Wednesday, January 19, 2011
12.27.10
so not much has happened since christmas day when i called you. we blew some more stuff up. thats always fun. i took the broom stick and shoved it in the ground to make a hole for the firecracker and then we lit it and put a bucket over it. well it blew the bucket up. hahah not the most safe thing but very fun. then on sunday night we went to the terminal to leave. well the bus we get on was a little older and not as nice. before we left i said that it as going to break down. well lo and behold it breaks down. so we were stopped for about and hour and then a nicer bus shows up. so it was all good. it kind of worked out because it broke down in a city with elders. elder brown forgot to leave the cell phone with the zone leaders and so we left it with the elders in the other town. then we got in really late and of course there wasnt anyone there waiting for us. so i called my old zone from a pay phone and then 30 minutes later they showed up. then today was just all sleep, then bought some food. kind of suck because i dont have an money left so i had to use personal cash. but its all good. now we are going to meet up with the other elders in the area so he can show us whats ours. but yeah. hopefully all goes well. well thats all to say today. i love you guys. have a fun new year!!
12.21.10
well this last week was the worst one i have had in the mission. but its sure ended nicely. if it wasnt for that i would still be angry. we had super pday on monday. that was insanely fun. it was the same as last year. we went to this indoor sports center. it has a nice astroturf field and a nice gymnasium. it also has a small bowling alley. its a lot different than the ones back home. the first five lanes were using pins half the normal size. the last one had large pins and normal balls. so me and some other elders we played a round. i didnt do well but it was fun. the lanes werent oiled so i couldnt do the fun spin. so all straight shooting. then i played some ultimate frisbee since there was no soccer. that felt great to play a game again. i think i have gone about 3-4 months without playing a sport. which is a real bummer. it makes me feel better. then we had an asado there and the place. it was pretty good. not a whole lot of meat though, but still good. then we took a taxi back to the apartment where we were staying. showered and dressed up for the devotional and talent show. it was all fun. the best part was seeing all my mission buddies again. then at 11 this rental van service came and picked us up and then the 4 hour drive home. that van was nowhere near comfortable. i was really cramped and so i didnt sleep well. then this morning i slept in till 9. but im still tired. so i found out that i can use skype to call you guys. im going to try for that. i know some good members that might let me use their computer. they have a webcam and everything. so as for the time im thinking about 12-2 or 8 ish my time. were atleast 3-4 hours ahead of you guys, not exaclty sure, so figure out which time you will be home. it would be better for me at night. but let me know. here is our house number just in case. 011-54-228-442-9791. if you try to call on a normal day it will have to be at lunch or at night. so 12-2 ish or after 9. otherwise i wont be home. also just so you know you have my mission address wrong. ive told you a few times but here it is again, so write it down!
Chacabuco 1755
Bahia Blanca 8000
Buenos Aires
Argentina
ill be looking forward to talking to you this weekend!! love you all.
Chacabuco 1755
Bahia Blanca 8000
Buenos Aires
Argentina
ill be looking forward to talking to you this weekend!! love you all.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Two emails, one post
11.02.10 Hell Week
hey family how are you doing? so this last week was one of the hardest of the mission. i have no gotten along well with my comp at all. he really gets under my skin, sometimes i would like to know whats going on in presidents head. well i haven't killed him yet but i would sure like to. i just want someone i can get along with for once. well i guess we´ll have to see further down the road. i had to break in my last comp. in the end we got along really well. some elders are just trapped in an unrealistic fantasy. its not bad that they have unrealistic goals but that's it, they are unrealistic. maybe I'm just too pessimistic and lack faith. i think that's why i don't always get along at first. so i was completely right about him being some sort of cocky obnoxious band nerd. 100%. no lies. so this last week the weather was nasty and rainy but my comp was determined to go out and get soaked and find people. it was just a day of misery. i had no problem going to our appointments. but if we have nothing to do it bothers me. so one funny thing that made my week was on Sunday when we left. it was night and we were heading back to the apartment. well as we are passing the corner someone opens their door and hurls a cat out into the street. it hit the ground hard and olled a few times and then ran off. but it was kind of funny to see someone lose their temper like that. now if only my comp was that cat, hahaha that would make me feel better. well we dont have much time. yesterday the power was out in the city so we weren't able to write. Satan's work!!! well ill have to leave you hanging there. sorry, there will be sure to be more complaints the next week. love you guys. keep praying for my sanity!!!
10.25.10 olavarria, not ovaries......
hey family, I'M OUT!!! i just left the office, its such a weird feeling. its been such an awesome experience. time went by so fast in the office its insane. but it has really taught me a lot. more how to be a leader and its given me a better desire to do the work. i really miss my old area. i was really comfortable with all the members and the people. the only thing that sucked was the location. its such a nasty city, lots of dust everywhere. i was glad to get out. so in all i spent almost 6 transfers in the same zone. i got to know a lot of people in that area. its been cool.
so i am now in a place called Olavarria. it reminds me a lot of necochea. but without the beach, dang it. the beach was a lot of fun. so my new house is freaking small. there are four people in one small room, there is no room at all. I'm going to b stuck here a while. my new comp is named elder Bennett, he is a weird guy. he likes to talk a lot and from what i can tell is that he was the popular band nerd. I'm not sure how to feel about that. i just don't feel like i relate to the guy so far.
so on Sunday night i took the bus solo and wasn't exactly sure when to get off. they don't really like to tell you things down here. so i asked and got off just before it left. hahaha then no-one is there to get me so i end up waiting for almost an hour, by myself. it was weird. then to the small shack with the others. it was really sad leaving my old area. i came to love the people there and also my comp. we still have our differences and all but hes been my best one so far. we both worked hard and we had a good time doing it. hopefully my new comp turns out better, maybe ill have to give him a slap of reality and then we´ll get along right. i guess we´ll find out, but pray for me!!
