MIS QUINCE

The Krusty Krab pizza is the pizza for you and me. The Krusty Krab pizza is the pizza for you and me. THE KRUSTY KRAAAAAAAAAAAB PIZZA IS THE PIZZZZZA FOR YOU AND MEEEEEEEEEE 

Yeah idk why I have that song stuck in my head. pls send help

HEY GUESS WHAT! JULIA AND FRANCO WERE BAPTIZED! They were some amazing investigadores that I had in Manantial! So happy for them!!!!! 

So basically this week could be featured on one of those shirts that says keep calm and carry on but more like "keep calm and pretend your companion aka bff doesn’t live on the other side of the world and you will maybe never see her again so make the best of this week and order lots of hamburgers. Keep calm and carry on amiright?  ughhhhhhh so yeah. Hermana Daldegan is currently headed to BRAZIL!!!! I love her so much and learned so much from her! My new companion is called Hermana Kamp from good ole Utah! She will also be finishing her mission so we will make the most of these 6 weeks!!!! 

BUT ALSO I HAD MIS QUINCE!!!!!!! See pics attached. But basically, Latina culture is that when a girl completes 15 years, they throw a huge party. Well I am from Nebraska so I never had a quince but I did complete 15 months in the mission so we had a big party!!!!! Huge shout out to my district for helping my dreams come true! It was the best day ever - food, dance, talks, roses EVERYTHING! So happy so blessed

CHISTOSOS:

·       A homeless man asked me for money so I gave him bread. He walked away and yelled "Revelations 3:16" so I popped open my biblia and what? thank you dude

·       Let me set up this scene for you .... Hermana Daldegan and Hermana Mannewitz are walking in a dark street at 9:00 at night. There is no one else in the street other than a strange man in the corner. Hermana Mannewitz is afraid. Hermana Mannewitz tells Hermana Daldegan - hey I’m scared. Hermana Daldegan now has lots of fear. Together, they decide to stop at a small store and pretend to buy food until the strange man in the corner leave. The man does not leave. The hermanas are with more fear and decide to pray. Thinking of an escape plan, the man in the corner begins to move. Shaking, Hermana Daldegan and Hermana Mannewitz say: Oh no - he’s coming. The man turns to the side AND ITS A FREAKIN HORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not even kidding. we were so scared of a horse lol

·       Hermana Lopez came to be with me until my new companion comes and she prayed at 4:00. That’s always funny. 

MILAGROS:

·       God is in the work my friends. In allllll the little things. Elder Del Papa is a new elder here in Oran - he got here 1 month ago. But it’s crazy because his grandparents live here in Argentina - about one hour from his area. And well, he had only met his grandparents like 2 times in all his life so God sent him here. He was able to spend some time with his grandpa and give him a priesthood blessing for health right before he passed away. But Elder Del Papa was able to go to his funeral and be a part of his life. I know that God knows everything and has a PERFECT plan for His imperfect children

·       Gabriela is progressing so well and brought 2 of her friends to church! love her so much and so excited for her big baptism day (should be next Saturday...keep her in your prayers) 

·       Patriarchal blessings are real and come from God - trust in them 

·       The spirit teaches, comforts, protects, guides, everything!!!!! This week, I had to say "see you later" to our great little group from Oran but I actually felt really comforted and full of hope through it all! So grateful for my Heavenly Father that has put so many amazing people in my life and really help me to live life to its FULLEST!!!! 

"Men are that they might have JOY" 

LOVE YOU ALL! Thanks for everything! Shout out to my cousin Emily who is finished her honorable service this week and Abby who is beginning the best adventure of her life! Love you both! 

COME WHAT MAY AND LOVE IT 

Hermana Mann

ahhh...what am I gonna do without her

asado for their last almuerzo

breakfast with the hermanas!!!

look at these cool flowers we found

Hermano Matias - real homie

hahahahahahaha elderes

love this district

la mision

love, love, love her

MIS QUINCE

thanks for putting up with me :)))))

TZ aka bestie

Familia Alpides <3

Love Argentina

HOLA! 

Wow. Let me just tell you all about the true joy I feel in my heart in this exact moment. I love Argentina. I love the people. I looooooove the culture. I love the food. I love soccer. I love the world cup. I don’t think I could be much happier than this.  I know this is the work of the Lord and that because it is HIS work, I have the great opportunity to feel a little of this joy. It’s incredible. If any of you are looking for a little happiness - please talk to the missionaries or go on a mission yourself. Life changing. 

CHISTOSOS:

·       Lady from the ward: "when are transfers?" Hermana Daldegan: "2 weeks" Lady: "Bueno, I’ll go to church in two weeks then" hahahahahahah 

·       We were teaching an hermana and her friends and in the middle of the lesson the lady says "yeah I’m Mormon" and Hermana Daldegan and I were like whaaaaaaaaaaat and then she says ... yeah I just can’t escape the mormons THEY ARE EVERYWHERE. hahah. That’s us. That’s what we do.

