Diana E-mail - April 21, 2014

Happy Monday Everyone

 This week was really good we have seen a of miracles and we now have 2 people on date for baptism and i really hope that i can stay long enough to see them both. I am glad that grandma is no longer in any pain and that she is happy. I will miss her more a lot but i know that i will see her again. the weather has been really nice the sun has been out and i am getting a little darker. but yeah i am doing great being a missionary is the best nothing could be better. I love being able to help people change there lives and hepling them see there is more to life. Hope you are all having a great day Alofa atu!!! I love you!!!

Sister Whetten

Jesse E-mail

i hope you liked the fotos! im going to try sending some every week! just so you can have more than words to describe how things are over here in Argentina:)
this past week just flew! i dont think i remember half the things that happened it went by so fast. but one of the best things we did was go to the temple with our little branch. the only reason we got to go was because one of our investigators was going with us!!! he already has a baptismal date for the 17th of may! and he already has assisted the church so we are keeping our fingers crossed for him! he is 21 years old and has a good desire to learn more. as we were with him we also got to be with some of the young people of the ward. we then found out that we were lucky to go to the temple because the mission is trying to stop that now:P so we dont waste time which is very understandable, considering it seems like we never have enough. we also got to go to the lagoon that is only 6 blocks from our apartment! its really beautiful and we had a little picnic there with the sisters and elders of our district. we were also blessed again to find 4 more investigators on sunday!! our prayers are really being answered right now and it feels great! my companion is great and we are really starting to teach well together. lets hope the next transfer doesnt come too fast because im liking the way things are going! i hope everyone is having a great time finishing up with school and the play as always should be great! i think its 3 more weeks and i get to talk to you all! I love you guys!
Love Elder Whetten

Pictures from Argentina - April 21

Argentina!!!! the sunsets are almost as good as Arizonas

another cool sunset...i love the open space!

a really great family that we are trying to help back to church

and a rainbow we saw when it was really cold and raining

pictures of our crazy district 

a butterfly and probebely my favorite piciture ive taken of a car

believe it or not taking this wire cutter cemented into a wall was part of a service project

this is what pegasus really looks like

Jesse E-mail - April 14

its sad to hear about great grandma Carter, but more than anything im glad she was able to read me letter. thank you mom for doing tht for me! im sure going to miss my grumpy mean ol grandmother:) but i know that when she goes, there will be tears on both sides of the veil. tears of sadness here and tears of happiness there:) she will be in my prayers. 

this week was very good! we were able to get alot done and we were blessed to find 5 new investigators! that was our miracle for the week! and theres even a family who is evangelico(not sure what that is in english) and they invited is back into there home tomorrow! we are also working with a less active family right now and we had a family home evening this last Thursday about unity in the home,and doing things together. it went very good! then we started with another less active family and they love the missionaries in there home. our main goal is to the investigators, but we also want to activate the less actives right now and get some more members in the chapel on sunday. we have around 30-35 in attendance right now so its kinda low but we are working with the members to get everything done.   

i had no idea that this weekend was easter! i knew there was going to be a holiday here but they are almost always different than those from the U.S. it gives us some really good opportunities to teach about the saviors life! there is alot that even i dont know that happened in his lifetime. but i dont have much time to study things too deeply at this time. we have been invited to just study the basics and know those very well because we wont be teaching deep doctrine to investigators. but today we had another zone activity and i hurt my hand playing soccer:P i was playing goalie and landed on my hand wrong. its swollen but i think it will be okay, the most the doctor here would do is wrap it up but im alright:P i just cant do handstands for a while:D ohh and i burned a pair of pants this week with the iron! haha melted straight through the fabric. so im down to two pairs. i have to sew another pair together because they got torn up in the washing machine. nothing else too interesting happened this week but it was great! i cant wait to hear back from you next week! i love you all!!

Elder Whetten

Diana E-mail - April 14

 Hello Everyone, 

sorry last week was really short just was really crazy but i am here in Samoa for another transfer which is great i love these people and i am not ready to say good bye just yet. This past week was great we have been enjoying the sun it has been great i have been getting a little tan it is amazing. we have a elder here from Canada and he was dying because it got up to 73 degrees and i said it was a beautiful winter day in Arizona he said that i live in heck lol but i love it and glad i can all it home. my companion and i have been walking around a lot and it has been great our favorite thing to do is ride the bus we are in a car and the car gets old really fast so we like to walk. for exercise we have been walking to the ocean and it is amazing i love it. one day when we went for a walk we started talking to this really old Indian guy he could not speak English very well but we tried to share the gospel with him but i guess all he was looking for was a "partner" he was lonely and needed a women in his life and i told him i was 20 and that i was still a child and he turned bright red and said he had to go. it was great i love old men especially old creepy ones they are the best. but anyway being a missionary is the best i have so many stories not all good ones but some pretty amazing ones I love sharing what i know with people the world needs what i have and i would die for what i know and that is ALL of us are children of God. The Book of Mormon is The word of God and anyone who reads it with an open heart will see what i see. Joseph Smith was and is a Prophet of God and he did so much for a fallen and ruin world. Jesus Is the Christ and the savior of the world and because of him i will be with my family forever. I love all pf you so much. Please Give Grandam Carter a hug and a kiss for me and tell her i will see her again. Again I love you all

Sister Whetten

Pictures from Argentina

E-mail from Jesse - April 7, 2014

another great week has gone by in argentina! the work is going great, we have some members that really enjoy working with us and that helps a lot! we have a couple investigators now that seem really great, we will see what time will tell. but the work has just been great. besides walking everywhere for extended periods of time i feel great. this last saturday we did get some new bikes though so that should help a lot. my companion is just getting to his year mark this week so we will be playing with fire and burning a shirt of his. dont ask why we do it because they all say the same thing...tradition!! that and its fun:P one of the new investigators we found this week was a 14 year old boy named cristian. he was alone outside waiting for his mom to get home when we taught him. we taught him about the restoration and he seemed very interested. but the next time we see him we want to get a hold of his mother so that we can teach them both. we will see what happens. Monday night elder colivoro and i were in charge of the family home evening lesson that we have every other week for less actives and new investigators. we spoke about the importance of general conference and how its literally gods way of talking to us through his servants. and how we can receive personally revelation through their words. and then afterwards i was in charge of the game. there were about 18 people there and all somewhat young and even some children. so i had everyone tie balloons to both of there feet and run around trying to pop everyone elses:P it was really great to see everyone having a good time and participating. the blessings of this church are true and i notice this more and more with every moment. there is no doubt that we have in our possessions gods mighty work, and not only is it a missionaries job to share the gospel but everybodies . so i hope we all take the advice of richard g.scott, and share the gospel with someone:)

i love you all, i hope everything continues to stay well.

Love Elder Whetten