Princess Jenna

Live from good ol´Oran Argentina

Well after we wrote home last week we went to the doctor because my foot was really swelled up and then……… this whole week I sat in a hospital bed. Jajajja I guess I am allergic to some type of mosquito here. And no one called me princess but I sure felt like a princess. People made food for me all day and catered to my every need and I made a lot of doctor friends. But if anything it just made me so much more grateful to be a missionary here in Argentina. Not going to lie somedays I just feel like wow… I still have SEVEN more months. How? But after not being able to work for an ENTIRE week I feel so ALIVE and I just want to talk to every living creature here in Oran.

Federicoooo is still tip top and is preparing for his baptism and we are pumped. He is seriously the sweetest kid. He comes to church after working for 5pm to 5am with breakfast in hand ready to be spiritually edified and it just makes my heart happy. I love seeing changes in these people. It really amazes me what God can do with something so simple. How he has always worked through small things to make a big impact. When I was in the hospital I decided that I was going to read the whole book of Mormon. But that dream se fue when every single member here came to visit. But I still had the chance to read a ton and it really helped me realize how lucky we are to have the Book of Mormon. To have this guide in these times of trouble.  To know that if we will follow the counsel and direction that we receive from this book we have the power to do anything.

 1 Nefi 17: 50 Y les dije: Si Dios me hubiese mandado hacer todas las cosas, yo podría hacerlas. Si me mandara que dijese a esta agua: Conviértete en tierra, se volvería tierra; y si yo lo dijera, se haría.

Through this sacred book we have power. So many times we get lost and we feel like we have so much to do and so little time. But we forget that God is a simple God. That he doesn´t expect us to run faster than we can handle. He doesn´t expect us to be the people that we are not. That every answer we need is simply through him. I love reading about Lehi and family because we can really see that it is only through small and simple things that the Lord helps us find our way. That he guides us to where we need to be. All we need to do is have faith in him.

 Alma 37:44 Pues he aquí, tan fácil es prestar atención a la palabra de Cristo, que te indicará un curso directo a la felicidad eterna, como lo fue para nuestros padres prestar atención a esta brújula que les señalaba un curso directo a la tierra prometida.

 45 Y ahora digo: ¿No se ve en esto un símbolo? Porque tan cierto como este director trajo a nuestros padres a la tierra prometida por haber seguido sus indicaciones, así las palabras de Cristo, si seguimos su curso, nos llevan más allá de este valle de dolor a una tierra de promisión mucho mejor.

 46 Oh hijo mío, no seamos perezosos por la facilidad que presenta la senda; porque así sucedió con nuestros padres; pues así les fue dispuesto, para que viviesen si miraban; así también es con nosotros. La vía está preparada, y si queremos mirar, podremos vivir para siempre.

Happiness is in our hands. We make our own choices and we decide to take part in this perfect plan and follow this perfect course or not. I love the mission. I love knowing of the restored gospel and helping others knows the same. I love knowing that my heavenly father loves us enough to give us a guide book that I can read and hold in my hands anytime I want. I just hope everything is fine and dandy in good ol´Utah. I love you all and miss u

Remember who youareanddont do drugs

XOXOXOXO Hermana Jarvis

Swag pays the bills 

 

my companion checking herself out jaja



When you´re stuck in a hospital bed all day

We believe in being humble 

Kancles

Ya know when your ancle is the size of your thigh and it just doesn´t feel right? Well mosquitos are real and love me. And my foot is so swollen hahaha and I am walking like an old lady #perksofthemission. But this week we had a ton of sucesses so I literally could care less about my thunder kancles lolzzzzz. Jajajajja.

But this week was just dandy. I could litterally write a ten page letter just to describe all that I have learned in these past few weeks. We have this stellar investigador names Federicoooooo. I love him. He has a huge gote and long hair and doesn´t talk very much but we love him. We found him knocking doors and invited him to Family Home Evening and now he comes to every activity and is so sweet. And he fixes our bikes for free…. WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK. I really love this area. We are in a rama not yet a ward but we only need 5 more people to attend church to be a ward and we are determind to find these five saints.

