Sept 22 - Wow!!

Wow first of all i want to say sorry for like leaving you all in the dust for like 2 weeks!! but hey i have been so so so busy!!! 

these last couple of weeks have been full of adventures!! haha  first i am a trainer!!! WHAT i am excited to be able to learn so much from her!! my "daughters" name is hermana zentono!! yes another latina!! haha i cant believe it either!! but i love it so much!! haha she is wonderful!! really amazing she is so ready and willing to learn!! she is so easy to get along with and is full of the spirit!! it is the best thing about working with the new missionaries!! she is 19! and really is great!! we had a good time in Salta! listening to president and a 70 it really was a really great conference! also i worked a lot one my English!! haha a lot of new missionaries from the states arrived and cant speak anything so we had to translate everything... lets just say.. MY ENGLISH STINKS!!! really really badly.. haha you should all learn Spanish it will be a lot easier for me when i get back!! haha they were all laughing at us and couldn't believe that we forgot English... and all i could say is don't laugh to much it will come for you also.... hehe but really it was so hard!! 

well after we get to our area and we only worked Friday and Saturday and Saturday night at 9 i get a call from our leaders,,, " sister griffiths tomorrow you are going to Chile..." WHAT!!! haha it was a crazy adventure! but a lot of fun and a lot of hour on a bus!! 58.... of 72 haha not a big deal! It was so pretty!! really and i met a ton of new missionaries!! and saw a couple from Sky View!! it was pretty crazy!! also we saw the temple in Cordoba it was so pretty!! I loved it!! we drove though the Andes mountains! and haha it was so cool!! we had a snow ball fight!! it was a great time!! 

well my poor daughter stayed in the city with another sister!! but hey! we got back this Wednesday and have been working A LOT!!! it has been great!! really and...... JAVIER got bauptized!! it was so amazing!! really i am so happy that we could help him be baupitzed and that really he is amazing he has been going on visits with us non stop now! and he says that he wants to go on a mission!! really he is great!!! it was an expience that i will never forget!!! and the best part is that it was with hna zenteno!! her first baupitsm! and he is AMAZING!!! 

the day in the life of hermana griffiths! haha my mom want to know! 

7- 8:30 wake up work out  eat breafast and get ready! }

8:30-9 language study 

9-10 personal study 

10-1 WORKING!!!! 

1-2 lunch!

2-4 comp. study and training  

4-9:30 WORKING!!!

haha everyday!! but i love it is really is wonderful to do the work i wouldn't change it for the world I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY really i have never felt so much joy in my life! it is amazing!! i have never been so happy working so hard! i didn't know that i could love people so fast and just want to help them change so much! really it is an amazing thing to be able to look at someone though Christ's eyes and just want to help them so much!! 

this work is amazing! i love working so much! i love being able to just work and work and work and not get tired of it!! i can not believe haw fast the time is flying! really in a week i have been out for a year... WHAT!!! i don't really want to come home.. sorry but it is true!! someone once told me.. watch out the time will fly and then you will have to some back home the the boring life!! haha i don't want that!! the thing that i do want to do though is work so so so hard that when it is my time to get one the plane i can sit down with a peaceful feeling knowing that i did all that i can in the field and that now it is time for me to do another work in the house!! 

i invite all of you to put on your work boots and help the Lord in the work of salvation!! really it is the best thing ever!! try it and you will love it!!! the lord will bless you in so many ways that you will never believe it!!

 -- spider outside our apartment... it was huge!!!!!!!!! like the size a pop can... 

Sept 15 - Chile!~

Hola!!! well i just wanted to tell you that i am back in Argentina! and everything it is all good!! haha it was a very long g trip but we are all good here in Argentina!! i cant wait to tell you all about it!!! we drove though the Andes Mountains!! so pretty!! and i saw the Cordoba temple!! and also ran in to Braden Hellstern the nephew of Miss Hellstern!! haha it was pretty crazy!!! and a lot of fun!!! but i am safely in Argentina!! with a visa for 90 days!! and sorry again about the money a lot of unexpected travel in this last two weeks!! but i shouldn't happen again!! oh and my hija is from mexico!! haha crazy right!! another latina!! she is great and really ready to learn!! her name is hermana zenteno!! keep her in your prays this part of the mission is hard!!! LOVE YOU!!!! tell everyone sorry and that i will get them all a good letter this next week!!!! 

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!! 

Sept 8 - I am going to be training!!!

wow first of all this week has been so great!! really full of so many wonderful moments!!! one of the best is that javier is doing good!! and don't worry i finally have a picture of him!! and i will send it! he is progressing really well!! we are hoping that we can help him be bauptized in this week! he doesn't think that he is quite ready but he is crazy because he is SO READY!!!! but really we are excited!! also.. the thing hard about this week that is going to be crazy is... i am going to be training!!! WHAT i am going to be a mommy!! i am so excited but also so scared!! it is going to be crazy!! but really i am so excited for the privilegio that god has given me to be able to train one of the newly called daughters of god!! i am still in shock!! it is going to be great!!

this week we have had some wonderful experiences! really it has been full we visited a lot of our new member that just got bautized because my comp. knew that she was going to leave it was really good to be able to help them understand and feel the love of the savior! something that i have always tried to understand here in the mission is the love that god has for us! and really it is something that you cant understand!! it is so big and there aren't words to say it!! it is wonderful! i have felt the love of the savior this week though a lot of prayers and fasting!! and really it has been a wonderful thing for me!! i have been giving so much more of a testimony!! we where in a lesson this week and it was really great we where talking about the atonement and how we NEVER need to feel alone and that god our heavenly father and Jesus Christ are always right by us! while we where teaching i could feel this love so much i could see the love that god has for us!! it was amazing! as we where teaching the invest looked at me and it was amazing! after she said a prayer that changed my life!! she said, and if this is the church that i need to join and follow god help me know the truth! it was so amazing and the spirit was so strong!! real!! 

