Hello everyone, I don´t know where I should start. It´s been a long week here, it´s getting a lot hotter...
My companion is finishing his last transfer with me, we have 3 weeks left. It´s going by super fast.. I have to make a cake for his birthday. Which is coming up, the 29th.
So I guess there isn´t much to say this week, we have been visiting a lot of inactives, and I guess the highlight is, I did my first baptism, and I had to baptise. Her name is Melina Oliva, and she is 9. Her family is pretty cool but they are pretty lazy to go to church, we visit them a lot, and taught her, and her family a lot of lessons. It was a pretty cool experience. It was on Thursday.
Today, we went to the zoo of mendoza, it was really sweet. It was 10 pesos to enter, and man it had a ton of animals. Some monkeys escaped haha, and they didn´t know what to do so they just sat near the cages. The tigres were growling at us, pretty sweet. Tons of monkeys, I don´t have a way to send any photos right now... Sorry. I will have to send a disk home in a few months and just send a few photos at a time.
The past weeks were intense, as usual I have been studying really hard, and trying to learn the language. It´s seems to inch it´s way, but man sometimes I don´t understand much. But for the most part I can survive and start conversations. We haven´t met anyone from opening the mouth, we have been talking to everyone that we could. Man has it pushed me out of my bubble, my fear of talking to random people is less then it use to be.
I had my first asado. It was so amazing, the family Quiroga made it for us, it´s the best barbecue in the world for realizes. I don´t know what it is about overfeeding during lunch, man my system is messed up. I use to have a good metabolism.. I don´t know how to spell it.
I had my first zone conference, which is a big meeting, the president and his wife comes and we get more united as a zone I guess. It´s pretty cool, the president is a really cool guy. I don´t know too much about him, he is the owner of a few hospitals and he proposed to his wife in an airport in front of everyone so she couldn´t say no. I met a ton of cool elders in the conference. Well I don´t know what else to say, Que tengan una buena semana, les quiero mucho.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Hello everyone, it´s been a good week, Nothing really strange happened. We were able to get the 2 families that have 2 kids to go to church, they are inactive right now. They will get baptized this upcoming friday.
Spanish is really harder than I thought, the more I learn the harder it gets it seems. I was saying a lot wrong before, luckily my companion helps me by telling me how to say things the right way, Por vs para kills me to this day, I almost got it down completely I think. I am studying every morning in PME, the sweet mini PME I got from candy, I am really thankful that she gave me it. It´s so handy.
Well we haven´t really found anyone, we have a few potentcial people we might start teaching but we really haven´t had a chance to meet with them. We are still looking, and doing a ton of contacts everyday, I am getting comfortable with walking up to someone and start a conversation. I am loving it.
There is a family, named paurocadi, and they are super sweet. One of there kids took my camera and deleted all my pictures. It was pretty depressing... I got some back from my companion that he had of me. It still stinks, because I lost a lot of sweet mtc pictures. It´s fine though, I learned that I could lock pictures, better I learn that now then much later, I am going to send some pictures to everyone, I hope you enjoy them.
We did a huge activity with the ward, it was pretty sweet. Some big act, I couldn´t follow everything because I still lack the language, but we participated and it was pretty sweet. I´m scared of leaving this area, because I love the people. The families are amazing, very nice people... My companion is going to finish his mission in this transfer, 4 more weeks, it´s crazy.
I´m in the place called lavalle, if I haven´t mentioned before, it´s a really sweet area to start in. Pretty simple yet sophisticated. It´s not dangerous at all so I can ussually wear my watch... but in the past 2 weeks 5 people in the mission got robbed so they told us to put our watches in our pockets.
I´m pretty stoaked for general conference, you better watch it, all of you. I learned to appreciate things I didn´t normally like. Such as church music, and movies.
I don´t know if I mentioned this before but from like 1 to 4 p.m. everyday the argentines have a huge nap. Called the ciestas, son panchos haha. So we have to study between then or do something productive, like learn a new skill, so far I have been just using that time to study spanish, and practicing soccer, I bought new shoes and a ball to last the mission. We can learn the piano if we have a companion that knows and would teach us. Or any kind of useful skills. My companion is wise, he knows both languages perfect, he is from peru and he dominates at soccer. So the ciesta is a waste of time if we go out to work so they told us to leave the people because if we knock doors then they get really mad, and there is almost no one outside.
This week we had to make our own food like 3 times. The members are getting sick of feeding us. We just go to a near polleria, or something like that and buy milonesas. We made our own version of tacos once too, empada discs, with meat and sour creme. Super fatty but really good. I lost the pictures of that meal I took picture of sadly haha.