If there is anything I am truly learning here in the mission it is the power of humility and power of meekness.

“Meekness is vital for us to become more Christlike,” Elder Ulisses Soares. Without it we won’t be able to develop other important virtues. Being meek does not mean weakness, but it does mean behaving with goodness and kindness, showing strength, serenity, healthy self-worth, and self-control.”2 As we work to develop this attribute, we will find that “humbly submitting our will to the Father brings us the empowerment of God—the power of humility. It is the power to meet life’s adversities, the power of peace, the power of hope, the power of a heart throbbing with a love for and testimony of the Savior Jesus Christ, even the power of redemption.”

 “If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

“For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you” (John 13:14–15).

We literally have a power when we can over run our pride through the atonement of Jesus Christ. When we can stop looking for the falts in others, when we can accept their differences and weeknesses and when we can have patience when someone doesn´t act the way that we would have desired or when we can resist the feelings of being offended, we can really progress. We can really become children of our heavenly father. as Nefi said “I know that HE loveth his children” all our Heavenly father wants for us in this life is eternal happiness and we can only find it through following the example of our Savior Jesus Christ. And serving our fellow men. Así es.

XOXOXOXOX

Hermana Jarivs



reunion con pres Chapppsss

no idea who these men are but they wanted a pic hahahahahha

​If I were a rich girl na na nanananananna

My view every day

​Kanlce jajaja 

 

I can ride my bike witttt no handle bars

I can ride my bike witttt no handle bars

I love the mission with all my heart. I love the good and I even love the bad. It´s really so amazing how one´s life can change when we drop everything and put our Heavenly Fathers will before our own. It’s so amazing to me how well his plan really works. That we have a God “without end” with “all power” and with “all knowledge”. HOW LUCKY ARE WE.

The work here in Oran has been pretty dry. So we have been really focusing on helping the members and really really earning their trust. We have been helping Valeria. She is a mom of 5 children. 4 boys and one little girl. She was listening to the missionaries for so long but couldn´t get baptized because her husband didn´t want to get married and didn´t want to listen to the missionaries. And finally, after years of denying the missionaries he final decided to listen. So the missionaries set up an appointment and when they arrived to the house Valeria came out side and told them that out of the blue her soon to be husband had passed away due to some strange heart problem. And so she was left widowed with her 5 kids but was able to get baptized and is a faithful member ever since.

 She literally is the sweetest human but has so much to do and has noooo money. And when we visit her the spirit is always so strong. We have been helping her clean her house a couple times a week because she is really stressed and needs help and this past week we stopped by and she came to us with tears in her eyes and told us that she doesn´t have any money and she doesn´t have any food to feed her children and she was praying and praying to our heavenly father for some kind of help and when she finished her prayer out of the blue the bishop showed up at the door with the things that she needed in that moment. And then right after we showed up to help her out. It really amazes me how faithful the people are here. They don´t even have money to feed their children or to buy shoes for their feet but they can still have the brightest smile on their face and continue forward with faith never doubting our Heavenly Father. It really blows my mind to be honest.

Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

I know that God gives the heaviest loads to his strongest children and we can´t even comprehend the blessing we will receive after these tribulations but until then we have to realize that is only in and through him that we can find happiness that we can reach our goals, and that we can become who we need to be. He is our only source of true and everlasting happiness. And all we need to work according to his will.

 “When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities. We should put God ahead of everyone else in our lives.” Ezra Taft Benson

I know these things 2 b tru. I love the mish mish. I love my argentinos and I love my Heavenly Father. I am so grateful to know of this perfect plan he has for us. Enjoy Café Rio and Acai bowls and mountains (tears)

XOXOXOXOXOX

Hermana Jarvis

Son and daughter of my love Valeria 

10 Months and still chillllll

I literally don´t think there is anything better than sitting on my bike at a stop light and inviting people to know about the restored gospel. Definitely FUR SURE one of my favorite things I have done in the mission. I feel so white and so nerdy but it’s all good in the hood ya know. As long as I’m helping people to know that God loves them, right?

