Interesting work

hey everybody.

this week was an interesting one. but it's been getting better here. this week was mainly trying to teach the fechas we have and try to get them to go to church. and in which none of them really came but it was a good week anyway. it's funny to see how God is always willing to bless us. we were blessed to work, we found a couple more people to teach and focused on the fechas. but we will see if this weekend we can get any. i hope we can... i know we can. but yeah.

this weekend we divis with the district leader and an AP... my ex comp van wagenen. i was with waggy and we did service all day, we cut one of our investigators grass, cause it was way long. but yeah, it was fun to be with him again. brought back old times.

but yeah, then Sunday for the first time me and my comp didn't have to speak, or bless the sacrament. i did direct, and my comp taught the class. but the branch is getting more consistent now. at least we have had like 25 or more for the past 2 or 3 weeks so that's good. and some menos activos are going back to so yeah, all in all, a good week...

but to be honest sorry I'm going to keep the letter short; my mind went blank and don't know what to write.

but yeah thanks for the love, and the support. you all have always been there to help me, and for that i am way grateful.... i love this work that I'm doing.. nothing's better than it, and nothing else i would rather be doing. but i love y'all and will see you all later....

peace out

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

Changes and learning

hey everyone.

if u can't tell there are some new changes in the mission, one of which is p-day is once again on Monday, so that's why I'm writing u on Monday...... yeah ...... lol. the second change in the mission and this is the crazy one that has some elders upset.... is no siesta... yep, pres wants us to work. so yeah, it's been fun, the changes just took place yesterday, so yeah, it's been fun.

but now, about here in loberia this week has been very fun, and i have learned a lot, many things about how the church works. yesterday it was fast Sunday and i had the opportunity to see what the church how the church deals with it. way cool, for me at least, strengthens my testimony to see how organized and simple it is. so yeah, it's been cool. but as far as the area it's been great. i like it. it's a small pueblo but there are a lot of people who walk around and work so there is always people to talk to. but this week it's been hard for us to get in houses but that will change this week cause, i think, i figured out how to get inside. but it's been fun.

i kind of figured we would go about like Ammon did and ask people if they needed help so that's what we did, we did like 4 service things for the people, the funnest part was Saturday we help build a house. so yeah, it was fun and yeah....

also me and my comp get along great, so that makes it easier to adapt. but aside from that, not much really changed considering i wrote to y'all a couple of days ago. but yeah, just a lot of service. and it's working pretty good. and so yeah.

in the church here we were a total of 27 people, including me and my comp and the branch president. but yeah, it's a nice little branch, the members are great and happy, as of right now, just kind of lonely but we'll change that. but yeah, so that's what's been up with this week.

and about the changes, the p day one doesn't bug me, and to be honest neither does the no siesta thing, pres knows what he is doing and so i just do what he tells us. and it's never hurt me, on the contrary it helps, so yeah......

but yeah, I'm going to try to send some pictures this week again, mom ur going to be happy cause I'm taking a lot of pictures here.... mainly cause nobody will rob us here. so yeah

also this sunday was some crazy day in Loberia where a bunch of people from other places came and did dances and stuff. it was kind of funny, cause the people in the pueblo were there at the fiesta, party, festival thing, so yeah, it was funny to see. and mainly cause there were a lot of people in the streets...easy to do contacts. so yeah, it was cool. but yeah that's about it so yeah

thank you all for the support, the love and the prayers. I'm way happy here, and loving every minute of it, mainly cause I'm learning so much..... it's way cool but yeah love y'all peace out