but as i was saying about my old area. we gained a ton of confidence from the members and we were able to give a new breath of life to the ward. it seems to be slowly but surely getting back together. i sure hope so, it has a lot of potential. we finally got the members participating in the mission work. it was nice. i felt really appreciated there. not so at first but its all about that trial of faith. in the end we gained the confidence of the majority. the only thing i would change is to not be in the office. it would have been nice to have full time there. we could have done twice as much. but the lord does bless the office elders. he makes it possible to get the same quality of work in a shorter time. for the time we had we had better dats than the average companionship. it was a miracle. well whats happened happened,
so i got to make the best of what i have here. which is hard to start over again getting accustomed to a new comp and all. it really sucks actually. the first weeks usually are hard. but i have hope that things will turn out well. just a new trial of faith that's all, fantastic!!!!
so last Saturday we had a baptism. a great way to end an area. just two kids from a part member family. but it was a bout time. they put it off too long. the kids are twins and are 10 years old. we left a lot more to be picked up on, there are some that will get baptized with time. but it was a nice experience. it helped the ward out a lot to see a baptism. it was sad to leave them. ha ha they were all crying. or at least the women were all crying. they all loved us in that ward. thanks for your emails they were all nice and entertaining. mom. I'm not sure which package you are talking about. the dear elder one? if so i did get it a while ago. it was gone in 3 days, hahaha. its nice to get American candy. its just so much better. you should send more, like a bag of kit kats, reeses, and other stuff.
hey for Christmas its a lot easier to receive packages if they are smaller. you can send multiple small ones and they get through easy, and on the declaration just put missionary supplies. its a lot easier that way. it will get through no problems. for soft stuff like a shirt or socks, as long as it doesn't have corners or is a box you can put in a large bubble wrap. those get through really easy, i imagine they are cheaper as well. but whatever, do whats best for you guys. and as for you guys coming down at the end of the mish. first i would have to ask pres. then if its good you can come, but he wont release us, so id still be a missionary. so im not sure if it would be worth your time and money. but if you want to I'm not against it, just let me know and ill ask pres. well my comp is getting antsy in his pantsy so i gotta go. i love you guys, thanks so much for all the emails, they were fun. until next week.
hey family how are you doing? so this last week was one of the hardest of the mission. i have no gotten along well with my comp at all. he really gets under my skin, sometimes i would like to know whats going on in presidents head. well i haven't killed him yet but i would sure like to. i just want someone i can get along with for once. well i guess we´ll have to see further down the road. i had to break in my last comp. in the end we got along really well. some elders are just trapped in an unrealistic fantasy. its not bad that they have unrealistic goals but that's it, they are unrealistic. maybe I'm just too pessimistic and lack faith. i think that's why i don't always get along at first. so i was completely right about him being some sort of cocky obnoxious band nerd. 100%. no lies. so this last week the weather was nasty and rainy but my comp was determined to go out and get soaked and find people. it was just a day of misery. i had no problem going to our appointments. but if we have nothing to do it bothers me. so one funny thing that made my week was on Sunday when we left. it was night and we were heading back to the apartment. well as we are passing the corner someone opens their door and hurls a cat out into the street. it hit the ground hard and olled a few times and then ran off. but it was kind of funny to see someone lose their temper like that. now if only my comp was that cat, hahaha that would make me feel better. well we dont have much time. yesterday the power was out in the city so we weren't able to write. Satan's work!!! well ill have to leave you hanging there. sorry, there will be sure to be more complaints the next week. love you guys. keep praying for my sanity!!!
10.25.10 olavarria, not ovaries......
hey family, I'M OUT!!! i just left the office, its such a weird feeling. its been such an awesome experience. time went by so fast in the office its insane. but it has really taught me a lot. more how to be a leader and its given me a better desire to do the work. i really miss my old area. i was really comfortable with all the members and the people. the only thing that sucked was the location. its such a nasty city, lots of dust everywhere. i was glad to get out. so in all i spent almost 6 transfers in the same zone. i got to know a lot of people in that area. its been cool.
so i am now in a place called Olavarria. it reminds me a lot of necochea. but without the beach, dang it. the beach was a lot of fun. so my new house is freaking small. there are four people in one small room, there is no room at all. I'm going to b stuck here a while. my new comp is named elder Bennett, he is a weird guy. he likes to talk a lot and from what i can tell is that he was the popular band nerd. I'm not sure how to feel about that. i just don't feel like i relate to the guy so far.
so on Sunday night i took the bus solo and wasn't exactly sure when to get off. they don't really like to tell you things down here. so i asked and got off just before it left. hahaha then no-one is there to get me so i end up waiting for almost an hour, by myself. it was weird. then to the small shack with the others. it was really sad leaving my old area. i came to love the people there and also my comp. we still have our differences and all but hes been my best one so far. we both worked hard and we had a good time doing it. hopefully my new comp turns out better, maybe ill have to give him a slap of reality and then we´ll get along right. i guess we´ll find out, but pray for me!!
but as i was saying about my old area. we gained a ton of confidence from the members and we were able to give a new breath of life to the ward. it seems to be slowly but surely getting back together. i sure hope so, it has a lot of potential. we finally got the members participating in the mission work. it was nice. i felt really appreciated there. not so at first but its all about that trial of faith. in the end we gained the confidence of the majority. the only thing i would change is to not be in the office. it would have been nice to have full time there. we could have done twice as much. but the lord does bless the office elders. he makes it possible to get the same quality of work in a shorter time. for the time we had we had better dats than the average companionship. it was a miracle. well whats happened happened,
so i got to make the best of what i have here. which is hard to start over again getting accustomed to a new comp and all. it really sucks actually. the first weeks usually are hard. but i have hope that things will turn out well. just a new trial of faith that's all, fantastic!!!!
