One more thing I'm grateful for

hey everybody, hope you all enjoyed your turkey day and Thanksgiving festivities.... but first...... tengo que añadir algo a la lista que hice la semana pasada, numero 11...estoy agradecido por mi presidente de mision y su esposa... ellos son todo lo que yo pudiera haber esperado de un presidente de la mision... son capos.. son como mis padres argentinos que todavia viven en argentina... gracias a ellos...

to be honest with y'all, this week was probably the hardest and worst week datawise i have had all my mission. nobody was in the houses, all the citas fell through and our investigators weren't there for the citas either.... o sea we pretty much just walked around and did contacts in the streets and knock houses... so yeah...

but this week we had zone conference, and i had the chance to talk with pres a little bit where he told me he saw my list was not too happy that he wasn't there...lol... but i fixed it..he's there now.. and that's pretty much what i learned this week. most of the times in our life or at least in mine.. we try to fix stuff by doing doing weird stuff when we miss the easy solution that's right in front of our faces...
but the conference was great, helped me and my comp a lot and we learned and got a lot of questions answered... it's way cool to see how inspired people are sometimes, like always presidente in his talks answers all my questions so in the interview there is really nothing to talk about...lol... got to say he's way efficient. but yeah

but yeah, aside from that... the conference was in tandil, and so Friday we went there and came back on Saturday night... but yeah, it was fun.... but the good thing is from this week here on out it's all up hill. we can't get worse, really...lol... but it's all got to about trials, faith, and obedience. and if i do all i've got to, God will bless us in the way we need it. and that's true. so just keep on fighting.

but yeah... sorry the letter is short. the computer shut off on me halfway through the first time, then this is the second but yeah... i love y'all. thanks for the package.. and the fotos, and all the letters i got a lot this week, it was cool.. but i love y'all again....

thanks and peace out

10 things I'm grateful for!

well, this week was kind of like last week. the good thing is these past weeks we have been teaching this family. i don't know if i told y'all but their names are luisina, jose, and abel. they are way good people. and they really need the gospel. to be honest, they are the only investigators were they are always there. the mom passed away in February and the jose and all his daughters. they are a great family, and they are learning and are way excited to hear the message. but with them we have been working a lot.....

also, every Wednesday, we go to an even smaller town outside of loberia called tamgueyu. there, we have had a lot of success surprisingly. and we want to try to go 2 times a week now. but just so y'all know how small it is, we already knock every door there. but if not all them answered and also we found some good families there. but it's about 4 or 5 kilometros or in other words it's kind of far. but at least, i will lose weigth... that's good. lol...

but yeah, aside from that it's been normal. we have been trying to find some new people who will be there when we put citas. but yeah. can't complain.

as far as the church went on Sunday. it was fun. we had none of our investigators go, and also none of the youth went that we have been working with . but yeah, it was raining a little so that's always kind of the excuse they throw out. but yeah. this sunday was the Sunday of dropping the cane. i gave the Sunday school class, it didn't turn out as well as i would have liked but oh well, it was from the old testament, called los pastores de israel (the shepherds of Israel). then in sacrament meeting there were 2 talks on diezmo (tithing), and 1 on orgullo (pride). so yeah, it was kind of funny. but yeah.

but like in all things hard there are miracles to be seen if we open our eyes to them. but yeah, this week we are planing for ways to get better success in the work here and so we will see what happens.

but yeah, i actually don't know when is turkey day or i don't know if it passed but happy turkey day..... i think i will list ten thing i am grateful for....

1. my family, the thing i that i truly miss the most of everything. Everything i am, the good and the bad, it's their fault. so thanks family of mine. i love y'all and y'all helped me get this far and taught me by your examples.

2. the scriptures.....because who doesn't want to hear the word of God. and who doesn't want to have the blessing and knowledge that comes with that...they have helped me a lot this past few months.

3. the church.... who doesn't want Gods only true church......( i write that as though He has churches that aren't true..lol)

4. the mission.... I'm learning a lot and am really getting directed in what i want to do when i get back and learning a whole bunch.

