The most robbed companionship :)

... The baptism of Vilma this week didn`t happen the way we had hoped... It was sooo much better!!! A couple days before the baptism we were talking with Jenni`s mom (Vilma`s daughter) and she gave Jenni permission to be baptized!! So it turned out that we had two baptisms instead of one!! Also they invited us to come over Sunday after church and eat asado with them!! It was really good. It brought back memories of Circunvalacion and the great asados we would eat every Sunday. We also ended up watching the Joseph Smith movie with them because some members came to visit and brought it to watch and we were there so we thought why not have a free member present lesson and watch a movie?

It is still hot in the day but it is starting to get cold at nights. The winter will start coming in a month or two.

Our water is kind of working again mah o meno. We usually have had water in the sink but not bathroom but recently it seems to be fixed (at least as much as it ever will, because we are in Argentina). The outside seems to always have water now and the inside does most of the time and when it does it is a powerful stream not just a dribble.

Lately I have been studying in Preach my Gospel Chapter 3. President Heyman has been giving teachings about it and about teaching the true doctrine. So I have been reviewing the true doctrine specifically on the commandments right now. I don`t know if you saw any pictures but he came and taught about it in a district meeting last week and took pictures. I`m not sure if they went on his blog or his Instagram (I think it is rheyman or something like that).

Everyday we clap houses... That is like all we do anymore. This last week we have been over at Vilma`s house and clapping the whole week. We seriously went there every day this week because of how many people we are teaching there. I think that a lot of their family will end up getting baptized especially because Vilma did! She is very well known in the area and has the kisco that everyone goes to visit. Then at nights there are always like 30 kids there playing. The whole street there are relatives. There are like 60+ people and they are all aboriginies (argentine Indians o sea the Lamanite descendants).

If you have time these are a bunch of questions Aunt Tammy has for you.

1.      How is the weather? Better?

 It is fine, It never was as hot as others made it out to be. I would rather have the extreme heat than extreme cold. But it is nice to not sweat quite so much, haha

2.      Alex says he used to get burned through his white shirts, do you?

No, I haven`t really burned at all. I have avoided using sun screen so that I tan more then don`t burn. I have only had one light burn on my mission so far.

3.      Do you have an awesome farmer tan?

Yes, haha I don`t know if you have seen the pictures but I will post more, haha

4.       Do you wear sunscreen?

No

5.       Do they have it over there?

Yes, haha

6.      Is it mountainous where you are or pretty flat?

It is very flat. The sky seems huge without mountains surrounding me.

7.       Alex says in Brazil all the poor people live up high and the "rich" people lived in the cities.

The poor people here live in dirt, metal, or wooden shacks they call houses. The rich people tend to live more in the city but they only have houses made out of brick and cement. Their architecture has not advanced more than the three little pigs story, haha me and my comp were talking about that today.

8.      Do the people there hate Justin Beiber?

Yes, me and my comp, haha the rest? I don`t know.

9.       I guess a while ago, he accidentally wiped his sweat on an Argentina flag and gave to a fan. I don't like Justin Beiber either, so I am with Argentinean's on this!

They are very very very prideful so I would bet that yes they were offended

10.  Do they listen to any American music over there?

Yes, half the music is random English songs and the other half is regaton and kumbia.

11.  Do you think the natives over there are prettier then American girls? ;op

No haha

12.  Have you eaten cow stomach or intestines or any other nasty things?

No I have avoided mondungo but I have eaten liver, pig`s face, I think kidney if I remember right but that is all that I can think of right now. Mostly we just eat rice or noodles with chicken or beef.

13.  What is the one food you miss the most?

That is hard... I miss it all... I miss flavor, I really want chick fil a and I want mexican food (although we have been able to make some) and lots of stuff

14.  Has your view changed on what you want to do (career) when you get back?

No, haha I still want to be a computer science engineer

15.  Do the kids go to school? Do they go until 12th grade? Is there a college around there?

Yes, they go in the morning come home eat sleep the siesta then go back to school until night. There are universities and they get to go for free but few people do. Most people just work in construction.

16.  Who cuts your hair?

We cut our own hair. We borrow a member’s clippers and cut it.

I love you guys and I can`t wait to hear from you next week! I will let you know how transfers go!

