Transfers are a happenin'!

FAM SHAM! 

First, real quick, the most important thing... Happy 35 year anniversary of STAR WARS! That is all... 

That´s right, transfers are happening again... I can´t believe it!  I will find out what happens tomorrow night and I’m super nervous! Hermana Parker and I have been companions now for two transfers (separate transfers), and I’ve been here for six months. So, who knows what is going to happen (not including Heavenly Father, President, the APs and the office elders)?  I only have four transfers left, so I might train, I might transfer to another area, we might stay together, they might white wash the area... THERE ARE SO MANY POSIBILITIES!  We´ll find out I guess... weird how fast it came. 

We had a miracle in Church this week! For the past five weeks we have had 0-2 investigators at Church, and Sunday we had six!  Woot Woot!  We got an awesome reference from the Elders of Tacuarí this week -  a family of five people!  And they all came to church!  We are so stoked, and they really liked Church.  We will see what happens with them. 

Hermana Parker and I were sick half of Friday and half of Saturday... wasn´t our best days... but it all turned out fine.  We were able to get a lot done because we weren´t sick at the same time.  She got sick, then I got sick... so it wasn´t Ideal... oh well.  All is over, and we are ready to work. 

We went to San Ignacio today. Hemana Parker wanted to go, and I didn´t have a problem going again.  It was fun, and I bought a couple of souvenirs.  So I’m excited.  I took a lot of photos, but I forgot the camera cord at home, so I guess I´ll just have to send them next week. 

Wow... other than that, pretty boring week... OH, remember the photo I sent home about the plaques, I can´t remember if I answered what was wrong with them... They are plaques for Elders... I don´t have anywhere to put them... :( 

Love you guys!  Be smart, be safe, trust in the lord.  He loves you! 

Love Love Love!

Hna. Erin Kaye Griffeth

Happy Father's Day Papa!

Lady Loca

FAM! 

Happy Fathers Day! (Already sent Dad a letter)

OK, real quick... WHAT!? How is Brett doing now? I feel like we should all learn from this and say, ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET! Fact - I hope everything is good now, and he´s doing well. I´ll be praying on this side. 

Second, this week was weirdly awesome, mainly for the awesome crazy lady we met in the street. 

We were sitting down for a moment, looking through our members list, and this lady (smoking a cigarette) came up to us and asked if we were Mormons. We said "yes", and then she asked us if we had a moment to talk with her. Naturally, like all missionaries, this doesn´t happen often. So we said, "SÍ"! So we started walking to her house, and she was telling us about how our church was originally called 'The Mormon Church' and then years later they changed it to 'The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.' We told her that that was incorrect and it´s always been called 'The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.' We then asked how old she was and she told us that she was really old, older than we could understand. We were a little confused, but when we got to her house (small and humble) she proceeded to tell us that she was originally born in Arabia and has been resurrected four or five times. She also told us that she was the owner of Coca Cola, Pepsi and Disney. ;) Ha ha. She told us that people were trying to find her for her money, and how this lady had stolen her Identity. At one point she was talking about the Twin Towers - the conversation went something like this. 

Loco Lady:  "You two are North American right?"

Us:  "yeah"

Loco Lady:  "You know the Twin Towers?"

Us:  "yeah"

Loco Lady:  "Ah, yeah. Those are mine." 

Lol.  So apparently she isn´t just the owner of Pepsi, Coca Cola and Disney, but also the Twin Towers. It was a pretty funny experience. She told us that she wanted us to get the phone number of the Police of North America. We were thinking it would be a little hard. :) Looks like she´s a little... crazy. So, After that, We excused ourselves and left.  And we have been quoting her for a couple of days now. 

Kyle, I can´t believe you are in Chile now! (by the time you read this you will be in Chile) Whose your companion? Where is he from? I want pictures.  Enserio. :) How do you like it? What is the weather like? Cold, Hot? 

Familia Vergara is teaching Hermana Parker and I how to Crochet. It´s been fun learning - we are SLOWLY (we work on it in our spare time, if we have spare time) working on a scarf, I´ll send you photos when it´s complete. 

