who needs electricity anyway?

WE DON’T HAVE LIGHT and we haven’t had electricity for 3 days now...and we won’t get it again till Wednesday....things are going GREAT!!!!!!  Really it’s not that bad since we are outside all day anyway but when we have to study in the afternoon and it’s REALLY HOT and we don’t have air conditioning...that’s when it gets tough.  I was dripping sweat just reading the Book of Mormon.  And we don’t have hot water either.  So I took a cold dark shower Sunday morning before church.  We have the light of Christ but that doesn’t give us a warm shower.  I LOVE LIFE 

Chistosos: 

·       Liliana’s prayer "Bless that we don’t have transfer and that the girls can stay.  We are trying to take good care of them."  Everyone is praying for transfers. 

·       We were reviewing the questions for baptism for Lujan and we asked if she has repented and she said no.  And we were like ummm why not?  And she said, “I’m perfect! I don’t have to repent!” hahahaha love that girl

·       "Thanks for being self-sufficient hermanas" hahahaha diss on the elders

·       Shout out to all those missionaries that have air conditioned cars with Wi-Fi. Don’t mind us.  We will be riding an AIR CONDITIONED OMNIBUS LETS GOOOOOOOOO

·       Nancy luna read Alma 58 and liked it 

Milagros: 

·       Priesthood power is real!!!!! (And good thing Mauro got the priesthood yesterday!!!)  But anyways, I have had a lot of stress lately and have been really anxious so I finally worked up the courage to ask for a priesthood blessing.  IT WAS AMAZING OKAY!!!!  I know that it was a blessing from my Father in heaven.  He reminded me to be patient and faithful and be HAPPYYYY!!!!!!  I felt so calm during the blessing and the most amazing part is that I still feel calm. Sometimes things don’t go as planned but I feel at peace with the will of God.  So happy!  And so grateful to have the power of God in its FULNESS on the earth today! 

·       Lujan is preparing for her baptism!  Keep her in your prayers this week so she has power against Satan!  She is so cute and so excited!!!! 

·       Conferencia de zona!  And it was soooooo good!  Presidente talked about our purpose as missionaries and that we have to be worthy all the time.  Worthy in our thoughts and in our actions.  I know that he is a man called of God to direct us in this part of the world so that we can bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of men! 

I love the idea of GRACE! That by HIS GRACE we can do all things - even though we have a lot of weaknesses! 

Ether 12:26 “And when I had said this, the Lord spake unto me, saying:  Fools mock, but they shall mourn; and my grace is sufficient for the meek, that they shall take no advantage of your weakness;”

Love that. Even though sometimes people might make fun of us and our beliefs - God’s grace is sufficient for the meek! 

COME WHAT MAY AND LOVE IT! 

Love you all! Thanks for everything! 

hermana mann

Alice asked us to pick flowers with her

Camila

look at these two - fills my heart

in my natural habitat - Liliana's house

NOELIA - love her so so so so much

pray with one eye open

hahaha that is what we had to do when a lady tells us to be REAL careful because boys like to rob two gringas during nap time....um ok....thank you but don’t worry mom! We are okay! And the most precious thing we had on us was our scriptures and chocolinas WITH A STICKER OF MESSI! THAT’S RIGHT! WE FINALLY FOUND MESSI!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Anyways....pretty great week here in Manantial! Hermana Williams and I are lovvvvving our time here and feel so so blessed!!!!

CHISTOSOS: 

·       When an investigador asks us if we have bathed yet....and if not, we are not invited to his house....

·       When another investigador says "bad hair day no?" ok thanks

·       Liliana aka bff put a sticker of chocolate on her Libro de Mormon. Now she has her two favorite things - chocolate and the word of God

·       Our bff bus driver who always calls us beautiful (in English...we are his teachers I guess) STOPS THE BUS AND HONKS THREE TIMES TO SAY HI while we are contacting a lady. This is the life. 

·       Hermano Suarez aka godfather aka dad walks into relief society and says "Hermanas. Family home evening. My house. 8:00." haha ok 

·       Then we ate lunch with the Familia Suarez and we sang because they requested it and he took a video of the whooooooole thing. Ultimate facepalm 

MILAGROS 

·       As previously stated....we found messi!!!!!! Miracle!!!

·       on Thursday, we were walked and we were really hungry and we didn’t have a lot of money so we were praying for a food miracle when suddenly there was a man walking with facturas and I was just staring at them and he was like do you want one and I said I didn’t  have money so he gave us some for FREEEEEEEEEE -perks of being super white 

·       Lujan!!!! Lujan is the latest and greatest miracle we have found! She came to church on Sunday and we showed her the baptismal font and she is super excited for her baptism! Keep her in your prayers!!! 

·       Oh my. We cleaned the apartment. Like realllly good. And it is soooo clean and I am so happy. And we learned a little about the power of the Atonement. Yes - things that are real real real dirty CAN be white again! 

