Monday, January 4, 2010

Hello Family! I loved your emails! Well to start off about an hour after i wrote you i started to have extremly painful pains in my stomach and i couldn´t sleep monday night, and it only got worse as we had zone conference on tuesday and i couldnt even stand up, it was so painful and i couldn´t pay any attention to what the President was saying, i couldnd´t even move, the zone conference was in the middle of the city and getting back to my apartment that evening was almost impossible, haha its funny how right as i am becoming just a little bit comfortable that i have something else happen, gods way of building up my character i think, anyways i was in extreme pain and i couldn´t go out and work until wednesday night which still was way painful but i hate being in the apartment, this week was a tuff one with our investigators, the brother sister combo was never home and the sisters we could never visit because their mom wasnt home and we got to visit with the 72 year old man twice, still has never worn a shirt haha, thursday night we had a pretty good pork roast with a member and it was a good experience, because their house is so humble and you can tell it took everything he had to make us the pork roast, it was a good experience, after we went to the stake house near the river in the city and had a party with other missionaries in our zone, we ate crapes with meat and some kind of sauce thing that was a little interesting, its like having pancakes with hamburger on top with a crazy sauce haha, then we exchanged gifts with the hermanas, because there are the exact amount of hermanas as there are elders, and i got a tie haha, we played games until 11 and then we had to go, the city was totally deserted for new years eve, completely deserted, not a car or bus or taxi in sight, so we walked to the bus stop which is like fifteen mins from the stake house in the city, and we waited and waited and waited and not a single car, taxi, or bus passed by, and its usually packed! then all of the sudden it sounded like a war was going on! fireworks totally covered the city! argentine fireworks really suck at looking pretty but they are alot louder than american! it was crazy and we could barely hear each other for a while, then a taxi finally came by around 12 15 and we got back to the apartment, it was quite the adventure. Saturday afternoon we ate at a members house right before we started are fast and it was like thanksgiving all over again, haha actually thats how every meal is, its rude to only eat one plate and their plates are massive!! Its crazy, so i had to eat two plates and i could barely stuff the last fork full down, then i thought i was done but then they brought out half a watermelon for me to eat, and i have never eaten such a big watermelon! then after i managed to eat that they made us a huge smoothie thing and i about exploded haha, church was good, none of our investigators showed up at the beginning and my companion told me i was bad luck and since ive been here none of our investigators have shown up, it was very nice of him to say that lol, anyways about have way through the sisters ended up coming so i was happy about that, but they told us they dont really want to get baptised so now we have to work on that, yesterday was good, there is this less active family who we have taught for the past few weeks who are 7th day advents, and their pastor came over and tried to bible bash with us, but we wouldn´t fight and we just bore testimony and he got madder and madder because we wouldn´t fight back and he had nothing to attack us with, it was an interesting experience and one that i learned as a huge testimony builder on how true our church is, that we dont need to prove things with our knowledge of the bible but just with a pure simple testimony. To answer stephs questions, alot of people have cell phones but the technology here is way far behind so their phones are like the ones like 8 or 10 years ago. My companion... i learn from him. im starting to grow on the place, there are days that i love it and there are days that i dont so im starting to convert to the mission, if not for the heat i would be in love with it so i am glad for the challenge and the growth im recieveing, im trying hard to ignore the heat and its pretty tuff but im working on it! I love all of you guys so much and i always look forward to mondays when i can talk to you guys! oh ya dad i have a debit card from the church and i can withdraw 700 pesos every two weeks or something like that so thats how i get my money. I love hearing from you guys it makes my week so much easier and gives me a drive to work hard and to become better so i can make you guys proud. oh and i cant get the pics to send so idk what we can do to get you guys picturess, i just wasted 20 mins trying to get them to attach... so anyways sorry i love you all so much and i miss you! To anyone that wants to write me letters, here is my address
Av. Rivadavia 323
Resistencia, Chaco 3500
Argentina
I love you all