Chivilcoy C Week 5! Baptism!!!!

Hola amigos!
This week was pretty great! One great highlight was that Alfredo got baptized and confirmed! It was so great! Juan, the recent convert of Hnas Moore and Mason, baptized him and Cesar, the recent convert of the elders, was one of the witnesses. It was so special! He got there an hour late because of some complication, but he got there! We were so worried! We were pacing back and forth and calling like every 20 minutes and he'd say something like "I think I should get there in 15 minutes!" However, the stress and everything was all worth seeing him baptized! He was so happy! 

We also got to do service on Saturday! We went to a less active's house and the quorum was building a bathroom for him and the 4 of us Hermanas cleaned inside because it's a man who can't do much for himself. It was so great that someone finally let us serve! 

As for the rest of the week well, we went on divisions with the other Hermanas in Chivilcoy, Hnas Moore and Mason. I was with Hna Mason who is just wonderful! She's from Australia! She's got one week left of training and she is so great! It was really cool to be with her and see how she leads their area and everything. We also got to teach this one man that Hna Loderup and I actually found in a street contact the first day of the transfer and he's so great! He's come to church a few times and to a couple activities. We also taught their recent convert Juan, who's like the most converted convert I've ever seen, and it was just a wonderful day! We also did 20 street contacts during the day! The goal in the zone is 10 per day! It felt so great! 

This week we also taught one of our investigators, Fabricio, the Word of Wisdom. We challenged him to live it for just 2 weeks and see what happens. When we called on Saturday night to see how he was doing with it he told us that some friends had invited him to go drinking, but he told them he just didn't feel like it and didn't go! The Spirit is working with that man! There are truly miracles happening in Chivilcoy!

Love you all!!! The gospel's true, God loves you!

Foto: Far left: Juan, the recent convert of the Hermanas, Alfredo, me, Hna Loderup

Chivilcoy C Week 4! New investigators!

Hola Amigos!
This week was pretty good. Alfredo passed his baptismal interview and he's getting baptized this Saturday! We are super excited, especially because Juan, the recent convert of the other hermanas, is going to baptize him! 

We also found two great nuevos yesterday! The first one we had to sit down for a minute to pray about what we should do and the dogs in the house started barking at us so we decided to contact the house. As we went to knock on the door, this man comes out the garage door to see why his dogs were barking. His name is Jorge and he was super friendly. He said he was looking for something to fill the spaces in his life and to answer his questions that are really questions of the soul. He was just about to leave though, so we set up a follow up appointment and he told us that he wants his whole family to be there! 

The second is a young man that we had contacted on Monday. His name's Luis and he's 15. The other day we went to his house for the appointment we had set and he wasn't there because he was at the hospital with his grandma, but he told his sister that we were going to come so to talk to us. We ended up teaching his sister and had an appointment with her yesterday, which when we went by Luis saw us and he was just like "oh let me get the chairs and bring them out here!" He told us the story of why he couldn't be there the other day and apologized about a million times. 

So it turns out that he doesn't really know that much about religion, but he wants to learn! When we asked if he would like to be baptized as Jesus Christ was he said "yeah, I would really like that! I'd be able to leave the lies I've made when I was a little younger and the bad decisions I've made all behind and start a new life" so he accepted a baptismal date for the 18th of March! He also wants to come to Alfredo's baptism on Saturday!

The gospel's true, God loves you!
-Hermana Cheever

Chivilcoy C Week 3! New investigators and Cows.

Hola amigos!
Here's a really basic update on the life of Hermana Cheever!

This week we found some pretty solid new investigators, and Alfredo is progressing really well to be able to be baptized on the 18th. Hermana Loderup told me that he hates the rain and so every other Sunday that it's rained he hasn't come and whenever they had an appointment when it was rainy last transfer he would cancel. So we can say we were a little afraid that would happen this weekend with the cold and the rain, but he came through and showed up to the lesson on Saturday and church for all 3 hours on Sunday! He's super excited for his baptism. He has started to give us references to visit his family that lives in Chivilcoy and the address of his family in Paraguay. We talked about temples on Saturday and we set a goal with him to go to the temple 2 weeks after his baptism with an hermano that goes every 2 weeks. He seemed pretty excited to do baptisms for the dead for his own family!

