7.28.2010

Why hello there my family, how art thou? i ist fine. bueno. so this week has been pretty good, its been the week of finding and teaching. we have had a lot of success lately, its really strange but I'm loving it. so we have been going crazing trying to fit it all in. i think its the best results I've had since I've been here. so yesterday i went with another office elder to a lunch in his area. i can easily say it was the best food i have eaten so far. first we ate a tarta, i don't know if you know what it is but its super delicious. i thought it was all but then she comes out with round two, it was grilled chicken and some type of mashed potato. it was awesome, then she came out with this cup of jello with banana slices and Dulce De leche and and cream on top. i don't know how i ate it all but it was super good. it left me satisfied all day. but i still ate dinner, ha ha. so this last week the conference has been going on, the mission work around the world is seeing a lot of changes. I'm not exactly sure what they are because i try not to go because its an all day all week deal, maybe ill drop in for one, but it goes from 9 to 5 for four days. pretty boring stuff. but it gives me plenty to do. so during this whole conference dealio some interesting and fun stuff has happened. so we have to fill up these 20 liter water jugs so the elders can have juice for their .lunch. well i was filling it up out in the back with normal water, but i put the tip of the faucet right in the top and it made a perfect seal. so a lot of air pressure built up as it filled. so i take it off to relieve the pressure and water and air shoot out everywhere and me and the other et a little wet. it was really funny. lol in the mission you get entertained by the littlest things. its alot more fun though. its how it should be. so another thing that happened is that someone entered the office and stole some stuff while we were out. we went to go buy bread and rolls for the lunch and meanwhile someone waltzed right in the front door of the church and went inside. what bugs me is that no one saw the guy come in. we weren't sure. well anyway ill explain it out in detail. so we are leaving the church and we locked the door to the office that leads outside. but we left the one that leads inside the chapel unlocked because they were having the conference and we figured the pres or the assistants would need to get something out. well anyways when we come back i see my backpack on the floor and all the zippers were opened, i was like i don't remember putting my bag under the desk and why the heck are the zippers all open. so i was asked the other guys if they were missing any stuff. one elder left his phone on the desk charging and it wasn't there, but not something super unusual, then i asked the accountant and he said that he had 30 pesos on the desk that he couldn't find. so i started questioning if anything else was missing, he had gotten into the till and taken 30 pesos worth of coins. just chump change but he took the cameras out of their bags, luckily i don't take my camera with me anymore. so nothing was stolen from me. in all he didn't take that much. there is big potential to take stuff in the luckily we didn't leave the safe open, there was about 16000 pesos. about 5000 dollars. so here is the interesting part. so the Sunday before this guy showed up in one of the wards, nothing unusual. just someone new to check out the church. well, we saw him outside the chapel right as we were leaving to go buy the rolls. so the other elder was like hey he came to church last Sunday. at first we thought he was going to go inside, he looked like he wanted to go in. we didn't take anything of it but when we came back and started thinking about it things started to come together. so we are almost positive that it was him. if not it was some elder. either way they will burn. ha ha. i guess it means listening to the spirit more. me and another felt like we should have locked the door. but we listened to logic instead. that's the last time. ha ha so the sisters that lived in our house before have left alot of clothes here. so occasionally we play dress up and have tea arties, jk but we have tried them on to play jokes on other elders. last night me and elder Beyer put on some and went and jumped on this other elder, hahahaha it was pretty funny. well i think that would be all the excitement recently, hope you have a fun week. love you guys

7.21.2010

Well its a normal p day again.so not much has happened since I last talked to you on Saturday. today we got the zone together and played some sports, soccer and Frisbee. i was sliding everywhere on the grass because my shoes have no traction. so it wasn't as enjoyable. i like playing on the concrete. then i bought a giant chicken sandwich and some 7up. I'm actually still drinking it right now. so before that we took a bus to centro and my comp bought an old Polaroid camera. that kid just likes to buy crap. hes worse than i am. i actually have a harder time buying stuff now that I'm in the mish. its probably a good thing. mostly because everything here is expensive. so its like getting the bad end of the deal when two bad things are there. like that game dad likes to play... "Would you rather have a toenail souffle or a rocky mountain oyster?" hahahahaa either way your screwed. lol. so last night we had an interesting lesson. so we are doing contacts out in this ghetto hood. i start talking to this girl that comes out and i don't think she was even paying attention to what i was saying. she was like¿¿¿ what??? so i told her again, he we have a message that we would like to share. can we come in. so she was like yeah i guess. so we walk inside and there is her whole family. i swear all of them were smoking.


so we start talking about what we do as missionaries. and the mom is like anti religion. she says, i believe in god but that's it. i don't believe he blesses anyone. because he has never blessed me. very typical thing to hear. i like to think its because they are Argentine but worst of all Latino. that's like a double whammy.. super prideful and jealous. very self centered people. not all but in general that's how i picture them. well we talk and talk and talk. finally we were able to give most of our message. she is just looking for excuses to bag on the common church. luckily we aren't the common church, and we were able to defend us. so it gets on the topic of tithing and shes like that's not in the bible. so right there i started losing my patience with her attitude. and of course it does talk about it in the bible. so i was like.. woman i know exactly where it says it in the bible. so i pulled it out and showed her. shes like no no no no that's not the right Bible. i was like tey are all the same bring me yours and ill show you!! lol it was kinda funny, her daughters were there and they were more on our side. it was kinda funny,... mom mom they re right. lol so in the end it all came out well. we were able to challenge them and leave them with a book and a part to read. looking back on it all its still weird. hardly anyone will let you in just by knocking on their door. in my whole time here knocking doors i can count them all on one hand. which kinda sucks because sometimes that's all you can do. but whatever. i just cant wait to shake the dust off my shoes when i leave the city.. like that scripture. or maybe if i cursed them 42 she bears will come out of the woods and eat them. lol. no that would be a sight. so Sunday we had lunch with the bishops family. i think we are gaining alot more respect here. which is good. there are alot of problems with this ward. its going to take a lot of time. and that would sum up these last few days. hopefully a little more interesting. sssssssooo,,,, how are you all doing? sounds like your having fun with the barf bug. i always enjoyed that. luckily I've only had it once here. well let me know how its going. love you all.