Well thats all I have to say for this week, DISFRUTE ESTA SEMANA PORFAVOR. Que tengan exito a todos. les quiero mucho.
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Spanish is really harder than I thought, the more I learn the harder it gets it seems. I was saying a lot wrong before, luckily my companion helps me by telling me how to say things the right way, Por vs para kills me to this day, I almost got it down completely I think. I am studying every morning in PME, the sweet mini PME I got from candy, I am really thankful that she gave me it. It´s so handy.
Well we haven´t really found anyone, we have a few potentcial people we might start teaching but we really haven´t had a chance to meet with them. We are still looking, and doing a ton of contacts everyday, I am getting comfortable with walking up to someone and start a conversation. I am loving it.
There is a family, named paurocadi, and they are super sweet. One of there kids took my camera and deleted all my pictures. It was pretty depressing... I got some back from my companion that he had of me. It still stinks, because I lost a lot of sweet mtc pictures. It´s fine though, I learned that I could lock pictures, better I learn that now then much later, I am going to send some pictures to everyone, I hope you enjoy them.
We did a huge activity with the ward, it was pretty sweet. Some big act, I couldn´t follow everything because I still lack the language, but we participated and it was pretty sweet. I´m scared of leaving this area, because I love the people. The families are amazing, very nice people... My companion is going to finish his mission in this transfer, 4 more weeks, it´s crazy.
I´m in the place called lavalle, if I haven´t mentioned before, it´s a really sweet area to start in. Pretty simple yet sophisticated. It´s not dangerous at all so I can ussually wear my watch... but in the past 2 weeks 5 people in the mission got robbed so they told us to put our watches in our pockets.
I´m pretty stoaked for general conference, you better watch it, all of you. I learned to appreciate things I didn´t normally like. Such as church music, and movies.
I don´t know if I mentioned this before but from like 1 to 4 p.m. everyday the argentines have a huge nap. Called the ciestas, son panchos haha. So we have to study between then or do something productive, like learn a new skill, so far I have been just using that time to study spanish, and practicing soccer, I bought new shoes and a ball to last the mission. We can learn the piano if we have a companion that knows and would teach us. Or any kind of useful skills. My companion is wise, he knows both languages perfect, he is from peru and he dominates at soccer. So the ciesta is a waste of time if we go out to work so they told us to leave the people because if we knock doors then they get really mad, and there is almost no one outside.
This week we had to make our own food like 3 times. The members are getting sick of feeding us. We just go to a near polleria, or something like that and buy milonesas. We made our own version of tacos once too, empada discs, with meat and sour creme. Super fatty but really good. I lost the pictures of that meal I took picture of sadly haha.
Well thats all I have to say for this week, DISFRUTE ESTA SEMANA PORFAVOR. Que tengan exito a todos. les quiero mucho.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Such a crazy week here in argentina. Sometimes I can´t believe I am here, but it´s obvious that I am here. Well so much has happened. We are visiting a lot of inactives, and I am always sharing scriptures and my testimony. at times it gets hard to communicate, because man, learning a language is not easy. I love learning it though, but it´s going to be a few months before I can understand the mayority of what they are saying.
An inactive family that we are visiting, are called the oro family. Oro means gold. They are really amazing people, they have like 7 kids that are absolutely insane, that won´t stop interupting what we are trying to teach. For some reason we can´t reactivate this family, but we aren´t going to give up on them. It´s really sad, some of the things that happen here, Last week we went into a house that was made of mud, and on their stove there was a bunch of rats running around, and I saw a few on the floor. And a guy that just sits in front of the supermarket without a leg, and just sits there day and night begging. Just like any other place there is such sad things, but for the most part my area is really nice. The dogs that are everywhere are insane, every corner there is a dog, in summer the disseased dogs start to come out of nowhere, a group might try to attack us, and we just pretend to pick up a rock and they peace out.
Me and my companion are getting a long really good, he is really chill but obedient. I got really lucky to have a smart trainer
Yo dejé de hablar en english todos los dias, en nuestra pension tambien. I stopped talking in english except in writing mail in english and my Journal. I figured this is the fastest way. And I can see a difference in each week.
Right now for P day we are going to head to the central of the city and check it out, there is a really sweet area I will take pìctures of and try to send you next week, My companion wants to buy a boca jersey the soccer team... I am going to try to buy a soccer ball and some indoor shoes para practica soccer. in the mornings.
