Hola mis seres queridos

Hola mis seres queridos. This week was just dandy and really really  cold. And went by so fast. I feel like P-day was yesterday. We have been singing Christmas songs all week because it seems like Christmas is just right around the corner with this weather. Jajaja. I love my companion to death and I feel like we might be getting divorced this transfer jaja and my heart is already breaking.

This week my testimony of the Sacrament sky rocketed. How amazing is it that we have the opportunity to literally start new ever single week? To be baptized again without being baptized EVERY WEEK. It really is something so amazing and uncomprehendable. I remember before the mission thinking nothing of it and now it’s one of the biggest things I look forward to every week. How lucky are we to have a Father in Heaven that gives us the chance to completely start new every single week? 

Another thing that is on my mind is that we really have power. And not power of the world but power of God. Through the restored gospel we literally, through our covenants with God, each and every one of us are blessed with this sacred power of God. How amazing is it that we are so blessed to know of the restored gospel? Every day we teach people that have never heard a thing about the restored gospel and powerful message that we have. And it just makes me think, wow how privileged am I to be put into a family that has a knowledge of this amazing message. That isn´t stuck in spiritual darkness. But how sad is it that there are people who know of this gospel and this power that we have and don´t use it. I was reading a talk by Russell M. Nelson that really made me think about how sacred this power is and how amazing it is that we have this power, I just want the whole world to read it. “The Price of Priesthood Power”

“Are you willing to follow President Thomas S. Monson’s example of serving others? For decades he has taken the long way home, following promptings of the Spirit to arrive on someone’s doorstep and then hear words such as, “How did you know it was the anniversary of our daughter’s death?” or “How did you know it was my birthday?” …..

Now, if all of this sounds excessive, please consider how different our relationships with our wife, children, and associates at work would be if we were as concerned about gaining priesthood power as we are in progressing at work or increasing the balance in our bank account. If we will humbly present ourselves before the Lord and ask Him to teach us, He will show us how to increase our access to His power.

My dear brethren, we have been given a sacred trust—the authority of God to bless others. May each one of us rise up as the man God foreordained us to be—ready to bear the priesthood of God bravely, eager to pay whatever price is required to increase his power in the priesthood. With that power, we can help prepare the world for the Second Coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.”

I know this talk is directed for men but I know that each one of us holds this sacred power and trust that God has in us. And we cannot even comprehend the amazing things that we can do with this power and authority as members of the church. The life’s we can change. The instruments we can be in the hands of our beloved Heavenly Father. But when we aren´t worthy of this gift that we have or we don´t use it we are wasting precious time and precious moments to grow and prepare not only ourselves but our brothers and sisters. I invite you to really think about this sacred power that we hold and the knowledge that we have of this message and the opportunity we have to start again every week. And to be better than you were yesterday and tomorrow be better than you were today through the atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ. I love this gospel with all my heart.

XOXOXO

Hermana Jarvis

HALF WAY

HAPPPPY FATTHERS DAY JONATHAN ALAN JARVIS. (corazon) (corazon)

Joke of the week from Hno. Vega: How can you catch the attention of a Bunny?  Its simple. Lay in the grass and make the noise of a carrot. Jajajajjaja

This week was soo good! Just like all the rest. I am half way through my mission. WHATTTT. And I am really trying to change as a person and reach my goals so that I can truly become an instrument in the hands of my Heavenly Father. And its truly amazing when we can give ourselves to him and let him work his magic. I am having a really hard time typing in English so just bear with me…  One of the rules in the mission is that we can´t visit men alone without another woman and this week we search high and low for a member to come with us to visit Hno Luna because he lives alone and we searched for 2 hours and no one could come with us. So we went to our appointment (late) and he was waiting outside for us with the biggest smile on his face with all his broken chairs set up for us. He even got a haircut and bought new shoes. And we talked with him for a bit outside of his gate because we couldn’t enter and he literally is the sweetest man in the world. He told me that when I go home and want to get married that I need to tell my husband that “he will be watching” jajaja and he started crying telling us how very special we are to him and then we had to leave and it was probably the hardest thing ever to leave him there ALONE. Awh I just love that man and I wish everyone could get to know him.

