Hard week but loving every minute of the mission

what's up everyone, hows life going...

here this week was hard for me... mainly cause i was more depressed that I'm going and didn't change anything... yeah, i don't know where I'm going but this is my last p-day in olavarria for now.. the president already told me unless he feels i should stay a little more. but yeah probably not... and so this week we were working hard but like always we never got anything out of it... but so i was all depressed then Sunday came, and church started and we had so many people there, many menos activos, that we had been working with for like 3 or 4 weeks.. gave me so much hope.. and then the president of the branch gave a talk and started to say how lucky the branch was to have 2 good missionaries, and that they can have confidence in us... which before the missionaries didn't have confidence in the brach and viseversa... but it gave me such excitement. and it made me feel so stupid for being depressed. but yeah that was the major spiritual thing of the week.. i guess if we try our best there is always something that will happen that's good....

but yeah, so to answer some questions that i got... no, me and my comp aren't fighting, elder Lopez and me are like great friends, and really have never fought, over anything... it was just that we were kind of both depressed that we were doing everything we could and we thought nothing was coming from it...

but yeah, so this week was a big week for me also cause i got 6 months in the mission, already it's funny cause it's exactly how they say, it's like yesterday i was home, and now I'm here in Argentina preaching what i know is true... pretty awesome....

as far as the mission, so far i have loved every minute of it. yeah,. maybe if i had more exito i would be happier but it will come and if it doesn't it's all good it's the way it's supposed to be....

but yeah so that's everything, sorry this letter is really short, i have a lot of things to do today so not much time but yeah...

i love you all and thanks for the support and the letters. i know I'm bad at writing back but i will try to do it.... alright thanks, and just for kicks, put this letter a little better, if next week i am still in olavarria u all can laugh at me... jk.. but yeah so thanks for everything,, peace out.

PS sorry i didn't answer all your questions.. but what can u do I'm here really far away..lol,.. bye

I still have a way to go but little by little

alright, i guess i said i would write this in Spanish so hear it is......

como andan mi rama? espero que todo bien, eschuche que ustedes estan haciendo mejor en basketball... tienen que ganar por lo menos uno juego.... pero esta semana era re chistoso porque, tuvimos mas o menos exito, econtremos 5 personas, y una de las personas es re-loca, por ejemplo ella me sanó de leukemia, yeah cancer... ella es re evangelica, pero poco por poco..... wow es mas deficil a escrbir en espanol tan hablarlo... y voy a empezar en ingles..... pero gracias por su apoyo y por todo..

yeah, sorry, i suck at writing in two languages now,

but yeah, this week was interesting in case you didn't catch the cancer thing we found this lady who is really crazy, she says she has written a book like the bible, and goes around healing people, like me. I'm cured! then she said to my comp. I'm going to give u a girlfriend and i was laughing, but kind off upset i get cured from cancer, and she gives my comp a novia... but she is really good and want to learn, it's hard with her cause she is on meds the whole time, but we will see...

it was also kind of funny cause we had some exito but it was really hard to work this week, cause Argentina played Uruguay for the chance to enter a soccer cup and nobody opened the door, and then yesterday was mothers day, and nobody opened either but yeah... it's what there is....

this week elder bowen came and he was pretty much straight forward and said if we want exito we need to obey all the rules, but the meeting was great he is re capo. and the spirit was great during it.. i still have a long way to go until i become a capo but little by little, Rome wasn't built in a day......

oh, if u couldn't tell by me writing in spanglish i stink at spelling but I'm actually speaking alright now, so things are looking up.... we are finding people, working hard, and doing what we need to do.....i guess it goes to show u that patience is a virtue.

but yeah I'm kind of out of things to say so yeah..... thank you everyone for ur support, help, love and everything...i love u all and especially to my family thanks y'all are the best i could have... Peace out

Hard week but things that are easy aren't worth the price

hey, i know i said i would write this carta in Spanish but it's easier and faster to write it in English as to the point that i don't have much time... lo siento mi rama....

but today was a holiday and so everything was closed till like 3 so now i got no time...

but we had the baptism, yeah, she actually showed up, so we were really stoked, and i got lots of fotos but i forgot the camera, so yeah... sorry y'all... but my comp baptized her and everything was perfect, the only thing is that it doesn't count for the mission, but what do i care it counts for god, so bite it zone leaders...lol....

this week one of the area authorities is coming to olavarria to talk to the missionaries, probably going to bajar the canya but yeah... so everyone is freaking out, and the zone leaders were bugging us trying to get more numbers, which we didn't really have.

this week was hard for me, and elder lopez, we're not fighting, but having no exito is getting to us. and we try to find different ways to do the work, but it's all good, he is really great, hard working elder, rey capo... but yeah, this week was kind of the same old same old, aside from all that.

also i was really sick this week, well, sick for me, and i will tell y'all why.... we went to a member's house and he gave us fish.... and here fish is really expensive so when someone offers u got to eat it so i ate it, and like all argentines "coma mas elders... si le gusta"... and so i had to eat more... then i was sick ever since, but Sunday got better. so all good for now....
but so yeah, mom and dad, i ate fish and got sick, I'm going to start saying I'm allergic, but yeah...

