The Moral of the Story

hows life in the nice warm heat of the state i love.

well this week was awesome, we worked hard, really hard, and the weather sucked. i will give you the day by day.. monday sunny, cold but sunny.. tuesday..cold and little rain... wednesday.. freezing and SNOW.. yeah snow. i will talk more about it latter. thurs... sunny..but freezing.. friday...cloudy.. but freezing also.. saturday sunny and nice...but now enuff of that but the snow... i thought it would be really fun, right tracking in snow, yeah for the first 10 mins. it was terrible. windy, snowing, and really cold and humid. and we needed to walk cause we don't have money.. it was fun... not.. but enough of the weather.

this week we worked really hard, and to start the week, we had little, we only found one family, but that was working for 3 days. but then thursday, there was another esfurzo but in the part of olavarria, and we had success like nothing. 20 new investigators for those missionaries, in total. but we were coming back and we were feeling down cause the week was going bad, and we were actually working really hard, not like the other weeks, which made it harder on us. but anyways thurs. night we were coming back from the esfurzo, and we decided to stop at a rotiseria, to buy some food for cena. and it's a place we always go to but when we walk in one of the worker just start talking to us, and sayes he has been looking for a church, cause the other ones just didn't feel right, and that he has seen us in the store but he never had the time to talk to us.... that's music for a missionaries ears.. so we teach him a little but we didn't have much time. so we get his number, his address and all that good stuff, and we head out. right then, the second we walk out the rotiseria, an old investigator, come us and says he has been wanting to talk again.. once again, music to our ears. then we get his stuff, and head to the apartment feeling great....but wait theres more.

friday was somewhat a hard day, no success but still feeling great about thursday. then saturday.. first we got the chance to service, helped this guy put up his techo, but after that we had an appointment with pedro y alejandra, our investigators, the lady who had the gripe, she got better, but we go for the appointment, and they say we want to bring friends so they can hear what you have to say, and they brought like 4 people. it was cool, that they trust us with their friends, and they're not even members.

but the moral of the story i guess is we did our best, and worked hard, and the investigators came to us. it was cool. it's funny how the Lord works sometime, but it taught us something. work work work..... yep..

just so you know church is back here in olavarria, yeahhh. it was nice to go back to church. but yeah that was the week, um yeah thanks for the support, and all the letter and emails, i have received. alright peace out....

ps. people who like the cold, let me say the heat is so much better because you can only put on so much clothes. i know Wednesday to turn my head i needed to turn my body. so what now.....love ya peace

Still no meetings on Sunday

sorry this letter is going to be short, i wrote the whole letter and was about to send it then the power went out.... i got so mad it was funny, but i wasn't the only one. so that makes me feel better.

so this week was weird, i'm going to start monday, it was a normal p day, kind of boring, cause we never really do much, just play sports and watch church movies but whatever.

then tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. were normal days. just worked the most i could and had a little success not much but it was all good. it was made up from on friday.

friday we had an esfurzo in our area which is when other missionaries in our zone, come to our area to work for 3 hours. we got 10 investigators so that was awesome.

but then saturday we spent the whole time visiting the investigators we didn't met from friday, and visiting some of the investigator we already have, they all seemed to disappear, when we try to invite them to church. except one family, the lady who got the gripe. they couldn't have come. so they have a good excuse. but things work out for the best, example that the lord knows all.

sunday there were only four people including me and my companion elder vizcardo, and the Branch president. and the only person who showed up aside from us was abuela gladys, an old lady who we got, she is a new convert. but it was funny, and better that we couldn't and didn't bring investigators cause it would have been weird for them. now the turn out is mainly for 2 reasons. 1 gripe, the churches are still closed, and the other is cause it was raining, and so nobody came..,, but it was alright no worries.

with all luck the church is going to be open again next week. hopefully...

but yeah so thanks for all the support, and the emails,letters and everything. i love you all and miss you all.
peace out

Life on the other side of the world

how's life going on the other side of the world?

it's funny, the swine flu thing has some funny phases. phase 1 everyone freaks out, phase 2 nobody cares anymore, phases 3 they freak out some more, and last phase problem solved. here in Argentina they are in between phase 1 and 2. but anyway that's that about that. it's a good thing for missionaries cause everyone is at home, but at the same time some people don't want to open the door, cause they are scared we have the gripe (flu). but anyways that's all I'm going to talk about the gripe, cause it's annoying.