But other than that we had a bunch of people at church on Sunday so I am just the happiest little camper. Its literally the most amazing thing to watch people change their lives. We are visiting one family that was in active for 20 years and they had two daughters and the first time we visited them the daughters didn´t even know that their parents are members but the two daughters are preparing for baptism and the parents are praying again and coming back to church and I am SO HAPPY. But the best thing is that they have a German exchanged student named Hannah. And she is literally the sweetest thing. She is ending her time here right when we start teaching her! And a member in our ward had a Book of Mormon in German, which is the weirdest thing because no one here speaks German but she is reading and she told us that all of her friends that are here from Germany had tons of fun but definitely didn´t find what she has found in Argentina. (AWWWHWHHH) And we got her direction and we are going to send the missionaries to her house in Germany and I am just so happy. Its crazy first because we found this family (Family of Gold) right before she is leaving for Germany and second that a member randomly had a Book of Mormon in German. THE LORD WORKS IN MISTERIOUS WAYS.

But I really am just on cloud 9 here. Its so amazing when we can just open our eyes and see all of these amazing miracles. The mission is the best thing that has ever happened to me la verdad. And I am just so grateful to my Father in Heaven for giving me this experience.  But yep that’s all for now. Tune in next week jajajaj 2 Nephi 9:30 :)))))

Hermana Jarvis


HNO LUNA MI QUERIDO

Eating more than I ever imagined

Wife Skills on high

Well I am 100 percent convinced that if you can deap clean a missionary apartment that hasn´t been cleaned in years, you can truly do anything. Plus I am like a 20 out of 10 on my future wife skills. We litterally used half of our P-day to clean and I feel like I just ran a marathon and need a bazillion trophies or lots of cash, jajajja but really…

This semana was way good. In a letter before I talked about my love for Vanina. She is this precious little member here that was working for her entire family (of 14) and not going to school and is only 16 and her dad commited suicide 11 years ago. And this past week her mom died of cancer. I literally could not believe it when I heard the news. Its so crazy all that these people go through. And yet she is still the happiest little lady in all of Argentina. Her testimony is one of the strongest I have ever heard. And I just want her to come live with me in the United States and have a normal life more than anything. But for now imma get her prepared for a mission.

Also we have been visiting mi querido Hno Luna. He is 70 years old and one day he was sitting in his house and some home boys came in and beat him and robbed everything he has. And now he has to walk with crutches and can barely move. He was baptized like 20 years ago but has been inactive. He is so so so lonely and has nothing to do but sit in house, where he lives alone and stare out the window. And everytime we come and visit him he is waiting outside for us with the biggest smile on his face. But this week we went and visited him and he started crying and crying and told us that his neighbors are signing papers for him to get put in an old folks home. HOW SAD. and when we were leaving I asked him if he has some kind of way that we can call him and he told me know but "Jarvis, I am going to buy a cellphone so I can talk to you guys!" and he also told us in our second visit that this is the second time this week that he has felt joy. Because it was our second visit ;) He is so sweet and I just love him with all of my heart.

Well that is really the highlight of my week. I am learning so much and I can´t even count the blessing and miracles I get to see everyday through the hand of God in my life and in the lifes of my loved ones. I am just so grateful for all that I have and all the experiences I am having here. I really can not imagine my life with out the mission. I really was so worried about what would happen at home or what I would miss out on in the mission but I have truly learned that there is nothing better I could be doing and I just am SO HAPPY. How great is it to know that God is exists and he has a perfect plan for us. And that we can be forgiven of everysingle one of our sins and that we can be with our families forevaaa.  So many miracles here in Santiago and the time is flying by. My favorite scrip of today is

 Alma 37:37  Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart befull of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shallbe lifted up at the last day.

 there is not a doubt in my mind that through the power of prayer anything is possible. I love this gospel. I love argentinos and I love my companion and I love you.

