Umm....

JUNE 9, 2014

HOLA! 

so i kind forgot what i was going to write you this week.... my mind just kinda went blank... 

i guess first off though, congratulations are in order to the amazing sister of mine for her graduation! you made a much better and prettier graduate than i did, although you might have to re-enact it all for me when i get home. If you could just ask some friends to rent the gowns again and to put on another show that would be great. you're like in charge of the school anyways no? so it shouldnt be too hard. Also, that's rough joe that your little boy thought of you as a diaper...

So it was kinda a crazy week, although i guess nearly every week is. Weird that christmas ended only a week ago.... But after that whole ordeal we had a lot of very long reunions this week... less missionarying (i try to make a verb out of every word these days... spanish...) and more sitting. We had leadership council wednesday all day, planned with the zone leaders on thursday for the zone conference on friday, and then stake conference on saturday and sunday. and on top of it all my companion got sick this week so we didnt do anything else on saturday and sunday except go to the conference. So I hada lot of time to clean the pension and listen to lots of talks from apostles and general authorities. Luckily a very nice elder gave me their i-pod with some speakers to listen to the 80GB of church talks and music he has.... im thinking about keeping it... just kidding, but it's pretty awesome. I feel like i could listen to BYU talks and general conference the rest of my life. They are awesome. 

*note for mom and dad- if you could please apply to BYU for me that would be great. i keep forgetting to tell you. And then to send me the essays that i have to write to apply. i probably wont get in, but i just feel like i should try it out. I'm not too sure how i feel about suu now... it is also hard to really think about anything pertaining to home while being on the other end of the world. So who knows, very likely i will just end up at suu again, but i figure ill apply and then put it to prayer.

So between all the conferences and sickness we didnt have too much time to actually work this week, which left me feeling oddly empty and frantic thinking about our investigators. Cant remember if i told you about jordan, but he is awesome!! he's about 22 and has so much potential! we've got to help him stop drinking and smoking marijuana, but litterally everytime we see him he has already read his assignmenet in the book of mormon at least 2 or 3 times to be sure he understands it. He reads really slow, so doesn't like to read out loud but it makes it mean even more that he is reading so much. I've never heard someone explain how well they feel the spirit when he is with us or reading as he does. He really recognizes it, which isn't something always all that easy to do. I dont even know how to explain it, but i want him to have this gosple in his life so much!

I'm becoming more and more desperate for the people to listen and understand and accept the gosple. I can't explain how important it really is becoming to me. it's everything. I especially want to be able to helop people understand the atonement... what it means and how and why they need it in their lives. how accepting the gosple helps us to accept more fully the atonement that christ already paid for us. which allows us to recieve open access to all the comfort and help we could ever need or want in this life and an even greater promise for the eternities. 

With christmas just last week, grandma's chirstmas quote came into my mind a lot this week:) Christmas or CHIRST is- light through the darkness, love through the ages, and hope for eternity. thanks grandma:) for always teaching me that even when I didn't fully undertand it. 

So i was going to send some pictuers this week, but i forgot my memory converter and this computer wont accept my camer as is... sorry, next week. Thanks for all the pictures though! i loved them!! i have the best looking family ever!

love you all from here to there (which is really far if you think about it). 

hermana ashcroft

PS- thea and sofi are awesome for their wonderful scarves and gloves they gave me... it's not too cold yet, but winter is definitely coming and i have already utilized them:) 

PSS- Argentines are defintiely crazy about the world cup... things are going to get loco here!

PSSS- there's some random people that keep protesting in our street where we live, right below out apartment..... it get pretty old through the nights... they really know how to protest loud here with lots of horns...

PSSSS- did you know that the police can just go on protest here as well, and just quit qorking... that's crazy... totally has happened. My question is what about the robbers....