The picture of me with the flag is an award me and my comp got for being the mosted robbed companionship ha ha.

DANG THIS BAPTISM IS HAPPENING!

BEST news first! We HAVE a baptism THIS SATURDAY!! Vilma finally decided that she was going to get baptized!!! We are super excited! We went to visit Rocio and she told us that Vilma had decided that she wanted to be baptized but we weren`t sure, then she said that it was true and we still kinda doubted it. Then we asked her who she wanted to baptize her and she said Elder Clemons and at that point we were like dang this is happening!

Well, our favorite member family is probably the family Barrios. They live close to us and we visit a lot. They always make us good food and are fun to be around. The only problem is that it is just a mom and her daughter so we can`t really just visit them so we have to invite a man over to go in or stay outside. But the other family that we like a lot is the Family Gutierez, they are fun to visit and talk to, haha we always talk about random stuff and have a lot of fun. Like one time we were talking about the fact that we are Americans and not everyone else. I told them that they are southern americans (the continent) and we are both north americans (continent) and Americans (country). They wouldn`t buy it, they want to be Americans too. Everyone just wishes that they could be as awesome as Americans, ha ha.

Not really much has gone on this week but we do have a bunch of one liners from our investigatores/members.

1.      I want to go to the Bermuda Triangle to go through the time portal there. I want to get back my youth.

2.      The angel Moroni revealed to me where the golden plates are.

3.      Elder Clemons is in love with dark skinned women. He has been starring me down since you have started teaching me.

4.      (to e Clemons) Why do you love Selina Gomez?

5.      (to me)Do you have a daughter in the states?

6.      Jiraldo is such a good boy, it doesn`t matter how drugged up he is, he always remembers my name!

7.      The children in the area are so good! They love to shoot at the police cars and break their windshields, all in good fun of course.

8.      Why do you get out cookies for the missionaries? you don`t do that for me and I am your boyfriend (Girlfriend)No, don`t worry about it, they are just old men

We do have a cool schedule today and tomorrow where we have to come back early at 7 p.m. because of Catholic strip parties that are going to be taking place in the streets. They all dress up in feathers and that is about it and dance around.

Oh, and I HAVEN`T HEARD ABOUT THIS NATHAN VALENTINES THING, WRITE ME ABOUT IT, haha It sounds funny.

I love you guys so very much and can`t wait to hear from you!

Things you might not know about Argentina

Yes! Rocio was baptized and confirmed this last week! Unfortunately Vilma didn´t want to... But we are going to be working with Jenifer (Granddaughter-daughter of Vilma) and we hope that Vilma will want to get baptized at the same time as her. We have set the date of the 8th of March for Jenifer and we think it will happen. We want to be able to have that one more baptism before the end of the transfer.

The best day this week was the baptism day! Baptisms are always the best! Rocio was really excited and it all went really well. The only bad part was the sacrament meeting that was right after her confirmation was probably the worst that I have ever been to in my whole life... maybe... It is debatable between that one and my old primary teacher’s homecoming, haha. The whole meeting was old people giving talks and they didn´t give talks... they just pulled out principles of the gospel, teachings of the prophets, bible dictionary, etc and read from them very brokenly. It was super long and boring... ugh. If I wasn´t a missionary I probably would have left and came back after sacrament meeting. 

We haven´t had any success in finding any new investigators. It has been really bad in our whole zone right now. Fontana is pretty down on numbers specifically the sisters who are having only 3-5 lessons a week. The zone leaders are in the same spot too. But hay que trabajar no mas. (I don´t know how to translate that well... You just have to keep working... but it sounds better in castellano)

We are yet again without water and still no other penshs to move into. We are looking all over and there just aren´t any. Almost all of Fontana are these houses called viviendas which are government funded houses that can´t be rented. Sometimes they do anyway but it doesn´t work for us because that is illegal and we aren´t allowed to rent them.