so last Saturday we had a baptism. a great way to end an area. just two kids from a part member family. but it was a bout time. they put it off too long. the kids are twins and are 10 years old. we left a lot more to be picked up on, there are some that will get baptized with time. but it was a nice experience. it helped the ward out a lot to see a baptism. it was sad to leave them. ha ha they were all crying. or at least the women were all crying. they all loved us in that ward. thanks for your emails they were all nice and entertaining. mom. I'm not sure which package you are talking about. the dear elder one? if so i did get it a while ago. it was gone in 3 days, hahaha. its nice to get American candy. its just so much better. you should send more, like a bag of kit kats, reeses, and other stuff.
hey for Christmas its a lot easier to receive packages if they are smaller. you can send multiple small ones and they get through easy, and on the declaration just put missionary supplies. its a lot easier that way. it will get through no problems. for soft stuff like a shirt or socks, as long as it doesn't have corners or is a box you can put in a large bubble wrap. those get through really easy, i imagine they are cheaper as well. but whatever, do whats best for you guys. and as for you guys coming down at the end of the mish. first i would have to ask pres. then if its good you can come, but he wont release us, so id still be a missionary. so im not sure if it would be worth your time and money. but if you want to I'm not against it, just let me know and ill ask pres. well my comp is getting antsy in his pantsy so i gotta go. i love you guys, thanks so much for all the emails, they were fun. until next week.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
hey there little dogui...
well i don't have anything super exciting to say this week. but we are going to have a baptism here this next Saturday. more like cherry picking. they are the kids of an incomplete family. so they have already been going to church since forever. so kinda fakies but whatever.
we have been teaching the husband as well. they just have to get married so the dad can get baptized. this last Sunday was mothers day here. its like the only country that has it a different day. but it was still nice. this inactive family came back for church. their son recently reactivated but he lives with his girlfriend. they aren't in our ward but they convinced their family to come if they went to ours. so we had most they're family there. they have twelve kids and they are all boys. they made up about a fifth of the congregation. lol.
then on Saturday we we out looking for people and we found a family. they are evangelical but they seemed fairly receptive. hopefully we´ll see some progress there. it was funny, we had to talk our way in and when we sat down the wife had some questions for us. originally we told the m we would only take a few minutes but as soon as she started asking we talked for about 45 minutes. then we lunched with a family, they really like to talk. these people here just don't shut up unless you leave. so we were there for about 2 hourssssssssqsssss. finally we left. but yeah. tons of fun. I'm sorry i don't really have a whole lot to say but that's just how it is. os dad to give you the insight on what goes on here. so most the people here are living alright. I've been in some nasty houses but there isn't a general poverty. they have an upper, middle and lower class.
most the people live in the lower middle class. those people don't have cars. but they almost always have a moped. everyone here has one. as for the streets, only the main ones are paved. more in the main city everything is paved. but alot of my area isn't paved. if you guys want to look where i live here's my address. 3 de febrero 3028, bahia blanca, we live in a town house dealio here . its actually really nice for a missionary apartment.
im sad that im going to be leaving it. maybe ill get lucky again. i still don't know where I'm going yet. I'm kinda scared that ill be staying here in bahia again. pres wants to put full time missionaries into one of the office areas. that would be kinda gay. i just want to get out of bahia and go somewhere more tranquil. that would be nice. as for food goes: for me at first it was all kinda bland. but as soon as i got used to not so much flavor i really love it. the food pyramid consist of: pastas, milanesas, asado ( not so frequent), shepherds pie, raviolis, ñoquis, empanadas, oven cooked chicken , really simple salads-lettuce with diced up tomatoes and vinegar oil and salt. i actually really enjoy that now. potato salad. some sort of rice salad with peas. and that's really the extent of it . just all the basic food you can think of.
pres just took away the siesta from us but its practiced around 2-5, these people are so lazy its awesomely annoying. but these people remind me of people from the east states back home. they act like them, its silly. another thing i told you about is mate. its that drink they're always drinking. every hour of every day mate in hand. i kinda like it. the other day i bought a mate kit. well i was thinking about sending you guys a Christmas package. ill try and burn all my pics on some Cd's and some alfajors as well. so for Christmas i was thinking you should send me some slacks and socks and some candy and toys. look for some pants about 34-34, i was thinking those heavy duty thicker material ones would be nice. and whatever you send make sures its sent light and in a small package. thanks famerilious!!!! que estén bien!!!! chau!!
we have been teaching the husband as well. they just have to get married so the dad can get baptized. this last Sunday was mothers day here. its like the only country that has it a different day. but it was still nice. this inactive family came back for church. their son recently reactivated but he lives with his girlfriend. they aren't in our ward but they convinced their family to come if they went to ours. so we had most they're family there. they have twelve kids and they are all boys. they made up about a fifth of the congregation. lol.
then on Saturday we we out looking for people and we found a family. they are evangelical but they seemed fairly receptive. hopefully we´ll see some progress there. it was funny, we had to talk our way in and when we sat down the wife had some questions for us. originally we told the m we would only take a few minutes but as soon as she started asking we talked for about 45 minutes. then we lunched with a family, they really like to talk. these people here just don't shut up unless you leave. so we were there for about 2 hourssssssssqsssss. finally we left. but yeah. tons of fun. I'm sorry i don't really have a whole lot to say but that's just how it is. os dad to give you the insight on what goes on here. so most the people here are living alright. I've been in some nasty houses but there isn't a general poverty. they have an upper, middle and lower class.
most the people live in the lower middle class. those people don't have cars. but they almost always have a moped. everyone here has one. as for the streets, only the main ones are paved. more in the main city everything is paved. but alot of my area isn't paved. if you guys want to look where i live here's my address. 3 de febrero 3028, bahia blanca, we live in a town house dealio here . its actually really nice for a missionary apartment.