so this week for me was hard but i love it, it's hard but things that are easy aren't worth the price, and almas (souls) are expensive so we fight... but yeah..

this week was also a bad American week, i don't know why but they weren't happy with my pais but i just say nothing or if they make me mad and say "fuera yankee", i just say "fine I'm leaving with my stuff, give me ur car, cause its probably a ford"... jaja I'm weird like that but yeah.

right on y'all, peace out.

sorry the letter was short... wait it was long, hope urt happy mom...

thanks for the support, and the love and the prayers... i love y'all
peace out

Amazing week with General Conference

this week was amazing, general conference was awesome... all week we were just trying to prepare to get our investegators to the confrence, and to find some new people.... we didn't really find that many new people but yeah, we found one, she is good, danela.. but yeah.....

kind of the story of my mission, hard, but if we don't work, we acomplish nothing. so might as well work and have little exito than do nothing and have none..

but yeah.. conference had so many canyonasos... that at the end of the batlle it was general authorites 20000 to 0.. but yeah, it was probably the best conference that i have had since i actually started to watch them, it was aweseome.....

but yeah..

to answer some question that i know i will get, i watched conference, in spanish 1 and the other times in english.. the rule in the mission is that we can watch it in english if we dont have any investigators there, and so yeah..... but we had 3 investigators.....

but honestly, i started watching the one where elder anderson talked, but he translated his own talk...... not a good idea, great talk but i was laughing so hard that i had to go to watch it in english. if u heard his talk in spanish u know what i'm saying.. maybe... but it was good...

also the conference here is in the afternoon, and preisthood session ended at 7 at night it was good.... breaking the rules, with permision... yeah i'm bad.... just playing... but confrence was great...

the best talk was with elder holland, pres. monson talked about anger, and uchtdorf about love........

but yeah, so that's about all i got for now. really, nothing hapened this week, out of the ordinary........... but one good note, that we should have a bautism at the end of the week unless she decides not to show up... like my last bautizmo....jajaja really not that funny, that was like one of the worse weeks of my life....but if u don't make jokes about stuff, u get depressed thinking about it, so yeah..... 1 bautizmo, really excited for that, hope all goes well...

that's about all i have, i tried to make it really long, i'm not that good at doing that, so sorry

but hey pops happy birthday, honestly i didn't know if it was this month or next month until i saw jason's email, but yeah..... i propably shoudn't have said that, oh well...

thanks for the support and for the love, everyone, thank u. everyone i have known has helped me come this far, i realy can't ever thank u enuff, so thank u......... peace out

en espanol..... mi rama como andan, espero todo esta bien con ustedes, y querro decir que ayer fue uno de los mas trunky dias de mi mision porque cuando eschuche que van a hacer esa fiesta cosa, con la general conferencia yo empece a recordar todo eso dia, pero gracias por todo. la proximo tiempo voy a escribir todo la carta en castellano, y ver si puedo hacer eso.... pero gracias y peace out...

Elders got robbed but we got a "fecha"

what's up every one...... this week was alright.

right now we don't really have anybody left, cause we needed to drop a lot of our investigators, which is really hard to do but they don't want to progress so chau.....

but hey, good news... we have a fecha.... haha por que somos capos. but her name is valentina, 8 years old, she is the daughter of a menos activo family, but she is really good, and we got the whole family to come back, but aside from that.... it's about all the success that we have had.

we still have some investigators but it's hard, to keep them.... but that's how it is..... little by little, waiting, working to find our family of oro, with 7 people... jaja.. but hopefully we find them... but aside from that not much happened.. with us. we went to azul this past week, it was cool, it's abig city......... it was nice...

but now the good stuff.

last week we were in bolivar, right, and this week they got robbed, at gun point...hahaha.. they are fine but yeah.... but here is the story... the 2 guys tried to enter when they were gone but had no luck so they waited, until they came back and then came in... while one elder, elder sands(norte americano), was in the bathroom, and elder robles(argentino). but one had a jason mask, and the other covered his face, but they robbed everything that was electronic... but they are alright... but yeah, that happened when we were in azul.... but elder sands told me that he didn't understand anything, and so he didn't know what was happening... but yeah..... kind of funny... especially in bolivar. it's a small town, really calm, but so yeah that's the interesting thing that happened here........

this part in spanish para mi rama.... eschuche que ustedes van a tener una equipo de basketball... tenemos que ganar, contra los barrios por que si no ellos van a pensar que nosotros no sabemos como jugar bien...... vamos rama y ganamos contra los gringos......jajaja... pero en serio, el manera para ganar es no dejar que Dan toque la pelota, porque el es el mas peor de todos.... jk......

alright, sorry i suck at writing in spanish, but yeah victory..... if you all win i will send something for everyone on the team from here.... probably an alfajor, porque soy pobre..... sorry for the Spanglish everyone..

but yeah, that's everything that's happened here, we have a fecha, the elders in bolivar got robbed, it's cool here..... can't get much worse than before....thanks for your support and the love, and the prayers....

ph happy birthday liz, yesterday, and amanda i don't know when that was but hey happy birthday to u all, and every one else who had a birthday.. peace out y'all