Monday - So it basically rained hard the entire day. And it being P-day and all, we didn´t have appointments in the morning. So we just stayed in our apartment all day. I studied some spanish and things, and then slept for 2 hours before we headed outside. The rain drizzled off at night. That night we went and visited an old investigator family. They had had baptismal dates, and only needed one more church attendance. Then the missionaries went to pick them up in the morning during a rainy day, and they said they heard ´´we´re not going´´ when the family says they said ´´we´re coming´´ so the missionaries left and the family got mad. so now we are trying to bring them back to church again. they have 3 kids, and all the kids are pretty cool. they´re not doing any drugs, and don´t have any girlfriend/boyfriend problems, which down here is a rare family.
Tuesday - we received breakfast this morning again. I really like apartment delivery breakfast. It´s nice. We had district meeting that day as well. We got to the train station and nobody was selling tickets. So they told us to just walk in. And then when we got off at the other train station, where they make sure you have tickets before you leave (except the lazy employees
who just let everybody pass, which is 80% of the employees...) the employee there looked at me as I was walking through, and was about to touch me, so I hurried through quicker, but still acting normal and just kept walking on. I´m not about to be fined 20 pesos when I tried to pay, hah. We taught a man named Mario Ruiz. He is pretty cool guy. We read the book of mormon with him, Alma 11, I think it was. He still doesnt attend to church, but I think he is at least progressing.
Wednesday - Today we met a recently returned missionary. The son of our former ward mission leader. Everybody says he changed a lot, but I obviously have no idea. Tried to go to a TON of people that day, but nobody was home.
Thursday - In the morning we had a lesson with a CPV (cita para volver, or basically a return appointment that we contacted in the street). She is really nice, and we have another follow up lesson with her next week. She gave us a referral of somebody that lives a block away. We visited her, and she has like 8 boys living in her house. and ALL of them listened to us.
And they weren´t noisy or anything, which was really surprising too. They actually paid attention. Then in the afternoon we had a lesson with Silvia, our recent convert. We talked to her about family home evening, and gave her a book about it. That is one old book... they really need to update it, hah. I said, ´´wow these pictures are from like the 70´s or something.´´
and my companion asked when it was printed. It was 1981...
Friday - Friday was cloudy the entire day. The first thing we did was go on splits in the morning with 2 members. One was a convert 5 months ago, the other was the recently returned missionary. I went with the recent convert, but some number of years ago he had some brain attack, I forgot what its called, but it makes him move really slow now. So we weren´t able to do much. I contacted as many people as I could, but we weren´t able to make it to any appointments. The old bishop showed me something interesting. Paull Allen, the co founder of microsoft or whatever, apparently wrote something about the mormons a few months ago about how they are the best people he has ever met. I read it in spanish though... so I dont know if it was real or not. We also taught Osvaldo today as well. He can´t really attend church because he is a cab driver and gets off work at 7:30 in the morning, but he listens to us, and reads what we give him. So he is a potential baptism. Mmm. That night we were teaching a really old investigator. We found out she is one of the people who receives free milk from the province (the province gives free milk to certain people to pass out to whoever they want, its like that in all of the provinces in argentina apparently). She told us
she would give us milk every Saturday. Free milk, woohoo! Oh by the way, this picture with all the food is my typical breakfast in the mornings...
Saturday - Today my comp used all the credit on the cellphone, because he loves to just call people and talk forever. So now we cant call people for who knows how long. It was also really cold today. I had my coat on the whole day, and never really had to take it off. We taught a family about family history. It was aimed at their son who isn´t a member. He participated a lot as well. We also talked to a guy who said that when he was a kid, he went to the church a lot with one of his friends. This friend went on a mission as well. We have a return appointment with him sometime this week, so we´ll see how that goes. That night Elder Vita, our district leader, called me and told me that I am going to to the campo (where there is a ton of walking and basically nothing. not even food). then at the end of the call he told me it was ajoke. I am staying in the area, and my comp is leaving.
Sunday - Oh I forgot to say, all this past week, my comp was saying goodbye to everybody. So we spent a lot of time in peoples houses. Especially Sunday. And that is basically all the happened that day...
Which leaves today. We had a transfer meeting. I have a new comp! his name is Elder Flores, hes from Chile. He doesnt speak much english, mostly the slang that he has learned from other elders. Now I really think my spanish will take off now that I wont be speaking english all the time to my companion. I think I will like him too. He doesn´t talk 24/7 like my old companion, hah.
Oh by the way, just so everybody knows (since EVERYBODY knows it down here) United States tied again. 2-2. they almost lost. Whew. and Argentina won, against south korea. 4-1. and south korea beat Greece last week 2-0 I think, so I´m pretty sure Argentina is going to beat Greece. Woohoo! :)
During transfer meeting, they told us that we are now going to carry our cellphones around with us during the day, we just can´t use them in the street. They also said that we are going to start having modified schedules to go around the games of the World Cup, since NOBODY is in the street during these times, and a little afterwards people can get kind of rowdy and
things. So that was pretty interesting, I thought.
If I think of anything else I´ll write it... til then...
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