From Tandil!!!

Dear family,

Goodbye, Hermana Asencios. I am going to miss you!

Sorry I don´t have much time to write today. Well, I have been transferred to Tandil!!! I am very excited for this new experience that I am going to have. My new companion's name is Hermana Williams and she is from Arizona. I will be finishing her trainings (she is brand new).  We live with two other sister missionaries, one from Honduras and the other from Chile. 

  

I was kinda sad to leave Villa Mitre. Hermana Marín, the other sister that I lived with finishes her mission today!! I am so excited for her!! She was like my companion... since we lived 6 months together!!!
   

Jorge's Baptism

Miracle of the week!! Hermana Martha was baptized!!! I am so happy for her! This last transfer was a transfer of miracles!!!

Well, next week I will write more. I am so sorry that I didn't have time to write to you this week! 

Te  quiero!!!

PS: Always remember that charity is the pure love of Christ!!! Remember to love everyone! 

Me, Hermana Asencios, Elder Parkes and Elder Davalos

Con la familia Tidei (Belen, Solana, Alegra, Francesca)

With Maite Curruleff! Cutest future missionary ever!!!

 

Con Hermana Asencios the day of Jorge's baptism

Ice cream is good!

 

Villa Mitre Zone service project

Villa Mitre Zone service project

Villa Mitre Zone service project

Villa Mitre Zone service project

The 4 Hermanas at the Mission Office: Hermana Rosza, Hermana Marin, Hermana Zubeldia, and Hermana Asencios

 

Grapes in our backyard! They are really good!

 

Us sisters!!!

 

Me and the Bishop's family... familia Fioromanti

 

Happy Valentines day from Argentina!!!

Dear Family,

I want to let you know how much I love you!! You are the greatest family in the whole Wide World. Everyday I look at the family Picture I have on my desk and I think of all the wonderful people I get to be related to!! 

  

This week was definetly bitter and sweet. Jorge, our investigator was bapitzed!!! Yesterday he was given the Gift of the Holy Ghost and he is now a member of the Church of Jesús Christ.  He was really happy! Hermana Pinnock and I found him like 3 months ago and hermana Asencios and I had the priviledge to teach him.   One of our other investigators, Marta, came to the baptism. She loved it.

   

The hard part of the week was attending the funeral of a dear member of our ward. Hermano Luis Tidei, patriarca and convert to the gospel passed away.  It was such a shock for me and my companion. Each Sunday I saw him walk hand in hand with his wife to church.  Each Sunday, he smiled at us and said, "how are you Hermanas Zubeldia and Asencios?"  Each Sunday I awaited his dear smile and hello.  At 90 years old, this man never missed a Sunday. In rain, heat, cold and humidity, he always made it to church, walking the 10 blocks with his wife or getting a ride. He was such a wonderful brother. His decision to join the church with his wife changad his whole family. He left a legacy, with one of his grandchildren about to leave on a mission. What a blessing it is to have the gospel to know that after this time on earth we continue on living.   I am so grateful for the knowledge of the plan of salvation to know that there is a purpose to us here on earth and that we can live with our Heavenly Father again as families. The funeral was amazing, the spirit very strong. 

   

Also, my companion is doing great!!! She is such a spiritual giant (as Mami would say).  She keeps on going despite the diffuculties and the challenges of the mission.  We worked hard this week and saw tons of miracles.

  

Yesterday as I was studying I came accross a question that I wanted to share with you.  The question is: "What will a man give in exchange for his soul?"  The Savior asks us to exchange our sins, big or small, for the Father's reward of eternal life.  Satan wants us to exchange our soul for a stolen candy bar, a crude joke and playing soccer on the sabbath. However, the Savior only asks us to give up what is tying us down and to follow him. In exchange, we are promised the reward of eternal life. 

  

I know that this gospel is true. It changes lives and helps lift people up to know that there is a way to change. Just like our convert Jorge said, "to know that these things are true gives me the assurance that there is a way to change and become better."

I love you all so very much!!! Thank  you for your letters and your love!!!!

LES QUIERO!!!!  Happy Valentines day!!!

Hermana Susana Zubeldia

another hot week here in villa mitre

Hey Family!!!

¿Como está mi familia allí en Utah? Espero que todo esté bien y que estén teniendo una buena semana.

Con la Hermana Asencios comiendo bocadillos.

