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

I just got to do what the Lord wants me to do

well, this week has been crazy, but mainly with conference and the baptism. but so i will start with the baptism. we didn't have it, what happened is we were getting everything ready to go, we were going to do it in the morning, but then we figured out we didn't have the key to the baptismal fount and so we called the bishop and he tells us to fill it up anyway... so we do it without going inside. then we realize that the fount isn't clogged... so we needed to go inside to stop the water from draining. so we go outside and see that the window was open... and so i hoped inside and put the plug... it was way funny cause there must have been people watching and thinking why are the mormons breaking into their own church. but yeah, in the end we got a call from antonela and she said she had to work and wouldn't be able to do it..... to show that God works in mysterious ways.. obispo forgot that he didn't even have the keys, so if she would have come she wouldn't have been able to get baptized anyways... so yeah, big blessing..... but then conference..... it was awesome. i got to say i love conference, the talks just get better and better. so i can't complain....

and so now with transfers..... I'm now in a little pueblito called loberia. it's a pueblo right above necochea. to be honest, when i got the news i wasn't the happiest camper, cause i had just got to villa serra a little while ago. but yeah, i can't complain, i realize I'm getting the things i wanted in the mission... as far as the places i want to go, and things i want to do.... in loberia, it's a branch, and I'm a 1st counselor in the branch. so I'm going to learn a lot about how to do that stuff. which is really what i wanted.... so I'm happy with the change. my comp is a chileno called elder guzman, I'm his 2nd comp in the mission, so it's fun to have someone with that newbie desire. he is a really good kid, i like him. but yeah.....

to explain what the pueblo is like, it's about 24 by 24, so it could be smaller. but it's a pueblo filled with a bunch of old people and the church doesn't have the best reputation, and in pueblos it's hard to fix that.... non the less. I'm excited to see what the Lord can do with us there. we will need to rely on the spirit a lot cause i have never worked in a pueblo nor have i ever lived in one... so it's going to be fun. this couple of days working there, my comp has been comp mayor showing me around and helping me with that. but we are talking with every one.... i figure it's a pueblo with 5 thousand to 10 thousand so there has got to be a lot of people so I'm way excited...... but yeah that's with transfers....

funny fact in my old area, my son, elder bills, is going there. that would be the 3rd time i have left him an area. he has been following me in the mission. so it was funny when i heard that.

but yeah, it's been a crazy week but no complaints. i just got to do what the Lord wants me to do, and let Him make me the tool He needs me to be. so yeah, I'm way excited just to see what we can to here.... but yeah, I'm going to try to send pictures of necochea, I'm here right now and took a lot of pictures so my mom would be happy, so yeah...

but thanks for the love and the support. i love y'all. and will see y'all latter...

peace out