There is a huge problem with Argentine money right now. The value of the money in Argentina is failing super-fast and our monthly income hasn´t gone up. I am fine for right now but I spend my money well and don´t have problems. I think it will make it very hard for other missionaries really soon. One liter of milk when I got here was 4 pesos right now it is 12.... TRIPLE!! That is ridiculous! Prices keep going up each week. Luckily eggs are still only one peso so I eat a lot of those. Also rice and noodles are cheap so we eat a lot of those as well. Our monthly allowance started out at 900 pesos and around Christmas time went up to 1000. So while the prices have tripled here our income has gone up less than ten percent. Also the price to take out the money has gone up from 20 pesos to 50 pesos. So really the extra hundred we would have gotten is just taken away and the collectives (busses) were only 2.50 and now are 3.75 but never have change so they end up charging 4 pesos each time. I don´t want to take out the money here because it cuts the value in less than hallf and that isn´t worth it. I also am not allowed to take the money out in dollars because the argentine government knows that dollars are worth way more than pesos and that pesos are worth a lot less than 5.5 to the dollar. It is really more like 13 to the dollar and going up each week. 

There are a lot of missionaries that go home but I hardly ever hear about it. The other day I heard that 9 went home last transfer but I heard that they were all medical. The only one that I know for sure was a Hna Patterson who went home because she was sick. She left at the same time as me and she has had health problems the whole time.  

Things you might not know about Argentina

1.     All the houses are made out of brick and cement. They then cover the brick and cement with a layer of cement and paint it. That is how an Argentine house is made, haha

2.     The sky seems really big here because there are no mountains where I am at.

3.     Every Sunday the people make asados and the streets smell like it

4.     The biggest pastime of the people is to drink matte and people watch or just play soccer

5.     People sweep there dirt here, they also water it

6.     The city of Resistencia is named so because when the Spanish Catholics invaded the indigenous people were resistant to change their religion (today they still are, haha)

7.     The biggest worshiped things around here are gauchito gil and the virgin maria because people say that they relate more to them than Jesus

8.     The main form of transportation is the moto

9.     The main food consists of guiso (noodles or rice with a sauce and beef or chicken), milanesa, or if we are lucky empanadas or pizza. All things are covered in lots of oil though si o si

Oh, can you send me the recipe on how to make a sourdough starter? I would like to make one! I have been making lots of stuff recently like tortilla (the only ones here are super expensive), pizza crust, bread and I would like to try to make a sourdough starter. 

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

Let God stand as my witness that I KNOW it!!!

My birthday was pretty much just a normal day. We went out and taught in the morning and never found anyone who let us in for a lesson so we went to lunch. There we did have a good lunch (milanesa, bread, and mashed potatoes) followed by a really good cake! I got to keep the cake and I have been eating it with my comp. It is vanilla with a strawberry creme layer and a dulce de leche layer.I believe I got a Christmas package this week! It had lots of Christmas wrapping paper and gifts for my comp. It is awesome!!! I love the Dr Pepper gum, the chick fil a sauce, hot sauce, spot it, shirts, wallet, and I am sure some other things that I am blanking on this moment. I was very happy to get it! I think that I will probably get all the packages you sent maybe just a little late but better late than never! That was the Christmas one right?

We have a baptism coming up next week! It almost happened on my birthday but Rocio didn`t go to church last week because her coworker was sick and she got called into work. But this Saturday si or si we will be having a baptism! We also hope that her mom Vilma will be getting baptized as well. She is a little scared to get baptized again and we think that she is scared of what her husband and neighbors will think. We are getting her ready for this week and so if she wants to we will have the clothes there and she will be ready to go! 
Valentine’s day didn`t really affect us at all... besides give people a reason to break the law of chastity... But they would have probably broken it anyway. Elder Clemons and I didn`t do anything special at all. I told him feliz dia de amor and he just wanted to see his girlfriend so he was bitter about that. 
I made pancakes this week with the syrup recipe you gave me! I still need to find coconut milk to make Rumbi rice but that will be delicious! (pictures of Dropbox) The chicken salad I haven`t done yet but will do soon, but what is exactly mexican creme? haha Also I don`t know if there is enough time to do the chicken noodle soup because it takes an hour and we only have an hour of lunch time. 

Just yesterday we were waiting for Vilma and Rocio to make it to church (our crazy branch president started the meeting 10min early) and they didn`t make it until the sacrament started and they close the doors and don`t let anyone in. The problem is there is no foyer so often time’s people find it closed and just leave. I was very worried that this would happen but by divine interception Hna Loli and her daughter Damaris showed up (they are fellowshipping them) and waited there with them until the sacrament was over. I know that they were sent at that time to keep them there so that Rocio would be ready for her baptism this Saturday.

