Hey Guys!
Though your thanksgiving looked "spectacular" ( I have an investigator that always says "spectacular"), I had a pretty great Thanksgiving as well, with a lot of gratitude, and good feasting in all. We had the old traditional Argentinean Thanksgiving; we decided to eat by ourselves with just the missionaries, because for reals guys... only Americans can pull off Thanksgiving. So we pulled out some real nice steaks with some, salads, and some potatoes, and bread, creamy corn shin digs, and of course the Pepsi.. It was real nice, and we talked about some real good Thanksgiving stories, and just regular stories, because there are only so many Thanksgiving stories.
So everyone tells me that our new president is going to put up two walls, one in Mexico that is red, and one in Canada that is blue. My bishop here is pretty sure that it’s true. So I kinda want to get the real news on that.
I’m starting to see that, according to the Argentinians, it’s ok to burn down whatever you want. For example, we went to do some service for a family in the ward, and what they have us doing (first of all… is totally ridiculous, right), is they wanted us to dig up piles of bricks that had been buried in their back yard, because I guess they once had a brick house back there, and they tore it down and thought it would be easier to bury all the bricks. Now they want it all out. But that’s not important right now. What’s important is while we were digging, the father of the house wanted a huge tree out of his back yard. So we are thinking of ideas of how to get rid of it, and while we are doing that, he has the idea to just burn it down, but he doesn’t just suggest the idea to us. No. He just comes back with a bunch of paper that he lights on fire to then burn down this tree. So now the problem isn’t that you have a tree in your back yard, but that you have a burning tree in your yard. So yeah, while we are digging all of this brick, there’s this forest fire going on behind us. Great.
Life goes on, and I’m on divisions with some other missionaries in Ayacucho, and weird stuff kind of goes on in Ayacucho, and so I’m asking my companion, “Hey is this normal?” And he’s all like, “Yeah, yeah.” Alright, we go to a future investigators house, and we clap our hands to get them to come out of their house. An old women comes out, but she comes out with a torch, right. Completely ignores us, and walks to her neighbors house and attempts to burn her neighbors house down. My companion turns to me and says "Yeah, that’s not normal." So we left.
Anyways, what an awesome weekend we had here in Recreo. On Saturday, Alejo Nini was able to be baptized. Alejo is the brother of Kevin Nini. These kids are such champs. We had to schedule the baptism during siesta so his mom could see the baptism; so not a lot of people came. But it was a great experience for Alejo. And it was very emotional for Kevin. Kevin was able to share his testimony on baptism, and he gave an awesome testimony of how happy he is that he will be able to go to the celestial kingdom with his brother, and how he is waiting for his mom and his sisters to be baptized as well, so that they can be as happy as he is. These two brothers are some really cool kids.
We showed the new church Christmas video, and if you guys haven’t seen it, it’s pretty awsome. My companion turns over to me during the video to say, "So I guess there’s a new iPhone then," and then looked at me with a smirk. It was kind of funny that he noticed that in the video. It is really great to be here during the holidays, even though it’s not as well celebrated here. But, we can always make it pretty great!
I love you guys a ton, and I really do appreciate all your emails, its great!
Elder Greene
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