Grilling like an American

Our American meal was very delicious! There are pictures in drop box. We set up our oven rack suspended on two pots over the gas stove to make our grill ha ha. It worked perfect. It wasn´t even very hard to clean up either. That was the first steak that I have eaten in over a year. And both me and my companion felt like we were in heaven eating mashed potatoes, THANKS GRANDMA.

Joel who had his fecha date for the 31st but that is stake conference. Because of that we had to talk to the bishop to see if he would let him be baptized and confirmed the same day. As usual his answer was no. He wants the whole Ward there so we have to wait until next Sunday the 8th. The biggest problem with that is that he is excited to do it now and it is transfers the fourth. So we will see if I will be here for his baptism. I probably will end up staying here with Elder Heaton, but you never know.

The other person with a date is Santiago. He is progressing slowly but surely. He has started boxing training again so his days are full again. The good thing is that they aren´t on Sundays. His date was for the 7th but because no one could go to church the 25th of May, they all had to go to the plays about the argentine revolution that the schools made mandatory, it is very likely that it will have to be pushed back one more week, we will see.

There are no hot water tanks here unless you are rich. We just have these little electric heads that heat the water when it comes out. The problem is that it was burnt out because Delgado tried to fix it but it was burnt. We were just waiting for the money to come from the office to buy a new shower and now we finally got it then I installed it. We finally have hot water (first time in seven months)! Just in time too because the cold has hit. It has been freezing here the last couple days. It wasn´t this cold when I got here a year ago. It got this cold later but that isn´t for another month or two. I hope that doesn´t reflect how this winter is going to be. I will soon though have to buy another blanket so that I can keep warm at nights. It isn´t bad yet but soon it will get to the point where you can’t sleep even with the heater at full. For that reason I want another blanket this year, haha

We have zone conferences every month, well here really every week because our district is our zone. But in zone meetings it is really always the same thing. We go over the presentation president Heyman gave on one of a couple things, what are liders, How to follow the Spirit, and Watchmen over the watchtower. Then we will have different Little practices that we do and sometimes share about what is going on in our área. That is about what usually happens.  

We found out that one person that we were teaching has Schizophrenia (or however you spell it) and she always tells us lots of crazy things. I wasn´t sure if she was crazy or not at first because of how detailed everything she said was and also she would tell us the exact same details more than one time. She would tell us about how she was a Jew who came from the Middle East to live here in Argentina. She really missed her people and knew that they were waiting her return. She told us about how the people here would miss treat her and they forced her to change her name from nariu to Maria.

I did use the magic tricks you sent me until they were stolen. I thought I told you that the magic tricks were in the bags that i had when they were stolen. The first one had the thumb and the second had the coins that change color. But we use the origami for things like family home evenings. The kids really love it because we do things like read the story of Nephi making his boat then they make their own boat. They really like it!

You know you are an Argentine if:

Your plastic bags only have one whole it them.

You didn´t drink matte this morning and now you have a headache

Your grocery list comprises of: noodles, oil, and bread.

The family vehicle is a moto.

If there is a football game going the rest of the world is on hold.

It rains and the world shuts down.

The only options of drink you have are: lemon-lime, orange, Apple, or cola.

You want more oil on that.

Salads consist of lettuce with a lot of oil.

I love you guys very much and can´t wait to hear from you next week!