November 2, 2009

dear family, i am sorry but this is going to have to be another short email to everyone. we just baptized friday, so we only have one cool investigator. she told us she wants to get baptized the 21st of november and that will probably be my last saturday here in cruz del eje. so pray that susanna can get baptized. she is about 60 years old, she has already been to church and loves the book of mormon. she is a teacher and owns a shoe store so she doesnt have a lot of time. so pray for her so she can get baptized. she has had a hard life and needs to trust in God. so last week was pretty good. i am still with my same companion. his name is elder teemsma and hes from california. hes pretty cool. on the mission i have learned to have so much patience with people so its a lot easier for me to get along with people. sometimes we get so mad because people arent perfect and we think they need to be more like us. but they are probably thinking the same thing haha. so its us that need to change, we need to be the ones to have patience and get over it. thats great that your ipod didnt get broken, i didnt know you had one. we have to take another 3 hour colectivo to cosquin. so that will be fun. we are doing splits with some missionaries. i love everyone so much and have a good day. cuidensen thanks for all the support and prayers. chau!! besos y abrazos!!!

October 26, 2009

hey family i am sorry i dont have that much time again. i feel so bad, but thats the way it is. we just have to send a lot of stuff. i will try to answer all your questions and i think thats all the time that i have. but this week was a good week. we will have a baptism on friday so that will be fun. mom you dont have to send a package for christmas i was thinking that it would be better to just put money in my account so i can by everyone souvineers. we have to go on 3 hour bus rides at least once a week. and a lot of times twice a week. it would be like going to cedar city every week. this is the area that we ride bikes and its so fun. i wish i would have had bikes my whole mission. we get so much done. there is only one branch in the whole city. Sunday we had 50 members go. its the most that i have seen while i have been in the area. yes we still have a cell phone. the food is all the same in argentina. there is not too much of a difference anywhere you go haha. i would probably need like 150 for souvineers. unless you think thats too much. i will just take them in my suitcase. i think i will throw a lot of old shirts away. and i have enough sd cards. so i think i will be good. and i love everyone so much have a good day chau.

October 20, 2009

dear familysorry i didnt write yesterday, we had zone conference yesterday and they announced that on thursday so i had no idea that i wasnt going to be able to write ya on monday. but last week was so crazy. we barely had time to do anything. last thursday we had to travel to cordoba (3 hours) then we had councel with the zone leaders and it was way good. President and the Hermana Olsen do such a good job and we always learn a ton. its always fun because 7 missionaries in my group are zone leaders so we get a chance to talk and see whats going on. then we had to travel back and got home at 9 in the night. then friday we actually got the whole day to work so that was a relief. saturday we had zone meeting (where we teach our zone) then at 12 45 p.m. our bus leaved to cosquin to do an interview. so we arrived at 3 p.m. and did the interview and at 4 our bus left. and we were supposed to go to Dean Funes for another baptism interview, but there wasnt a direct bus from cosquin to dean funes. so we got to cruz del eje at 6 45 p.m. and our bus left at 7 30 p.m. and we got there at 8 30 and did the interview and the guy that i interviewed didnt pass cuz he was still smoking but his wife passed the interview. it made me so mad that the Elders that were teaching him didnt even ask him if he had stopped smoking. it made me want to drop the cane cuz we had to travel all the way out there. but dont worry there was no cane dropped. and by the time we got done with the interviews (which were done in this way way poor house) it was 10 p.m. so we slept there woke up at 6 am and took the but back to cruz del eje. got back at 7 30, so we got showered and went to church. then monday we had to wake up at 4 in the morning and travel back to cordoba to go to zone conference and it lasted till 6 p.m. and we got back to cruz del eje at 10 45 p.m. so we went to bed. and now its p day haha. what a week of traveling. jeffery should be happy that they have a car and they dont have to travel by bus and having to deal with that. and i swear traveling takes more out of me then working all day under the hot sun. i dont think i ever want to travel in my life again. so it was crazy. oh and i did get those garments. thank you so much. i got like cool underarmor ones too. there so comfy on the bikes. and i will make sure i wont open up the packages until my birthday. the investigators are doing good we will get a baptism on the 31st. last transfer we got 8 groups of people to go to church and ony 1 of those groups will be getting baptized. so it was pretty frustrating. but they just didnt progress after going to church. but we found a way sweet family thats married (not common in argentina) and they are going to church this week. so i am way excited. we lent them the movie joseph smith the profet of the restoration. and she just loved it. so we are going to commit them to get baptized tonight, so we will see what happens. and i am sorry for all the money i have used. the mission owes me a lot of money though, for all the travels that we have done. so i will probably have to take out some money today again. thank you for everything. and the candy was amazing!! and i gave the pictures of Jesus to all the moms in our branch for mothers day and i gave them a milky way and every mom just loved it and wanted another milky way haha. one even came up to me and said she didnt get one. then i said oh really, and she said, well, i already ate it but it was so good i wanted another. so it was pretty funny. but i love everyone so much and have a great day