im sad that im going to be leaving it. maybe ill get lucky again. i still don't know where I'm going yet. I'm kinda scared that ill be staying here in bahia again. pres wants to put full time missionaries into one of the office areas. that would be kinda gay. i just want to get out of bahia and go somewhere more tranquil. that would be nice. as for food goes: for me at first it was all kinda bland. but as soon as i got used to not so much flavor i really love it. the food pyramid consist of: pastas, milanesas, asado ( not so frequent), shepherds pie, raviolis, ñoquis, empanadas, oven cooked chicken , really simple salads-lettuce with diced up tomatoes and vinegar oil and salt. i actually really enjoy that now. potato salad. some sort of rice salad with peas. and that's really the extent of it . just all the basic food you can think of.
pres just took away the siesta from us but its practiced around 2-5, these people are so lazy its awesomely annoying. but these people remind me of people from the east states back home. they act like them, its silly. another thing i told you about is mate. its that drink they're always drinking. every hour of every day mate in hand. i kinda like it. the other day i bought a mate kit. well i was thinking about sending you guys a Christmas package. ill try and burn all my pics on some Cd's and some alfajors as well. so for Christmas i was thinking you should send me some slacks and socks and some candy and toys. look for some pants about 34-34, i was thinking those heavy duty thicker material ones would be nice. and whatever you send make sures its sent light and in a small package. thanks famerilious!!!! que estén bien!!!! chau!!
Friday, October 22, 2010
vengo de un pais lejano, donde gritan hombres y mujeres se quejan.................
well this has been quite the week. lets tell you about it. so to start off. dad you were right. they changed our p day to Monday now. I'm not sure if i like it still. but its a p day and I'm going to enjoy it. its just one of the big and endless changes that they are putting into place. to top it off the office elders have to work. well its not all the color of poop. I'm going to be leaving the office in two weeks. this last week was transfer week. and now there is a new secretary. his name is elder morrell. he is a good kid. he is a natural at the whole office job and does it better than i do. i guess some people just have the gift. but its such a relief to leave. it also makes me sad. i have really enjoyed the office stress and all. its been such a fun and cool experience. its kind of like high school. you still have the work but your with several others. i would say that the office elders are some of my favorite mission friends. its going to be weird without them. but its all good. I'm just glad to have things more tranquil. its very hectic in the office sometimes.
so this last week was very good and interesting. so Sunday was easily the best one that i have had in the mission. because of conference we had fast Sunday and it was the most inspired one i have listened to. being a missionary i see a lot of the problems that affect the ward and the members. and the testimonies were all focused directly and indirectly about the problems that the members have. i felt that almost all the members there needed to hear some of it. especially our investigator Julian. he is married to a member and he is the "stake conference man", the hard headed one that thinks he is so right. well we had a good lesson with him and his wife the other night. we talked really directly about the things he had doubts on. which would be tithing and Joesph smith and temples. for some reason its so hard for him to accept it. he doesn't think god is behind any of them. well in the end we just said that if you want to know its right you have to read to feel the spirit to know its true. well in the end we started to grow on him and we told him that we wanted him to say the final prayer and to specifically ask about his doubts. i was surprised by his prayer and he actually said it very sincerely. now back to church personally i felt that it was mostly focused on him. i really felt as though it was his answer. everyone talked about his doubts and testified about them and shared a personal experience. it was awesome. i guess we´ll see if he was too hard heaed to accept ore think of it as an answer.
so in church here the relief society makes us a list of people to have lunch with. so i guess no one was able to on Sunday and this old woman says to the rest" your just going to leave the missionaries without food??" ill feed them. she is a funny lady. she is old but she still has the light on upstairs. so she is more fun than the rest of the old people. well she cooked us up a bit of everything she had lying around.. then we go back to the house and i fall asleep.
it was such a nice nap. then my comp said that we had a meeting with the bishop at the church. so we leave and when we get inside it smelled like cake. so i looked in the kitchen and then next door in the primary and there was a cake and some food on the table. so i walk in and there were some members. it turns out it was a little party for me! hahaha. they knew I'm leaving the area in two weeks so they decided to throw me a little party. i was so surprised. i had no idea. but it sure made my day!! its nice to feel appreciated by the members! even though this ward has a lot of problems i love it! the members that are here are the good ones that are unshakable. it makes me sad o leave it. i feel like that we've done a lot here.
this ward is like a big fat guy that fell over and couldn't get up by himself. i feel like we just got him to sit up and soon he´ll be back up. i just wish i could see it happen. but as long as the next elders keep it up ill be fine. then later Sunday night we went to a family to teach. they had some family over. so we taught them. the bad thing thing is that the visiting family has a very cute daughter. the worst part is she was actually paying attention. lol it was hard not to keep looking at her. so we kept the lesson nice and short.
as for the rest of the week ill start at Saturday with general conference. i really enjoyed it. i really like the talks from elder uchtdorf. i like the way he talks. i really liked his jokes. i liked how he said to go at a steady and sure pace and to not over do it. i like the guy that talked about his ranch and the cow that ate the wheat and died "STUPID COW!!!!!" hahaahaha. i want to say the guy is the area president down here. I'm not sure though. on that Sunday we had to drive out to punta alta to get the elders out there because its getting womanized with sisters. so we loaded four elders and all their luggage i nthe van. it was packed tight. we barely got everybody and everything in. but it was all fun. then that night we went to the terminal. then back to the house. then Monday the leaving elders came to the office. i really hate having them here because they make me so trunky. on Tuesday morning we took them to the airport and i got out of there as soon as possible. then later that night the new elders came in. that was really fun. its always a good experience with them. for the whole night i left with one of them and we did the work. it was just fun being with them. it made it a lot easier to do the work.
