Endure To The End.....

Hey you,
           Well on the subject of time, I dont like it hah. It never
stops, it slows down when you want it fast, and it flies by when you
want it to last longer, it seems to never be on our side. I heard from
somewhere that the Lord allows time to slow down for us during hard
trials so that we can have time to learn more out of the experience,
interesting right?
My week was good, I traveled to the mission offices for some random
meetings and such, it was like a 4 hour bus ride there and back again.
I found that I´m being transfered to a place called Valle de Uco to be
with my old comp  from Texas. It’ll be a great transfer with
him, at least I´ll look at it that way for now haha. It´ll be good. It
doesnt matter how many people Texas has, Alaska will still be 3 times
bigger than them. I will miss this area but it is time for a change. I
tried my best to leave the ward better than how it was when I came, I
hope that I succeeded. I promised myself that I would not be the
missionary that relaxes for the last bit of his mission. I am trying
my best to stay the most obedient that I can. 6:30 in the morning gets
earlier and earlier every day haha. ENDURE TO THE END! Then once the
end arrives, keep enduring. Chau dad!

Whats up my mom!
I would like to say that conference blew my
holy socks off! When I say holy, I don’t mean spiritual... So yeah it
was amazing and I think that all the talks touched on something really
important. It seemed to me that many of the messages talked about
being able to act on a spiritual prompting without doubting and
completely confiding in the Lord. That is quite the challenge to act
on something that we feel without knowing how it will turn out, but
the Lord knows a LOT more than we do and I would think that he knows
what he is doing haha. Yes he knows exactly whats up. We are at the
beginning of my very last transfer in the mission. I am getting moved
to a place called Valle de Uco.  He isthe same comp that I had basically

 almost exactly a whole year ago in Rivadavia. Isnt that wierd?

I was taken aback. I have been
going through probably the most trying time of my mission in these
last few weeks and I have been pushed beyond any limits that I ever
had before the mission. The gift of being able to bite my tongue and
not just say whatever I want to that hurts everyone around me has
finally been entrusted to me, for the most part haha. At least when it
matters I think haha. I just have a new and crazy experience everyday
that fills my journal right up line by line, and fills my experience
bar up as if I was leveling up in the game of the mission daily! I
have never felt such fast progression in my life and it is almost
scary to me because each day I dont know what will happen or how to
handle it, but it is givin to me in the moment, just at the exact
right time! Its the coolest thing EVER! Its nice knowing that I´m not
on my own and that the Lord walks with me and helps me along the way,
as long as I am worthy of such divine help. I dont want it to end!! But oh well,

 thats life right haha.

My Heavenly Father Loves The Stuffing Out Of Me....

Sup pops,
I cant believe that football is over already for you guys.
The work here continues on. I wrote mom about the tough times that are
showing up in my way these days, but its not a big deal, endure to the
end!! I love being a missionary and it is the best thing that could´ve
ever happened to me. Its so cool that I have this time to serve and to
grow and help others progress. I get much more excited to see other
people progressing than to see my own little progress haha. It is just
such a joy filled life, but I dont know where the joy comes from
because I hardly ever have real success here and the people sometimes
won´t even give us the time of day (that happens for real) but I feel
more light in my life than EVER! Yup its awesome. I wish to keep
growing and keep moving forward with my understanding of the gospel
and the great work which is the Lord´s. His hand is over us and will
always help us if we are to just submit to him and his will as a
little child. Love ya dad!  Scripture of the week: 1 Corinthians 15:58

Hey mom!
Anyways my week
was good. It was really hard and I am finding myself in situations
that are trying me in more ways than I can count haha. Its super
great! I guess the Lord wants me to really grow in these moments that
I have here. I am totally down for whatever he wants to throw at me!
It is harder than ever but really I feel that I am not alone in all
this. That feeling of not having to do it all by myself is something
that I have always longed for, I am way grateful to be able to feel
it now more than ever and to know that my Father in Heaven loves the
stuffing out of me :) Conference countdown!! It will be epic and
amazing and filled with food... At least for those who get to watch it
at home, or if your a missionary and bring all sorts of junk to snack
and munch on. I realized last time that I brought snacks that made
really loud noises and sounds and distracted from the talks so this
time I will be planning that out better. Silent food? Does that exist?
At least not for dad, it makes its appearance one way or another... I
hope you have another busy but fulfilling week mom! Love you lots!!

Thanks Everybody......

Why thank you so much mom for wishing me a good bday. Actually on the
bloggy blog I want to thank the few people who wished me a good day as
well because I dont really have time to write everybody back haha so
THANKS EVERYBODY! My birthday present from the Lord was an opportunity
to baptize our investigator! We have been working with her for four
months, I found her when I got to this area and now she got all
purified and stuff. It was the coolest gift I could´ve gotten here. We
did a big asado at night and partied a bit. The week went by pretty
fast. We are just trying to find more people to teach, it seems as if
that is always the story. But little by little this ward is growing.
As long as we are going forwards we arent going back! Have a great week
mom, your the best.
Love from me, like, alot :)

The longest distance I traveled this week was a half hour bus ride to a
place to go and work with some peeps haha. But I think that I am going
to miss how much we walk here. I have fallin in love with walking and
just soaking in my surroundings. The smells, well, I could do without
some of those, but for the most part its a great experience. I
remember that on road trips I would just play my gameboy or just
always be looking at what wasn´t outside. Man I have learned that the
world is just a beautiful place and I want to travel a bunch so I can
see it all. Sometimes I really feel that I am just a little pawn in this

 world and that the Lord just moves me around to different people

and situations and that He has all of the control. I am not complaining

 at all haha because He knows light years more than I do and I am

 glad that I can confide in his hand so that I can hopefully do His will here.