I don`t know how to say what part of my testimony has grown on my mission because really it all has. I have learned things that I never knew before and have a much stronger better understanding of the gospel. Before I more knew bits and pieces but I have seen everything come together more on my mission. I have learned of the importance of all the differences in our religion and that of others. Also I have seen the depth and understanding that we have in comparison to that of the other churches. It is really interesting to see how even from a purely logical point of view our church is the only one that is possibly correct. Sometimes I feel like people are crazy because they don`t see it but it is really just that they are too stuck in their ways and don`t want to change. But I definitely have no doubts that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the one and only true church on the face of the earth. The restoration and the Book of Mormon are evidence of it. One only has to take Moroni`s challenge and ask of God if the book is true and they can also know with certainty of the same. The same way that Peter knew when Christ asked him who he was, through the power of the Holy Ghost we can know and that is the only true and lasting testimony that we can receive. All others are only temporal. I know these things are true by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost and nothing will change that. Let God stand as my witness that I know it and that I am here to let all know it as well.

Something funny about this week…we were taking a colectivo (bus) to the far part of our area. I didn`t have any small change and the bus drivers are very strict and only accept small change. Luckily he accepted my 20 pesos and had change for it. He forgot to give me a ticket for paying but I didn`t mind because it is annoying to have them anyway. Of course this time the ticket collector man got on the bus and started stamping the tickets. When he got to me I told him the bus driver didn`t give me one. He then started asking stupid questions like ``do you not pay attention to what you do?`` ``Do you want me to take you to the police station it is right here?`` I told him he could ask the bus driver and he would tell him that I paid because he had to brake the 20. He just kept going off about the ticket and I told him this was my stop anyway so if he wanted we can go to the police station but I paid anyway so calm down. He just left it at that because he knew I paid but was just really annoying. Later that day we got on another bus and he was there again and I was holding my ticket out to him the whole bus ride but he never wanted to stamp it, haha. Then the next day we saw him again and we showed him our tickets but he still resented us and didn`t want to stamp them (it doesn`t do anything if they are stamped or not). Then he went to another lady who pulled out her ticket and he got mad at her because it wasn`t the right ticket and she realized that and got out the right one but he threw a fit and made her talk to the bus driver. now we hate him and are going to do everything we can to annoy him, haha
Well, I have run out of time and I can`t wait to hear from you next week. I love you all tons!!

I can't believe I am 20.... that seems SO much older than 19

This week has been a little better than the last. The biggest problem right now is that we don´t have any investigators besides our one that should be getting baptized on the 22nd. Her date passed another week because she didn´t go to church this week. We have had a lot of rejections lately. We have people tell us stuff like ´´I already know everything about your church´´ Then we ask them to teach us because we don´t know everything about it, haha or ´´Your church was started by a man´´ ´´you follow that john smith´´ ´´you are all tricked by evil spirits´´ ´´you don´t believe that Christ is the son of God´´ just waving their finger no ´´no, solo no´´ ´´i am the antichrist and the devil is inside would you like to meet him´´ or whatever else they say. Just the norm.
Vilma is still scared to get baptized again. We are still working with her but more with her daughter, Rocio, now. She also has been taking the lessons but she is sure about her answer. They both know that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith is a prophet but Vilma still doesn´t want to get baptized yet. Rocio is ready she just needs to assist one more time before the 22^nd and then she should be getting baptized! More than that we have no one right now... we are looking all over but just a bunch of rejection.
We hope to find out if we can move into the new apartment we found next week when he is back from vacations. The people here have this thing where they leave for the whole month of either January of February and just vacation. So he will be back next week to tell us.
It is still blistering hot here. It is at the end of it though. While this has been the hottest summer of my life and probably the hottest I will ever be the good thing is that now it will cool off and I will only be here for the beginning of the summer next year.
We will be having a multizone conference tomorrow so I will let you know how that goes! They are always great and then we will either get to have empanadas or pizza for lunch! With the best soda that they have here called pritty lemon, because they don´t have the best soda... Dr. Pepper. I did hear that in Paraguy there is Dr. Pepper and I am trying to get someone to buy it for me and bring it back, haha.
Not really much to tell for the week... lots of contacting again.
I did hear that I have a package waiting for me in the office!!!! I am going there after this to go get it! 
Oh and I was wondering if you could try to send me dollars in the mail. Maybe only like 10-20 at a time but if you did that then I could have so much more money than taking it out of the bank. I really have gotten sick of them cutting the value of my money in less than half. The ´´official value´´ is 5.50 peso to the dollar but the street value is 12 peso to the dollar. It would be great if you could send it. I am trying to find a place to be able to take out the money in dollars but so far I haven´t found it. They try to make you buy dollars for 12 pesos because they know the really value of the peso is much lower than they say. It is all just a scam. Plus the inflation is ridiculous every week the prices raise .50 - 1 peso. 
The birthday video was AWESOME!!! Thank you all very much! I still can´t believe that I am going to be 20... that seems so much older than 19, haha 