July 17, 2010

hey, so things have been crazy this last week, it was transfer week and its the busiest time for me. So naturally there is a little bit more to tell you guys this week. So first off, is that i got a new comp, just a fellow office elder so its nothing special, i would see him every day normally. his name is elder Wallace and he is from Washington. i have already known him well for the past transfer here in the office and he seems good, well see how it goes.

last week i had to get a ton of stuff ready for the new and the leaving elders. the ones that left i had to make them a binder with all their stuff in it and certificates. it actually takes a while because pres has to sign everything. then i got news that we had to pay for all the luggage. normally some guy comes to pick it up and take it to Buenos Aries. i wont bore you with all the little details but just know that there were about a thousand of them. pretty crazy. then the newbies get in and it turns out that the 2 Americans didn't show up. apparently they didn't receive their visas but they forgot to tell us about it. to be on top of things i bought all the bus tickets ahead of time. so i had to take some back. oh and the night they came in i was busy getting stuff done. we had to drop off a bunk bed at some elders house, they live just right outside Bahia Blanca but they didn't give me really specific directions so i got lost. eventually we found this place. man i was so pissed at them. but at least i got to know where two more of our chapels are here, lol.

but on the bright side... i learned how to juggle. that was pretty cool. I'm addicted to it now. yesterday we had lunch at presidents house with the new kids. then we shipped them off. its always fun getting the new kids. i hate sending the old ones home because i hate thinking about home. but then the new kids come and it just makes it all better. hahaha its really funny to see their faces. they are just a little confused and intimidated by everything. so just barely i got back fro a lunch with this old woman in our ward. she made us some mashed taters and some awesome meat. It had onions and green and red peppers. super delicious....

today we just had p day. we didn't really do a whole lot, kinda sucked, but it was alright, it was nice to just relax from the hurry. we went and picked up our lunch. it was a ton of food so i was happy. then we watched a little bit of the new preach my gospel DVD. its really good. it has alot of help for missionaries and everyone in general. well my mind is just completely blank right now, love you though. have a fun week.

Hey there family, nothing really new here so this one will probably be short. so today we went and ate at a buffet called bambu, its pretty good and i ate tons of food. then we went back to the chapel and and we are playing soccer right now. its been an OK p day, nothing really exciting but what else is new, ha ha. so the highlight of my week would have been last Saturday. my converts came to Bahia and they stopped to come see me. it was really awesome. its been over a month. then Sunday we had a church leadership meeting with the stake and so all the elders came. so it was like a giant hang out with the elders and then we had refreshment. then my last comp gave me some letters from one of my converts and she was thanking me for all the help and time i took to teach her. it was a really uplifting letter. for me it was like seeing the fruits of my labors. and more he told me that she bore her testimony in sacrament meeting. it was her last Sunday here in Argentina. right now she is on her way back to Paraguay. then last Sunday was the first time that i gave mine without any problems. it went really well. so how was the fourth? did you guys do anything fun? well that's all i have to say this week. oh hey, not to be trunky or anything but mom and dad were you guys thinking of picking me up at the end of my mission? just wondering. well have a fun week.

June 30, 2010

hey fam, today has been good. this week has gone by really fast. so everything was going good, and then on friday night we get call that we have to change areas with the sisters in our zone. they were robbed on the street a little while back and they decided that it is too dangerous for sisters here. the only good thing about it is that they have a ginormous house. originally there were four sisters in it but this last transfer they only had two. and right now there are just two of us in this big house, its crazy fun! that and we have lunches with members almost every day. the last area was only twice a week. so that's a real help. the only problem is that we are covering two areas, i think the pres will put some more elders with us though. we´ll see. so today we all got together and played a little bit of soccer and then bought some giant sandwich's. then played an intense game of hearts. so still not a whole lot of luck with contacts. it gets dark really fast and after 730 hardly anybody comes out and talks to you. oh and i got the package you sent, it was pretty fun, i already ate the kitkats. nothing was missing luckily. so last Sunday was the Argentina game against Mexico. it was so awesome to watch. the grandparents invited us over to eat and watch the game. i say grandparents because they pretty much are. ha ha they treat us just like grandkids. lol its really fun. so we had lunch with them and then they told us we could take a nap in the guest room until the game started. that game was so crazy! after they won everyone left for downtown with their flags and stuff. so i got to drive around alot this last week. we took the mission car for all this transfer crap. and then for the rest of the next day as well. it was really fun just to drive around the city, i got to know it alot better and it helped me feel normal again. so this new house still smell like girls, i figure ill have to stink it up man style. what do you guys think? maybe burn some food, light my farts on fire, pee around the toilet, i think it should do it just fine. ha ha the sisters left a bunch of old clothes here as well. they have been in this house for a while. so i thought it would be funny to dress up like the sisters and walk in on my comp. ha ha it was pretty funny. i didn't get any pics though. too bad for you guys. when we first got to the house we found a singing Santa clause toy. it was really annoying so we stomped on him then burned him on the stove. weeeeellllll cant think of much else to say now. ill try to think of more randomness to say in my next one. well love you all, hope you have a good week.