questions are easy

well, this week was kind of tranquilo cause it normally is the first week of the transfer.. but with the people we are teaching they are going good. we will get them all to go to conference, and that will be a great tool. so yeah, it will be cool. but aside from that it's been a normal week.

but to answer some of the question, i already answered the five my mom sent me and i didn't even cheat. so I hope they are right. but i still don't have any idea when i get home, i think you all will know before i know... so we will see.

but yeah in case y'all didn't know the States played Argentina, and so we watched a little of the game with a part family over dinner... it was funny cause we tied... and so they can no longer talk bad about us.... yeah....or at least in soccer....

but yeah... but this week in church we had part of the family we are working with, 3 girls and 2 were way afraid to go, that we had to sit with them during their classes... mainly cause they had a bad experience before with the other churches....

but yeah it was a good week. i got no complaints... but yeah. so I'm sorry for the short letter, but thank you for the love and the support... i love y'all and will see y'all latter

peace out


(So we thought it would be fun to ask Bryce 5 questions a week till he gets home. This week we asked 5 sport questions that Bryce would have answered without even thinking about it before his mission - actually Jason thought the questions cause i still have no idea about sports)

1- How many championships does Kobe have?
a. Four
b. Five
c. Three
d. Six
Bryce answer: obviously 3 with shaq and 2 with out... i think... so 5..

2. What team does shaq play for?
a. Miami
b. New York
c. Boston
d. Cleveland
Bryce answer: shaq plays in Cleveland with lebron... before he left...

3. Who won two superbowls during your mission?
a. Saints/ Steelers
b. Steelers/ Packers
c. Saints/ Packers
d. Patriots/Steelers
Bryce answer: i actually don't remember but I'm going to say saints and packers...
cause y'all told me the packers won last time... and the past time is over..

4. What superstar is playing with amare in new York?
a. Lebron James
b. Shaq
c. Carmelo Anthony
d. Derin Williams
Bryce answer: the team of thugs... carmelo... still love amare though

5. Who is the suns leading scorer this year and how many points per game?
a. Steve Nash- 15.6
b. Channing Frye- 18.7
c. Vince Carter-16.3
d. Grant Hill- 14.2
Bryce answer: i have no idea, but if its between these four no wonder why we suck... i will say frye, cause its the highest

Running to the finish

so this week was actually kind of hard for me.... but still a good week. it was hard because it was the last week of transfer, and it actually hit me that soon I'm going home. but since i was in loberia i came up with a boxing analogy, my mission is 16 transfers, this is the last round, but from my little understanding of boxing, finishing isn't enough to win, so that's what i need to do better with, not just finish but finish good. but lucky, I'm in the best place in the mission.
funny how God always helps us out in ways like that.

but this week, we at least had members from each of the 2 big families we are really focusing on, come to church, and thye all said next week more will come. so that is great news. also with one, the familia sanchez, we watched "Jose smith prophet of the restauracion", and it worked wonders. they were way excited and would have all come to church but the dad woke up sick so that was a bummer. but hopefully in April we will be able to get both families. then aside from that it was kind of way tranquilo, i can't really think of any weird stuff that happened, it was actually a lot of walking around looking for part families that the bishop gave to us on a list. but yeah.

oh, and about transfers. i'm still here in newberry and elder seegrist is still my comp. I'm way excited, he's a good friend, and presidente likes the team we make... he says " ambos son re-vivos" ..... don't know if it's a good thing but we have fun, and manage to work so I'm excited to finish with him... really the only change that really affects me is the new elder in the ward with us. but he is a good kid. so it will be fun. but yeah.

and so, yeah, on kind of a trunky note to my family who is going to want a lot of stuff from Argentina, write me a list with everything you want and send me some money (give it to mom) and i will do my best to get it. the good thing is that I'm in mar del plata, and so i can pretty much get anything Argentina has to offer.... so let me know cause if you don't tell me I'm just coming home with independiente shirts for every one. and alfajores for me, but the cheap ones....lol... money talks to my mouth... but yeah, that's all i can remember...

so yeah, i guess i will write y'all next week, and be good. and now that i think what i always say is thanks for the prayers, support, and love..... but that's cliche, so i just leave it with this lovely phrase..... if you want to love me got to show me.....

alright peace out

Good Times

hey every one, how's it all going.

this week was alright, we found a family of 6, so that's cool. we are teaching all big families. so that's awesome. the purpose of the gospel is to unite families, and hopefully that's what we are doing.

