Well, I don´t know that you all left me with much to comment on. Oh well. It happens sometimes. So dad, I am glad you seemed to get a kick out of me getting a bit round. Oh well, I am falling back on the idea that I will be able to get into shape pretty east on the return home. Plus I have summer which might make me lose a few excess pounds.
Today we went and ate a buffet with a bunch of elders after playing some soccer. All chinese food. It was not american food excactly, but it was really really good. Best thing I have had since I have gotten here. Of course they still had some Argentine foods too, mainly the meat and the empanadas. Probably the best thing to me was all the strawberries that they had. They had a dessert that was strawberries and whipped cream. It was incredible.
Kind of funny because the cyber that we are in right now is playing some interesting music. They had some music going from back to the future and I was kind of finding myself in a disneyland sort of feel. Kind of easy here because they have a really good sound system here. I guess even on the mission it is hard to escape the things of the world sometimes.
Now let me see, last week we didn´t really make a lot of progress with our investigators. No one showed up in the chapel and we even passed by someone who said they would like us to pass by for them. I know we have some investigators that really like the church and want to follow, they are just having a hard time figuring out how. Not to mention that church here is like a party for everyone and I think investigators don´t really realize the difference with our church until they experiment for themselves. So that is what we are trying to do, help people realize the sacredness and the importance of the church and what we do there. It really is different.
Well, while none of our investigators showed up, we recently had an activity in which the sacerdocio of our rama went and did home teaching sort of visits. Me and Elder Perez went on splits. All and all we visited a bunch of inactive familias in our rama and to our pleasant surprise, on Sunday three of the familias showed up to church. Home teaching is so important in the church and it is something that doesn´t really function too well down here. We as missionaries have five inactive and less active familias that we are working with. They already know the missionaries and are glad to listen, but it is no secret that we always are changing. In a few months we are gone and a couple others take our place. It is something special when members from there own rama reach out and show they care. We saw some blessing from this activity that we did and the church was pretty full and pleasant.
Just yesterday we had a zone conference and although I don´t really remember a whole lot and didn´t really take a lot of notes, I definitely felt something in this zone conference. I always leave feeling like I want to do better. And I want to do better. As much as it pains me, I don´t like to talk a lot. It is something that you guys know and that I have struggled with a lot on the mission. Still, I am a lot better at just speaking with people now. I don´t really feel too uncomfortable. The language is still a bit of a barrier at a time, or at least I let it be. I, being junior companion still, have the mind set sometimes to let my comp have control. He likes to talk a lot too. Still, I have asked to practice having control of the lesson a bit more and have directed the lessons a bit. I think it will help prepare me to do more talking. Come next transfer, it could be posible that I move up to Senor companion. At least that is what a lot of people seem to think, and I think they may have a bit of razón. So why not prepare now while I have help still.
It sounds like things are still pretty busy at home. It seems so weird that I was a part of all that chaos before. Everyone doing there own little thing. Seems really weird now that I am focused on one thing right now.
Dad, keep up the running so that you can kick me back in shape when I return. I still plan on doing a marathon one day.
Make sure to tell grandma high again and I still have her in my prayers. Hope she gets better soon.
Mom, keep me posted on what you learn about revelations from institute. The people here are really crazy with apocolypses (revelations).
Love you all!
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