5. the branch and my old ward.... this are the people who put up with me in the church, and who guided me and taught me. so thank you all. i miss you all.

6. driving..... probably the thing i miss second most... it sucks not being able to drive and having to watch this people who don't know how to drive do it....

7. temples... i underestimated this one when i was at home, and could go. i always tell the members here when they say "if only the temple were closer we would go more often" that when it's closer it's harder cause you always wind up saying " i will go next week" or tomorrow.

8. my friends and family. this time i put friends before family cause i already talked about my family. but thanks for those of you who have supported me, and have written to me, and to one of my special bros... who just got a girlfriend named nikki.... or is working on that.... keep up the good work.... i miss just chilling with y'all. and i say family cause y'all are my friends... so yeah...

9. for computers that don't freeze and go slow... I'm sure this email will take about 5 minutes to send... cause it's long.... but yeah, I'm grateful for that.

10. I'm grateful to be grateful for so many things... and that God's blessed me, probably more than i deserve. but yeah...

so yeah, that's the list. if you want to see if there is a difference from this year and last year check it out.... but yeah thanks for everything for the love and for the support i love you all and miss you all. but i will see you all latter..

peace out

We are still here in Loberia

hey y'all,

well, the good news is i stay here, to be honest I didn't really think I would go, but wasn't sure about my comp. in the end we both stayed which is good. we get along good. and are way excited for a new transfer, as of right now we have the same problem with almost all of the people we are teaching. but we have this one family, in all, it's a family of like 5 or six as of right now we have only been able to teach like 4 but they are good, and are reading and praying or, in other words they will get an answer, and it's great cause they really need it. the names of the people are luisina, jose, abel... they are way good. and ask a lot of questions which is good. cause it shows they have interest. but yeah... aside from that it's been hard to find everyone else but it's the way it is. I'm going to go back to my policy 3 strikes you're out. so that should help us be a little more efficient.

but this week in church i directed, it was a funny experience cause when i started nobody listened to me. but then they realized i started. and the hermano that has rock concerts during church i got used to it..... but the good thing is we are having a lot of exito with the youth, funny how just when u do activities, all the youth will start coming back. this week we had 4 deacons, and the activity was capture the flag with water balloons.... there were about 10 people who showed up. so it was worth it. and when i say people i mean youth. but yeah, they liked the opportunity to try to hit the elders with water balloons.... and my comp was way happy to hit them with water balloons to so it was fun.....

aside from that, it's been cool. this week, to be honest, passed by way quick. almost all the time we were working in the campo, we went to a pueblito outside of the pueblo of loberia called tamangueyu. it's like 4 kilometros, we walked there and had pretty good success. it was funny, the people would say after we knocked the door: passen (come in) so we would walk in and then they would be like dang it was funny.... but yeah

it's been a fun week. and this transfer me and guzman are going for the exito we haven't been able to have.

but yeah, that's been life here, Tuesday river and boca play so it will be funny to work in that. but yeah, thanks for the love and the support and the letters. i miss y'all and will see you later

All in all, I LOVE IT!

hey everybody,

this week has been very normal. pueblo life here is way easy. it's been pretty much filled with yard work service projects, and trying to find all our investigators. As of now that's the biggest problem, not finding people, but finding them after we have taught them. kind of ironic. but yeah, we still are working hard.

the first half of the week i was doing divis with the district leader, it was fun, mainly cause the district leader is one of my friends in the mission. so yeah, it was nice. then after that, me and guzman, had a service project and it took about 2 days. i swear all the gardeners here in loberia are going to hate us. but yeah, it was funny to see people use a lawnmower like a vacuum....lol... but yeah, here it's great. I'm already starting to know everybody. sometimes, when we do contacts, i say "hey how about now, you want to listen"..... and if they say no i just say we will talk more latter. that way i can stop them as many times as needed until they say yes. it's a new tactic i have learned here in loberia.

