I´ll just start out with what happened during the week.
After we finished internet and things last week, my comp tried cleaning up his hair a bit, and used a number 3 on the sides with my cutter thing. well, he thought something was a bit short in the front apparently, and so without changing the number, he cut about half way
into his hair, and so he ended up having to cut the rest of his hair that length. so now, it is really short.
the next day we had interviews with the mission president. they went pretty well. he basically told me i had better know the area since i will be getting a different comp in a week. we ended up being really late to lunch that day. we had to wait for an hour for sister missionaries who weren´t supposed to be there to finish, and then we had our meeting. took a train back, and halfway back they said there was a crash in capital, and for some reason they made us all get off the train. took 15 minutes for another train to come back. then we took a bus, and i got in line to pay for a ticket. well, my comp didn´t pay attention that i was still in line, and he got on the bus, and the bus took off. so we went on divisions with the bus. yeah. i just waited 2 minutes for the next bus to leave, and when i got off he was waiting on a bench.
on wednesday i went on divisions. with somebody that has one transfer less than me (read: this is his first transfer). it went alright for 2 yankees (they call us that down here) who cant really speak all that well. one of their investigators they have said i looked exactly like her old boyfriend who she dropped a while back because he was doing bad things. she took it as a sign that she was doing the right thing... that night the power went out in their area for like 40 min, and we went to get flashlights and things, and right as we knocked on the door for the appointment, the power came back on. that night, the other elders that went on divisions came to the area. they didn´t have the key. thats what happens when your comp doesnt like to hold the keys...
thursday. before we finished divisions, the elder i was with bought 100 alfajores (little chocolate cake thingies). 100 is a lot, most people buy them one or 2 at a time. got back from divisions and immediately went into weekly planning. then we had a pretty normal day after that.
starting friday, the mundial began. every time argentina plays, the streets are completely empty. as in, nobody is in the streets. they are all watching the game. its good that argentina won. i dont know if any of you are paying attention to it at all or not, but the united
states tied 1-1 with england. its a nice way to make contacts. friday night we had dinner with a family who has just started to become active again. we played charades with them, and they all had a ton of fun with it, it was really nice.
it rained basically all day saturday, and is raining again today. I mentioned Silvina a while back, a referral from another area. well we were finally able to contact her again, and apparently she is moving to the country sometime this week. her husband (but not really, since they aren´t married) is cheating on her, and so she is trying to get away. so she doesnt want to listen to us anymore. we told her to look for the missionaries out in the country when she eventually moves.
on sunday, we had churros for breakfast. they are basically cooked things of bread with a ton of sugar on them, and then sometimes they have cream or some other sweet thing stuffed on in the inside. on sunday, mario showed up. that is the first time he has actually shown up while i have been here. then we went back to apartment, and comp didn´t feel like traveling to eat lunch, so he cancelled it. so we ended up eating (more or less) bread and sugar for lunch. woohoo, what a day for meals. went back to the church to start some divisions with some members, but one guy didn´t show, so we spent the next hour and a half walking with the one who did show, showing him where members lived that he didn´t know. he was a slow walker too, it was kind of irritating. had a good day with lots of lessons and contacts and things. my eye has been twitching for the past 2 days now. i dont really know whats making it do that, but it is really frustrating.
its raining again today... this is also the last week i have with my current comp. also last week of the transfer. as the president told me, this transfer will mark 5 months in the mission (3 in argentina). time really does fly.
As far as the recent convert goes (Silvia), we will continue teaching her every week on Thursday at the Campos house. She is doing well. We gave her a triple, since she had asked about D and C back when we had first started teaching her. We also plan on ordering her an lds bible. The lds version of the bible has only come out in spanish within the past year or so. before that, they had to use the catholic version, so everybody is still buying the new ones. there is a ´new convert packet´ that contains tons of books and pamphlets and things for new members, so we plan on having a member share a new book with her every couple weeks, so she doesnt get too overwhelmed with so many books right after baptism. but yeah, she is doing very well. its started to stay cold here. before, it would get cold hot
cold hot every other day (a bit of an exaggeration) but it was annoying. now, its more or less staying cool, and doesnt exactly get hot anymore. i actually used my coat the other day for the rain, and it worked out very well.
I hope everyone is having a good time doing whatever the heck they are doing.
this letter was short, i was a bit preoccupied.
til next week!
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