 I am not even close to perfect but I know that with the help of Christ it

 is possible to get there.
Love you dad! Hasta luegito papa

Even Though It Was a Little Thing.....

It rained a bunch here and
we got really wet walking in the streets all day long. You´d think
that the people would have compassion on two young dudes walking in
the storm and knocking doors. You´d think that they would at least let
you in to warm up or to have a glass of water. But if you thought that
way, you´d be thinking wrong.. The rain seemed to just give everyone a
lame reason to just turn a servent of the Lord away from trying to
save thier souls. I have a new comp now too from California.

 He got here on wednesday and my comp left to go to
San Juan. I hope your week is better than the last and that Fishman
can run the ball some more. Love you dad, the mission is awesome!!

We got to see the re-dedication of the Buenos Aires temple on sunday and the cultural
celebration on saturday. They were both really cool. I have never seen
either of those two things before. I found out that Elder D. Todd
Christopherson speaks spanish way well! He served his mission in
Argentina and still speaks way fluently. I could only spot a few
errors when he was talking, but it was on really tough stuff so he has
a whole new coolness level in my book. With getting a new comp and
all, it made this week kind of drag along. He has lots of ganas to
work and also knows alot about college and technology. It is way cool
too because I had been pretty lost on the school thing and he got here
just in time to help take out a lot of my doubts and questions. I just
love how the Lord knows us all and answers prayers in his ways, my new
comp, being here is an answer to my prayers and it
never stops amazing me of how loving our Father in Heaven really is to
us. I love it when little things like this happen, it makes my
testimony grow a ton more, even though it was a little thing. Have a
safe week and I´ll ttyl :) LOVE YOU!!

We Are All Stoked....

Sup Pops,
 These past few days have been in the70´s or 80´s I think.

Its been pretty warm and there is still another
month left of winter here haha. Aparently there is a big annual storm
that rolls through here on August 30. It hasnt come yet but they say
its on its way. They call it the Santa Rosa haha. Your trip to Kodiak
sounds like it was a great experience of pain for you haha. I think I
am going through one of those experiences right now. Its all good
because with how fast time is going by it´ll get here uber fast. I
didn’t ever think that I would hear (or read) you say that church was
awesome before I started my mission. You seem to say that every week
now. I am way proud of you for getting stronger in the gospel and not
falling away like I see here so much in families that have
missionaries leave. Thanks for trying and just pushing along.
Love ya dad. Hasta la vista, baby

Hey momma,                  
    My week was good. This next sunday we are going to watch the
re-dedication of the Buenos Aires temple and we are all stoked! There
are three sessions but we are only allowed to watch one of them.. And
there is a cultural celebration on saturday that we are allowed to
watch as well. Me and my comp are tagging along at a very slow walking
speed haha.  I got the other shoe that was bent in half and Im going to
wear them today to see how they are. There is some colateral damage to the
structure of the shoesbecause of the extreme heat they must´ve endured on the
trip here but I think I can fix them. Thanks for everything mom I love you a ton
load!

A Strong Testimony of Studies....

Hey dad,
My week was well and we didnt really see that many great things.

 But we did find a couple of families that are really cool and are helping them
come back to church little by little. I have this talk that was given
by Alvin R. Dyer called ´For what purpose´. It is a great talk on
missionary work and the real purpose why we are doing this work in
these times. I dont read it very often but this last time I studied it
well and got a lot of cool information out of it. It explains why
there are different races on this planet and how here in the day of
this life, which starts with birth and ends after the spirit world, is
our only time to progress and try to better our standing in front of
God. It talks about a lot of cool things that just opened my mind. I
also started to study my Patriarichal Blessing in depth. I seperated
it into three catagories, blessings, talents, and the third catagory
is counsil and results of following the counsil. I have to say that it
is really really really sweet! In those moments too I felt like things
started clicking better and making more sense to me. I have developed
a strong testimony of studies here on the mission and to do it is
super important. I learned the reason behind why we study and that if
we dont we are only preventing ourselves from recieving even higher
revelation from our Father.  Love ya

Love you mom!!!!
The pics,
me and elder smith saying good bye to elder robinson,
mac´n´cheese!
one of the roads we walk everyday
one of the shoes you sent me that wont bend back to regularity... the
other is still in transit

It's Greatness....

Sup dad,
            I really like to hear that our ward is still producing
missionaries. Too bad none of them are coming here to good old
Argentina, I could´ve shown them the ropes down here. I remember when
you guys were saying spanish words on mothers day and I have your
voice stuck in my head of how you said the word queso hahaha,
priceless. The advice I like to give here to new people trying to
learn the language is that it will come when it needs to come, but to
be ready for that moment because it comes much sooner than you expect.
It usually helps them, I think... No one told me anything about that
stuff and kind of just left me hangin in that aspect. The work is still work

 and the key to working well is going to work. I am glad that I learned mostly

 how to work before the mission because now I have gotten better at it. I see
missionaries get here and they dont know how to put all they got into
something. Its not easy but at the end of the day when you lay down
and your legs just tingle for all the walking you did, you feel really
great. I strive for that feeling every night, a physical tiredness and
a spiritual tiredness as well. Its greatness.
Love ya dad, stay foggy (your hair)

Hello

My new companion arrived, he is a latino from Buenos Aires,
 He is pretty cool and we get along well. He has a walking
impedement form birth and walks really slow so I am having to adjust
to that. I dont know if I walked fast before the mission but I
definately do now! I dont mind it but its just different. Transfers come next
week I love the area and the people and everything but I would like to have my last three
months in a different place with all new things. If that doesnt happen
its okay because it isnt what I want that is important, its just doing
as I am told and follow the instructions of my leaders, aka Jesus
haha. Fishman just looks like a goober, its good to know that he hasnt
changed too much. Love you mom!