Over and out

Hermana Jarvis
ja ja j ja ja




​Mi querido, Hno Luna 

my daughter 

​Vanina mi amor 

When you forget your boat in argentina 

Hey there suga lover, whatcha lookin at? (this is real life)

​When your swag can no longer pay the bills 



An apple a day

An apple a day keeps the doctor away and I sure haven’t been eating an apple a day… creative? Jajajjaa Well I am a Little sick and I dont really remember a lot from this week other than we taught a 35 year old man about the Law of Chastity and it was one of those moments that I never want back in my life jajaja.

 We were teaching this old couple the other day and they are litterally the cutest thing. They are both 83 and just so sweet. But they went on to tell us how they are Catholic and they will always be Catholic (literally my everyday conversacions) and we started talking about the Bible and the Book of Mormon and they went on to tell us how they have never even read the Bible but that they are verrrrryy Catholic. And I just thought HOW SAD. So many people here could tell us about how Catholic they are and show us all of the crosses that they have and all their statues of Mary and other Saints and then we ask them the last time that they prayed or the last time they read about Jesus Christ and they can’t remember. It just makes me realize how very lucky I am to have a religión that not only talks of Jesus Christ and knows of him but really teaches us to personally know our Savior and Redeemer.

“John 20:27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.”

Maybe we can’t see our Savior Jesus Christ and we can not phisically touch the marks in his hands and feet but as we really pray to understand him and walk as he walked and be not faithless, but believing, we can really come to know our Savior. When we put our thoughts and actions of the natural man aside and think and walk as he walked and maybe even suffer a glimpse of what he suffered we can become more than we ever imagined. We can truly become children of our beloved Father in Heaven. I am so very grateful for the knowledge I have of this góspel. For the oppurtunity I have to really come to know my Savior and not only know of him. I am so grateful for the book of Mormon because its the way that we can see a Little bit more into the ways of our Savior and what he expects of us.

1 Nephi 15:14 And at that day shall the remnant of our seed know that they are of the house of Israel, and that they are the covenant people of the Lord; and then shall they know and come to the knowledge of their forefathers, and also to the knowledge of the gospel of their Redeemer, which was ministered unto their fathers by him; wherefore, they shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer and the very points of his doctrine, that they may know how to come unto him and be saved.

And I really know with all of my heart that the words in it are true and written for me and written for you in these last days so that can know how to be something and do something with our lives and come to KNOW our Savior Jesus Christ. I really am just the happiest lil missionary and there is no where else I would rather be than helping my brothers and sisters know of this perfect plan.

XOXOXOXO
Hermana Jarvi



Milllllaaaaaggggros

Wow this week was Golden. So many miracles. The biggest thing I learned this week is that Satan is real. But our father in heaven the man that created all has ALL power. Including over the temptations of Satan. My beloved chica Candela got baptized this week! But on Thursday before her baptism all went wrong. Literally. Her mom called us and told us that she would not be getting baptized on Saturday. And so Friday morning first thing we did was go talk to her about everything. And she told us that Candela has had so many bad feeling and feels so sick and the night before she had a nightmare that a man all dressed in black tried to choke her and then of course problems in the family and just bazillion things. And even her dad asked her “do I have to come to your baptism?” L Hermana Liza and I just started bawling…. Literally bawling. We have worked so HARD with Candela for the past 2 months and she has progressed SO much. She is literally a different person.  I couldn´t help but think of how a lot of the time we have to experience the really bad so that we can enjoy the REALLY good. Because Satan wants us to fall. He wants us to fail. For example when Joseph Smith was in the sacred grove and he was about to receive this sacred vision that would literally change everything he felt this evil spirit and darkness and if he would have given up in that moment he wouldn´t have had the power to restore the gospel, to become a prophet and we wouldn´t be able to make these sacred ordinances. But we felt that we should share Mosiah 4:11-13