i am so excited to be able to receive my daughter and so that i help her feel the love that Christ has for her and that she can enjoy her mission just like i am }ENJOYING mine!!! 

i know that this church is true!!! i love serving the mission so much!! really it is the best thing ever!! this week we are going to have a huge meeting with a 70!! we are excited to be able to him with us!!! i love you all so much°° i hope that you can all take advantage and work in the work of salvation!!! it is the best think every and will bring SO MANY blessing into you life you will never be able to count them all!!! 

LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!! 

Sept 1 - Wow!!

wow words cant explain!!! I LOVE THIS WORK SO MUCH!!!!! really it is the best think ever!!! this week we had our bauptism!! it was amazing!! she is the cutest thing ever!! i will send pictures!! and javier well he is still rolling!! he is amazing yesterday he came to church in shirt and tie!! and he brought a friend!!! he loves the church and says that he feels so comfortable!! 

really he is so great!! i would love if you all kept him in your prayers!! really we have had some lessons with him that are filled with the spirit!! 

this week while we where teaching him about the Book of Mormon!! he was so interested! i started crying when i shared my testimony because the spirit really was so strong!! after we invited him to pray and we knelt down and he offered i think the most beautiful prayer ever!! really he asked if the Book of Mormon is the work of god if the church is true if this is the path for him!! and it was so so so great!! we are so excited!! 

this week is transfers!! i cant believe that another one has come and gone!! really it will be crazy to see who will be here with my in simoca! my comp has like 6 months here so we will see what will happen!! i am sorry that the letter isn't to long this week but i have some things i need to do on the computer!°! with my photos so sorry!! but i am happy and loving the mission!! it is the best thing ever REALLY!! i love serving the lord so much!!!! 

next week we will see i am can write or nit because of transfers but if no i love you all and i will talk with you soon!!! at least next week will be a little letter!!! haha sorry but i do have things to do!! love you all so much!!!

Hermana Griffiths! 

Aug 25 - I never want to leave simoca!!!

haha i am pretty sure that i never want to leave simoca!!! it is heaven! I LOVE IT HERE!!! really the people are so great and so ready!! this week it has been HOT and the sun is so strong i have gotten a lot of sun and i am kinda burnt! but hey i will be pretty tan no more!! i will send pictures in another email but really it has been filled with adventures!! and FULL of miracles! 

this week we are going to have a bauptism! she is so so so so sweet!! her name is emlise she is 9 years old and so cute! she is really shy but great! we are excited!!! she is really great and understand well and has a spirit so strong!! Friday! will be the day! 

also this week we went out to the farms!! haha it was crazy!! lots of fun pictures! and really crazy it feels like miles from house to house!! haha really!! but it was fun!! 

the miracle for this week.... AMAZING!!!! really Saturday night we had a lesson and she we headed to his house and well he wasn't home.. his mom said that he had just left to go to the club.. we got pretty bummed! put we started talking with his mom and she was really great!! she is way nice and all of the sudden a 22 year old came up and started talking with her and said that he was going to try to bring her son home.. it was his friend... haha this is hard to understand i will put there names!! sorry!!! gonzalo is the man in the club our invest . javier is his friend that is going to go look for him and bring him home and mirum is the mom, haha this will be better!!! javier said that he didn't want gonzalo to go to the club because he was going to drink alot and come home drunk and he was worried that he would wouldnt make it home... he went away to look for gonzalo and we talked with mirium she explain that javier is the only friend that doesn't drink and always tries to help gonzalo change. javier came back said that when he went over there gonzalo didn't want to come so we gave up. we where just about to say a prayer so that we could leave and we invited javier to pray with us for gonzalo. we said our prayer and we invited him that he could come to church with us in the morning! he said that we would try but didn't know if he could. after when we where walking back to our apartment both me and hna castillo said wow he is a really great kid and we hope he comes tomorrow!!!

little do you know, i was giving a talk and just about screamed!! haha at like 30 minutes into the meeting when i was speaking javier opens to door of the church and walks in!!! WHAT!!!!!! then like 5 minutes later another member walks in and goes to sit by him!!!!! after the meeting we went over and talked and he said he really liked the meeting and was laughing and joking with all of the members.... WHAT!!!! he went to our class and had a ton of questions! he went to priesthood and the same a ton of questions!! after the meeting one of the girls invited him to her house!! haha they do like a ward prayer in her house every Sunday night with all of the YSA and it was great!!! and of course it is our district presidents house!! really it was great!!! he asked us when we can talk with him he asked us if he could take one of the manuals home... and so on!!! after all of the members where telling us how they could feel the spirit so strong around him and how he is really special!!!! and then after he tells us that for like 3 years our church has like popped into his brain our he saw missionaries or talked with members and said he always wanted to know more!!!! we are so excited!! 

haha we haven't even had a lesson with him yet and the branch loves him!!! we are excited!!! really!!!

well i am so happy and loving the mission it is the best thing in the world!! really i just love it here!! and never want to leave!!!! haha thanks for everything!! and i love you all so so so much!!

send me more letter!!! i want to hear from ALL of you!! 

HErmana Griffiths!!:)