This week we did divisions and it was such a different experience as a sister training leader. It was so great. We could really see how the Lord has His hand in every part of the work.

This morning we got to milk a cow!  It was great!

Que estén bien!
The gospel's true, God loves you!
-Hermana Cheever

Chivilcoy C Week 1!

Hola amigos!
I'm doing very well! My new companion is Hermana Loderup from Austin, TX. She has 6 months in the mission and she's great! I'm super excited to see what this transfer has in store for us! This week we biked. a lot. The hermanas of Chivilcoy A had a baptism on Saturday and Juan (the man that was baptized) is so great! He was so prepared! The Lord is doing great things here! 

We have a few investigators that I've heard are really great. I haven't met a whole lot seeing as how I've only been here for a week and Sunday after church we had to travel to the offices and got back yesterday at 9 pm. 

Yesterday! I had the opportunity to be in a meeting of leaders of the 4 Buenos Aires missions and also the MTC missionaries with Elder Stevenson! It was so great! We all got to go shake his hand and his wife's and also the area presidency and their wives. It was amazing to be in the presence of an apostle of the Lord! I know that the Lord knows and loves each one of His children and that today He speaks to us through living prophets and apostles! One thing that Elder Stevenson said that I just loved was "One of the beautiful parts of missionary work is to have a companion and find unity in your companionship." It is so true! Unity brings miracles! 

Anyway, gotta go! Love you all!

-Hermana Cheever

Ituzaingó 1B Week 18!

Hola amigos!
I'm doing great! I'm super excited today because well, tomorrow's transfers and I'm going back to the countryside as a Sister Training Leader! I am so excited. I know that every companion, every STL and every experience I have had on my mission will help me in this and I just hope that I can serve the Lord and the hermanas in the zone of Chivilcoy with all I've got to give.

Anyway, as far as Ituzaingó goes, we've got a baptism next week! Daniel is going to be baptized! Also yesterday, Marina and Emmanuel came to church. They really love church and that makes me really happy! 

I hope you're all well! Sorry it's short, I don't have much time!
-Hermana Cheever

Ituzaingó 1 Week 17! Lots of Walking!

Hola todos!
How is everyone? I'm doing great! You wanna know something? On divisions on Friday Hermana Wheatley and I walked 7.4 miles. And we walked less than Hna Mughal and I usually walk in a day!

As far as our area goes, well, it's hanging in there pretty well. We have Daniel who has a fecha for the 21st and he is super excited for that. We are planning to see if we can have his interview this weekend!

Then there's Liliana with her fecha for the 28th. We've basically already taught her everything but I think 3 points of lesson 5, but we can start reading in the Book of Mormon with her or something to keep building her faith until her baptism!

Marina's fecha fell!

We also found a new investigator this week named María. Well, in reality I found her with Hna Gioppo in divisions last transfer, but then we couldn't find her again! It just turns out that there were a bunch of things that had happened in the family and now we found her again and we've started teaching her! She has a fecha for the 4th of February.

-Hermana Cheever
PS The gospel's true, God loves you!

Ituzaingó 1 Week 16! One year down!

Hola amigos!
That's right, I've got one whole year in the mission!

I'm doing really well this week! Remember Daniel, that man I talked about like a month or so ago that's a Messianic Jew? Yeah, well we finally had contact with him again and he's getting baptized on the 21st of January! 

Also we finally found a former investigator that lives super far away that Hna Poblete and I had searched for a few times with no luck! Aaaaand he accepted a baptism date for the 28th! He's actually great! He's 20 years old and the missionaries first taught him when he was 16 so he's had contact with missionaries for about 4 years. He's super sincere and really wants to be baptized and knows what we teach him is true. 

