Helllllooooo, family and friends!
Transfers were last week and I am now serving in.... (drumroll please!) Junín! Woo! For those of you who don´t know where that is, don´t worry, you´re not alone. I still don´t know where that is. Five hours by bus away from the mission offices? But I´m here and that´s what matters!
A bit about Junín... everyone thinks it´s campo (country) and they´re partly right. We do have a bit of city-like areas, but only about half our area is city. The other half is dirt roads, wild dogs, and shacks. I´ll try to send pictures sometime, but I am very limited as to when I can carry my camera.
We don´t have a ward here. We have a branch. We have roughly 15-20 members that are active here, which is definitely a change of pace from Caseros, which I found out last week was the first ever ward in all of Argentina! Very well-established, very different from here. But that´s okay, that only means that my new companion, Hermana De Leon, and I have plenty to do!
A bit about Hermana De Leon... she is from Guatemala and arrived here in Argentina about 3 weeks ago. She only has one week more in the mission than I do, so it´s interesting for the two of us to work together. Even though she´s young in the mission, she is very hard working and very powerful. She´s the senior companion of the two of us and is dedicated to transforming our area. I´m really grateful for her desire to work hard and really make a difference. She has some very different habits and methods of doing things than myself, but we are learning a lot from one another.
This week was (obviously) my first week here and it just so happened to be the same time that President Carter was coming to visit to do interviews with the missionaries and to show the Work of Salvation broadcast that happened last month. President asked us to work especially hard to bring investigators to this reunion... we ended up having more investigators in the meeting than members! What a sight that was.
I think I´m going to wrap this up for now, but first... pictures! One is of me and Hermana De Leon in our apartment (which is super nice!... except that it smells like mold, but ya know, you win some, you lose some...) and the other is of me and one of my favorite people in Caseros, Marta! We visited her maybe once or twice a week while I was there and she was the sweetest.
Anyways, I love you all and hope everyone is well!
Love,
Hermana Lauren Jane Walton
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