Still Here

Well they just barely cut the internet in the entire province of San Juan. But, after a few minutes of waiting, the internet is back.

This week was really good. The familia Herrera came to church, we were pretty happy about that. So hopefully in the upcoming transfer they´ll be getting baptized, we shall see. Yesterday was a pretty good day at church, also some grandkids of a recient convert in the ward came that we have been teaching.

Today we are going to eat chorizo and bread. Hopefully it turns out good.

Yesterday there was a bike race in Albardon.. all these way professional looking bikers came. They did like 10 laps around Albardon so it was fun to see them doing their thing. We felt way dumb on our bikes going way slow.

Anyway..... it´s been getting hot up here in San Juan but the other day it rained really hard. We were soaking wet at the end of the day. But it was like Utah, where it like snows one day and then the next day it´s super hot. Yeah.

This week were basically going to be in Mendoza.. we have consejo and then intercambios with the assistants. Should be good... but we have like no time to work in our own area. Oh well. And on Sunday we get transfer calls (hopefully I stay) but ya never know.

That´ll do it for this week! have a good one and the church is true!!

love, 

Elder Anderson

Wind and Earthquake

I titled this letter wind and earthquake because yesterday there was.. umm.. lots of wind and an earthquake. but despite the weather this last week was pretty good. I´m going to give a rundown of some cool stuff that happened this week.

We have some investigators, named the familia Herrera, who are pretty interesting. We´ve had a few lessons with them, and they are going to pray to see if we have the true church. The problem is that they are way evangelico, and want to get baptized in a river so that their sins go down with the current. They accepted a baptismal date for christmas eve so hopefully they can come to church a few times before then. But they´re cool.

There is an active member who is divorced, so the weekends he gets the kids. His daughter has been coming to church quite a bit but lives with her mom. Well, we courageously went to her house to chat, and the mom is pretty nice so hopfully she´ll let us baptize her. We shall see.

Also this week something weird but amazing happened. I SAVED 2 DOGS. We were just riding our bikes down the street and we saw 5 like newborn puppies like running in circles in the street. We didn´t want them to get run over so we like herded them to the side of the road. But that was a bad idea because the side of the road has the acequia, which was full of water. So one of the dogs like fell in and totally started drowning, so I hurried and grabbed it as it was drowning. Then another one jumped right in and I had to save it too. It was like that part on The Grinch when grinch saves cindy-lou-who from getting crushed by the big presser thingy. ´Saving you? Is that what you think I was doing???´  so yeah then we herded them to a house and there they stayed.

Let´s see... This week we did some more intercombombs with the other Elders of Albardon. They had a baptism this week so they were pretty pumped. Their convert is pretty cool, I did his interview. They met him about a month ago and he is already like halfway through Alma in the Book of Mormon, so yeah haha.

Also, my comp turned 23 the other day so we went and bought some ice cream. Nothing too special but what do you expect haha. Wow, thanksgiving and Christmas are way close!!!! Time is going by way fast.

Today I was reading some serious BoM in Alma 32. We need to nutrir the good word so that it can grow. I´ve always heard about the whole ´faith is like a tiny seed´ but today I like understood it on a whole nother level. Like we have to protect our seeds of faith and shove out doubts and stuff. So there´s your sprirtual thought for the day.

that´s it for this week. Have a good one!

love,

Elder Anderson

Look closely at this picture.

so yeah we have a bunch of mice that run around our back yard thing. So we put a box with a stick and string, and put a bunch of cheese underneath and in like 2 seconds they came. haha then my comp grabbed one of them with a towell hahaha

just pondering life

 

Argentine Dream

I don´t know why I titled this letter Argentine Dream... i´m just running out of titles to give my letters. This week was pretty great. Let´s see...

On Tuesday we had a ´special conference´ with President Goates and Hermana Goates. They gave us a training meeting about being Consecrated missionaries, basically just going hard and giving it your all to baptize people as we finish out the year. We also talked about the new Christmas thing in the church, it´s gonna be way awesome. So yeah, the mission has been doing great and we´re gonna do even better.

We had some intercombombs this week and I went with Elder Schelly, a new elder from California. He studied at BYU before coming out on the mission. We were able to work pretty hard, even though it´s been pretty hot....

The heat of San Juan has arrived. I don´t know exactly how hot it´s been but if you go outside like at 3 in the afternoon you basically are basically thrown in an oven. Haha we bought some sombreros and some heavy duty sunscreen to protect us. I might be passing new years here like last year, we shall see.

Also, congratulations to Tronald Dump for winning president in the USA. I hope everything goes well with his presidency haha.

 

The other day we saw a miracle. So we were just riding our bikes, heading back to the pench, when I heard a loud noise like as if something had exploded. Well something did explode, it was the front tire of my comp. And he was talking on the phone haha and riding with no hands. Well he´s basically a ninja, cause he did like this weird hop and everything was okay. So yeah. Then we ate some lomo sandwiches for dinner.

I taught gospel principals class yesterday at church. The topic was obedience. So I brought my bible and dropped some serious cane hahah just kidding. it was pretty fun.

well that´s pretty much it........... have a good week and be good!!!

love,

Elder Anderson

 

Albardon week 14

We´re still here, it´s been a good week, had some ups and downs, but it was good.

That golden family I mentioned last week already dropped us, I don´t know what we did wrong but they said they were good with being Catholic and don´t want to listen to us. Oh well, we were pretty close haha. We´ve got a couple other people we´ve found so we´ll keep working with them.

The heat of San Juan has already come... it´s been blazing hot outside every day. It´s been hard to work and find people early in the afternoon, because there is literally no one not inside sleeping. But we did manage to find some people and enter houses this week. The pench gets way hot but we have a little machine that generates cold air. it kinda looks like R2D2 hahahah

On Saturday we finished the Capilla Abiertas with our own ward in Albardon. It went alright, and we got a few references and stuff. And there was free food as normal haha.

We bought some sombreros to protect us from the sun. They were on sale for 65 pesos each. (score). I´ll send some pictures of that.

Hmmmm. I never really know what to write in these letters because the weeks go by and are pretty similar. So i´m trying to think of little things that happened... hmmmm... On sunday we only had sacrament meeting because the water systems in the church weren´t working. It was kinda weird. I got my haircut the other day and had a bomb conversation with the haircut lady about religion. I also made myself a fried egg like every day for breakfast. And we found out the Cubs won the world series hahaha wow. We also got on top of our roof  and drank some coke before bedtime.

Well the mission is still going haha. The mission is just kinda something you gotta go do to understand it... Everything is amazing and I´m learning quite a bit every day, even if it doesn´t feel like I´m learning a lot. I know that the church is true and if you don´t, I invite you to read the book of mormon and pray about it. Have a good week everyone and sorry for this letter being so short haha.

love,

Elder Anderson

the new first presidency feat. elder baldoví, elder camargo y elder manuico.

on the roof

my new hat