Feb 24, 2010

hey family, how is everything going, everything is going fantastic with me, this last week has been pretty good, so today has been pretty good, really lazy style but not bad at all. we stayed the nigh again in necochea with the other elders. and the plan was to have an asado but the the other two that were supposed to come didn't until later. so we saved it for the lunch. but we met up at the zls house and played monopoly. i think i would have won, but we didn't have time to finish. and that's all we have been doing today, it was raining a little bit earlier so we didn't go out. its been getting colder here, just finishing up the summer and into the fall now, its kinda sad, al well. its about time. so this last week has gone y really fast. alot of random meetings with people. so Thursday just the usual, the district meeting, so they came to our chapel. we had a little success with our investigator marcelo. he came to most of church, for the gospel principles class and for most of sacrament meeting, but then he had to leave in the middle to go buy some food before all the stores closed for siesta. so hopefully we can progress more with him. then on Saturday it started to rain, and we decided to go out anyways for this lunch appointment, they live about 8 blocks away and we got soaked on the way it was pretty funny. that's one thing that's picking up is the lunch appts. my comp is pretty good at them. hes a bit of a smooth talker with the members. lol some elders call him "el buscador" or the finder. i think it rings true. but i like it, we get to eat more. and i get to save more money. that's another thing, i have done really well with my money this time around, we have a week left and i still have 150, so i think ill be fine. now i just have to keep it up. the other day we played soccer with some youth in the area, that was fun. i find that I'm not really up to par but if i just muscle it a little then i can hold my own. the other day i made some corn bread, it was actually decent, i was proud. I'm getting better at cooking. now if only Spanish grammar was as easy. so yesterday we had the ward council meeting, that was the most insanely boring thing ever, Argentines talk and talk and talk, they don't know when to stop, it went or about 2 hours. pretty ridiculous. so the other day i had one of the "everything annoys me" moments, that kinda sucked. i think it was the headache i had. but it was all good after lunch. well that's all i have to say today. love you all. ill try to bring my journal next week so i can give you more details. i love you all

2.17.10

hey fam, so this last week has been really fast. it was crazy. sorry about the last letter, i really thought i had sent it, i guess not. well ill give you the rundown of it, not a whole lote happened, probably the most exciting is that on sunday it rained insanely hard, so bad that there was about a 8 inch river flowing in the street that we needed to cross. lol that was a lot of fun. we had to cross it so we took our shoes off and crossed barefoot. that and i got the package that you sent, thanks so much for all the stuff, it was really awesome, i still havent finished off all the candy. ive had a lot of fun playing with those little rc cars, i still need to make a race tack, but i'll save that for sunday. so this last week like i said went by really fast, so we had our zone conference and the mish pres came. so it had started and four elders come in late, ive ever seen him so ticked, he chewed them out and told them that you do what it takes to get to meetings on time. i don't enjoy these meetings so much, they are about 8 hours long and with small breaks and only a light snack. then we fnally gota hold of one of our investigators this last week, so we sat and talked to him for a while and drank mate, he pretty much told us his life story, its so hard to stay focused to it all. lol. but he is a really friendly person, he wants us to come back, i think mostly because he doesnt have many friends. so he might come to church this next sunday, we´ll see. that on friday we went to loberia to do a baptismal interview for some elders in our zone, so we are at the bus station waiting for them to come, we were leaving together because we just finished mission conference the day be fore and they staye in necochea, well so were waiting in the station, and they arrive just as the bus leaves, so we had to take a taxi to loberia, it was pretty expensive, about 80 pesos for the four of us, and the guy drove really slow, so about an hour and a half later we get there, we go to the chapel, wait and hour and a half for the investigators, do the interviews and then the baptism, the little kids were actually really excited to be baptized. then we leave late that night and get back around 11:30. then yesterday i made everything to have cafe rio burritos with some other elders, they turned out really well, but you cant find cilantro here for nothing, i swear it doesnt exist. then we had them last night, they were really good. most of them liked it, except the mexi beaner elder, hes a pretty picky douche, he didnt want to pay me for his, so i dont think ill make them stuff again, but the rest enjoyed them. so we did all this at the necochea house, and to answer you mom its where the necochea elders live. and we stayed the night there, and we played monopoly till 2, or thats when i was bankrupt, i think they played until six, lol. then today we went to centro and walked around and looked at stuff, and played some arcade games, ate some lunch, then we came back here. abnd that would wrap up the week. hope you al enjoy it, love you all

Letter from Feb 4th, 2010

hello again, so all is well here. so to start out with what i did today. so i slept in, then we went and bought some food for the week, then its started to rain but we had slready decided to go play soccer. so we went and rented out a field. the astroturf one, but its outside so we were soaked. even though it was really fun. so we did that for a while, then we went to a place called planet burger, and of course bought some burgers, it was really good, then we went back to the house and changed, then we went back to necochea because there was a meeting for the leaders, so we did mini splits and i went with elder hampshire, he has one transfer less than i do and so it was two gringo greenies put together and so we visited a family in his area. the are less active but really awesome people, they are trying to activate them again. so we do that and meet up at the chapel again, then we go back to the house and 2 other elders came with and we cooked some pizzas. then it was late so they left to the necochea house. so as or the week went so on thursday i call an older couple to confirm lunch and the sister picks up and she started crying and i have a hard time understanding her and so i just told her we would come by. so it turns out it was just a little tension between her and her husband, so we talked ¡ with her, or moe like she talked our ears off, lol she talks alot, then after atleast an hour and a half we left and we went to district meeting, so we walked there in he insane heat. then later that day we went to the zl´s to ie a baptismal interview to their investigator. then we took the bus home. then friday my bday i woke up and made us a giant breakfast, crepes and hash browns and fried eggs, it turned out really well and i filled myself up. so then in the afternoon i had to remake my tortillas for the taco night, they were all stuck together, then it started to rain hard so we didnt go out, what an awesome present, lolthen we had tacos with the other elders, they were really ood and i used my herdez salsa. then on sat we went to the chapel to make calendersfor family nights and for lunches, then we went by our old investigator yanina, she was being a little bit stubborn about the church, so we talked with her for a while. then we left to make some more rounds, but no one was home. the we made pizzas, so delicious. then came lazy sundays, so a church i tried to get the members to sign up for family nights, i dont think any were too excited, guess ill have to work harder. then monday we went to the bank and there was a huge line, so we went and dropped a plastic container at a members house, then came back to get some money out, but the thin was drained of big bills, so me and my comp took out 300 each and it all came out in tens, so we went back and took some fun pics with all the money. then later that day we went to a reference, he lived all the way out on the edge of town, it took about 30 minutes to get there and then we taught him the first lesson, then we walked back, at that time it was really dark. then on tuesday we went to a meeting with the pres and the wards couple missionaries, then we talked about an activity that we will do on thursday. then later that night we had an asado at the necochea house and we were there most of the night. and that makes up my week, hope you enjoy :)