June 28, 2010

Hello again...

I dont have any pictures this week... I forgot to take them.  So hopefully next week I will have some.

Tuesday - In the morning we were planning on going to our District Meeting, but before we left we got a call from the district leader telling us that the meeting would be in the afternoon, during the Argentina game (since nobody is in the street during that time anyways).  So time to leave for the meeting rolled around, and right as were about to leave we get a call from some guy that is going around installing smoke and gas detectors in all the apartments.  So we had to stay, and by the time he finsihed, it would have been useless to go to the meeting.  So we just sat in the pench... at least we ´´heard´´ the game (everytime Argentina scored a goal, the entire country starts screaming, so naturally with all the houses so close, it gets loud when Argentina scores).

Wednesday - We were in the middle of personal study time, and my companion remembered that he had a doctors appointment in captial at 12.  So we went to the offices, and from there we had to take a taxi to Capital.  We got back to our area around 2.  Went to teach a lesson at a members house but the investigator wasn´t there, so the family went and got a few people that they knew and we ended up teaching 3 lessons in their house.  Pretty cool.

Thursday - We had a lesson with Silvia, baptism 3 or 4 weeks ago.  We taught her about temples and baptisms for the dead and things.  She really liked it, and is still attending church every week.  Woohoo!

Friday - We had a lesson with an investigator family that had a baptism date about 3 months ago.  We actually went with the bishop. The mom has a lot of problems, and she spent most of the time talking about them.  she told us that she would attend church this Sunday, and we said that we would stop by and pick her up a little before 9.  That night I had to call like 6 people on the phone.  i understood basically everything of what they said.  That was pretty cool.

Saturday - We had service in the morning with the youth.  We cleaned up a VERY dusty room with tons and tons of books in a school.  We were there for like 3 hours.  Then we tried  contacting 3 or 4 references that we received, but nobody was home.  That night it started raining.

Sunday - We went to pick up the family that said they would go with us to church.  We knocked for 10 minutes, but nobody ever answered the door...  Then we went to pick up another investigator.  He said he hadnt drunk (drank?) or smoked in 2 weeks.  Well he walked in, and he told us that he drank that morning.  So we poured out his bottle of booze, but he wouldnt give us his cigarettes.  How lame.  Then Argentina played in the afternoon.  So nobody was in the street.  But they won! woohoo.  United States got kicked out, so I still have Argentina to cheer for!

I really like my new companion.  He is from Chile, hes 23 almost 24, and actually speaks a bit of english.  But I still speak about 90% spanish with him.  And I have a lot more fun during the day with him too, as compared with my old comp.  We teach alot of lessons, do a lot of contacts, and still have time to go to members houses and things. Its really nice.

Oh, by the way, for anybody reading this... if you have any church music at all (and classical too!) either upload it to me in an email, or burn it to cd or dvd and mail it to me.  Classical music includes things like Lord of the Rings, which apparently we can listen to.  I was thinking of that CD ´´As Temples Fill the Earth´´ and any weird songs that mormon tabernacle choir sings, since apparently they sing some really weird stuff, and not just church music.

Hmm, thats more or less it for this week.  Til next week..!

Collin