Hola!

This week was a pretty normal week, not a whole lot happened but it was still pretty good.

We cleaned the pench for Joaquin on Tuesday like we always do, and it looked exactly as it always does and Joaquin got mad at me because the floor and bathroom still looked dirty to him. but he´s crazy sometimes, and he didn´t bring us pizza on friday like he normally does.... looks like I need to step up my cleaning game.

We had a zone meeting this week. Our zone leaders are awesome. the senior zone leader is Elder Baesler, who is my mom on the mission (last comp of Elder Leytton before training me). Elder Baesler is from Seattle and is a really great leader. He saw in our zone that like 6 elders are done with the mish after this transfer and gave this awesome pep talk about not burning out, (including my comp) and it sparked something in them so our zone´s number´s will be better. Our zone´s plan of action is noches de hogar (family home evening) every night with a member. yesterday at church we set up a bunch of them with members, and some of them are gonna bring friends who aren´t members, and hopefully we´ll get some new investigators this week!

During our weekly planning elder leytton told me if he doesn´t get up at 6:30 in the morning I can molestarle (which means bother in Spanish) so when he doesn´t get up I just clap really loudly by his head and he gets up hahaha.

Our district leader, elder Ribiero, is training a new missionary. It feels so weird not being a complete noob haha. he´s getting super frustrated with spanish but I tried to tell him that its something every gringo has to go through, and I still can´t understand stuff sometimes. He´s from California and is pretty cool.

We made some more milanesa pizza this week which was really good. I can cook milanesas pretty well now.

Today's p day activity was an asado out in the rain with the zone leaders-- Elder Baesler and Kreling, me and Leytton, Lafleur and Healey, and Ribiero and Conover, the new guy. I bought the meat with my personal debit card, and everyone just paid me back so it was just like i´m taking out money for personal cash. I also bought a backpack because we need emergency backpacks. I found one for less than 20 bucks which is cool.

As far as learning and stuff just the usual... spanish is getting better and my knowledge of the mission material is getting better too.  I´m actually really grateful that my companion is a native. We had a meeting with the other newbies in my group the other day and the Elders with gringo trainers´spanish wasn´t progressing. I´m getting confident with talking to people mostly. It´s gonna be nuts coming back from the mish and being able to talk to my friends who are also speaking spanish.

I think that´s pretty much it!! it´s been freezing this week and I´m looking forward to a little PRIMAVERA down in Argentina!!! also it will be the first year in my life it´ll be hot on my birthday, heck yeah. Remember i´m praying for you all, and when things get tough, stay positive and count your blessings!!

Love, Elder Anderson (ders)