then on Wednesday we took them to centro to get their documents done. that ws a hassle. then we left to go work with them again. i was with this colombian elder. he was a cool kid. he was telling me how he served a mini mission and he was with an American. he said he likes the American elders more because we have more love for the people. hahaha. its not always true. i know a lot of good latin elders but i can see why he would say it. a lot of Latin elders are terrible. there are a few that i don't like very much. also a few American elders i dont get along with.
then on Thursday just normal business. on Friday we had the leaders conference. all the zone leaders came. so we had to buy their bus tickets back but there weren't any trips to mar Del plata because it was a weekend and today is a holiday here. so we talked president into letting us drive them back and we could do some office stuff there. so he let us do it and we were off. it was a long but good drive. i drove the whole time because the other elder i Latin and doesn't have a license. it was pretty cool to just drive around.
while there we made some surprise visits to revise some apartments. first we stopped at some sisters. it was really funny. we didn't tell them before hand. we knock on the door. and they look outside and here's 2 office elders with their zone leaders. the sister live just as disorganized as the elders do. i was surprised. i expected more from them. then while there we bought m comp a little souvenir, he was kind of sad that he couldn't come. but was happy with the gift. it was just a little mate cup. then we left for necochea. we stopped in my old area for a little bit. i passed by a family. it was interesting. the mom wasn't home. so we left. then we stopped by some apartments as well. then we got some sand at the beach. then left for home. on the way home we stopped at a place called " El Perdido" or the lost one. we took some fun pictures there. ill try to send a couple. and i think that would pretty much sum up my week.
oh wait. there is another story to tell you. did i ever tell you about the little dog that followed us? well we were walking back from a lunch and this little puppy started to follow us for a couple of blocks. we pass by a house where the family is out front and the dog starts playing with their kids. they didn't like that and shooed it off. we just stood there watching to see if it would follow us again. then a woman was like" do you want something to carry it home in?" we said that it wasn't our dog but she insisted again so we´re like, we´ll take it home to give it some food. so we carried it home in a nasty rag He gave us. then we gave it some empanadas. he ate three whole. then we put him outside the gate but he just kept whining, so we let him inside the gate and then we leave for ward council. when we get back hes laying there sleeping. so we start planning and he starts whining at the door. so we get a box and put him inside. then my comp gives him some milk. he drank a whole cup. then we found some old jeans left in the house and put them over him. so he falls asleep and we finish planning and then the others come home. they just roll their eyes. then out of no where another companionship shows up with the van. they see the dog and we had this genius idea to put a new twist on doggy ditching. unlike Sadie with the laser this time you literally leave the dog on their doorstep. it was really funny. we made a sign that said" i need a good home. love me. my name is reptar" like the dinosaur from rugrats. haha. we drive off and hes just got his head outside the box. the poor thing. it was sad but we couldn't do anything else. i think someone took him in because we walked by and there was nothing there the next day. well that's the silly dog experience. hope you enjoyed the email. i have to go now. love you guys!!
so this last week was very good and interesting. so Sunday was easily the best one that i have had in the mission. because of conference we had fast Sunday and it was the most inspired one i have listened to. being a missionary i see a lot of the problems that affect the ward and the members. and the testimonies were all focused directly and indirectly about the problems that the members have. i felt that almost all the members there needed to hear some of it. especially our investigator Julian. he is married to a member and he is the "stake conference man", the hard headed one that thinks he is so right. well we had a good lesson with him and his wife the other night. we talked really directly about the things he had doubts on. which would be tithing and Joesph smith and temples. for some reason its so hard for him to accept it. he doesn't think god is behind any of them. well in the end we just said that if you want to know its right you have to read to feel the spirit to know its true. well in the end we started to grow on him and we told him that we wanted him to say the final prayer and to specifically ask about his doubts. i was surprised by his prayer and he actually said it very sincerely. now back to church personally i felt that it was mostly focused on him. i really felt as though it was his answer. everyone talked about his doubts and testified about them and shared a personal experience. it was awesome. i guess we´ll see if he was too hard heaed to accept ore think of it as an answer.
so in church here the relief society makes us a list of people to have lunch with. so i guess no one was able to on Sunday and this old woman says to the rest" your just going to leave the missionaries without food??" ill feed them. she is a funny lady. she is old but she still has the light on upstairs. so she is more fun than the rest of the old people. well she cooked us up a bit of everything she had lying around.. then we go back to the house and i fall asleep.
it was such a nice nap. then my comp said that we had a meeting with the bishop at the church. so we leave and when we get inside it smelled like cake. so i looked in the kitchen and then next door in the primary and there was a cake and some food on the table. so i walk in and there were some members. it turns out it was a little party for me! hahaha. they knew I'm leaving the area in two weeks so they decided to throw me a little party. i was so surprised. i had no idea. but it sure made my day!! its nice to feel appreciated by the members! even though this ward has a lot of problems i love it! the members that are here are the good ones that are unshakable. it makes me sad o leave it. i feel like that we've done a lot here.
this ward is like a big fat guy that fell over and couldn't get up by himself. i feel like we just got him to sit up and soon he´ll be back up. i just wish i could see it happen. but as long as the next elders keep it up ill be fine. then later Sunday night we went to a family to teach. they had some family over. so we taught them. the bad thing thing is that the visiting family has a very cute daughter. the worst part is she was actually paying attention. lol it was hard not to keep looking at her. so we kept the lesson nice and short.
as for the rest of the week ill start at Saturday with general conference. i really enjoyed it. i really like the talks from elder uchtdorf. i like the way he talks. i really liked his jokes. i liked how he said to go at a steady and sure pace and to not over do it. i like the guy that talked about his ranch and the cow that ate the wheat and died "STUPID COW!!!!!" hahaahaha. i want to say the guy is the area president down here. I'm not sure though. on that Sunday we had to drive out to punta alta to get the elders out there because its getting womanized with sisters. so we loaded four elders and all their luggage i nthe van. it was packed tight. we barely got everybody and everything in. but it was all fun. then that night we went to the terminal. then back to the house. then Monday the leaving elders came to the office. i really hate having them here because they make me so trunky. on Tuesday morning we took them to the airport and i got out of there as soon as possible. then later that night the new elders came in. that was really fun. its always a good experience with them. for the whole night i left with one of them and we did the work. it was just fun being with them. it made it a lot easier to do the work.
