Hey everyone.
Wow I’m really sorry you guys didn’t get my email last week,
that’s really lame. I definitely sent one with cool pictures and stuff. I
looked back and it says it was sent as a reply to your last week’s email. But I’ll
send it again just in case
Well, I just had the dandiest week here in the ole Recreo,
the weather is getting hotter again, but not too hot. That’s good. And what do
you know... the circus came back into town... and bigger. And everyone is hyped. Like
usual. I think what happens, there is not too many exciting things in this farm
town, so when the circus comes to town, things get pretty crazy.
Well it was a wonderful end of the week. The ward went out
of town and took a trip to Buenos Aires to visit the temple. Everyone came back
late Saturday night, just in time to get a couple hours of sleep and come to
the baptism of Aldana Ramirez that next morning. She was able to be baptized
the morning before church, and then confirmed during sacrament meeting. We
had actually went the night before to clean the font and test out the hot water,
to see if it works. And for some reason, the church was left dirty, because no
one had cleaned it, and it just would not be right to come to a baptism with a
dirty church building. So we spent the next 3 and a half hours cleaning the
entire church building. Really fun time, but super worth it, because it was nice
for everyone to come the next day to a clean building, and then dirty it all up
again. The family of Aldana was very happy, and almost all of them came.
We had some
trouble with the baptismal clothing which didn’t fit. And there seemed to be no
other options. So it was time to make it fit. And so 20 minutes later, she made it
fit. Sweet.
We had invited her neighbor Kevin Nine who had recently turned 16 to baptize Aldana. Sadly, at the last minute, he could not make it, so my companion, the Brazileno,
baptized her. Aldana is really awesome though, she comes with a lot of love to learn
more about the gospel, and she agrees to all that God asks. And we are receiving
great help from the ward on her road to conversion.
I came across a new fruit the other day, which I had no idea
ever existed, called guayaba. A member has a bunch of trees in her yard full of the
fruit. And their house is highly attracted by dogs. There is a relationship there. Dogs
are fruit lovers. And as I plucked down all the guayaba I could, I was
surrounded by dogs, begging and whining to get some of that guayaba. Hermana Zarate
warned me not to feed them, but I fell into the temptation, and I became a king
to these dogs. The first person to ever feed them a fruit probably.
We were heading back a few times this past week to meet up
with our fellow Candiotti citizens. Mainly a member named Marina Spindola. And
Marina just so happens to be a salesman of perfumes, and so every time we leave
her house she always wants to give us a bunch of sample smells. Now I have
thousands of smells sitting all over the apartment.
So our English classes have been somewhat of a
success. A women came one day, who we did not know, and she seemed to love the
class. And so we asked if we can pass by her house. Cool. A couple of days
later, we were heading to the church for a meeting, when this same women starts
screaming out for us inside the police station. Well she was robbed and was
complaining about the robbery to the police man, and she wanted help. Well, we didn’t
really know what was going on, we had just thought she was going to ask us
something, and we were going to go on our way. But she was talking all
kinds of crazy, and wouldn’t let us leave. So we got stuck inside this police
station for some time, while she’s going off about how we are priest of her
church and we are here because she called us to come over and help her. We were
so confused. As were the police. So they thought we had got robbed too, for
some reason. We finally just told them that she is not member of the church and
we had met her the other day, but we were at the same time on our way to
church. So we invited them all to come and check it out. They thought that was
kind of funny and commented, "The last thing this lady needs, is to go to
church." And so we went on our way.
It was also such a great week because just a few days ago,
COLON had just beat UNION in the futbol classic game. And when Colon wins,
people just go nuts for hours and hours in the street. And this is just a
little town. And everyone in this little town was out in the streets on their motorcycles
or in their cars, honking their brains out, waving flags and banners, and
yelling, for no joke… like 3 hours. We got a nice shout out in the street as a
women passed by saying "SENOR MORMON, VAMOS COLON!" Yeah Colon.
We have recently started buying all our food products of the
local Chinese supermarket. Which is just a regular supermarket, but owned by Chinese
people. And everyone calls it LOS CHINOS! People like going there because they
have cheaper items. Because apparently if you’re from china you don’t have to
pay some kinds of taxes. So they sell things cheaper. Vamos. But the owners of
the place pretend like they don’t speak Spanish so they don’t have to deal with
stupid people. Strategy.
Thank you guys for sending me emails every week. I sorry
that you were not able to receive my last week’s email. But I love you guys so
much and thank you for your support always.
Elder Greene
P.S. The shoes are doing great!
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