but aside from that, it's been kind of normal. it's been raining a lot here so it always makes me not the happiest camper but i enjoy it for the first 10 minutes.... yeah, sorry not so much to write about but now to answer some questions....

about the rama.... every sunday we have about 15-25 people who go. most of which are older women. there are pretty much 2 families that go. family of presidente, his daughters, and his son. and another family andina....but are way good. so it's cool.

but yeah, it's interesting cause we never know what classes we are going to teach. this week, presidente told us, he wanted us to start mutual. so we did that on saturday, wanna guess what we did? i taught the kids to play some b-ball. but it was fun, 3 kids went then 2 went to church which was nice. cause then the presidents son didn't have to be lonely. but yeah, so it's fun. I'm learning to become a great class winger, and can kill lots of time if i have to give a talk. so it's way funny. even better cause they have to pay attention to understand what I'm saying cause my accent is strong, and i don't really open my mouth. but it's fun. but that's about all the stuff about the rama. and primary, there are about 5 kids and they're all from the same parent so their mom is the primary president. so yeah. all in all, i love it.

but about the family of my presidente, the more i get to know him the more I'm sure he has the strongest testimony i have ever seen. he is a great man, and has had a lot of problems and has carried the branch pretty much solo for like 3 years now. but he is awesome and works hard. so what more can u ask for? i can't think of anything.....lol... but yeah

so this week is transfers. to be honest, i don't think i will go but at the same time, i haven't stayed in the same place for more than 2 transfers since i was in santa rosa., my comp might go but i think we will both stay. but yeah whatever happens i've got no complaints and way excited to see what we can do here in the pueblo.

but yeah peace out.... oh I'm going to send fotos

We found my family of Seven!!!

hey everybody,

this week was honestly the week of p-days without being p-days.... i will explain how this happened. Tuesday... we went to work in the morning and the branch president told us about an hermana that wanted to have some service done in her house. so we called and she tells us to go during the siesta. so we go but we go in normal missionary clothes so everyone in the neighborhood started watching to see the Mormons get dirty cutting grass, that probably wasn't cut since last year, with and edger ( or the machine that we use in the States to trim the edges of the grass.) but yeah, after one hour of that we had a cita, went there and they didn't answer so we go home and change in normal clothes and go back to cutting the grass in Africa...lol... but it was true, i should have taking a foto. but after like 3 and a half more hours we finish. it wasn't that even but from far away, nobody can tell the difference.

and so then we get ready for another cita we had with a lady called claudia and then we put a fecha with her. she is a lady who has like 4 kids. The first time we taught her, her kids told her not to listen and that we are crazy and she told them she learns more with us than with other churches. and so yeah, we will see what happens. Also, Monday we found a family of 7, jaja, they are way good but it's a single mom and 6 other kids. but she is way excited to read and learn more about the Church and God. so that's way awesome....

then, wednesday was like another p-day.... it was the day of the census and so we couldn't go out to work until someone came by our house to ask some questions. that now that i think about it was way pointless, for a Yankee and a Chileno to answer. but oh well.... in case u are wondering my political party here in Argentina.... it's the jovenes radicales.... just so you all know.... they seem like nice people. and so anyway they didn't pass by till like 5 in the afternoon. so then, we went to a cita with Pablo but he wasn't there. but yeah. he went to visit balcarse. but yeah, then the rest of the week it has been raining, so it's been way hard to get people to let us inside. but yeah .... so yeah, and it rained until sunday afternoon.. then sunday during church i had to give a talk and teach the primary, and sacerdocio (priesthood). so it was a busy day and we had 2 people in the church..... but it was fun..

all in all, this week was fun with a lot of water and a lot of spare time. but yeah, we were blessed to find some great people this week. the big family, and claudia, and also we were able to get the family that dropped us last week to let us in and they decided to keep going. but yeah.... it's been fun.

so yeah, that was about the week.

thank you all for the emails, and all the support that y'all have given me. so yeah, i will see y'all later.... peace out