Well, this week was FANTASTIC!!! Besides being really really hot we worked a lot! We saw tons of miracles! Yesterday there were 14 people at church! I have never seen so many investigators at church before. 4/14 were our investigators, the other 10 being two families that the elders are teaching.

Presidente Parreño also spoke in our ward yesterday and shared his conversion story and shared his love for the mission work. It was what I needed to hear yesterday. Papi, it was as if I was listening to you speak. ;) I hope that one day you guys can meet Presidente Parreño and his wife Hermana Parreño, they are great mission presidents.

Also, Jorge gets baptized this week, this Saturday.

My packages came! Thank you so much for the two packages! The shirts are great and the candy is kinda melted haha! Also, thank you so much for the passalong cards and the little books about families. we have already started using the passalong cards. But I have a question... why did you send me Ley de Castidad Folletos?? My companion loved the warheads!

Well, this week I was studying a lot about hope. In Moroni 7 it talks about hope. In Moroni 7:40-42 it says that without hope we can't have faith. I know that as we hope for eternal life it will help us have faith in this life to continue going through the hard times. The mission is hard, but its worth all the effort. As I was thinking about hope, I realized that the gospel that I get to share allows people to have hope, hope in God, hope in life after death, hope that we can be eternally happy. I am so happy to be able to share this hope with others, hope to help them have faith to keep going and have a smile on their face!
 

Well, some of the funny things that happened this week,
1. Someone followed us down the street calling us Elders haha!
2. We got lost using the buses and ended up on the other side of Bahía Blanca!
3. There is a dog here in the cyber cafe. Dogs wonder around everywhere!!
4. There is a less active member in Punta Alta (in our stake) who is a Zubeldia!!! I haven't met him, but another sister missionary told me!

Thank you all for the emails and for the love and prayers!!! I LOVE YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH!!!!

Hermana Zubeldia

Congratulations Sarah!!!!

Family,
  

CONGRATULATIONS SARAH!!!!.....HERMANA ZUBELDIA!!!  ¡Viva MÉXICO!
   

Ciudad Obregón is going to be so lucky to have Sarah in their mission!!! I hope she can find and teach some family members too!! What are the coincidences that we are all three speaking Spanish on the mission??? Is Heavenly Father trying to tell us something?? Maybe we need to learn Spanish.... Thanks parents for having us learn Spanish!! It makes it easier! Sarah also enters the MTC the same day as Pablo but a year later!  Cool!!
   
Well, this week was great!! It wasn't that hot which was a miracle! Speaking of miracles! Jorge, the Bolivian man that we have been teaching is getting baptized this Saturday!!!  I am so excited for him!! Hermana Pinnock and I found him about 2 transfers ago.  We are also teaching two sisters who came to church this week!! 
   

I have been learning a lot this week.  One of the things that I learned this week was that I need to appreciate the miracles.  Heavenly Father is a God of Miracles. He blesses us as we do our best and show him that we are willing to work hard.  I was having a hard time one day and my companion told me that I needed to appreciate the miracles that we get.
   

Well, right now I am in the city of Bahía Blanca writing in an internet cafe.  I am here with my companion... and guess who just walked into the cafe? Hermana Pinnock and her new companion Hermana De Lyon.  There are also two elders here. Out of all the internet cafes, we all chose this one haha!
   

Also, my companion turned 22 this week!! We made her a cake and had a great time!!  Hermana  Marín finishes her mission this transfer!
  

What else.... I am so EXCITED FOR SARAH!!! I have been anxiously waiting all week to find out where she was called!!! On Tuesday I was just wishing I was there with you to see her open her call!! I am so excited for SARAH!!!

  

Scripture:

Y ahora bien, he aqui, os digo que la senda verdadera es creer en Cristo y no negarlo, y Cristo es el santo de israel; por tanto, debeis inclinaros ante El y adorarlo con todo vuestro poder, mente y fuerza, y con toda vuestra alma; y si haceis esto, de ninguna manera sereis desechados.

-2 Nefi 25:29  (read the whole chapter! its great!) 
  

Well, I hope you have a great day family!! Keep reading your scriptures... doing FHE... read Preach My Gospel... WRITE IN YOUR JOURNALS... and if possible, go with the missionaries to their lessons!!!
   

LES QUIERO MUCHO!!!
  
Hermana Susana Zubeldia