. HAH I was laughing so hard I could barely dance.  On Saturday we texted Sylvia inviting her to church, and she responded telling us, she had prayed, and God had actually wanted her to go to the beach that day. fair nuff  In other news, I tried matte for the first time! If you have no idea what this is, neither did I. imagine boiled water and then throw some lawn mower shredding...

  if you couldn't tell from the title,,,,,,i made it to Uruguay.  About a week ago, my little town in South Carolina was snowed in and every store was closed. I was supposed to get a few covid tests but ended up only being able to get one because of the snow. We just kinda had to hope it came back in time, and somehow it did! I honestly did not think it would, so I was pretty much ready to stay in South Carolina for another transfer. but here we are hahah!!  Right after the results came back, I had to scoot to Columbia so I could get to the plane on time. kind of a roller coaster this past week hahh! After like 72 hours of flying, and way too much time in the Panama airport, we made it!! About a month ago, our mission only had abuot 45 missionaries, but now missionaries are arriving almost every 2 weeks, which means we have transfers every 2 weeks haha. My comp is Hermana Serre and she´s been here for about a month. We are opening up an area with the o...

 

This has been quite the adventurous week...On Friday I accidentally high centered our malibu. I was trying to turn around and this massive tree root came out of nowhere and just lodged itself in the middle of our car haha. Every time, I pressed the gas it just dug us deeper and deeper.  Right as I started dialing a member's phone number, this random guy literally just appeared out of the abyss. We were on a super abandoned, most-trailer-houses-were-condemned type of road. And this guy just walks right up. Without hesitation, his brother just pulls up in an SUV with a chain. They hooked us up, and within less than 10 minutes from when we got stuck, we were outta there.   They didn't really say much, it kinda seemed like they had done it before.  All week people have been talking about the looming storm. Everyone had a multitude of opinions surrounding whether or whether not it was going to happen. We were told we must go to Walmart and buy food jus...