then on Wednesday we took them to centro to get their documents done. that ws a hassle. then we left to go work with them again. i was with this colombian elder. he was a cool kid. he was telling me how he served a mini mission and he was with an American. he said he likes the American elders more because we have more love for the people. hahaha. its not always true. i know a lot of good latin elders but i can see why he would say it. a lot of Latin elders are terrible. there are a few that i don't like very much. also a few American elders i dont get along with.
then on Thursday just normal business. on Friday we had the leaders conference. all the zone leaders came. so we had to buy their bus tickets back but there weren't any trips to mar Del plata because it was a weekend and today is a holiday here. so we talked president into letting us drive them back and we could do some office stuff there. so he let us do it and we were off. it was a long but good drive. i drove the whole time because the other elder i Latin and doesn't have a license. it was pretty cool to just drive around.
while there we made some surprise visits to revise some apartments. first we stopped at some sisters. it was really funny. we didn't tell them before hand. we knock on the door. and they look outside and here's 2 office elders with their zone leaders. the sister live just as disorganized as the elders do. i was surprised. i expected more from them. then while there we bought m comp a little souvenir, he was kind of sad that he couldn't come. but was happy with the gift. it was just a little mate cup. then we left for necochea. we stopped in my old area for a little bit. i passed by a family. it was interesting. the mom wasn't home. so we left. then we stopped by some apartments as well. then we got some sand at the beach. then left for home. on the way home we stopped at a place called " El Perdido" or the lost one. we took some fun pictures there. ill try to send a couple. and i think that would pretty much sum up my week.
oh wait. there is another story to tell you. did i ever tell you about the little dog that followed us? well we were walking back from a lunch and this little puppy started to follow us for a couple of blocks. we pass by a house where the family is out front and the dog starts playing with their kids. they didn't like that and shooed it off. we just stood there watching to see if it would follow us again. then a woman was like" do you want something to carry it home in?" we said that it wasn't our dog but she insisted again so we´re like, we´ll take it home to give it some food. so we carried it home in a nasty rag He gave us. then we gave it some empanadas. he ate three whole. then we put him outside the gate but he just kept whining, so we let him inside the gate and then we leave for ward council. when we get back hes laying there sleeping. so we start planning and he starts whining at the door. so we get a box and put him inside. then my comp gives him some milk. he drank a whole cup. then we found some old jeans left in the house and put them over him. so he falls asleep and we finish planning and then the others come home. they just roll their eyes. then out of no where another companionship shows up with the van. they see the dog and we had this genius idea to put a new twist on doggy ditching. unlike Sadie with the laser this time you literally leave the dog on their doorstep. it was really funny. we made a sign that said" i need a good home. love me. my name is reptar" like the dinosaur from rugrats. haha. we drive off and hes just got his head outside the box. the poor thing. it was sad but we couldn't do anything else. i think someone took him in because we walked by and there was nothing there the next day. well that's the silly dog experience. hope you enjoyed the email. i have to go now. love you guys!!
Saturday, October 2, 2010
heeeeeeeee eeeey!! 9/29/10
hellos everyone. its that special time again. sooooooo to start off this week. today we went downtown again to go lookssss for some stuff. well i needed to get some new flippy floppies cuz my other ones broke. so i have been walking around the apartment like a resource child so i don't have to walk around barefoot. so i found some cheap decent ones and now I'm happy. then i we bought some super delicious alfajors. I'm thinking that ill send you guys a Christmas package with some yummies in it. nothing special but if i had my way the whole world would try and alfajor and some dulce de leche. then we bought some delicious mentos. watermelon is tasty. then we went to the civil register to see if our Argentine documents were in. but since we are in Argentina things like that just don't happen when you want them to. so we took a bus back home. then i ate some empanadas. then i took an enjoyable siesta. then we came to the office . so i have been here for a coupe of hours. so no surprise the mission is going to see more changes with the the schedule and tons of gay stuff. they are moving p day to Mondays in a couple of weeks. not exactly sure when but ill let you know.
so yesterday we tried to go teach a lesson. we even found a member to go with us but the perwon decided not to be home. i felt bad for the member because he is "special". he was all ready to go in a white shirt and tie. hopefully well have an appointment that doesn't fall through and he can come.
so on Minda nothing exciting. recently president thought it would be fun that i take the mission dats. so we went in early to the office and for about four hours i was taking dats and entering them in and making them all pretty. after that i felt mentally drained. so after lunch i fell asleep on the couch. on Sunday i had to give a talk. i called out the members for not doing their part. i don't like doing it but sometime i feel like if no one does it they wont even try. what can i say i was just the same. but its al good.
I'm liking my area alot. i feel like we have the support of the members or at least they see that we are trying and accept us. i wish they would find us people to teach but whatever. so Sunday we also went to a baptism for some other ward. Saturday was a long work day and we taught a few people. one with Julian (the conference man) he doing just as tough as ever. today i was reading in the bible and i read the parable of the talents. 3 men receive a few talents and the first two invested theirs in the bank but the last hid his. when the reckoning day came the first two had doubled their money and had great satisfaction in the masters eyes. but the third hid his and didn't have anything else to give back. it reminds me of this particular investigator. he is really hard headed. the type that thinks that you can only have so much spirituality. but this scripture openly explains that we need to develop our gifts so that way they produce more. if only he knew, oh that silly man ... its all good though he´ll burn in hell one day.