·       Mauro is gonna get the priesthood next week and I’m super happy about that!!!!

·       MISSION TILE - we went with our investigadores to get married....but they didn’t because they have to do a little more paperwork! Pray for Julia y Franco por favor!!!!! 

So I think I have found a scripture that pretty much sums up missionary work:

Moroni 8:3 “I am mindful of you always in my prayers, continually praying unto God the Father in the name of his Holy Child, Jesus, that he, through his infinite goodness and grace, will keep you through the endurance of faith on his name to the end.”

This is how I feel for every single one of you. For every single one of the incredible people I have met her and I am just so happy and so blessed! Please know that you are always in my prayers! 

LOVE YOU LOTS!  Thanks for everything! 

COME WHAT MAY AND LOVE IT 

Hermana Mann 

bien Tucumanas

THE Francito

Let's crash this apple stand

April 16, 2018

Wow. What a week we have had! 

Information:

·       I thought that lets crash this apple stand was a cool thing all the cool people say when they have to leave a party but Hermana Williams claims I’m crazy. IDK man. Pray for my swag.

·       We went to Salta this week to do some paperwork for Hermana Williams. Loovee Salta and so happy to see a temple there in the near future!!!

Chistosos: 

·       In a creepy remis with two other people and the young boy asks "are you coming to my house" and I was like....who are you. Turns out he is a member of the church hahahah

·       There was a fire protest in the main street and it really ruined our plan but all good. They just thought it would be fun to lite tires on fire and all that good stuff. 

·       A full grown man riding the bus by the strength of his arm.  He was just hanging out.

·       In almuerzo when the man starts talking about American politics and Hermana Williams gets really pumped and talks about how cool LBJ is.

·       Man in moped selling things for Virgin Mary says that H Williams glasses make her look really cute. 

·       Update on Franco Aguirre...he called us this week to tell us that he loved us. Love that dude 

·       Hermana Ward is my favorite. She is the lady who does all the paper work for the mission and doesn’t understand a lick of Spanish. She told us "I never know what anyone is saying" poor thing. Love her though!

Milagros: 

·       OKAY SO WE ARE OFFICIALLY WEDDING PLANNERS AND WE CALLED A PRIVATE JUDGE IN SAN PABLO TO ORGANIZE A WEDDING AND HE GAVE US A DISCOUNT OF 1500 PESOS. MY FRIENDS GOD IS SO REAL AND HE LOVES US AND HE ANSWERS OUR PRAYERS. And also Julia and Franco should be married in the near future and then baptized so please pray for them! Hermana Williams and I were soooo soo sooo happy.  So we prayed a special prayer of gratitude! 

·       Two times this week people stopped us in the street and asked... are y’all Mormon? Please come to my house! That’s is such a miracle! God is leading and guiding us! 

·       Mauro is always a miracle! He has been coming to church every Sunday and still wants to serve a mission! So proud of him! 

Sorry.....not a lot of time and I don’t have pics either. Don’t hate me hahaha

But COME WHAT MAY AND LOVE IT 

Have a great week! Love y’all! 

Hermana Mann

YOBOPNIAS

“You only buy over priced Nutella in Argentina SOMETIMES!”  And those times are when life is just too good to be true. 

Literally we had such a great week! Heavenly Father is preparing lots and lots of miracles here and I am just so so sooooooo happy! Here is a little sneak peak of the week:

CHISTOSAS:

·       Francito Aguirre continues to be my favorite. This week in a lesson he was sitting on his brother’s lap and then kisses him on the cheek and whispers I love you in his ear. And I was like awwwwwwwww how cute. And then HE SPIT ON HIM. And that is just how Franco is. And I absolutely love him

·       I saw a man in a Nebraska t-shirt and I got really pumped and I wanted to contact him so I walked up to him and said "I like your shirt" and he says nothing....just grunts and keeps walking. WHERE IS YOUR CORNHUSKER SPIRIT????

·       *lady bearing hardcore testimony about the Book of Mormon. The spirit is strong and she is just going, going, going, going, going and then she stops....* “QUIEREN MATE?” hahahahaha. My companion yawned and I guess she thought we were tired (what, we are never ever ever tired. we are missionaries. We get 8 hours of sleep every night) and I just laughed and said no thank you 

·       We are officially the godchildren of the Familia Suarez. It’s really a blessing. 

·       When you go to your appointment, clap your hands and then notice that the Jehovah’s Witnesses are already there.....

·       When all the taxi drivers already know where you live but you ask them to drive around the whole town to look for churi pan 

·       When a shirtless contact help you knock a couple doors to find people to teach. How kind. 

·       When the bus driver was thirsty so he stops driving and asks one of us to run to a store and buy him something to drink. 

·       Studying in Grido. We peaked. 

