Letters from Argentina: Busy

Hello everyone, I hope everything is going good. Things down here are going pretty great. The weather here cooled down drastically. I broke out my big coat again. It reminds me of San Rafael.

Monday and Tuesday flew due to Consejo. It was pretty great, like last time. We took some awesome photos that will be send in a little.

Then on Wednesday we started working. We taught a family of 4, the parents and two twin girls. They are pretty cool. But what happened, the second we left the house my companion stepped on a thorn the size of your index finger, and it went through his shoe and pierced his muscle in his heel. So we had to go to the doctor´s office the next morning.

We fixed our bikes, finally. As soon as we fix them something always happens, for example I fixed my tire because the inside tube thingy broke. Well the SECOND I walked out of the bike shop the chain literally fell off and the gear switch thingy broke. So yeah.

So working was pretty limited this week, but we did have one investigator come to church yesterday. I just realized I do a pretty crappy job talking about investigators in these letters so I´ll do my best to describe them. The investigator who came to church with us is named Martin, he´s been an investigator here for a long time. We had a long chat with him the other day. On Saturday we went by his house to see if he could come to church and he told us he had been reading and praying. He also gave us his pack of cigarettes that he wrote on with a permanent marker `fumar menos´ which simply means ´smoke less´ (I took a photo). So he´s cool. Other investigators we have, hmm. Oscar had a busy week this week, and so did we, not to mention he lives clear out in the wilderness of Campo Afuera, so we couldn´t teach him this week. We´ve also found some other cool people so we will see what happens with them.

On Thursday we had Zone Conference. (5th of 8 in the mish, wow). President had some awesome advice about faith, charity, and hope. They all go together. It´s all a decision, really. Now that I think of it, life really is a decision. It makes me think of President Monson´s last conference talk, and how everything is a decision. We honestly get to DECIDE if we want celestial glory, we just have to choose things that lead us there.

This week we have Stake Conference and on Sunday we have transfers already. We´re almost 500 percent sure that we are going to be staying here in Albardon, me and Elder Balmaceda. We´ve been doing pretty good together, the zone has been doing work. We had 3 baptisms in the zone last week which is freaking amazing.

That´s all for this week. Enjoy being in school haha.

Love, Elder Anderson