well Friday we passed by some people with a member. it went well. this one family, the Roche family. they are always nice to us and give us something to eat. but they have been inactive for years until we showed up. we got the daughter activated. shes coming every Sunday now for the past month or two. i have noticed a big difference in her as the time has gone by. she has had a big spiritual change. the other day we found a family friend of theirs so we brought her over and we taught the restoration the investigator was really attentive and then we asked Belen if she would share here testimony. it couldn't have been more perfect. over time she has had a lot of questions about religion and stuff and she is starting to realize that she can find the answers in the BoM. she also talked about the importance of going to church. you would have though she had been going to church her whole life. but yeah.. .it all turned out well... so yesterday i finally got a letter from Matt. it was fun to hear from him. its about time too. it made me really trunky thinking about the good times before the mission. hopefully its better after the mission. i guess we´ll see right? well just some random memories.
so i don't think i told you guy these. the lst week we were walking to an appointment and this guys tops in his car and opens the door and greets us. hes like. i really admire you for the work your doing. and shook our hand and then left. it was a cool experience! then another day we were walking to the house and this crazy guy on his bike stops and hes like "" heeyyyyy ammiiigos!!" he looked hammered drunk or just extra special. but he had hi arms out for a hug so i went in and shook his hand instead. i was like how you doing bro?! hey we gotta go now but you keep it real!! not exact words but something like that,, hahaha. it was pretty funny. well ithinks that about it. anything new exciting fun cool.??' id like to know. gotta go!!!! have a good week, seeeegrissssst
so yesterday we tried to go teach a lesson. we even found a member to go with us but the perwon decided not to be home. i felt bad for the member because he is "special". he was all ready to go in a white shirt and tie. hopefully well have an appointment that doesn't fall through and he can come.
so on Minda nothing exciting. recently president thought it would be fun that i take the mission dats. so we went in early to the office and for about four hours i was taking dats and entering them in and making them all pretty. after that i felt mentally drained. so after lunch i fell asleep on the couch. on Sunday i had to give a talk. i called out the members for not doing their part. i don't like doing it but sometime i feel like if no one does it they wont even try. what can i say i was just the same. but its al good.
I'm liking my area alot. i feel like we have the support of the members or at least they see that we are trying and accept us. i wish they would find us people to teach but whatever. so Sunday we also went to a baptism for some other ward. Saturday was a long work day and we taught a few people. one with Julian (the conference man) he doing just as tough as ever. today i was reading in the bible and i read the parable of the talents. 3 men receive a few talents and the first two invested theirs in the bank but the last hid his. when the reckoning day came the first two had doubled their money and had great satisfaction in the masters eyes. but the third hid his and didn't have anything else to give back. it reminds me of this particular investigator. he is really hard headed. the type that thinks that you can only have so much spirituality. but this scripture openly explains that we need to develop our gifts so that way they produce more. if only he knew, oh that silly man ... its all good though he´ll burn in hell one day.
well Friday we passed by some people with a member. it went well. this one family, the Roche family. they are always nice to us and give us something to eat. but they have been inactive for years until we showed up. we got the daughter activated. shes coming every Sunday now for the past month or two. i have noticed a big difference in her as the time has gone by. she has had a big spiritual change. the other day we found a family friend of theirs so we brought her over and we taught the restoration the investigator was really attentive and then we asked Belen if she would share here testimony. it couldn't have been more perfect. over time she has had a lot of questions about religion and stuff and she is starting to realize that she can find the answers in the BoM. she also talked about the importance of going to church. you would have though she had been going to church her whole life. but yeah.. .it all turned out well... so yesterday i finally got a letter from Matt. it was fun to hear from him. its about time too. it made me really trunky thinking about the good times before the mission. hopefully its better after the mission. i guess we´ll see right? well just some random memories.
so i don't think i told you guy these. the lst week we were walking to an appointment and this guys tops in his car and opens the door and greets us. hes like. i really admire you for the work your doing. and shook our hand and then left. it was a cool experience! then another day we were walking to the house and this crazy guy on his bike stops and hes like "" heeyyyyy ammiiigos!!" he looked hammered drunk or just extra special. but he had hi arms out for a hug so i went in and shook his hand instead. i was like how you doing bro?! hey we gotta go now but you keep it real!! not exact words but something like that,, hahaha. it was pretty funny. well ithinks that about it. anything new exciting fun cool.??' id like to know. gotta go!!!! have a good week, seeeegrissssst
Thursday, September 23, 2010
holy barjona
Hey family. this week went by a lot better and smooth. today was a fun day. pretty laid back but still fun. so just barely i made chimichangas. they were super delicious!. so we took re fried beans, jalapenos, chicken, some seasoning. and put it all inside. ill send you a picture of it all soon. then earlier we went into town. we went to a bookstore and i got a pocket size bible in Spanish. haha. you guys know how i like small stuff like that. i couldn't resist. then i bought a french dictionary. i was reading it this last week and its not that hard to understand. so i wanted to read more. then me and my comp bought a matching tie. were going to wear it to the district meeting tomorrow. that will be fun. then we walk along the shops in the plaza. there is this store called ANIS. so i got a picture to add to my anis collection. hahahah. that's all that happened today.
yesterday a new elder came in the mission. he was a late arrival so only him. the others came in 4 weeks ago. so when i called president to get everything worked out he just wanted to bring him to his house without any other missionary. that's when pres gives him the interview and then has dinner. with the missionaries. but being the smooth talker that i am i was like. pres this elder doesn't speak a word of Spanish hows about me and my comp come and translate just in case. hes like "that's a good idea elder". can you say Free Dinner!! hahahaha. it was good.
on Monday a family gave us lunch. they gave us a whole chicken and some potato salad. there is so much left over still. i love getting fed so often in this area. then after the office we went to the bishops house to help his kid out with his English. that was actually fun.
