I Would Choose To Have Fun....

Hey mom!
                So this week was pretty hectic. We worked a bunch and
it was way fun too. I dont know how i am having so much fun but i
really am :) i think that i would choose to have fun over not having
fun, it makes sense to me. Its way cool that the gospel has touched
Warren´s family, that is soo COOL! I dont know what it would be like
to be home alone for any time period at all anymore. We had two
baptisms on saturday!! They were these sweet investigators that were
way ready and it was amazing. Their names are Claudio and Amanda. They
were really happy and all of their family showed up for the service.
They were the only ones attending practically, the bishop and the
first counselor sluffed off and the 2nd counselor came. In the end,
all is well. My comp, is really funny. He reminds me
of a mixture of Tracy and Larry the Cable Guy haha. He has a thick
southern accent and has a million stories about random funny stuff. We
get along pretty well us two. Thats my week, love you mom!

Hello Dad,
              My time here since the last time that i wrote you
has been busy and cold. Its not cold enough on some days to put on a
coat but on other days the coat doesnt suffice haha. That just means
that we have to get into more houses so we can be warm for a bit. The
cold wouldnt be so bad here but there is no insulation in the pench
let alone any other means to keep warm outside of standing directly in
front of the heater that uses gas. With that heater, if we leave it on
in the night, we dont survive the night because of carbon monoxide
stuff haha. So yep life here is the best. Ill probably never go
through stuff like this again in my life for a while, i hope, but it
is super fun for me and it wouldnt be a mission to me if everything
was too easy. You have to suffer to gain the greater prize. No
championship team wins anything if they havent given their all and
gone through the worst. The Lord says that our weaknesses may be our
strengths, and that is completely true. I was thinking that when you
listen to the General Authorities talk, sometimes one person can
testify stronger about one topic than another. I think it is because
that apostle may have had to go through something fierce and gained an
even stronger testimony of this church afterwards. So, their weakness
becoming their strength. I dont know it was just something i was
pondering a bit ago. The busier you stay the faster time goes so keep
busy! I know i am. Love you dad.

They For Sure Don't Just Grow On Trees....

Well, you sure had an exciting week! I am way happy for you dad that
you are really enjoying your calling and fulfilling it how you are
meant to. Baptisms are the greatest ever. They for sure
dont just grow on trees and every single one of them is a miracle. I
was looking at my notes from General Conference from April 2011 and
this past april and looked at the church membership number. If my
statistics are correct, we gained about 300,000 members last year.
That means that out of the 365 days of the year, an average of 821 new
members entered into the kingdom of God each day! That is way cool for
me to think about. My week was good and its colder now. A couple times
we have had to leave with sweaters and coats. I have been continually
fixing our pench and now it is starting to turn around. Stay great
dad, love you.

Hi Mom,
You cant force people into the water and have it mean the same thing,

it has to be a friendly hand that helps them along. They dont really

know what its going to be like or anything, and once baptized,

 the new members enter into a whole new world that they haven´t really

 experienced before. We need to help them every step of the way and

 be their friends so that they can feel comfortable there and happy

with the decision they just made to be baptized. My week was good

 and people are popping up out of nowhere, but the problem is that

they dont ever want to keep going with us haha. We have some people pretty
close right now but they just have to come to church! I love you mom
:) Have a great week.

Its Always An Adventure...

Hi Mom,
            Time always goes by way faster when you travel and change
places.. I feel like i was just getting here and now im knocking on
having a whole week here. I am finally learning a little bit better of
how to remember peoples names! My whole mission i have had troubles
with peoples names and realizing who it was and stuff. But now im
better, not great, but better. My new comp is small, redneck, has a
slow southern accent, and he is really funny, he makes me laugh at
least. I think itll be a fun time with him here. With only 4 transfers
left i feel nervous that its getting there but excited that i will
have accomplished the coolest experience and biggest goal that i have
had up to this point in my life. Its pretty wierd for me to try and
think back to what it was like going to church not as a missionary. In
all of my dreams i am a missionary and i follow the mission rules in
my dreams... WIERD!!!! It kind of freaks me out but whatever i guess.
Im happy, kind of healthy, and still alive. Thanks for everything mom,
i love you like a gigantic ton of Argentine dulce de leche :) BYE!