I drink dulce de leche like water, it´s their famous type of spread. I am sure everyone knows what it is, and I eat like a huge jar each week. DOn´t worry, I am not fat just yet, but at this rate I might come back obese, we will see. And man the alfajores are just amazing, it´s a famous snack they eat here. It´s like a chocolate
cake thing with dulce de leche, that you can buy anywhere. Super good and famous here. We have eaten lots of meat, pasta, I had my first asado, which is a barbeque not too long ago.
It´s been a bunch of fun this far, I hope everyones doing well, we might baptise 2 kids, the family oro, and the family oliva. They are inactives and we are trying to activate them and baptise their kids. I had some pretty cool experiences with opening my mouth on the street, making contacts. We are still searching, and we haven´t found anyone super interested. We are teaching 2 new people we met, we will see, not investigators yet... A big guy named oscar who plays the guitar, and some catholic lady.
The families here that are members are so sweet, it´s true, this scripture in Moroni chapter 2 verse 41. They are amazing people, the kids of the family Quiroga, I will have to send a photo of them, they are so cool, we are going to go carting ( go carting ) with them maybe next week for p day haha. They are people I would hang out with, they always laugh at me because I am such a gringo sometimes. Every member is amazing, I´ll send more pictures next week. I can´t this week because this internet cafe I am using is lame.
An inactive family that we are visiting, are called the oro family. Oro means gold. They are really amazing people, they have like 7 kids that are absolutely insane, that won´t stop interupting what we are trying to teach. For some reason we can´t reactivate this family, but we aren´t going to give up on them. It´s really sad, some of the things that happen here, Last week we went into a house that was made of mud, and on their stove there was a bunch of rats running around, and I saw a few on the floor. And a guy that just sits in front of the supermarket without a leg, and just sits there day and night begging. Just like any other place there is such sad things, but for the most part my area is really nice. The dogs that are everywhere are insane, every corner there is a dog, in summer the disseased dogs start to come out of nowhere, a group might try to attack us, and we just pretend to pick up a rock and they peace out.
Me and my companion are getting a long really good, he is really chill but obedient. I got really lucky to have a smart trainer
Yo dejé de hablar en english todos los dias, en nuestra pension tambien. I stopped talking in english except in writing mail in english and my Journal. I figured this is the fastest way. And I can see a difference in each week.
Right now for P day we are going to head to the central of the city and check it out, there is a really sweet area I will take pìctures of and try to send you next week, My companion wants to buy a boca jersey the soccer team... I am going to try to buy a soccer ball and some indoor shoes para practica soccer. in the mornings.
I drink dulce de leche like water, it´s their famous type of spread. I am sure everyone knows what it is, and I eat like a huge jar each week. DOn´t worry, I am not fat just yet, but at this rate I might come back obese, we will see. And man the alfajores are just amazing, it´s a famous snack they eat here. It´s like a chocolate
cake thing with dulce de leche, that you can buy anywhere. Super good and famous here. We have eaten lots of meat, pasta, I had my first asado, which is a barbeque not too long ago.
It´s been a bunch of fun this far, I hope everyones doing well, we might baptise 2 kids, the family oro, and the family oliva. They are inactives and we are trying to activate them and baptise their kids. I had some pretty cool experiences with opening my mouth on the street, making contacts. We are still searching, and we haven´t found anyone super interested. We are teaching 2 new people we met, we will see, not investigators yet... A big guy named oscar who plays the guitar, and some catholic lady.
The families here that are members are so sweet, it´s true, this scripture in Moroni chapter 2 verse 41. They are amazing people, the kids of the family Quiroga, I will have to send a photo of them, they are so cool, we are going to go carting ( go carting ) with them maybe next week for p day haha. They are people I would hang out with, they always laugh at me because I am such a gringo sometimes. Every member is amazing, I´ll send more pictures next week. I can´t this week because this internet cafe I am using is lame.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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Letter to Stef
A lot has happened this week, if you didn´t know I was sent to the area callled lavalle, and it is really sweet. I sent you some pictures, one of my apartment, and the alley leads to our room, around the corner. Also of our zone when we played soccer, and our first meal we made. It was amazing. The food is super good here especially the pastries and fat food. Alfehores are amazing, and dulce de leche also.
I can´t believe austin is already home thats insane, tell him I said hi. This is crazy being in Argentina, the people are way cool here. It´s very calm here, and there is all kinds of people. Not too different then America, but a lot of different things they do, and the language. I am picking up the language super fast.