but it was also a funny week, I'm going to tell a funny story. this week was the first time in my mission where someone actually tried to rob me. it was funny. he was drugged out, cause the night before was carnival. but we had talked to him before, so he called us over, and we went to see what's up, and he asked us for 2 pesos, we said no, and then he pulled out a knife, and was trying to hide it but we saw it and, i asked him what he was doing with a knife, and he was like nothing, and tried to walk towards me, and i held him back a little, we told him we would pass by late, when he was a little more coherent so we could talk to him, cause he said he wanted to change. and so we left him there, and then we went to the cita across the street. they weren't there, and so we started walking back down the street, and he called us over.....(now i have a big problem that if someone calls us i go, and because i knew he was harmless, we went back)... my mom is probably mad by reading this.... but so when we got back, he was a lot madder, and said he wanted his 2 pesos, or he would shoot us. we started talking to him once again, i had to hold him back, and then his mom came out... this is the funny part, cause he really is a good kid, he is just a drug addict, but once his mom came out, he changed completely and we started talking to the mom, trying to help her out, we put a cita to go back and visit her and her son... but the son was saying how crazy it is in buenos aires, cause they kill people for like 10 pesos, and he was like the world is going downhill... but it made me laugh a little, cause he tried to rob us for 2... but yeah, then after that, everything was fine... we went to the cita, he was normal but the mom wasn't there. so we told him we would pass by when the mom is there. but that was the funny story of the week. but it was cool, cause the mom is way interested, so that worked out good. blessings.

but yeah, aside from that, the week was normal, we had entrevistas thursday, and it was nice to talk to presidente. but yeah. it's been good, the week. another funnny story is that we talked to a dude of another religion that gave us a weird compliment, he said that God would look at us with mercy when He comes even though we are wrong.... it made me laugh, i just told him thanks....( got to know when to pick the battles) but yeah.

over all this week was nice, the biggest miracle we saw was that we are going a lot better, a little more energy, and animo. and for that we found a family that's pretty good. but it's been fun, the mission. this week is transfers, so next Monday i will tell you if there are any changes, i doubt it. but we will see, i actually hope not. but yeah thanks for the love and all the support, and the prayers.... i love you all and the mission.....

peace out...

PS... don't freak out with the story of the dude who almost robbed us, you can tell the people who you can bend and you can tell the people who you can... so we were always good with him.......mainly for my mom and dad... love y'all

We had the baptisms, Yay!

well, first things first, we got the baptisms, yeah....... it was cool and a fun experience. so that was way cool. then Sunday was good cause they got the Holy Ghost... well kind of... one of the guys did the blessing wrong and so we need to do that latter. but no problem.... but that was way cool. we baptized mariana and julieta... and we will start working on the mom and see if we have exito doing that.... also this week, i got in contact with somebody who i was teaching in caisamar, but i left and couldn't say goodbye to them... and now they live in jorge newberry..... it is way funny. they are a big family, 9 in total.... so we are starting back with them... the parents names are marcelo y alba.. they are way good....

also, we didn't have interviews with the president. that was this week but I'm excited igual (just the same)... but it was a big blessing to find marcelo y alba... cause we didn't really have more people to teach, aside from mariana and julieta, that want to really progress. but yeah, so that's were we are at with the area. this week we are going to focus on finding people we can baptize this month, and keep helping cumplir the meta...

but yeah, kind of on a funny note, every p-day we play a little bit of sports, and we play basket, ultimate frisbee, and in the end of doing this i have never lost... yeah, undefeated!... so that's cool.

and this week was full of weird... drunk, stoned people talking to us.. but it was good, we actually put some citas with some of them, but it's always funny when they stop you and talk cause they always bring up something interesting. but yeah, i guess at the same time kind of sad cause they can't control, themselves and use all their money on that...

but yeah. anyways...

yeah, um, I'm actually going to try to send some pictures so this time i have an excuse for the letter to be short (jeje)... but yeah, i want to thank you all for the support and the letters, today i got a lot of letters. but yeah i will try to get back to everyone.. but love y'all...

peace out

Things should become a lot easier

well, this week was a good week... the mission is really getting a lot better than were it was before. WE HAVE BEEN working a lot with the menos activos, and ex investigators, but the area is way big, and I'm still lost about 90 percent of the time... the good thing is i know how to get home.... lol... but yeah, we have seen some exito from that. as far as the baptisms go, we put them back to this weekend, cause they didn't have the assistance needed yet. and i thought they did... but in the end it worked out good. we are working with some investigators, but they are going kind of slowly.. and so we will see what happens with all of that. but this week we found an ex investigator that want to get baptized, so that was cool... but she is always working, but hopefully will have more time now that the temporada (season) is over here in mar del plata.... but aside from that, it was a kind of normal week here.

but as far as the ward goes, the members are way nice, but there are a lot and it's hard to remember all their names, but they help us out a lot. but this Sunday we had some investigators in church but the attendance was like 100 maybe 120, something like that, it was a lot lower than normal... but probably had to do with the end of the temporada... but yeah...

also, Friday we had conference de zona, it was way cool to be able to talk to presidente, but we have interviews this Wednesday. but the conferencia was way cool, i like it a lot.. here in mar del plata are like all my friends from the mission now so it's cool. but yeah. that's about everything.

things should become a lot easier here to work in, cause the season is ending. so I'm excited for that... and yeah, this month, as a mission, we have the goal for 180 baptisms, or sea about 2 a companionship.. but it's going to be cool when we reach it.... but yeah..

that's all i can think about. but yeah, I'm thankful for the prayers, and the support and the examples you have all given me....

love you all peace out