Super cool Times guys. Crazy travel times. Lame to spend 4th
of July on the road, but que va hacer.
I don’t know mom, but i think I’m with Claire on this one…
all trees are the same! Na... super big trees are super cool. I think the last
time i went to Sequoia was when I was 12.
You guys are awesome and I’m super jealous of your cool
summer times.
But get prepared to check out my week… I got to start off
this week with some divisions with the other missionaries over on the other
side of Galvez. So elder Stoodly was my companion for a day; the CIA kid from Canada.
It is funny because I always forget that he´s from Canada, so we have those awkward
moments where I act like America is so great, and I’m like, "isn’t America
so great" and he’s like, "I’m from Canada" and then the Argentinian
guy is like, "yah, the 51st state."... it’s great!
We had a great lesson with a man named Mauro, who we went to
four times that day because he said come at 8, then at 10, then at 4, then at 8
at night. We did finally get to teach him and he’s awesome. He really wants to
learn stuff, and asked a lot of questions. This is totally great.
Later we had some visiting time with Donato; what a stud,
like usual. He made us some pizza, but for some reason he didn’t know how to turn
on his stove. So elder Stoodly went to go help. But with the stoves here you
need a match to start the flame on the gas, so he went to burn a newspaper in
the fire, and put it in the oven. The fire wouldn’t start, so he just threw the
whole newspaper in and said, "Estamos." So now there’s a huge
newspaper flame going on in his stove. Turns out he was turning the wrong gas
knob and that’s why the flame couldn’t catch the gas. But he again does the
same thing with a huge piece of newspaper, but once it caught flame with the
gas in the oven, the whole newspaper went into flames and he threw it on Donato’s
floor. So now there’s a huge flame on Donato’s floor, and Donato said
"estamos" (there we are), and casually everyone sat down and we
cooked some pizza. Even though there were ashes on the floor. I thought it was
pretty funny.
I don’t know if I’ve talked about Norma before, but she is a
lady we´ve been teaching lately. Actually she was taught by some elders a long
time ago, but it’s so funny when you read all the registers because everyone
says she’s crazy. I’ve talked to this lady plenty of times, and know the
difference between crazy and a little weird. She’s a little weird, but she has
a job, and understands, and lives fine. Actually she’s awesome. She just agreed
on a date for baptism, so this is great, and she almost came to church, but
check this… When we went to get her, to walk with her to church, she came to the
door and told us to wait so she could get ready. We are waiting outside when the
neighbor from across the street, who is always watching every time we come, starts
yelling at us to not bother her because she’s mental and sick in the head. We
told him that she wants to come to church, and we are waiting to walk with her.
The neighbor calls the son of Norma and tells him that we’ve been bothering her
for years (uhh... I’ve only been here for 5 months), but the son couldn’t come,
so she calls the police and they come, and we have to explain to them
everything, and Norma ended up not coming to church. How lame is that? We called
Norma after, and she’s going to come next week though, sweet!!
Man, we´ve done some crazy amount of contacting this week
because we are trying to look for a bunch of new investigators, but I swear we
knocked at every old catholic guy in town that closes the door by the time you
finish… Como Esta? What they don’t know is that I’ll be back next week.
We found this other lady, Sonia. She’s super awesome and has
a ton of stories and experiences with her faith. Her husband doesn’t want to participate
much, but she wants to learn. And she believes the Book of Mormon is true,
which is awesome. And she’s going to keep reading. What a capo.
Oh, another super capo, Zuly. This lady is an atheist, but she’s read every religious
book you can think of other than the book of Mormon. She’s even read this book
that the Nazis read; that Hitler wrote about how he was going to take over the
world. Well that one fell through. But she’s got tons of questions about the
book of Mormon. Actually, I totally talked about this lady last week, but yeah,
apparently Hitler wrote a book; I saw this book in the bookstore that talks
about all of Hitler’s life in Argentina after the war. Muy interesante gaucho
man would say!
We got a new dog that follows us around named Poncha. She’s
a girl, so it’s Poncha. We never see both our dogs at the same time, but we are
working on it, because Poncho and Poncha would be a sick couple.
Oh, today was awesome. America celebrated Manuel’s birthday,
at least that’s what he said. And they even made a movie for him. But we got to
go to Santa Fe for the mission birthday. Vamos. It’s been 1 year since the Santa
Fe mission opened. So we had a copado conferencia. Bueno discurso. We ate food,
and other cool stuff. But it was a little crazy because it’s also the 4th of July,
and the American shankeys were getting almost a little too crazy. Que va hacer,
it's Amercia. But it was kind of funny when you are in a room with half Latinos,
and a bunch of Americans are yelling USA USA USA USA. It’s a great country to
be joyful about. Anyway, good day. Now I’m here at the cyber.
Love America! Love you guys, you’re fantastic!
Poncha and one of the best things about argentina is giant chicken nuggets ( the new new alfajor)
That note I forget to send last time from Manuel. Campo.
Gauchito Hill
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