Onward and Upward!!!

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 ¡Hola Familia y Amigos!


So just when I was getting comfortable I got a call from my mission president. I'm going to train!!! For the next three months I will get to help a new hermana become adjusted to the mission and learn how to be a missionary. I don't really know exactly why I've been asked to train now (because I lowkey have 6 months in the mission AND I still don't really know that much Spanish) but I am SO excited to think that Heavenly Father has enough trust in me to let me train one of his missionaries! Woohoooo! Also! I get to stay in Ciudad de Nieva for 3 more months! I am soooooo happy! 

I waved goodbye to Hermana Horton this morning. Transfers are the WORST! She is going to be a Sister Training Leader in Santiago del Estero......poor thing haha. She'll kill it. 11 hour bus ride...

There's an elder in my zone from Mexico who is trying to "win his girl back" and he's been writing her a lot of letters, trying to get my opinion on the subject. He gave Horton and I a ton of letters she wrote him the past year so guess what we did for language study this past week! Hahahaha it was the funnest language study I've ever had and all I'm going to say is Perla should write telenovelas. 

Had a baptism this week! Roxana is the sweetest and it was so amazing to watch her make such an important covenant with Heavenly Father!...even if she had to do it twice. Our ward mission leader told us it would take about 3 hours to fill the baptismal font but it ended up taking SIX.....sooooo see photo attached below.....we basically ran around like crazy people trying to dump every possible cup of water into the baptismal font. The church's water bill is going to be verrrrry high this month but it will be totally worth it.

Sad news: Hermana Steed went home last week. I'm not really sure what happened but I think it was more health issues. Broke my heart. 

As usual my brain is moving 100mph but I love you all so much. Thanks for all the prayers and emails and pictures! My fave! 

Love love loveeeee,
Hermana McKinlay



Welcome to the day after Carnaval de Flores



Splits with Hermana Rivera




Cute blurry pic of Roxana!





Whaaaattttttt




Felicidades Roxana




JUJUY!

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