June 27, 2011

These pictures are of my companion (Homana Lara) and me at our last Zone Conference. One is of the recent baptism that we had. The one without the tie is the one getting baptized. His name is Ramiro Marquez. One if of me with the mission president and his wife.(President Northcutt and Hermana Northcutt). They are actually leaving this week for their house and we will be getting a new mission president this Thursday. It is a little exciting we will see what happens. One is my whole zone here in Palpalà, with President Northcutt and his wife. I am sitting next to my comp. on the very end.

Everything is going well. It is just me and my comp in our apartment. It is small, perfect for just two. We have hot water thank goodness, but we have to put it in this thing in the wall and plug the thing in so that the water will heat. So we have hot water but we have to be careful because we only have so much until it goes out. Which it is not very hard to heat up more water it just takes a while. The apartment is really cute, it has a balcony. I will send you pictures next week. I really like it. We live above this little store that sells just about everything, although not everything just a wide spectrums of things. The area is beautiful, with sunflowers almost everywhere. It is really cool reminds me of grandma`s house. The people are wonderful. Our church is really small. The sacrament room functions as RS room Priesthood room and Gospel Doctrine as well. The ward is small but close. I love it. It is really cold right now. We have a small heater for our house. But it only works really well when we are in our room with the beds and the door closed to keep in the heat. It works. I am really grateful to be here. It feels like home, although I could do with a little bit of Arizona Heat.

We walk a lot. Our area is pretty big especially for just 2 hermanas. We make do. We were walking to a part of our area on Saturday and it had been raining all morning and I slipped and fell onto the ground. It was a little funny. My coat got a little dirty but that is alright. Everything is going great. Tonight we have a Family Home evening scheduled in the house of a member with Ramiro who just got baptized on sat. It will be fun.

Answers to questions

I am currently in a little town called Palpalá Salta Province, Argentina. It is really beautiful. I am truly enjoying my time here.

I am doing absolutely great. I am currently with my 4th companion in my 3rd Area. My companion´s name is Hermana Lara and she is from Nicaragua. She only speaks Spanish. So my language skills keep improving every day. I am actually doing alright with Spanish. I can understand what is being said most of the time. And I can at least get my point across when I am speaking with people. I am truly enjoying everything about the mission. You learn how to forget yourself and just go to work. If you are truly lucky you can see someone actually get baptized. Being here has changed my perspective on life. The gospel means a lot more to me now. I can see myself growing closer to what the Lord wants me to be. HE gives me the strength to give my all every day. Argentina is absolutely fabulous. I really love it here. It is currently really green and beautiful. But it is actually really cold right now. It is winter here and will just keep getting colder. The scenery is beautiful and the people as well. It is really cool here. The culture is different but not different at the same time. Family is really important and whole families can live together in one house or like a big lot of land with 2 or 3 houses on it. It makes work a little easier sometimes and a little harder other times. But it is really worth it. Thank you so much for all your letters. They were truly appreciated. It was really great to be able to know that I am remembered. It gives me strength to keep going. Never forget how much joy, and peace this gospel can bring. It is truly the work of the Lord. Try sharing that gift that God has given you with others. you might be surprised at how many people will listen when they understand what this gospel brings.

Thank you so much.

Hermana Jorgensen

June20, 2011

Everything is going really great here. I really love it. My new comp is from Nicaragua. Her name is Hermana Lara and she only speaks Spanish. So I don’t get to hear a lot of English. Because we are by ourselves in our apartment so we only talk Spanish, which is a good thing. Because that means that I can learn more Spanish. She is really good she helps me understand. And she corrects my Spanish when she needs to. I am giving everything to this work and I love it. I am working really hard to help as many people as I can and be a real instrument in the Lord´s Hands. I am so grateful for this opportunity. I am getting a stronger testimony everyday of forgetting about your own self and just going to work. It gives me great courage everyday to be able to go out there and face the world. Knowing that I can go out and help people find this gospel. It is truly amazing. We should hopefully be having a baptism this weekend. So I am looking forward to that as well. I hope all is going well.

Megan's mailing address

To send a letter, use this address for the Church's private mail system (affectionately called "the pouch"):

Sister Megan Jorgensen
Argentina Salta Mission
PO Box 30150
Salt Lake City, UT 84130-0150

Note: this address is for letters only, NOT currency, checks, photos, etc. Envelopes violating this policy will be sent back. To send a package, use the street address for the mission home shown below.

Hermana Megan Jorgensen Argentina Salta Mission
Los Eucaliptus 75
Salta, (4.400) Salta
Argentina

June 13, 2011

I am actually in a new area now. It is called Palpalá. I am two hours outside Salta. It is really cool. I don´t know the area yet. But I will get to know it soon. I am really excited to learn a new area and ward and to be able to get to know the people as well. It is really fun. I am so glad that I can have this opportunity to learn and to learn how to follow the Lord´s will for me. It is all so new and all the same all at once. It is difficult to imagine that I have 6 months in the mission already. It is really wild. I can´t hardly take it in sometimes. A lot of the time I actually forget that I am in a different country and that I am actually speaking another language. Maybe that is what makes time go by really fast. I am excited to work and can only hope that I will be able to follow the will of the Heavenly Father and be able to listen to the Holy Ghost to know his will for me. Life is something amazing and really difficult all at once. You live and you die knowing that you can live with God again as long as you do everything that you can to be able to do that.