Hermana Maxfield in South Carolina & Uruguay

 

hi everyone!! sorry it's been like what, 4 months?? haha my bad!! updates,  I  was in San Carlos for 6 months!! 1/3 of my mission. haha it was wild. I grew to absolutely love everyone I met there. They feel like my second family, I really am going to miss them so much.  We saw so many miracles in San Carlos. One in particular was a family we found knocking doors, who came to church the very first time we invited them, and never stopped! Every time we talked about baptism though, they got kinda scared haha. So, we tried something else, and instead talked about temples. and the dad goes "so how do we go in??" and we go "well first you have to be a member and get baptized" and he goes "oh well perfect, so when can we get baptized?" haha we were like well hallelujah.  They are on date for Sep 17th! A lot of people here don't have cars, but they happened to have a big, huge van, and the dad offered to drive all the youth to go do a temple trip at the e...

The long-awaited email - I don't have the ganas to write a nice put together email hahaha so I'll do that next week. U can send this to the grandma's if u so desire. August, I am still in San Carlos. But I'm glad I'm still here. This ward is sooooo awesome. So awesome. I love them all. (this is part of the family we baptized in May after a youth activity) Here are some cool people I've met 1. José Machado This man right here is so special. His name is Hermano Machado, from Chile. He's very old. He´s 91. Not even joking. He is VERY healthy, probably healthiest than any other Hermano in our barrio. He walks 5 kilómetros a day. He's also a patriarch. We have a man in our ward who was bishop about 6 years ago, then he was excommunicated. Everyone loves gossiping about him, because well there's a lot of drama surrounding him. Well, after who knows how long (6ish years I'm guessing) this brother came back to church for the first time a few weeks...

 

Since i probably won't write a letter muahaha I decided I'd write you guys one since I don't think I've ever done that  My week was good. My comp is good she's super fun. She definitely likes to work a little ~slower~ which is an adjustment but it's alright.  Had a zone conference with our new president and his 6 kids, his youngest is 3! Haha it was funny they introduced themselves and the 3 yr old was up there screaming the whole time lol. His oldest is 15, I think. His wife speaks pretty good Spanish, she studied it in college, although never served a mission. They lived in China for a few years, because when you're super rich you can do that kind of thing. So, they all speak fluent Chinese so that's kind of weird.  But ya he's cool.   He goes "ya when I got here, I thought president Escobar was going to talk to me about the rules and the standards, but he just gave me like 50 hugs"  It was SO funny because that's very typical pre...