LIFE IS GOOOOOOOOOOOD 

AND IT JUST GETS BETTER 

MILAGROS:

·       It is a beautiful, beautiful thing when missionary work doesn’t seem like WORK but is actually something you looooooooooove to do. I have felt this way for a while but this week I realized what a blessing it is. I love everything about the mission. And I absolutely LOVE my area and everything about it - teaching my investigadores, serving the members, my companion, working with the elders. I am just so darn happy. 

·       TM (this is not a shout out to my brother Trace Mannewitz...sorry about it...) but Hermana Williams and I have started a new thing where we look for tender mercies all day and when we find one we yell TM! Some of the TM’s include (but are not limited to...

*when you show up at your apartment and the door is unlocked (not the door to OUR apartment but the door to the building)

*when a very nice hermano in the ward helps us with all our investigadores in the church

*when the bus comes in time and you don’t have to wait forever

Tender mercies are there my friends. Just look for them! 

·       Please pray for Noelia! I don’t know if I have met someone so prepared for the gospel! She came to church and cried three times. She loves the Book of Mormon and says her prayers every day! She has a couple of things to change before her baptism, but keep her in your prayers for strength against Satan! 

·       Testimony meeting in Argentina that was PERFECT for all our investigadores that came

·       Mauro cuz he is defending Joseph Smith against all our haters. 

Okay so maybe a few of you are wondering what I am doing in Argentina and why I am still here and let me just tell you why....

HEAVENLY FATHER LOVES YOU AND WANTS YOU TO BE HAPPY FOREVER. So listen to the missionaries please. They have a message that will change your life. Whether or not you know it... you have been searching for this message ever since you left the presence of our Heavenly Father. The gospel of Jesus Christ offers hope, joy and peace in a world that needs it so much 

John 14:27  “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

Love you all so much! Thanks for everything! 

COME WHAT MAY AND LOVE IT 

Hermana Mann

JUST A QUICK SHOUT OUT TO ADRIAN CUZ HE GOT BAPTIZED!  SO HAPPY FOR HIM

Love this girl

Daniela

All the fam <3

Pictures from people in Tucuman

TEMPLO

HEY FRIENDS. I’M JUST SO HAPPY AND THERE IS A LOT I CAN WRITE BUT I JUST WANT TO TELL ALL OF YOU THAT WE ARE GONNA GET A TEMPLE HERE IN SALTA ARGENTINA AND I’M JUST SO HAPPY!!!!!! 

So now I want to share about the spiritual experience I had when they announced the temple here where my heart is....

So I started my mission in Salta and had the great opportunity to be there for almost 11 months. I loooove Salta and absolutely love the people. They are so friendly and full of charity and just accept me like their own children. They have such great faith and make real big, true sacrifices to show their love to God. In Guemes, the temple trip they were planning turned into a rollercoaster ride. They didn’t have enough money and the bus was too small and they had to sell a lot of bread and get days of work - something that we normally don’t have to worry about. Anyways, I have seen so many sacrifices they make so they can keep the commandments and attend the temple. Here in Manantial, the temple is a little closer but still - an 8 hour bus ride. And yesterday we watched General Conference with the Familia Suarez, maybe one of my favorite families in the whole ward. The Suarez family are true and faithful members and have had their fair share of trials. Recently they were planning a trip to the temple but for family difficulties were not able to go. When Presidente Nelson was announcing the temples, the room was silent. Then when he said that there would be a temple here in SALTA  ARGENTINA the spirit hit us all soooo hard. We were all in tears. And that doesn’t mean that if you are crying you feel the spirit. But it was just so powerful. I think that was the first moment I have happy cried.  I am just so grateful for this opportunity to serve and share the true joy I have because I am a member of the church. I know that this temple will change sooooooooooooo many lives - as it has changed my own. I know this is the Lord’s church that He is LEADING US through a modern prophet. I am just so so so happy. 

So that was def the highlight of my week but we had other great moments too! Like when.... 

-       Hermano Suarez made us "brownies"

-       The bus guy let us ride for free

-       We made banana pancakes

-       One day we ate lunch with the Familia Aslan with REAL pasta sauce 

-       We ate humita!!!! Look it up on google or something....it is a corn soup! Super yummy! 

-       Evvvvveeeeerrryyyyyttthhhhhhiiiinnnng was closed on Friday for Good Friday because here everyone thinks that because Jesus died, Satan has a "free day" so everyone is super scared and hides in their house all day

-       When members drove us home in their car

-       Watching general conference in English with all the gringos

Kinda crazy letter but know that I am HAPPY and GRATEFUL and I hope you all are too! Have a super great week! 

COME WHAT MAY AND LOVE IT! 

Hermana Mann 

LOOK AT THIS CUTE FAM

the most expensive and most delicious waffles

Familia Suarez - waffle selfie

my favorite - Hermano Suarez

call us pros

trophy wife (they are not pancakes - they are tombs)

Zona