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

Better double the ice cream it has been a rough week!

It has been a very long week and we really haven`t had anything happen. We don`t really have any investigators right this moment only one family that is progressing.  Vilma is progressing and we hope that she will get baptized this weekend. She is scared to get baptized again and doesn`t want to anger the Lord. We have been focusing on helping her get a testimony of Joseph Smith so that she will know that we have the authority and that she needs to get baptized again. Also if she gets baptized her daughter Rocio will too. More than that we don`t have squat. They are awesome but the rest of the time we are just contacting and not really finding anyone, just people who we teach once then they don`t progress. You can tell that it has been a long week because we bought ice cream twice, haha We had very long and hard days so we went to Luigis. 

I am in the same place with the same comp, same everything. The only change in our zone was that one companionship was taken out. On the bright side we now have what was the Fontanegro 1 phone, since there isn`t going to be a new Fontanegro 1. But one cool thing is Elder Fiabane my first hijo is now in the office. He is the secretary of documents. Also we have a new AP who is Elder Perez. He is really cool we have been together twice. He was in my zone in Formosa 1, then he was my zone leader in Formosa 3 then my zone leader here and now he is the AP. Next transfer the gringo AP will go and we will have another new AP and it will probably be Elder Howlett. 

While we were contacting this week in the center of Fontana I saw a giant swimming pool, I have never seen a pool here in Argentina. I was very tempted to just run a jump into it. I wanted to and it would have been amazing....

Really there isn`t much to tell for this week.... lots of nothing going on. I now do not have any more Januaries in the mission. that is new. 

Oh and if you have any basic recipes that you can send that would be awesome... there is no variety to the food here. I would like something different, haha. The only ingredients are things like bread (more of a roll really the sliced bread is harder to get and expensive), rice, noodles, tomato sauce, a creamy cheese (not cream cheese but queso cremoso, our cheeses are much better), milk but it is a little expensive, eggs, most fruits and vegetables, and that is about it haha so if you have any recipes for things like that I would love them! 


I love you guys and I can`t wait to hear from you next week! 

Yes I am almost a true Resistencia missionary now

Yes mom I am almost a true Resistencia missionary haha only one thing left that I will try to avoid…falling in the sanja. The dog bite really isn`t bad. It has healed just fine no problems. Luckily it didn`t penetrate through the pants, I think that would have made it bad. It hasn`t been infected or anything.

This week we have been contacting in full. It has been a very long week. We basically are at a point where we don`t have many investigators. The good thing is that the ones we do have are awesome! We have Vilma, Rocio, and two granddaughters that all went to church this last week and they are all awesome. Vilma has a fecha for the 8th of February and so do Rocia and the granddaughters should be the same day or maybe following week! We have Delia and her son. Delia is very emotional and asks crazy questions that she thinks are impossible to answer like what is a Christian. (Her son says he wants to be Christian not catholic). What I told her was that her son doesn`t mean that he wants to be Christian but that he wants to be a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They also have a fecha for the 8th. We also have Claris that we picked up last week and she is awesome and has a fecha for the 15th. It is funny because this week we had 5 in the church and in the zone we had a total attendance of 8 investigators. I guess this week everyone was slow. Luckily five of our investigators were there.

