July 12, 2010

Tuesday - zone conference.  it was basically an all day thing.  we left at 7:30 in the morning or so, and didnt return until almost 7 in the evening.  This conference wasn´t anything special, it seemed quite normal.  the mission mom (presidents wife) wasnt there because she was having some sort of toothache and stayed at home.  so we got to listen to double of the president, but he gave the information that his wife would have given, so at least it was something a little bit different. I didn´t have to speak either, which was good.  I actually  finished my talk the night before... but I don´t know how good it would have come out if I had had to give it.  Lucky :)  I still didn´t get the new spanish bibles I have been asking for for 6 weeks.  Since the LDS version of the bible recently came out within the past year, everybody
is still ordering a ton and there are not enough to go around.  Really annoying for missionaries.  Spent a long time looking for a bookstore in Morón central that sells different things we needed to buy.  It was kind of odd that we couldnt find what we wanted...  At 7 we left to go to a family who is somewhat active, coming every 2 weeks or so, and I had told them that we would stop by today at 7... but when we knocked the lights all turned out.  Kind of frustrating.

Wednesday - So this morning is when I started to feel a cold coming on.  For the past 5 days (from today) I have had a stuffy nose part of the day, then a runny nose the other part of the day, and a little bit of a sore throat.  It was cold in the morning too.  We had lunch at our normal place on Wedneday, and while I was in the bathroom one of the kids put a bunch of spice in my food.  I didn´t even notice it, I was wondering why everybody was watching me so intently haha.  Got to the Iskras (member family) who was supposed to have an investigator
there for us to teach, but they didnt show up.  We were supposed to return 2 hours later, so we did, and they still werent there. Yarggghhh.  Then we went to Mario and Laura´s (one who wasnt married, then was, then didnt want to get baptized).  Talked to him for about an hour, and he says he wants to get baptized, just not yet.  So we will continue visiting him once a week or so...

Thursday - S Campos suggested I do some specific exercises in the morning that would help me feel better with my stuffed up nose, but it only helped while I did them.  Afterwards I still felt congested.  Oh well, it worked for a little bit at least.  I had seen a bookstore that we passed last night, so we went there in the morning and bought some stuff for 2 of the kids in the campos family.  It was the oldest kids birthday a few days ago, but she was ´´bad´´ and her parents didnt want to celebrate her birthday.  It was also another one of the kids birthday this saturday.  It was a surprise party for the older one, since she didnt think her parents would do anything for her. Anywho, we bought them birthday presents.  And there was going to be a
birthday party this Saturday.  Today my companion started having a really bad toothache or something like that.  Thats why you should brush your teeth :)  Had a lesson with Silvia about family history, then had to leave really quick for our first ward council meeting.  It didnt really benefit us very much, after an hour of listening, we took our 5 minutes of time and then left.

Friday - Independence Day for Argentina! (or something like that).  We talked to a guy on the bus today (or rather he talked to us) and he told us he spoke english.  We thought he was a little drunk, so my companion who is learning english asked ´´you are drunk?´´  he shook his head no.  ´´what you smoking?´´  but i dont think he understood that, hah.  Then he got off the bus.  I peeled onions at the Campos´. It made me cry, it was really bad.

Saturday - today not really much happened... we tried visiting a ton of people, nobody was home.  everybody we contacted in the street just kept walking and didn´t even say anything to us....

Sunday - Had breakfast in the morning at a members house (the members here really love us!).  I ended up having to teach the Gospel Principles class today, without any preparation.  Goodie me.  It was over the fast.  At least it wasnt the next week, titled ´´sacrifice´´ or something like that.  Im not even sure what that entails...  and we still dont have a gospel principles teacher, so we will probably have to teach it again next week.  woohoo for comps turn to teach the class.  It started raining a little bit today as well.  Very cloudy.

Monday - woke up today and it was cold.  But cold.  ugh.  I am wearing 2 sweaters right now.  And other than that its been a normal p day so far...

Dont really have much else to say.  Did everybody have a good 4th of july weekend/party/whatever you did?  We saw pictures on S. Campos facebook of someone in the united states, and it looks nice and hot there.  the opposite of here...

we were called last night, and we have another conference or something with the mission president tomorrow in Ramos.  It must be a cane dropper or something, because we already had our zone conference, and we were supposed to have district meetings this week.  I guess we´ll find out tomorrow...

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