All right so this has
been a great week, however for some odd reason, someone forgot the fireworks on
the fourth of July, and there were no hamburgers, no hot dogs, no nothing! so I
hope you celebrated enough for the both of us! however I did wear blue pants
and a SHNAZZY red and blue tie so i looked very American, however no one here
thinks that I’m American so that’s a downfall. then they hear me speak and they
say " oh I didn’t know you were from Brazilian I guess I look Brazilian!
Argentina has been nothing but cloudy skies and lots and
lots of rain the past week! it’s been nuts! it’s also made it really
interesting in my area. all the roads are made of dirt so it’s been a challenge
to not slip. luckily, I haven’t fallen...... this week! I wish I could say for
my companion. he had one of those cartoon style slip on the banana land on your
back with your feet in the air kind of falls, I couldn’t help but laugh!
It was my pleasure (saying
the words "my pleasure" made me think of chick-fi-a) to be able to step
foot in an argentine hospital this week. let’s just say, that if something happens
to me here I’ve requested to be left in the street. they are really, really
sketchy! they aren’t clean, you can only visit your family members for 30
minutes in the morning and an hour at night. they have guys that walk around
with shot guns. it’s just a really interesting place.
I’ve notice that my knowledge of the scriptures has grown a lot because I’m
able to make scriptural inspired jokes. for example, we had an elder that made
some really, really salty popcorn, like the Great Salt Lake would have been
jealous!
any way to the
punchline of the joke. I said, "WOW ELDER DRUMMOND, did you decide to put
all of Lots wife in the Popcorn this time"? for those of you who don’t know
who she was, she was turned into a pillar of salt. I got some pretty good
laughs from that one. the other doctrinal roast I did was again to elder
Drummond (I promise I don’t hate elder Drummond, he’s just the only one that is
roasted scripture style. the other day he was throwing some serious sass at me
so I told him "If I could cast you out from my presence, I would" you
know really writing these out. they aren’t as funny
oh well. you know what has become hilarious
to me while I’ve been out here? Sponge Bob quotes. you really begin to be
thankful for the little things out here!
so, this week in the
mission we have been working a lot with the less active members whose kids haven’t
been baptized, it’s cool because we aren’t only helping out the kids but we are
reactivating those members that for some reason have stopped going to church.
you can really see that they have a desire to go to church sometimes we as
natural human beings lose our way. and we forget to as Lehi Said, "Hold to
the Rod” the other day on the bus I contacted a deaf woman, it was a very
spiritual experience, and just so you know, American sign language doesn’t
transfer over too well to Argentine sign language. we ended up talking through
her daughter. I transferred my thoughts from English to Spanish and she transferred
hers from Spanish to sign language. Kind of cool, right? the lady was very
receptive I wish I could find out more about here but sadly she lives in a different
mission. my area borders the Buenos Aires south mission so sometimes we bump
into people from over there. I’ve really been thinking a lot about the deaf
community down here is very large. I see 1 or 2 deaf people here every day or
so.
I read a great talk
that my uncle Randy (SHOUT OUT TO UNCLE RANDALL) had suggested its
entitled " Remember Lots Wife" it talks about the past and how we
need to look forward its really interesting. definitely a good missionary read!
but i urge and invite you all to read it!" the future holds everything for
us" and there isn’t any point in living in the past.
the week here has been
really fun! sometimes it’s hard to think it’s been a week! it feels like i was
just at this computer talking to you yesterday!
Love you all! hope you
have a great week! we will talk in a few!
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