Power Outages

¡Hola! Hope you all are enjoying the Christmas cheer this week with the radio turning into Christmas Mode! Jaja 

This week we went 3 days without power. Bad news is we had to throw all of our food away and the good news is we ate pizza for 3 days. The power goes out often in Argentina, mostly because of the storms and wind. The trees fall down and land on the powerlines. 

Here in the missionary work we are trying very hard to crank up the numbers of everything so that all can receive the best gift in their life, Christ our Savior and the knowledge and opportunity to be baptized through his authority.

This week has been a great week, A couple of hard situations but everyone has a time and a place for everything, Some longer than others. But we keep pushing through:). 

The blind lady that we were planning to baptize this last weekend sadly did not get baptized. She lives with her son and her son told her that if she got baptized he would kick her out of the house. We are only able to visit her when her son is gone to work.  This has been a hard situation, but we will continue to pray for both the lady and her son.

It's my last week for this transfer (They cut it short a week, so missionaries don't have to travel during the week of Christmas). I pretty sure I'm staying in Ezeiza another transfer but we will see where the Lord needs me.

For my Spiritual thought this week I am going to share a scripture my mother has shared with me about Christmas and our Savior. “And it shall come to pass that ye shall all be amazed, and wonder, insomuch that ye shall fall to the earth. And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall believe on The Son of God, the same shall have Everlasting Life." Helaman 14:7-8. 

What a blessing it is to know this, that if we are focused and working forward to the Celestial Kingdom, we can truly be happy with our Families. I share it every day with whoever I can that this blessing, they can also obtain. 

I challenge you all to open your mouth, member or non-member, and share your feelings about the power the Savior has to give us such a gift. Better than any other Christmas gift is this great knowledge and opportunity. Love you all and hope you have a wonderful cold week:)!

Les amo,
   

Elder Hadley
(Hang Loose!!!)  

P-Day Basketball!
4 Missionaries and 5 members from Argentina!

Elder Hadley's Desk
I found the Christmas lights here in the apartment so I decided they were going to be my Christmas Decorations.
The orange container is sugar for my Mate 😋!

My Best Friend Elder Bos in Guatemala!!!

My Christmas finally arrived!
It is a Christmas Miracle!

Mom Note: We cannot send anything through the mail to Argentina and can only use a courier service. Stanford has a great friend and co worker who won a trip to Argentina from "The Price is Right"!  This great friend Greg Bertola offered to take Parker's Christmas to the mission home the first week in November when they went on their trip. Below is a letter from Stanford explaining this Christmas Miracle to Parker. Keep in mind this stocking was delivered to the mission home in a large clear ziplock bag showing all of its contents because of going through customs.

We are so grateful for our friend Greg and his sacrifice to make sure this stocking stayed in Argentina.

This stocking is filled with many letters from family and friends. It is filled with a lot of love and such a relief to see it in Elder Hadley's hands! 

Stanford's Letter to Parker:

Greg Bertola, my co-worker and friend, decided to make an attempt to get you your Christmas package.  He didn’t think it was going to be as difficult of a favor. Now keep in mind, he was on vacation with his wife in Argentina, and not on a work assignment. I need to share with you his email to me sent Tuesday morning. Email from Greg Bertola:

The mission home in Argentina did not answer their phone or answer their email for 3 days now. I got both the phone number and email off of CDOL  so I’m sure they were right. I took an Uber out to the office anyway hoping to find someone. Buenos Aires is very very, very, big and the office was one hour away drive time one way. The office was inside a church building and I was able to find an open door around back. I yelled for someone but no answer, while walking around I found the door to the mission office but it was locked.

 I left your sons package on the floor by the locked door, said a prayer and left. The mission office and the area around it are very interesting and I am sure your son is going to have many stories to tell when he returns. The good news is I got out alive, did not get arrested or put into jail, so all is well. 

• Greg Bertola

Now the story doesn’t end there, Greg continued to follow-up on this special assignment.  Repeatedly he contacted the mission via email until someone responded confirming the arrival of the package. 

Son, this Christmas package should have never been received, yet a higher power was involved with this package, knowing that you needed its contents for Christmas. I told your mother that it had less than 2% chance of even being received by the mission office. Mother has sent you pictures of what Greg encountered when arriving at the office. We owe him big time.  

Prayers were offered all day on Monday; I am sure that the package itself named “Package of Elder Parker Hadley” was even called into the temple prayer rolls that were open on Monday.  It truly was a Christmas Miracle that came early this year for the Hadley family.  

Son, someone is living right, but this wouldn’t have happened had a good friend not kept being persistent in getting this to one of the Lord's missionaries. Take this as a mission lesson, persistence gets the job done if it is the will of the Father. 

Love, Dad

Mom Note: At our Ward Christmas Party we were surprised to see this picture and testimony from Elder Hadley at the Missionary Table!  Love the support the missionaries have from The Quail Crossing Ward! 💗