·       Maybe my companion taught me a dance from Brazil. Maybe not. IDK you’ll have to ask me later.

·       My companion thinks that tea is the answer to all our medical problems. But when an elder almost broke his knee she says "I don’t have any tea to fix that!" jajajaj love her

MILAGROOOOOOOOOOOOOS: 

WE ARE A MISSION OF MILAGROS AND WE HAVE SEEN SO MANY THIS WEEK. Love the work of the Lord

·       Damian prayed in front of the whole branch at church yesterday. He is so cute. He was practicing and everything

·       I loooove Presidente Cabana. He is the president of the branch and literally he is amazing. He is so young and served his mission in Buenos Aires and always reminds us how the mission changed his whole life. He works so much to help the branch and really puts God in the first place. Such a great example for me 

·       GABRIELA!!! We are teaching the sister in law of Presidente Cabana and she’s just the best. She always has mate ready for us when we get there when it’s really cold. And she’s reading her Book of Mormon and came to church and I can see in her eyes the change that God is making in her life. 

·       We had a conference with Elder Packer from the 70 and it was good. I believe in modern day revelation and the need to improve. He taught us a lot and left us with lots of challenges. 

This week I was reading in Mosiah and had a real humbling experience. That’s just what King Benjamin does for ya. But check this out

Mosiah 3:19  “For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, and unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.”

Love it. It is so clear that without Jesucristo, WE ARE NOTHING. Literally, we needed a Savior to save us from the natural man. So glad for this opportunity to learn more about HIM

So happy! Thanks for everything y’all do!  Have a great week! 

Come what may and love it 

Hermana Mann

Happy Birthday Ana Maria!!!!

look at my comp.  she's so cute!

call me Messi!

Stella!!! and TC

I like to call this "when your lunch gets cancelled on a Sunday and you don't have any food
so you just take everything out of the fridge and cook it together"

Valentina <3

Zona Oran!  love our little family!

I got a joke for you...

June 11, 2018

HOLA here we are on a Monday again. Don’t worry. 

HEYYYYY WE MADE IT TO SEMANA 5!!!!!! 

(just a little update on my life is that all my missionary BFF’s are heading home in 2 weeks. and part of their departure, they have to fill out a packet of information called MYPLAN which helps them put goals for their future. and week 5 talks about dating and eternal marriage. all three of them have been looking forward to this week the whole transfer and it finally arrived. so basically - we are gonna have a great week and I am sooooooo excited!!!!!)

Anyways.....

CHISTOSOS:

·       Elder Batman recently hit a new record of empanadas. HE ATE 24 CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT???? I can’t. And Hermana Daldegan can’t believe it either. She was trying to explain to me that 24 empanadas is a looooot and she was like "HERMANA! 24 EMANADAS THATS 2 DOZEN" and I just looked at her and said "muy bien" very sarcastically and yeah.  Now it’s the sarcastic joke of the group - muy bien

·       CTR - choose the right 

·       HLJ - haz tu lo justo or HAGAMOS LOMITOS JUNTOS. pls look up lomitos on google or something because it is an amazing sandwich that has changed my life. So gratefully that Hermana Daldegan introduced me to the better things of life. 

·       This joke is straight up Spanish and really Argentino so y’all probably won’t understand but it is so funny so I’m gonna say it anyway

cual es la diferencia entre una vaca y una argentino

uno da leche y el otro daleche 

JAJAJAJAJAJAJA

Bueno....I guess I will stop laughing at my own jokes and talk about some 

MILAGROS: 

·       Servicio!!!!!! We did some service with the hermanas in Tartagal and it was amazing. A family from the branch recently suffered from a fire and lost everything they had (which wasn’t a lot to start with) and the missionaries and all the branch came to the rescue. We rebuilt there house, cleaned the damage of the fire and tried to wash the few things that survived. I gave my scarf to the 5 year old boy who was shivering from the cold. Humbled myself a little and gave a long prayer of gratitude to my Heavenly Father that night. 

·       OHMYGOODNESS WE HAD AN BRANCH ACTIVITY and it was sooooooo fun! Everyone helped (thank goodness) and everyone brought their friends. And we played games and ate food and danced (well, I didn’t dance cause I’m a missionary but other people did) and it was so fun! And Presidente Cabana (branch president) loved the activity and it just couldn’t be any better!!!

·       I GOT A LETTER FROM MY BFF ASHTYN! I love it when the mail system works - that is a true miracle! Love you ash! 