so do you remember the guy at the stake conference that stood up at the end? well we had lesson with him as well. this guy is just too prideful to read and pray. the whole lesson he was like. i already have all i need. i feel as though I'm full. so i was like. God never stops giving us blessing and the only way to feel full is if we put a lid on our " spirit tank". it reminded me of the scripture " A bible a bible we've got a bible" but you have to say it like Jordan at 630 am during family study. hahahahaha. but yeah he is a very hard man to get through. if only he would read and pray. that's all anyone has to do. but even if we think that he would be too prideful to accept an answer and be wrong. i hate people like that. he must be an evangelist. they are just as bad as the JW. probably worse. they go around saying whatever they think they know. really overbearing people. but the best way to shut them up is through a good testimony.
then Sunday was a good day. in church the bishop gave an amazing talk. our ward has had lots of problems and especially with the authority. people have no respect for others here. generally speaking they are very prideful. then the stake president and the counselor both spoke. basically saying how the bishop isn't superman and how he needs a lot of support. he was supposed to be released from being bishop this Sunday but i guess they had talk with him.
on Saturday we had a really good day. that morning we did a lot of contacts and i was like, hey do you remember that woman that we contacted the other day and she gave us her direction. well lets go pass by here. the woman had only given us a direction to a corner. so we went to the first house and knocked it. well it wasn't the woman we were looking for but even better. we presented ourselves and she was like i know here you are and i have actually been needing to talk to you. so they let us in and we gave the whole family the first lesson. oh but he mom was an inactive member since she was 15 but remembered the church and knew that we could help. so they had a family friend that needed help and so we passed the reference right there. 3 new investigators!!. the only problem would be that no one here likes to get married and yeah. so we have to talk them into marriage first. that's quite the task. we set so many appointments that day!! i have never worked so long. but it was all good because we were pretty much teaching the whole day.
on Friday we had an appointment with this guy named Lucas. he is a very interesting sort. he just doesn't quite get it all. hes more interested in proving thing through knowledge and science. but at least we got him to pray right. some people have the lords prayer just ingrained into their heads. they just don't get it. freakin Satan!! there are so many people that just don't understand what they are being taught. they just do it by tradition. hahahaha. so one point of emphasis that we have been working on is to set up baptismal date the first lesson. its a lot easier than you would think. but it caught him off guard. he was like why do you want me to get baptized? lol his reaction was just too funny! then on Thursday we had district meeting. that was fun. nothing super special worth telling. well i cant think of anything else to say. i really liked your emails. they were all fun to read. i liked moms smoker experience. now the seegrist family really is going apostate!!! hurray apostasy!!! jk hope your doing well and have a good week. later!
Elder Seegrist
yesterday a new elder came in the mission. he was a late arrival so only him. the others came in 4 weeks ago. so when i called president to get everything worked out he just wanted to bring him to his house without any other missionary. that's when pres gives him the interview and then has dinner. with the missionaries. but being the smooth talker that i am i was like. pres this elder doesn't speak a word of Spanish hows about me and my comp come and translate just in case. hes like "that's a good idea elder". can you say Free Dinner!! hahahaha. it was good.
on Monday a family gave us lunch. they gave us a whole chicken and some potato salad. there is so much left over still. i love getting fed so often in this area. then after the office we went to the bishops house to help his kid out with his English. that was actually fun.
so do you remember the guy at the stake conference that stood up at the end? well we had lesson with him as well. this guy is just too prideful to read and pray. the whole lesson he was like. i already have all i need. i feel as though I'm full. so i was like. God never stops giving us blessing and the only way to feel full is if we put a lid on our " spirit tank". it reminded me of the scripture " A bible a bible we've got a bible" but you have to say it like Jordan at 630 am during family study. hahahahaha. but yeah he is a very hard man to get through. if only he would read and pray. that's all anyone has to do. but even if we think that he would be too prideful to accept an answer and be wrong. i hate people like that. he must be an evangelist. they are just as bad as the JW. probably worse. they go around saying whatever they think they know. really overbearing people. but the best way to shut them up is through a good testimony.
then Sunday was a good day. in church the bishop gave an amazing talk. our ward has had lots of problems and especially with the authority. people have no respect for others here. generally speaking they are very prideful. then the stake president and the counselor both spoke. basically saying how the bishop isn't superman and how he needs a lot of support. he was supposed to be released from being bishop this Sunday but i guess they had talk with him.
on Saturday we had a really good day. that morning we did a lot of contacts and i was like, hey do you remember that woman that we contacted the other day and she gave us her direction. well lets go pass by here. the woman had only given us a direction to a corner. so we went to the first house and knocked it. well it wasn't the woman we were looking for but even better. we presented ourselves and she was like i know here you are and i have actually been needing to talk to you. so they let us in and we gave the whole family the first lesson. oh but he mom was an inactive member since she was 15 but remembered the church and knew that we could help. so they had a family friend that needed help and so we passed the reference right there. 3 new investigators!!. the only problem would be that no one here likes to get married and yeah. so we have to talk them into marriage first. that's quite the task. we set so many appointments that day!! i have never worked so long. but it was all good because we were pretty much teaching the whole day.
on Friday we had an appointment with this guy named Lucas. he is a very interesting sort. he just doesn't quite get it all. hes more interested in proving thing through knowledge and science. but at least we got him to pray right. some people have the lords prayer just ingrained into their heads. they just don't get it. freakin Satan!! there are so many people that just don't understand what they are being taught. they just do it by tradition. hahahaha. so one point of emphasis that we have been working on is to set up baptismal date the first lesson. its a lot easier than you would think. but it caught him off guard. he was like why do you want me to get baptized? lol his reaction was just too funny! then on Thursday we had district meeting. that was fun. nothing super special worth telling. well i cant think of anything else to say. i really liked your emails. they were all fun to read. i liked moms smoker experience. now the seegrist family really is going apostate!!! hurray apostasy!!! jk hope your doing well and have a good week. later!
Elder Seegrist
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