Hey Cute Fam
I’m loving your Easter good times. Sorry I had to miss it. I was too busy preaching the word. NO DAYS
OFF.
All these Catholic Joes really hype up the Easter holiday around
here, with parties and such, especially on Friday. Probably why it’s called a Good
Friday. This one lady I talked to for a while was like, “so what do you do to
prepare for Easter"? I was like, “uh, think of Jesus and open Easter
eggs". Na. But she was all confused
on why I don’t put ash on my head, and fast French Fries for 40 days, then
party on Good Friday. I think she’s got the wrong idea for celebrating the resurrection of
the savior. I celebrated the savior cada dia son!
Church was funny because there were no talks about Easter on
Sunday. The Branch President told me to talk about the priesthood, and Elder Hill
was asked to talk about the importance of teaching the gospel. Don't worry. I gave
a little testimony of love for Jesus in the end. I give a lot of talks here
because of the low supply of members. It’s sweet, I love giving talks. It kind
of gets your mind focused on things.
Anyways, I totally miss having a good Easter dinner. One of
my favorite Easters was probably that one at Grandma and Grandpa Arnett’s home,
with the adults all fighting over that egg with like 20 bucks in it. Whoever
made a video of that Easter did a fine job, Probably Uncle Chris, Mr. Video Man.
Yeah, this mission has got me psyched out of my mind (imagine the
angry elf from Elf). I talked about Ricardo a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, he’s
totally lame, he’s been hiding from us, and all his friends told us he left town
for life. Well, I’m sorry Ricardo that we scared you off so much that you had
to make your friends into liars. But we had two new investigators who we taught
twice, and they totally wanted it like Donato. Daniel Catolino and Ernesto. All
three were making quite the friendship at church. Studs. Now we have two set
dates for April for the two of them. Donato actually showed up for the lesson
we had with Daniel when we asked him to be baptized and I asked Donato, "how
did you feel after your baptism and received the Holy Ghost?” Donato after was
like, "Oh no, I don’t have godfathers". Ah, come on Donato, "Get
loose." It was kind of funny. And me and Elder Ricra joke about it all the
time. Donato actually received the priesthood yesterday, and now can bless the sacrament.
He just gets more studly every week. It’s totally crazy though, because we only
met him 4 weeks ago.
People get so hyped up on soccer here. This past week was
the Argentina vs. Chile game, and I don’t know what was going on, but our
neighbor downstairs was hyped out of his mind. I swear, all of Galves could hear
his dirty mouth. According to Elder Ricra he had a dirty mouth. It’s kind of
one of the perks of not really knowing Spanish. Which by the way is going a lot
better. I understand most people. Especially when I went on splits with Elder Hill
who came to Argentina the same day as me. I think people just see two white American
kids and starts speaking way slower. How nice.
I made a new friend the other morning. I’m always running by
this guy’s house and he always says hi. So I say hi back. And this has gone on
for a couple of weeks. But one day he comes up and talks to me and says
"Gonzalo." I had no idea what that was, so I said, "uh yeah,
si." His name is Jorge and he owns a carneceria. This is totally sweet
because now we go there for our meats and he totally hooks us up! I asked for
like 40 pesos of meat, and he gave me like 65 pesos of meat. We are going to teach
him eventually, but I’m worried about losing our sweet hookups and good times
in the park when he says hi.
So we’ve got this other missionary in Galves, and he was
totally normal, until I was talking to him the other day and he started to
explain to me about secret combinations and all that jazz in the Book of Mormon.
And he showed me all of the scriptures he’s marked, and quotes by Ezra Taft Benson
who has apparently spoken about this. But he’s totally obsessed about this, and that the Gadiaton Robbers are on their way back to take over the
government and microchip us. I think it’s interesting, but I got scared when he
said he has been “testified of Jesus Christ of this.” I was worried for my life
then, thinking a huge thunderbolt was going to hit us.
We have so many of these old church videos and they are all
in Spanish. Like the old cheesy videos. It’s awesome. So me and Elder Ricra
watch those district videos about the missionaries, and Elder Ricra is so funny
about it because he’s obviously seen them like thousands of times since this is
his 19th month. So he’s always making fun of little mistakes in the videos, or little
weird expressions the missionaries make sometimes. It’s actually kind of funny.
I’m too pumped for general conference. We get to go to Santa
Fe for two days and see all the MTC buds. That's pretty neat. And watch GC in Spanish.
I wonder what Uchtdorf’s Spanish voice sound like? I’ll have to let you know
next week. I totally agree dad, about his talk, "The Gift of Grace"
was a fantastic talk, and I totally find inspiration from it.
Miss you, and glad that you had another successful week, and Easter.
Dad is killing it with all of these campouts. Get Emma to write me about her high
school adventures, I want to hear. And tell Sarah congratulations; Erin Greenwood
is totally going to that mission too.
Elder Greene
Almost forgot. We are always meeting Catholics and Jehovah's
Witnesses, I love hearing from Jehovah’s Witnesses, because they totally think
they are going to convert me every time they talk about the apocalypse. I have
like 4 different books from these guys, and they all have super cool pics. But
on Saturday we had a meeting with Lali, and I think I talked about him before
but he is a retired pastor for Jehovah’s Witness, and he brought over a friend
and they wanted us to ask them questions, because they believe they have the answer
to all in their little books. So 30 minutes in I tell them to read the last
verse in chapter 49 of Isaiah in their bibles. And it was so awesome because
they both didn’t say anything for no joke like 5 min; reading quickly through Isaiah,
and then Lali says " Isaiah is muy symbolico" oh you’re right!! But
right after instead of us asking questions he started asking questions about
the Book of Mormon. Pretty sweet. So he
reads the Book of Mormon, and we read his funny little books with animated
pictures of Jesus. These pictures are dope!
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