Well fam and friends. Life is good. I am so happy. I feel so spoiled to have been blessed with so much support in my mission aka best experience of my life! Love you all and am always praying for every single one of you. 

Come what may and love it,

Hermana Mann

The activity planners (and soon to be wedding planners - they are, not me!)

The best almuerzo you can get here in Argentina - Asado

Camila

love these people

I LOVE THIS PLACE!

P-Day on Tuesday

June 5, 2018

Is that a still a cool song? Yeah...that’s right. I’m still cool...oh yeah.

Ok maybe not but HAPPY PDAY!  Sorry for not writing yesterday! We had interviews with Presidente Orquera so he changed our p-day. I know you were all sooooooooo worried about me :)))))

Anyways....

CHISTOSOS: 

·       Trying to help the branch become a ward here and we were talking to some members and they said "the number of people who come to church on Sundays doubles in the summer" and I was like why and they said for the AIR CONDITIONING. It is incredible hot here in Oran in the summer (rn no) and so people only come to church to cool down. Love this culture

·       2 times this week....can I touch your hair

·       When a parrot speaks Spanish better than you....

MILAGROS 

·       OH MY GOODNESS. So we were in our meeting of the district and some lady just comes to the church and knocks on the door and we were like ummmm hello who are you? And she said I CAME HERE BECAUSE I WANT TO COME BACK TO CHURCH. So we wrote down her address and phone number and it turns out that she has a brother and two daughters that have interest in being baptized. God just put her directly in our path. 

·       Stella invited all her family over to listen to us! She is a true convert! She wants other people to feel the love she has felt from Jesus Christ. 

·       So this week we had splits with the hermanas from villa Saavedra and Hermana Lopez and I were contacting some doors and met an incredible daughter of God named Pamela. We talked to her for a while and got to know her better and she seems to really be looking for Jesus Christ in her live THEN she asked me...wait are you in Oran? And I said yes and she said that she will be moving to Oran in the next couple weeks. She has seen Hermana Daldegan and I and always wanted to talk to us. Coincidence? I THINK NOT! Oh also, she told us that she was 7 months pregnant and didn’t even know it. Then had her baby with 8 months. Talk about fast life planning. 

What a great week! Pretty much I can describe Oran in one scripture 

2 Nephi 27:23  “For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith.”

MIRACLES!!!!  GOD IS A GOD OF MIRACLES and I am so grateful! 

Thanks for everything! Have a super great week! 

Come what may and love it 

Hermana Mannewitz 

Abi <3

aaroz chalfa con la zona

CHECK OUT THIS BREAD I MADE!

los daldeganitas - we won pictionary!

Damian

Relationship goals

Stella

MILAGROS in ORAN

May 28, 2018

WOW THERE ARE SO MANY MIRACLES IN ORAN I ACTUALLY CAN’T REALLY BELIEVE IT 

But also lots of funny things too....

·       Family home evening Pictionary and Hermana Daldegan lost and had to do 10 pushups...almost died

·       When we let the elders cook p-day lunch...I hope we all don’t get sick

·       Presidente talking to a new elder that doesn’t speak Spanish: "I’m talking really fast so he doesn’t understand me" 

·       locro...three times in one week....that’s funny

MILAGROS: 

·       UM WE HAD A BAPTISM! So there is a young girl here named Stella and we had a lesson with her on Monday and she told us that she had received an answer from God and wanted to be baptized this Saturday! And Hermana Daldegan and I were like ok LETS GOOOOOOOO.  So we prepped a baptism real quick and it was BEAUTIFUL. Stella was so happy and now she is giving us the names of all her families and friends so we can go teach them too! 

·       DAMIAN! alrighty...Damian is the best little kid I have ever met. He only has 8 years and he reads the Book of Mormon every day and goes to church all the time and not going to church is the only thing his parents can do to punish him haha! But he didn’t have permission from his dad to be baptized BUT God wants His child back sooooooo he softened the heart of Jose and DAMIAN WILL BE BAPTIZED THIS SATURDAY! Keep him in your prayers so everything turns out ok! 

·       So every Tuesday, we have lunch with the Familia Oyarzu and the dad is not a member and neverrrrrrrr wants to listen to us BUT on Tuesday he stayed for the video we shared and then he said "Bueno, I’ll go to church on Sunday with my senora" and it was so cute and his wife started crying.  Then he invited us over for locro for the 25 de Mayo. AND HE ACTUALLY CAME TO CHURCH! Pls pray for him

·       Presidente Cabana! Our branch president is the best! 

·       la Familia Gavilian - the familia of my first convert  - Mateo - lives in my area! What a small world! 

SO HAPPY AND SO BLESSED 

PS sorry this computer doesn’t read my camera so I’ll send pics next week! 

LOVE YOU ALL! 

Come what may and love it 

Hermana Mannewitz