Keeping our fingers crossed!

Hola chicos:

 

Happy birthday to Daniel II yesterday and happy birthday to Christopher tomorrow and with that the month of June came and went in a flash! Today also was the farewell devotional for Elder De Hoyos who received a new assignment in Salt Lake headquarters. Yesterday we had him for dinner and was telling us some amazing stories of being brave and taking a leap of faith starting with getting married. He and his girlfriend were dating when they decided to get married within one week. No party, no wedding cake, no wedding dress, nor wedding rings but they did make the trip to the nearest temple to Mesa AZ. Isn’t that amazing! We have had him to dinner every Sunday for the past three Sundays since his wife is already in Mexico taking care of family issues so he can’t wait to reunite with her next month. 

 

We can’t wait to travel too. I have been so excited about this month finally ending soon because that means we get to fly to the U.S. There is the preparation of getting our bags packed and ready to go and so much anticipation. However, for some reason I feel a little stressed out and I know when that happens because I just put a handful of M&M’s in my mouth without even thinking. 

 

I have been avoiding sweets and bread for six weeks but today I just couldn’t take it! Apparently, all flights out of Buenos Aires for today and tomorrow were cancelled. We found out because the mission Presidents were scheduled to leave tomorrow and they can’t. There are rumors that it is because there is a new decree of only allowing two fights a day into Argentina.

 

We still don’t know how this will affect our travel plans for Thursday yet but it is concerning.  All because they don’t have enough people vaccinated!!! We have two mission Presidents and one employee in critical condition and one who has passed away in Uruguay because he opted not to take the vaccine. He was considered young and healthy. It is so clear to me, the difference between going back to normal and us is the accessibly to a vaccine. Period! 

 

We will be crossing our fingers hoping that we can somehow get out! 

 

Con amor,

Vero