We saw a few other miracles this week too thanks to the heat that makes me sweat buckets on my face. People take pity on us. On Saturday it was really hot (like the thermal sensation was 42 degrees Celsius. That's like 110. With humidity.) and we knocked on this door and a man came out and saw us and just said something like "hey do you want to come in for a few minutes and sit down and drink a glass of cold water? My wife and were just in the back swimming, come on back and meet her and you can take a little break!" So yeah, we taught the Restoration to him and his wife and now we have an appointment for this Saturday too! Miracles do happen!

Anyway, I hope you're all doing super great! The gospel's true and God loves you!
-Hermana Cheever

Ituzaingó Week 14! Merry Christmas!

Hola Amigos!
I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and encourage you all this Christmas season to remember why it is that we celebrate. Remember our Savior Jesus Christ, for after all, that is why it is called Christmas, for Christ. Try to think of one way that you can make room for the Savior in your Christmas celebrations. Take a moment to breathe, to relax, and to feel His love. Last December there was an article in the Ensign that is called something like "Be at Peace" by Elder Chrestofferson. That basically sums up my thoughts because, well, they came from there. Also go read Ether 12:41. I'm not going to put it here because I want you to go look for yourself. As you read it, think of what it means to you in your life to "seek this Jesus". 

I love you all! The gospel's true, God loves you!
-Hermana Cheever

Ituzaingó 1B Week 13! Exciting Stuff Happening!

Hola Amigos!
So I didn't write the exciting news last week because I ran out of time. However, here it is now! I'M TRAINING! Last week I received a "refuerza" as we say here, a greenie in English! Her name is Hna Mughal and she is from Millcreek, UT! It has been really fun to be with her and to get to experience all her "firsts" with her! Her first time on a colectivo, her first time teaching a real lesson. Her first P-day. I could go on, but I won't.

Hermana Mughal and Hermana Cheever.

The sad part of the exciting news is that my time with Hna. Poblete came to an end. She is now in Ramos Mejía learning a ton more and progressing a ton more!

This week was full of miracles! In our lesson with Marina on Tuesday, she told us that the lawyer in charge of Eduardo's divorce finally started to work on it. She told us that now it really actually is in the final steps and she is still super excited for it to come through so she can get married and baptized and be living right in the sight of the Lord! She and Emmanuel (her 10 year old son) came to church yesterday for all three hours! Ema was a little shy the second hour so he came to Gospel Principles with Marina and us, but the second hour he went to Primary!

We also found a new investigator whose name is Arsenio. He accepted a baptismal date for the 7th of January! We asked him how he felt after the first vision and he told us that he knew it was true. He said that he was a journalist and worked in radio as well so he know how to analyze people and he said just by seeing how sincere we were in presenting the gospel and that we wanted to help him by answering his questions, he could tell that it was the truth. Now he just needs the spiritual confirmation that comes from a sincere prayer!

Thanks for all the prayers and everything y'all do! Go out and serve!
-Hermana Cheever

Ituzaingó 1B Week 11! "When can I be baptized?!"

Yesterday we met Daniel! He is the reference an hermana gave us last week that wants to be baptized! He is so great!!! He came to church yesterday, even though he was sick, and stayed all three hours. After church he wanted to go to Castelar with the hermana that takes care of him to listen to the choir practice. When Principles of the Gospel finished, he raised his hand and asked "When can I be baptized?" Sadly, we couldn't have a lesson with him and sacar una fecha, but we have an appointment tomorrow! He also received a blessing for the sick from the elders yesterday so that's great that he's already having these experiences in his first contact with the missionaries! He understands really well and it just amazes me that he appeared (seemingly) out of nowhere! I know that the Lord prepares miracles and we just have to be patient! 

We also found another new investigator this week! We went to teach our investigator, Francisca, and she told us that her grandson, Levi - who is a former investigator - was home and asked if she could invite him. She was a little worried because he's a little shy, but he was super attentive and participated in the whole lesson! He's super great! We fasted with Marina this week that the divorce of Eduardo can go through so that they can get married and be baptized on the 14th of January! She was super willing to fast with us and after she said that, besides the hunger, she felt really good during the fast! And, with the amazing skills of Hermana Cheever, we chose two of the hottest days of the week to fast ...


-Hermana Cheever