Recently I have been studying a lot about the Holy Ghost. I have been trying to see how I can work to have his influence more in my life. I want to be able to feel like I should be knocking a door not just knocking to knock. I know that it will also greatly improve lessons because I will be able to discern what they need and what to share. Really everything will be better. It is really the most important part of the work I would say is to have to guidance of the Holy Ghost.

  

What I am trying to do before I take out money is I want to find an atm where I can take out American dollars because you can trade them in the street for basically double what you can take out of a bank. Argentina lies and says that peso is worth a lot more than it actually is.

Elder Caliister said that he got Emily’s email this week and that he answered all her questions and can`t wait to see what she says back. Haha

Oh! and I keep forgetting to say that the videos have been hilarious that you have been putting on Dropbox! What does to fox say, haha both me and my comp were laughing over them.

I love you guys so very much and I can`t wait to hear from you next week! I will let you know what happens with transfers too, haha

DOG BITES AND ARMED ROBBERIES WHAT A WEEK!!!

I ate my half way ice cream this week, it was very delicious! It wasn`t hard ether... that is a little sad that I ate two pounds of ice cream like it was nothing.

Ok, so dang. This week  is a long story. This Wednesday we had planned that all of our investigators would go and have their baptism interviews right? Well we went to meet Sergio and he didn`t show up. So we went to the house he is living in (with his drunk friend Raul) to try to find him. When we got there luckily we did run into him his son and he told us that Sergio left for central (he goes there pretty much every day to try to get is half of his inheritance from his sister. Then we went to the interviews for Rosa and her family but when we got there she didn`t answer. We then called her and she said that she was at the other side of Resistencia with a cousin of hers that she didn`t know was a member`s. So with our defeat we went to go get ice cream and rescheduled the interviews for the following day since there was no other option. The following day luckily it all worked out and they had their interviews. The next day we had their baptisms and when we got to the stake center the font wasn`t filled (sigh...) so we had to wait an hour and a half to let it fill. Then we had the baptisms. The next day we got a call from a member saying that Rosa had an accident on her moto. We quickly went over to her house to see how she was. Luckily she had only burnt her leg and injured/broken a small part of her foot. What was even more of a relief was that she was telling us how that was just a trial of the devil and she didn`t attribute what happened to her baptism. Her sister had told her it was because she got baptized but Rosa chastised her and told her she had found the truth and that he protected her daughters and she was only minimally injured. It was a huge testimony builder to see her have such a strong testimony and so soon. She has only been investigating for three weeks. Then later that night as we were visiting the last person before going back to the pensh and their stupid dog bit me. Luckily it didn`t penetrate my pants but it did my skin. There is a picture in dropbox. 

The next morning, the morning of the confirmations. We left our pensh to go gather investigators and Rosa, her daughters, and Sergio. We were walking down a street and two guys on moto go speeding down the street like always but then come to a sliding stop next to us. The one on the back jumped off and pulled out a gun and told us to give him our phone and bags. So now we are once again without a phone and he stole my new bag that I had bought. It was smaller so that it fit only scriptures and flyers. So they ended up with ties (that a member had just given us, flyers, Elder Clemons triple, my small bible, my small camera, cell phone, our lunch calendar list, and baptismal papers). For the most part they will be very disappointed with their loot. Also if the police would have come in a reasonable time they could have caught them too. We were robbed then some of the neighbors gave us seats and told us that they called to cops. While we were waiting (10 min later) the guy passed buy again without his accomplice and gave us a peace sign. The cops didn’t show up for another twenty minutes. So after that we made it to church only fifteen minutes late. But we missed the confirmations and Sergio wasn’t there. That afternoon we went and found Sergio and brought him to the Branch president`s house and we confirmed him. So long story short, yes four baptisms and four confirmations!!! Making a total of 12 converts in 12 months. I have a goal to have at least 24 converts by the end of my mission. Don’t worry about me everything is great. I love you so much and can’t wait to talk to you next week!

Four baptisms on Friday!!!

We have four people preparing to be baptized on Friday. All of them will be ready too! We have Sergio, Rosa and her daughters Karen and Juli who are getting ready! We also have Vilma who is starting to get close as well! You asked about what are biggest obstacles are in teaching people and if they aren't prepared they just won`t accept from the beginning. If not that, it is the commandment that they are breaking and having a hard time changing, or if not that then it is that they don`t keep the commitments and just aren't prepared at this time.