Its finally warming up herein Argentinnnnna and am so happy. But mosquitos are real and my entire hand and legs have been the size of a balloon thanks to these deadly thangs. But the work is moving forward. Slowly but surely. We are going to make some big change here in Oran. I hit 10 months in the mission this week and I am in shock. And it just makes me so grateful that I still have 8 months. I really honestly can´t imagine real life. It freaks me out jaajaja.

This week was so sweet la verdad. This week we were visiting a family and their recently baptized daughter decided to go and visit people with us. Her mom has been a member for ever but got offended when she was pregnant with her first daughter and decided to leave the church and after 20 years her daughter found the missionaries and decided to get baptized. And when we finished with all of our appointments we went back to her house and it was already time for us to go back to the apartment so that we could plan for the next day but I just had the strongest impression that we need to share a message with their family. I even had a scripture engraved in my mind that I knew I had to share. I didn´t even ask my companion I just pretty much told them that we were going to share a message with them realllllly fast. So we entered and her dad was there who isn´t a member and has NEVER accepted the missionaries and he decided to listen to us. And right when I saw him I knew why I felt that prompting. Then we shared a scripture about family prayer and committed them to start praying as a family every night.  And then we ended in a prayer on our knees and I just felt this love that God has for us as his children stronger than ever before. I just feel so blessed that God trusts us enough to help this sweet little family find their way back on his straight and narrow path. And this trust that he has in each and everyone of us to help our brothers and sisters. There is not a doubt in my mind that there are always always people prepared to receive this message in our lives. Whether we are in a foreign country or in Mormonville  Utah. God is always preparing our loved ones and all we have to do is open our hearts and God will fill our mouths with the words that they need to here.

Alma 35 ¡He aquí, sus almas son preciosas, oh Señor, y muchos de ellos son nuestros hermanos; por tanto, danos, oh Señor, poder y sabiduría para que podamos traer a estos, nuestros hermanos, nuevamente a ti!

11 Y toda tu obra será en Sion, con toda tu alma, desde ahora en adelante; sí, siempre abrirás tu boca por mi causa, no temiendo lo que pueda hacer el hombre, porque yo estoy contigo. Amén.

Don´t be selffish, and pray for an opportunity to share this amazing message and help our heavenly father in this perfect plan that he has for us. I love the gospel with all of my heart and I love teaching people about this love that God has for each and every one of us. And teaching them that because of this love that he has for us WE HAVE A LIVING PROPHET who is leading and guiding us in these times of trouble and doubt because we have a God who is the same yesterday, today and forever. 

XOXOXOXOXOXO

Hermana J didster

Manejamos en seguridad

Well my new area is just swellllll. I don´t remember if thats a word in english. We have bikes and helmets and I literally feel like the biggest nerd andI love it. We have to jump out of the window to wash our clothes and our toilet didn´t work the whole week…. 4 hermanas…. Comida de Argentina…. No toilet…. One week….. jajajaja (Hashtag)MEMORIES.  And on my first day here I saw a woman driving her motorcyle while breast feeding…. No joke. and we share our area with Elders which is weird. And to top it off my companion got dear Sally’d if thats a thing so today has been full of tears. But I am so grateful to be here. In ANOTHER area. Time is flying by so fast. I love my comp. I feel like she isn´t real because shes so great. The people here are so humble and so sweet. And I am pumped to help them come unto Christ and know of this amazing message.

I´ve been recognising more then ever that we truly can do nothing with out our savior Jesus Christ.  So many people in the world just cruz through life and all of the hardship on their own and it truly breaks my heart. Que suerte que tenemos that our Heavenly Father sent his son to the earth so that we don´t have to take on all of these hardships and troubles on our own. It´s like we are on and island and we have to get to the other island beforethe storm. And we have two options, we can take a boat and sail smoothy across to the other island with a couple bumps or we can use all of our energy to swim to the other side with the sure chance that we won´t make it through the storm on our own. We have this beautiful gift that our Heavenly Father has given us of the Expacion of his son Jesus Christ that can literally carry us back to the presence of our Heavenly Father. That can cure all of our wounds. That can help us overcome ANY hardship, any strugle, any insecurity and all we have to do us swallow our pride and use the this gift that we have and fall into his arms that have always been extended towards us. I don´t have a lot of time but I just want you to know that I know my Savior lives I know that My Father in Heaven sent his son so that I could return to his loving arms. All we have to do is humble ourselves and let the expacion take effect in our lives. And that is how we find true happiness. True and everlasting happiness. We don´t have to do it on our own. We choose to swim or we choose to sail. (Mosiah 15,16)

