You know your an Argentine if...

Right now we are working with Gabriela, Abel, and Mario more than anything. Gabriela has fifteen years and we found her clapping houses. She really likes learning more about the gospel and is really excited to go to church. She hasn´t been able come yet because of different reasons. We are excited for her and we are going to have her parents sign the baptismal papers this week, then she just needs to go to church a few times to be ready for baptism!

We have Mario who is living with a member.... that will probably be his biggest problem. They are really nice and like it when we come to visit and teach them. Tonight if they don´t cancel at midday we will be going to their house and making tacos! It was funny when we said we were going to talk about the law of chastity the member started to turn red and just look at us. But we invited them to live it and they accepted. They are still living together so we will have to talk to them about that soon. 

Abel is a little old, haha he is like 70 or so. He likes telling us random stories and is really nice. We almost had him at church this week but he said he was going to change and meet us at the church but never showed up. 

After we talked on Mother's Day my comp started talking to his family then the son was calling so my comp got off so he could call. They talked to him for about a half hour and the connection was crap because him and four other missionaries were using the same internet, so they told him to call back in an hour when they weren´t all using the internet at the same time. Then my comp finished his time and we went back to the pensh. On Christmas my comp talked on the phone to his family but this was the first time on skype. The last time he had to use the phone for some reason, I think his family didn´t have the stuff for skype. He liked skyping better.

I will share some you know you are an Argentine if jokes, haha
you know you are an Argentine if your favorite pastime is people watching and drinking mate
you know you are an Argentine if your powerline is held up by a stick you found in your yard
you know you are an Argentine if you sweep your dirt
you know you are an Argentine if your shack(house) has dish tv
you know you are an Argentine if you eat asado every sunday
you know you are an Argentine if your entire house is made out of brick and cement

I love you guys very much and I loved getting to talk to you!! Can´t wait to hear from you next week

It's Raining It's Pouring

I am not 100% sure about the call on Mother’s Day... we have the family but they also have a missionary out and will be skyping him. They think he will skype around 6pm here or 2pm your time so any time before or after will work perfect. What time is best for you guys? We have the skype stuff and a landline. 

We are finding a few new investigators every week. This week we didn`t find as many as last week but we are still doing better than before. We have some people who are more or less progressing. They are except that they didn`t go to church this week, but no one did, haha it was raining really bad and no one wanted to go. Truthfully I didn`t really want to go either but what can you do. Now I know it sounds funny that a little rain is going to stop people from going to church but it is very different here. When it rains the dirt streets become mud and it is very difficult to do anything. There ended up being about ten people at church. I am not excited for all the upcoming cold and rain like last winter. The weather right now switches between nice and cold. It is usually nice during the day and a little cold at night. It hasn`t gotten too cold yet but in the coming month it will start turning to winter. I am not excited for the cold days, freezing nights, and dreaded mornings. Waking up in the morning on those cold winter days is the worst. I also don`t want all the rain... but I did hear that it supposedly doesn`t rain quite as much in Chaco as Formosa.

My new companion doesn`t like playing games... he has yet to play any with us. Elder Taylor and I always play them though. Every once in a while Elder Taylor`s comp will join us. My comp would rather just read PMG more or things like that... I don`t know how he can stand doing only that but more power to him. He does enjoy the food. He said that I was a chef, haha I said nah, I just like to eat good food, haha

Because of the inflation everyone in Argentina has less stuff and sometimes they can`t afford as much meat. There are some things that are really expensive and others that are relatively the same. Eggs are still pretty cheap if you buy them in bulk. I buy thirty eggs for 32 pesos, so that isn`t bad. Also rice isn`t too bad either. Meats, dairy, fruits, and vegetables have all gone up. So we eat less meat with the members and more oil and noodles. Also recently they put this new rule out to ride the colectivo you have to buy a card to pay them. So we all had to buy one of their cards (it only ended up being 12 peso but still) and you have to recharge it when it runs out or you can’t take the colectivo because now they will won’t accept neither bills nor change.

I got the package from Grandma Peterson! It is awesome! It has a list of ten things a missionary should take home from a misson with stuff like beef jerky, mints, peanut m&Ms, dr pepper jelly beans, carmels, etc so you know which one it is. Please tell grandma thank you very much!!!!

We have been trying to work with our bishop recently but it has been kinda hard because he doesn`t want to cooperate. We asked if we could teach the members in the ward how to talk to their freinds so that they feel more comfortable talking to them about the gospel and give us more references. He told us that we couldn`t because they will teach themselves..... It was stupid.

Also the Lugo family who has been inactive since I got here is coming back to church now. They were going to come this week but there was the big rain storm so they will come this week!

I love you guys and can`t wait to hear from you this sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!