We always wear our sombreros to try and stay cool and that helps a little bit. We also buy a lot of these things called jugitos. It is basically a Popsicle. Not really much more than that. Sometimes if it is really hot at night then I will just rinse down and go to bed wet. We are still trying to get a AC for our pensh because we only have a fan. I don`t know if we will get it before the summer is over though.

There is a missionary who wants Emily`s email so that he can write her, haha I promised that I would see if I could get it for him. I will let her decided if she wants to give it to him though. He also sent me pictures so I will forward those too. haha He also said she can look him up on Facebook. He is really cool and likes to go boating, doing things outdoors, and every sport. So yeah, haha He wanted me to see if she would write him. 


This week nothing has happened too much out of the ordinary. We did have divisions and that was why E Callister wants to write Emily because he was looking at family pictures. We also found a really huge pensh that we want but we have to wait a month until it opens because the owner wants the mold problem gone before anyone goes in because wants it to be perfect. I don`t know if I will still be here when that comes around. I am really curious what is going to happen this next transfer. I will end training E Clemons and probably one of us will leave. Also Elder Santoro and one of the secretaries are going home this transfer and the following the other secretary is going home. So we will have very new secretaries soon. Also we found out that the new mission president that will be coming in in July is named Rodolfo C. Franco. He lives in South Jordan and both he and his wife are from Buenos Aires. So they both speak both English and Castellano perfectly. It is crazy that it is getting to the end of the time for President Heyman. 

Sweating Profusely

Pension hunting this week was horrible. We didn´t find anything. We wasted a whole afternoon looking and didn´t even find one potential option. Luckily our water is back on so we will probably just be staying where we are.

Something awesome recently and that is we met Sergio. We were walking down a street one day and we hear someone yell to us in English, hey where your hat the sun is too hot here your head will explode. I was thinking about ignoring it because there are every now and then people who speak a little English and want to talk to us because of it. But I decided we had better talk to him. It turns out he lived in the states for ten years because his dad was an ambassador. We set an appointment to go back but I didn´t give much credit to it because I thought he just wanted to speak English but you never know. When we went back it turns out that he is really awesome and that he not only speaks English but really wants to change his life. He came to church that first week without problem and now a second week. His baptism is set for the eighteenth but it might change to this week, we will see.
This Sunday in church Silvia our recent convert had an epilepsy attack. She started convulsing and foaming from the mouth. It was really nuts. We gave her a priesthood blessing while members called the ambulance. It really helped out but she still did have another attack. She had a total of four attacks, it was all really crazy. We went to visit her that night and she was fine. The only problem was that she was too nervous to stand up during sacrament meeting to go get water to take her pill so by the time it was over it was too late.
The other elders that are here in Fontana just got transferred out today. Elder Guajardo´s comp got switched for an Emergency Transfer. So Elder Guajardo went to Formosa. Now we have half of Fontana again and the sisters have the other half.
We were a little sad became a part of our area, bueno at least what should be our area was stolen from us. The sisters from Barrio cuatro claimed it as theirs and they don´t even work it. The sad thing is that we had three people with fetchas there and one was golden... The one good thing is we inherited the elders fecha who came to church this last week since their area is now closed. But I know it will all work out.
Our area is doing really quite good right now. We have four or five people that all should be baptized before the end of this month and transfer. That is pretty exciting. More than that we are doing a lot of looking for prepared people. And that is our story for right now.
The first half of our pday today was spent at the other elders pensh taking stuff for our own since they are clearing theirs out. They are both already gone.
My clothes are all holding up really well. My shoes are starting to get a little old but I still have my other pair. I am holding out on my replacement clothes until after the summer because the summer is very damaging and wearing. After it I will open all of my replacements and start using those. But really everything is holding out really good.
I have heard it is very cold right now in the states.. Colder than previous years or something?  Here it is hotter than I have ever been in my life.... but I would still take that over extreme cold, haha It can get miserable especially during study’s when the power is out due to extreme heat and you sweat profusely but yeah, haha It really started to pick up in heat after Christmas but we are told this is still nothing and wait until the end of this month and February..... I can´t imagine it hotter but we will see. I feel like I walk around in a steam room all day pretty much.

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