Hola, Feliz Cupliaños Madre!!!
Este es fantastico perro lo seinto por meo dia de prepration es hoy!
Monday
I was traveling to Bahia Blanca and talked to you a little about it then but, I had a super fun day there. I was able to eat at McDonalds and I was never so happy to eat at such a fine establishment! haha It was so great! and they have a luxury side and all the Argentines love. The funny thing is it in English so they assume it’s luxury restaurant in America. We played soccer all day and had a zone meeting in that area and it was a ton of fun! I was able to speak more Spanish then the other elders that came with me to Argentina. Not a lot more but they did asked me questions like, what did he say or how would I get this and it was kind of awesome!
Tuesday
We were living in a elders house in down town Bahia for a night and they were super cool I became really good friends with them and had a blast and for diner we went to a chino to buy food and these two guys got in to a fist fight with the cashier and tried to steal a whole bunch of things. They ran away and pushed other chinos to the floor and it was crazy! I was just standing in the back of the line in shock looking at Elder Tranyhill whom I was on splits with and we were like, did that really just happen???? It was crazy but a good experience I guess, at least they didn’t want to rob us!
Wednesday
I returned to Olivaria and got to travel on the super luxury bus! Just kidding but it was the nicer then the bus to Bahia. I laid on my ruck sack in the back of the bus and slept almost the whole way! It’s a little longer of a bus ride back because they stop in so many small city’s it was about 9ish hours to get back but thank heavens for the little travel book you sent with me. I finished all of the wheres Waldo and read a lot of the scriptures in Spanish when I wasn't trying to sleep! I got home around 3am and waited for the other elders to come and pick me up so I could walk home to my house! It was so nice to get back to our house, I fell asleep faster then I think I have ever before!
Thursday
We went tracting all day and made a few good contacts. We visited an old woman who is a member that lives a good distant from our house and she sells honey form her house and she gave us a huge tub about 2 kilos of honey! But then when she came to church she said she had something for us and after church she gave us another tub of honey! I think she forgot about the first time she gave us honey but now we just have a ton of honey at home and I have zero idea what to even do with it! No Bread, no other for, just Eggs and Rice??? Any Ideas?
Friday
Our goal of the day was to invite 5 investigators or even just random people if we had to, to watch conference with us. So we called and tried to talk to so many people. We only got 4 investigators to come to all of the sessions but we got some people there! We walked to about a third of investigators houses and called the rest to see if they could come but we only had 5 people home or answer the phone! It’s so crazy!
Saturday
We went to go watch conference at the stake center! It was really fun the stake president brought his laptop and me and all the other yankees watched all the sessions in a class room in English. It was a great conference! I loved it here!
Since we have to be in our house at nine we had to leave before the priesthood session, but as soon as we got home and changed and started making a late diner president calls and says I forgot to tell your district but tonight you can stay out and watch the sessions. So me and my comp drop our stuff and change as fast as we could and then we are sprinting the mile and a half to try to catch the session! We only missed the first talk but we got back in time for the rest!
Sunday
We had another great day we invited and had more people attend the conferences and we watched it again in english and it was great! I loved all the talks! I cant wait till they come out in Spanish in the Liahona so I can study them! I took as good of notes as I could but I am still excited! We then had our first meal with a member! It was so great! We had grilled chicken and potatoes! It was amazing! I am so glad for this rule change and I hope we get invited back to eat again!
Monday
We had a zone conference and were supposed to have a chapel open house this day thats why p day is today but it got moved to next week, because about 3 in the afternoon when the sisters in charge didn’t show up in when they were supposed to. We had investigators coming and we had to tell them to go home and come again next week. I hope they come again! But it was good we talked with them for a good while out side the chapel! We have 5 extra elders staying at out house today and yesterday for this open house and it’s so much fun having all these elders living with us!
Happy Birth day mom! I love you sooo much and p days are my favorite cause that means I get to talk to you!!!
Love Elder Vance
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| Hanging out in Bahia, waiting for my 9 hour bus ride home! |
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| Eating REAL food! |