“11 And again I say unto you as I have said before, that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God, or if ye have known of his goodness and have tasted of his love, and have received a remission of your sins, which causeth such exceedingly great joy in your souls, even so I would that ye should remember, and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God, and your own nothingness, and his goodness and long-suffering towards you, unworthy creatures, and humble yourselves even in the depths of humility, calling on the name of the Lord daily, and standing steadfastly in the faith of that which is to come, which was spoken by the mouth of the angel.

 12 And behold, I say unto you that if ye do this ye shall always rejoice, and be filled with the love of God, and always retain a remission of your sins; and ye shall grow in the knowledge of the glory of him that created you, or in the knowledge of that which is just and true.

 13 And ye will not have a mind to injure one another, but to live peaceably, and to render to every man according to that which is his due.”

And she started bawling and we were just all bawling and she said that she would come the get interview by our zone leaders. So she came and she was so happy and so excited and told us that her grandpa was going to preform the baptism and it was literally the most beautiful experience.

Mark 9:29 “And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.”

I know without a doubt in my mind that the power of fasting and sincere prayer is so real. It truly is a gift that we have. I know that all things are possible through our Savior Jesus Christ. And when we have faith in him we can truly create miracles.

This is the same god that “brought the children of Israel out the land of Egypt and caused that they should walk through the Red Sea on DRY ground.” Mosiah 7:19 He literally has all power. And all we have to do is trust in him and trust in his word. And all that is right and for our wellbeing will come to pass. We have to have confidence and him and nothing else.

Mark9:23 “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth”

I love this gospel. And I am just more than grateful for all the blessing that come with it. And I know that when we truly have faith God can truly have faith in us and can proceed the miracle. And ps I am staying in Santiago and we are just the happiest little humans. Okay I gottaaa jetttt jajaja

XOXOXO Hermana Jarvis



 



YOURE NOT HARD CORE UNLESS YOU LIVE HARD CORE





Don´t ask me what I ate this week jajajja

 I am pretty sure I ate the grossest thing you can think of that come from a cow 

8 MONTHS woooooo yaaaaa

Well this week was just the fastest week of my life. I literally love my companion with all my heart. And this time in the mission is literally the happiest I have ever been in my life. This area is my home. I literally am tearing up typing this because these people are my family. I never knew how much these people could truly mean to me. Santiago es mi casa. And I think I might be transfered this monday and my heart is going to brake into a bazillion pieces. Awhhhh shucks. I really don´t want to leave. But I know that what ever the Lord has instore will be perfect. I just can´t imagine anything better than this area to be honest. Like I would be more than fine if I could just stay here my whole mission. We worked like crazy this week.

We were walking in the street and I started talking to this guy and we were like hey you´re more than invited to church this Sunday. And he was like ya…. Maybe I have to hit up all my parites this weekend and blah blah and we sent a message sunday night and invited him and he came! Woooo yeaaaahhhh. We have just had so so so much faith lately and so much enthusiasm and the work here really is changing. Like wow. I just wish I could sit down and type for 10 hours then maybe I could explain to some point about whats really going on here. Its really amazing to see this change in so many people and help them really recognise what is important in this life. And also our investigator Martin, is the bomb. He is the other guy we started talking to in the street and he is so ready to change his life. We had a lesson with him the other day with 4 members from our church and it was just the coolest thing to see the desires he has to change and how really God has truly prepared him for this message in this specific time. There is a billion other people I could write about but no time. Like always.

But I just really can´t put into words my love for this work and my love for the Lord. I know that every single little or big miracle that has happened in my time here is directly from him. It´s so crazy the way that our lifes can truly change when we really give our selves to him and let him guide ourlives.