But this week was really cool. p-day we played basketball, and futbol, tuesday we worked alot, found this really great family, but then the wife got the gripe, like 2 days after, so we need to wait till she is better. before we can go back.

but we also found a family of 6. that was all in home and seemed really interested, but that's really all we found.

lots of rejections, but unfortunately for every one who rejects us, it makes my comp, elder vizcardo, want to work harder, and i get a kick out of getting rejected, so it doesn't slow us down.

wednesday was mission conference, it was alright, kind of boring, and there was no food, but it was alright.

then thursday me and elder vizcardo went to Mar del plata cause he needed to get his patriarchal blessing, and there is only two in the mission one in bahia blanca and the other in mar del plata, and we chose mar del plata. it was cool, went to the beach, walked around, a little, then went to the patriarch. it was a little vacation. but 6 hours on a bus to get there, and to get back. but it was cool.i got some pictures i will try to send.

also after that friday we worked some more, that was when we found the family of six, then saturday was a fun day but we didn't actually knock doors, we went to visit some of our investigators, and meet some members.

but anyways, then sunday there was a small meeting for people who don't have the priesthood in their houses at the church. which was fun cause we needed to make it look like there was nobody there cause, right now, it's against the law, or something like that. but it was a good meeting.

oh also funny story i now know why we carry big backpacks, for the dogs, we were walking and this big dog comes and starts barking, looked like it was going to bite me so i took my backpack and nailed the dog, and he went bye bye, it was funny.

now to answer some questions. mom, first of all the city is called bolivar not bolivarria; i was mixing my cities name with that one....that's only for her everyone sorry..... my city is called olavarria, it's kind of a big city, but really not probably the size of tucson, or mesa, cause i don't really know that much about tucson. but anyways, actually i don't know much about mesa either. but anyways it's kind of a poor city, well it is, not kind of it is.

but anyways the food here is good, it doesn't upset my stomach at all, it's really cool,

also it is freezing here, it kind of sucks but whatever. i will get over it.

ummm yeah, hope this letter was longer, better, and all that. thanks for the support, and the love and everything.
peace out

First assignment in Argentina

so this is the first email I'm doing from Argentina so far all is good, my first comp's name is elder vizcardo, he is from Peru, he is really cool.

but its kind of funny my first week here we only knock on 4 doors, but 2 of them let us in. which was really good for only knocking for doors.

but its not that we are lazy it's just that we had no time. here is what happened. on Monday i left the mtc yeah....i barely got out cause i had a cold, and the doctor wanted me to stay, but i told him that i felt great so he let me go and now I'm in perfect health... then tuesday we got to buenos aires, and we stayed there till about 6 at night. i saw tio, it was really awesome, it made arriving here a lot easier, so I'm happy i saw him. then tuesday night we went to bahia blanca, and stayed there till i arrived in my area, independencia olavarria.

it's a nice area, we always have food to eat. but anyways so friday morning i arrived in my area at like 2 in the morning. then we went around olavarria friday, did some work, then we went to a city called bolavarria cause there was a baptism, and we stayed there till sunday and i got back to my area around 6 at night. but yeah that was pretty much my week. i like my area it's a good place nice people.

it is really cool to be in argentina. um that is really all that happened.

oh wait I'm lyeing, the church here is closed for 2 weeks cause the flu, big problem i cant get a way from it. but hopefully it is only closed for 2 weeks cause if not we can't baptize people, cause they can't attend church. But alot of the missionaries are saying they are having a hard time getting in houses cause the people are paranoid, and don't want to get sick. but yeah i think that's all.

yeah i just want to say congrats to jazmin y zuyapa, sorry if i spelt your names wrong. but that's awesome you decided to get baptized. a

alright i think that's all so yeah talk to y'all next week. peace out thanks for the support, and the love.
peace out again