WHITEWASH- Getting Lost in the work..... Literally.

Just saying goodbye to good ole Bishop Shopfer:) oink oink 

WELL it happened-- that t word TRANSFERS. Right now I'm sitting in a cyber in Las Flores Argentina, a teeny tiny town thats completely isolated from the rest of human society  haha but it's good to know that the Cyber music is still the same wherever you go- nothin like rockin out to "I'm on the highwayyy to Hell" as I write my spiritual missionary message to mi familia.     Well forgive the late letter, we traveled 3 hours in Taxi today to arrive at our new home and on top of that it took me and mi compañera about 15 walking blocks of asking directions to find this cyber! You may wonder why...This is the cool part about this transfer. 

Saying goodbye to mi familia. 

 It might look like we're crying but we're not

......promise

            So President Thurgood has been making a LOT of changes here in the mission. Today at the transfer meeting there were 86 companionships that had changes. It was HUGE! He is opening new areas and closing others, and one of those big changes is what they are doing to this isolated area of Las Flores. The Elderes have been in this area for over 20 years, without Hermanas and now he is taking the Elderes out of here and putting in us Hermanas. So we are doing what is called a complete Whitewash, where two missionaries jump into an area without knowing ANYTHING and they get started from there. I am so excited! My new compa is la Hermana Cóncenes from Peru and she is a newbie in the mish- just finished training. She is so cute and sweet and we've already had some good laughs together. It's the funnest thing in the world to do this whitewash thing cause neither of us know where anything is or what we're doing. We are completely dependent and guided by the Spirit. I feel so much like Nephi this week in 1 Nefi 4:6 "And I was led by the Spirit, not knowing the things which I should do." or at least I think its that in English haha. "Y iba guiado por el Espíritu, sin saber de antemano que tendría que hacer" I am praying a lot more often cause I need the Lord's direction in every moment. I love it because it forces me to depend completely on the Spirit! Shouldn´t it always be like that? :) 

On top of opening up an area with a newbie, we are literally in the middle of nowhere. If you check out the map, Las Flores is completely isolated from the rest of the mish haha. We have to take a days trip to go to District Meetings and a 2 days trip to go to Zone meetings. Like literally we leave the day before and stay the night in another pench in Eseisa to go to the meeting the next day, and then we get back the next night.  It is super chill here. There are more cows than people haha. Our pench is one room in total. And we were happy to find out that the Elderes left in nice and clean and even filled our fridge with food before they left. Do you remember Elder Sandberg from my MTC District? He was here before so he is giving me all the advice.  

 We basically got sent out here with an almost broken cell phone haha and our District leader doesn't have one so..... we're gonna roll with it haha we don't even know where the church is! But we have the area book and a map so we're off to a good start :) 

I can't tell ya how hard it was to leave the people I love so dearly in Gutierrez. Especially saying goodbye to the familia Gonzalez. They played Soy un hijo de Dios as the closing hymn on Sunday and we all cried together. Seban and Aylen always wanted to sing that song. They are so special to me.

I know that changes are for our own good though. I have learned that here in the mish. Every change is coupled with new experiences and blessings. I can't tell you how excited I am for this new project :) I just want to lose myself out here... Not only like in the aspect of directions haha cause I already know that's gonna happen.. Shoot, it already happened today! But I feel like out here in Las Flores I can lose a little bit more of myself, consegrating my whole self to this work, being guided completely by the Spirit and no one else. Heck, it's either the Spirit or asking the cows for help for Pete's sake hahaha but no I am excited to get to know the people too not only the cows :) 

 I love this work so much. I know our Heavenly Father doesn't call us to do something unless we are completely capable of doing it. 1 Nefi 3:7  I know that we must depend on Him always in prayer and speak to Him all day in our hearts. If we do this we will never fail. 

I love you all so much! Go LOBOS! 

Con amor, 

Hermana Flake 

Just chillin with the Argentinan One Direction here. 

My compa just carries around a dead body bag while we proselyte sometimes.....

WE'LL BE BUNKIN IT THIS TRANSFER! I CALL THE TOP! 

New home! Clean Pench! 

Hola Hermana Thurgood! 

I just wanted you to know that not only did these Elderes leave our pench looking fabulously clean, they also filled our fridge with food to start off a great whitewash! We are in good hands! Thank you for everything! My mom told me that you called. That is so sweet of you :) You are in our prayers! 

Hermana Flake 

We made pizza to celebrate our first lunch here! 

Hermana Flake & Hermana Cóncenes

Yeah.... look up the scripture on the bathroom door......You can tell the Elderes were living here last hahaha   ( 14:23 And the scent thereof went forth upon the face of the land, even upon all the face of the land; wherefore the people became troubled by day and by night, because of the scent thereof.)