Family!!!! :)
ah another great week here in beautiful Trelew, Argentina!!! first off yes you just send the packages to the mission home and also letters I believe. and second off i need you to send me some pictures of me and of the family and of me and some friends. just send a bunch in an email and i can put them on my companions flash drive and go get them printed off. reason being is that i need pictures to show the investigators so it "breaks the ice" between us. so ya.
But its been such a good week here. some of the highlights being, I MADE MY FIRST FECHA!!!!!! (baptism date) its with this guy Horacio. he is sooooooo cool. he is a police officer and is just super super cool. really receptive to the stuff we teach. he doesnt always do his committments but he is waiting for a sign to have god tell him this is the right way to go. and we know that god will. we have 3 other fechas. Oscar & Irma. they are a couple that are waiting to have his divorce papers from his ex to go through so they can get baptised. so any day now. and the other is a girl named barbara. she is like 9. she lives in that place that we go to 2 times a week. its called Guiman. its kinda a small town. we are working with the members there to get some menos activos (non active members). the ward mission leader there is soooo tight. its this way old guy named hermano quinchen. he is a goucho (argentine cowboy). he is super old but way funny. the mission leader in our ward is super lazy and doesnt do anything and neither do the members. we have 400 members in the books but we had a record high of 42 come to church yesterday. that is like amazing for this ward. so yesterday the bishop asked me if i would talk in church after the ward mission leader. so yes dad i did talk in church my second week here. and i dropped cane!!!! (told them whats up) i read them the section on what the members part in helping the missionaries. it was intense!!!! i just told them whats up. so hopefully they have a change of heart and want to help us here. so it was a long week. lots of walking as you would imagine. its super south america here. like its like the ghettos but its the safe ghettos. i love it so much. the people here are amazing. they do anything to feed the missionaries. when we visit houses they always make sure they have food for us. its nice but they are really poor. but good news......the food here is super good. its definatly not american but its super good. the dulce de leche is freakin sweet. so good. and the facturas. oh my word. AMAZING!!!! its like a pastry. we get them every p day morning. FRESH! and the bread here is super off the wall amazing.
we got a new investigator from this girl in our english classes. yes we teach english classes. well my companion does. i just study spanish. but she asked the total golden investigator questions. like she thinks there has to be one true church and she knows god would let her know that. its super fun to be able to see the progression of everyone here. the different stories. and how i can see the lords hand in everything here. he truly does bless us when we have faith in him.
our good buddy Leandro just showed up. he knows english. he learned from MTV. he is such a studd. he just turned in his papers for his mission. and there is 1 other kid that turned in his papers too. he is the ward secretary. he is 19. what a capo (studd). the youth here even though they are small in numbers are super awesome. we talk to alot of little kids. they just ask where we are from. and they try to speak english to us. they say "hello! what is your name" is soooo funny. it sounds so dumb but they dont know better. we play alot of soccer with them in the street. or in the fields of the apartments. im getting alot better. we won the latin missionaries last week at the church. its way sweet here instead of having fields at the chuch. they have a soccerfield on the cement by the church. we call it FIFA street lds version. haha. i really do love it here. somedays its a little difficult but most days i just love it here. alot of people dont want to listen to us. but we just keep walking and doing our job. missionary work is amazing and i love my calling. i love this country. and i love this people.
Miss you and i send my love.
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