The mission is the best choice I have ever made and if you´re thinking about going… GO.

My fav verses of the week D and C 58:27-33 read it and ponderize it and love it.

XO XO XO

Hermana Jarvis

​IN ACTION jumping out the window to wash my clothes jajaja

Pizarrrrrrra

Well a 12 and a half hour bus ride and I am here en Pizarra(Oran), Argentina. I miss Hermana Liza with all of my heart. And my home away from home Santiago del Estero but I know that God has a plan and everything will be alright. This area is really old time status. But I love it already. My companion is from Bolivia and I am her step mother in the mission. I feel a little bit weird to be honest because I feel like I left my life 12 hours away Santiago but TODO BIEN.

This past week with Hermana Liza we worked so dang hard and we saw so many miracles. And I just love that area with all of my heart.  BUT there is new things in store and immmm alright with it.

Mosiah 14:“3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
 4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
 6 All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all.
 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth.”

and I love that in this chapter it repeatedly says that after all that our savior suffered he opened not his mouth. QUE PALABRAS. AFTER all that he suffered. I am so grateful for my brother and redeemer Jesus  Christ and his example to me. That he came here, and suffered more than we could ever imagine. MORE THAN WE CAN EVEN IMAGINE and did it so peacefully and humbly that he opened not his mouth. He let his will be consumed in the will of his Father so that we could return to live with him. And that through his stripes we can be healed.  We can overcome temptations, grief, sorrow, saddess, we can overcome all through him, all we have to do is put our faith in Him. What a blessing it is to know our Savior Jesus Christ and to know of the Atonement. I love this gospel more than I can put into words and I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be here serving the Lord and more and more everyday learning of the truthfulness of this message and putting it into practice in my life and helping others to do the same. I just want everyone to realize this amazing gift of the atonement that we have. And to use it because there is nothing better that we could do in this life. I really want to have this courage that our Savior has and to just go forward with faith in his plan despite of whatever this passes by because we know why we are here. We decided to come here and we knew we would have these trials and when we work according to the will of our father, all is possible.
I love

FELIZ 4 DE JULIO

We woke up, worked out, studied, cleaned, bought food and made tacos!!!! HAPPY 4 OF JULY. And we have fireworks that other sisters left in our apartment but we can´t use them (tears)

Not gonna lie I am a little trunky today thinking of the freedom run and fireworks and american food. But I am so grateful that I get to help these argentinos to be freeeed from satanas. That’s about the most creativity I have for today. Jajaja

This week was really good! I love my companion with all my heart. And I feel like things are just too good to be true. I love the mission and sharing this message more than anything and time is flying by SO fast. I feel like I was in the MTC yesterday and now I am more than half way done. So loco la verdad. I don´t have a lot of time but I just wanted to share this quote witttt ya

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.” Orson F. Whitney

I am so grateful for my trials and tribulations so that I can more so come to know my Savior and become like him and so that through the use of the atonement I can return to live with my Heavenly Father again. I am so grateful for this gospel and the opportunity I have to share it. It breaks my heart to see all these people that are so blinded by Satan and so wrapped up in the ¨good things¨ that they don´t have room for the important. I could say a million bazillion things right now but I have no time but just know that the livin is good and that I know my savior lives and loves us and I am so grateful for this life that we have, through him, to learn and grow. Remember who you are and don´t do drugs and to tell your dad that you love him and also I can´t send any pictures because this computers is a lil junky.

Paz y bendiciones

Hermana Jarvis