Hello Dad,
             So I really like my new area. It isnt as much city as
before and i feel more comfortable here. My comp is from North
Carolina, he has little time left on the mission and he is pretty
cool. He is just stacked full of jokes and little funny things, there
is no end to his jokes... It isnt too cold here but it is sufficiently
cold to have to wear sweaters and sometimes coats. I dont have a coat
but i got one just recently from the mission offices that i will
return after i am done with it. That is a lot easier than buying a new
one i think. I am way happy with the change, although i didnt want it from
before im okay with it now. The pench is a dump. Ive been doing some
renovating ever since I showed up and now it is kind of livable.
There is a door that doesn’t shut and cold air just flows into our
room which does not have a door.  I took care of both of the problems
but the kitchen, bathroom, and  front door all have work to do.
Its always an adventure. Love ya dad, peace.

I'm Happy My Feelings and Promptings Were Right...

Hey dad,
My week was good for the most part. I found out about 2 hours ago that

i am being sent over to a different area now. Its in a different part of the mission
completely and not in Mendoza or San Juan. So now i will have served
in all three provinces of this mission, thats cool. I really didnt
want to leave this area because it is just starting to turn around.
Ive been working my tail off more than usual the last few weeks and i
didnt know why. Now i have to just pack up and leave everything i did
here in the hands of the other missionaries coming in. I am a bit
nervous because we were going to be doing a lot of great things in the
month to come. They had just put us in charge of a stake mission
activity to happen in july and i was way pumped to organize that and
do all that stuff. Oh well! The other missionaries will take over and
love it in place of me. The place im going is called 25 de Mayo. I
dont know if you can google earth that exactly but trying never hurt
anyone. Love you dad stay sane and try to get some kings that arent
minnows ;)

Hey mom,
               So yeah i am exactly in guaymallén where she lives but
on wednesday they are sending me to a different place called San Luis.
As missionaries we arent really allowed to drink the mate with the
bombilla with the people because it usually wastes hours of working
time but everyone in the whole world down here drinks it. But we drink
mate cocido and when i get home i am definately going to her house to
drink some and chat in castellano :) I really wish we could go to
Buenos Aires and do something for the re-dedication but i think we
just get to watch it over sattelite. This area is going to have some
good success in the next coming months, too bad i have to leave a far
ways away. I think that it is about a 4 hour bus ride away. I had a
feeling i was leaving yesterday, and in the night it was such a strong
feeling that i just couldnt deny that i was going to leave here. Then
this morning we get a phone call and it was all true. I felt a lot
more calm after they said i was going because i basically knew it from
the beginning. Im happy my feelings and promptings were right but
frustrated that they had to be right in that way haha. But everything
is good and im going where He wants me to go with a smile and my will.
Love you mom!

Never Tried to Work Out My Spiritual Muscles Before...

Hey dad,
              The week was
well. The boat troubles just sounds rotten, i hope that all turns out
okay. You better catch a bunch of giant kings this year dad. But you
also have to let them go because when i finally get to fish for them i
want to catch their monster babies. I think that the life of a
missionary is so sweet, like ive expressed a million times before, and
i really enjoy it. It is definately not easy at all, i have to try and
push myself all the time to not break all the rules that sometimes
seem kind of childish, but its all part of the big plan. This
experience has been super tough on a spiritual level, i am pretty
foolish that i never tried to work out my spiritual muscles before,
but now they are all way tired and been through a lot haha. It is all
just the begining to enduring to the end for sure. Stay safe for the week and

working alone on the Grebe. Maybe getting someone to help you out would

be a good idea bucause your getting pretty old haha, nah im just playing, but for
reals, help always helps. Love you dad thanks for everything.

Hey mom,
>> You can tell fischer that i know exactly how he feels
>> with the whole ´doing the eagle scout not under my own will´ thing, Im
>> right there with him. The week went well and we are really trying to
>> find more new people to teach and to spread the word. I kind of
>> thought that i had the bus system down here a couple of weeks ago, but
>> then i was humbled this week. The same day i took two wrong buses, and
>> where they took us was an hour in the complete wrong direction and we
>> had to wait it out till the end. We ended up being almost 2 hours late
>> for lunch haha. I dont know how it is for the Elders who have cars of
>> their own, or even bikes, but i dont think that they have to worry
>> about that happening to them. Diego blessed the sacrament like a stud
>> and wants to start coming on splits with us, its insane :) Just way
>> cool! Anyways the work goes on, and on, and on, and all that good stuff. The temple
>> of Buenos Aires is going to be re-dedicated in september and we are
>> allowed to watch it!! Fun times indeed. Just know that life is dandy,
>> and that is all :) Love you mom!