Some people say that living the gospel is too hard but I think living without it is much harder

Mosiah 3: 17 And moreover, I say unto you, that there shall be no other name given nor any other way nor means where by salvation can come unto the children of men, only in and through the name of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent.

He is the way. And he is the only way we can really recieve true happiness and eternal life. “some people say that living the gospel is too hard but I think living with out is much harder.” This life is so much easier when we realize that all we have is in and through him. Everything good is of him and when we put our trust in him and act according to his will we can really come to understand a little bit more of this perfect plan he has layed out for us. We can really come to recognize that through him we can find eternal happiness because he has all already suffered and we don´t need to. We really are so blessed. Too blessed. And I am just so very grateful for all that he has given me. I love this gospel wit all mi lil corazon. And I know that when we listen to these perfect words and commandments of our heavenly father we can find true and everlasting happiness.

Recuerde quien es usted.

XOXOXOXO

Hermananna Jarvis

Also PS this week I locked our keys in our apartment and we couldn´t get in for a whole day so we were at a members house until 11:30 and ate dinner and we had to travel to central and sleep with the other hermanas and go to our zone conference in the same clothes from the day before hahahhaha it was just dandy 



Zappppppalllllllooooo

My cute companion in our favorite resturaunt. Literally the only "heathly" resturaunt in this city.

Mis Queridos

Hola. This week was Gucci to say the least. Just one miracle after the other. I literally cannot put into words my feelings as of lately. Literally wow. GOD IS REAL MY BROTHERS AND SISTAS. I have really really been praying for the gift of discernment so that I may more so use my time here effectively. And this week it’s just like BOOM. I have never felt more guidance by the lord in my entire life. I never ever thought that I would feel this way. And I know I there is no other explanation than that I have really come to have faith in my heavenly father and faith in his power.

This week we were just ya know casually walking down the street with a member and I saw this man walking in our direction and my mind was like hey talk to him hey talk to him. But before I could even say a word the member that was with us started talking to him. And we shared a little bit about who we are and why we are here and how God has a plan for us and he was like yeah sure I will come to church on Sunday. And people always say oh yeah I will stop by. But for one of the first times in my mission I really felt like he might come. And on Sunday after sacrament meeting HE SHOWED UP. I literally could have cried I was so happy. And he is so ready to receive this perfect message and I am so pumped to teach him. And we have been working with an “eternal investigator” literally the missionaries have been talking with her forever and this week she told us that she never really had the desire to listen or understood anything until we started teaching her and now she is planning on getting baptized on the 28th and we are all just so feliz. Literally a miracle.

Literally a bazillion things happened this week that I just don´t have time to tell ya but just know that the work here in Cabildo esssss GOOOOOD. Literally I have never worked so hard in my entire life. Or had the desire to work so hard. I have been thinking a lot this week about our covenants. And how sacred they really are. And I really have no time but I just want to leave you all with my scripture on the week.

Words of Mormon: 1:7 And now, I do not know all things; but the Lord knoweth all things which are to come; wherefore, he worketh in me to do according to his will.

 8 And my prayer to God is concerning my brethren, that they may once again come to the knowledge of God, yea, the redemption of Christ; that they may once again be a delightsome people.

I know that my redeemer lives. I know he is literally directing my paths because I have finally let him. I know that when we put our trust in our Father in Heaven we can accomplish anything we set our minds to if it be according to his will. I know that he has a plan for us a very special plan that will lead us to more happiness than we could ever imagine.  And I just want to invite you to James 1:22 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” I truly know there is no greater plan than the plan of our Maker. And there is nothing more important for us to do in this day and age than kick our selfishness to the side and to help others know of these wide open, merciful arms and Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ. I love you all and I have to get off now. I heard backstreet boys this week when I was walking down the street and I got so pumped so go enjoy that and remember who you are and to serve your fellow beings and to stay fresssssssh. Jajajja

XOXOXO

Hermananananana Jarvis

We got some huuurrrr treatment this week