I was assigned with the sweetest trainer, he leaves in 2 months, he has taught me a lot. He is completely obedient and he is amazing. A great example. His name is elder berrocal, and he is from peru. My president is amazing too, he assignmed with him. My trainer told me that the president told elder berrocal "Make him a leader", I feel really lucky to be with one of the hard working missionaries.
Well apparently I am a tio now, how crazy, congratulations to Christina and Ivan. What else has happened.
Well I met some really great people, the members here are amazing, I can´t remember names well but I have pictures and I will send you some more later, I hope I can send you a package soon, of a disk and some alforhores, YOu can buy a package of alforhores for 17 pesos, and there is 40 of them. Dirt cheap.
So how is Ryan doing I haven´t heard, and Jordan, what are they up to? I am picking up so quick here in Argentina, I can understand the mayoria of what they say, the natives, and we have finished our 140 open the mouth contacts and our other goals. We visited la familia oro and they have like a ton of kids, and I gave them mint strips and they were freaking it out and taking turns with the fosset, it was so funny. We are doing great here, I will write next week.
Stef! Tell me how my friends are doing, tell Angel to write me sometime. I want to keep in touch with my friends haha. Give them my mailing address if you can. I hope you all are doing well, you better dominate school. Take care ya´ll. Que les vay bien.
I can´t believe austin is already home thats insane, tell him I said hi. This is crazy being in Argentina, the people are way cool here. It´s very calm here, and there is all kinds of people. Not too different then America, but a lot of different things they do, and the language. I am picking up the language super fast.
I was assigned with the sweetest trainer, he leaves in 2 months, he has taught me a lot. He is completely obedient and he is amazing. A great example. His name is elder berrocal, and he is from peru. My president is amazing too, he assignmed with him. My trainer told me that the president told elder berrocal "Make him a leader", I feel really lucky to be with one of the hard working missionaries.
Well apparently I am a tio now, how crazy, congratulations to Christina and Ivan. What else has happened.
Well I met some really great people, the members here are amazing, I can´t remember names well but I have pictures and I will send you some more later, I hope I can send you a package soon, of a disk and some alforhores, YOu can buy a package of alforhores for 17 pesos, and there is 40 of them. Dirt cheap.
So how is Ryan doing I haven´t heard, and Jordan, what are they up to? I am picking up so quick here in Argentina, I can understand the mayoria of what they say, the natives, and we have finished our 140 open the mouth contacts and our other goals. We visited la familia oro and they have like a ton of kids, and I gave them mint strips and they were freaking it out and taking turns with the fosset, it was so funny. We are doing great here, I will write next week.
Stef! Tell me how my friends are doing, tell Angel to write me sometime. I want to keep in touch with my friends haha. Give them my mailing address if you can. I hope you all are doing well, you better dominate school. Take care ya´ll. Que les vay bien.
Stuff
The things that happened here in Argenting are pretty crazy. My area I am is entre pobre y rico. Everyone is really friendly and we get overfed with amazing food. They know how to cook here.
Well I guess the crazy thing I learned was that how powerful the spirit can help in learning something like spanish. I am learning super fast, I am able to make conversations with others. And my contacts, I am not so limited to what I can say. It´s amazing, my trainer is so great. He is completely obedient, and he at a prime state of a missionary. He pushes me to the point where I broke barriers. I don´t have a big barbuja anymore.
Well I can´t say much, but una famila, se llama oro, we might baptise their kid. Who is 8, which will be my first baptism maybe. Who knows what will happen. I´m addicted to the alforhores here, I made some really good friends with the members. I have seen really great sites... Man I am enjoying this I will have to send more pictures. I wish I could tell you all that happened. I can better summarize it when I have more time. Keep going strong, I pray for all of you everyday. Thanks for your support.
Erik
Well I guess the crazy thing I learned was that how powerful the spirit can help in learning something like spanish. I am learning super fast, I am able to make conversations with others. And my contacts, I am not so limited to what I can say. It´s amazing, my trainer is so great. He is completely obedient, and he at a prime state of a missionary. He pushes me to the point where I broke barriers. I don´t have a big barbuja anymore.
Well I can´t say much, but una famila, se llama oro, we might baptise their kid. Who is 8, which will be my first baptism maybe. Who knows what will happen. I´m addicted to the alforhores here, I made some really good friends with the members. I have seen really great sites... Man I am enjoying this I will have to send more pictures. I wish I could tell you all that happened. I can better summarize it when I have more time. Keep going strong, I pray for all of you everyday. Thanks for your support.
Erik
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