Nothing much too exciting happened this week. Sorry. I hope everything is going well. Sounds like everything is going well in Washington, and back at home. I love you all so much, and I´m grateful for all the support I receive while I´m here serving the Lord. 

Be SMART, Be SAFE, and Trust in the Lord with all your heart, might, mind and strength. 

Love, Love, Love,

Hna. Erin Kaye Griffeth

Guardar la Fe

A slide show featuring the beautiful people and places in and around Resistencia, Argentina. 

If you look closely, there are at least five photos of Erin.

Yu-Gi-Oh or Church

Hey ho Familia! 

How goes it!?  I love hearing all your adventures. I´m surprised by a lot of them, and not by some of them. But I love hearing about it, especially the Bachelorette nights...? lol :) Disfruta! 

Well, this letter is not going to be very long this week. We didn´t do much. But all is well, and we are working hard. :) 

Real quick, I did want to tell you a little bit about a guy named Coco. (It´s not his real name.) :) He´s about 25 years old and he is super active in his evangelical church. He´s one of the leaders of the Jovenes (youth) groups. He also helps runs the lights and the other activities. So he is there all the time. But he has accepted a baptism date for when he feels that it´s true. He´s great. Now, our problem... Yu-Gi-Oh. Now, all you Japanese anime fanatics out there might now what it is. Basically, it´s a TV show and a VERY popular card game here. He plays it EVERY Saturday night from 5pm to 5am in the morning on Sunday. So, he hasn´t come to church yet. But he is great and we are going to see what we can do. .. Yu-Gi-Oh or Eternal Life.... ;) 

This photo describes how COLD it is here! We finally borrowed a heater from the church. Thank goodness! 

The other is a photo of my name badges... Can you guess what is wrong with them? I´ve been waiting about five months for these....

Got to run! I love you all so much. Keep up the amazing work in all that you do. Keep writing me (before 10am (there) on Mondays). 

Be smart, be safe, be strong, be kind. BE KAPO! I love this work so much. 

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Hna. Erin Kaye Griffeth

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Wow, what a week!.

Una Capo Familia,

 I can´t even tell you how tiring this week has been. We have been working a ton here to find new investigators. But, we have been having a lot of luck with less active members. 

1: Raul and Magalí - they are a couple that have been living together for about four years now. They have a little girl, Bianca, she is 2 1/2 and tall for her age. Raul was baptized when he was about 12 years old, and he hasn´t been to church in about 18 years. Nobody has come by to visit him. We hope it is because the address that the church had was wrong, so we just asked a whole bunch of people if they new where familia Gomez lived. Magalí is awesome. She is really receptive to the Gospel. The only problem - they have to get married. And when we talked about it with them, Raul got a little defensive. But that´s fine, we are teaching what the Lord wants, not what the world wants. :) 

2: Ismael and Florencia. They have been together for about a year and a half. Florencia is great, she has heard all there is about the Gospel. She goes to church, she´s gone visiting teaching with the sisters, she has a testimony, and she wants to be baptised. Ismael has been a member his entire life. He comes from a strong family in the Church and everyone knows him. They are super great, and are expecting a little girl in September. The problem is the same as the last - they need to get married. They think it is a complicated process, but what they don´t know is, the missionaries here are EXPERTS in getting people married. ;) We are working with them. 

3: Veronica. She´s eight years old. All of her family are members. She´s been to church the past three weeks and loves the primary. We had an awesome lesson last night about how everything is for our good. After Veronica prayed we noticed her mother was crying. It was awesomely spiritual. :) So far, there isn´t a problem. I´m praying it stays that way. :) 

Well, it´s avocado season here, and we are ENJOYING it. :) Omelets, sandwiches, plain, anything. It's good. And they are huge - we bought four about a day and a half ago and we just finished them today. So we are off to buy more. 

Well, I´d better let you guys go, but thank you for all the support. Especially for the prayers. I know the lord is blessing me here, even if it is a hard city to find people. :) I love this Gospel. I´m grateful that I can be an instrument in the Lord's hands. I love you all. Be safe, be Strong, be Smart. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. 

Hermana Erin Kaye Griffeth

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p.s. Kyle, keep truckin'. The Lord is on your side. How AWESOME is that!