Well here we go,
Kinda reached my
first real mile stone in the mission… exactly one year from right
now I will be eating McD´s in the Buenos Aires airport awaiting my
flight to the promise land(USA)…. Hahaha but I am not trunky…
just making observations
. We had an interesting, basically normal
week. Nothing too exciting happened. Probably the most exciting part
of this week was our trip to Resistencia for leadership council. It
was the last council meeting with Pres. Franco before he goes…. If
anyone is trunky here it has to be the mission president. But we left
for Resistencia last tuesday at what was suppose to be 2pm but there
was an Indian protest where they blocked the highway preventing any
sort of travel. And our 2pm FlechaBus bound for Resi turned out to be
a 5pm Flechabus bound for Resi. Pres. Franco invited the 2 branch
president missionaries and their companions to the council meeting as
well so Elders Moreira and White came with us. Thanks to the Monopoly
Deal game I have, we were able to wait out the delay by playing some
games of that in the bus terminal. On our way down, the Argentine
´´military´´ boarded the bus at the boarder of Formosa and Chaco
and checked our iD´s. Luckly nothing transpired from that and we
made it safely to Resi by 11pm. The leadership council was great and
was centered on Ch.9 of Preach my Gospel, which talks about how to
find new investigators. President combined that with Alma 26 which
talks about Ammon and the sons of Mosiah. It was really good. Then we
packed everything up for our Zone afterwards and headed back to
Ibarreta. So I got the package from Mom that had the long awaited
SlapChop inside. That thing is a life saver. I appreciate that thing
so much and now my cooking time is literally split in half. What a
luxury! But I read the list of what was suppose to be inside the
package and customs took out the Popcorn seeds:(… but that is okay
because I just found out that the local china market here sells
popcorn seeds...(yes there are Chinese people in Argentina).
The work in our area
is starting to pick up. A big focus President Franco talked about in
Council meeting was how effective it is to work with Less-active
families and partial families. So we have been putting a lot of
effort into finding all the less-actives in Ibarreta so that we can
activate them, hopefully find their unbaptized kids, and get to
teaching their friends and family. I recently just got off the phone
with the mission office and they are working on getting the updated
birth certificate of Celedonio Cano and they said that that should be
getting here within 2 weeks. So we are happy to hear this and excited
to see this family enter the waters of baptism together.
Last night we were
leaving a lesson with a recent convert when I completely threw out my
back. As some of you may know, I have a pretty bad lower back that
gets tweaked every 6 months or so. Well what happened is I bent down
to put my boots on after the lesson and just felt the sharpest pain
in my lower back and had to wobble back to our place. I am pretty
sure it is the same exact injury that dad had about a year ago when
he was working on the wall and hurt his back. It is really incredible
that I have an injury like this even though I am 20 years old. But I
am fully convinced that the 4 years of weight lifting with Mr. Boley
of Legend High School gave me the back I have…. Too many back
squats will do that to you. So now I do my studies knelled over my
bed like dad was knelled over the ottoman because frankly, that is
the only position that will not hurt.
But anyway, that was
my week. We will be having District Conference(like stake conference
but a district) this Sunday and President Franco will be coming to
preside over it and give his final talk over a pulpit as a mission
president. I will end my email there and I hope that you all have a
great week!
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