Letters from Argentina: Albardón Week 19

Things are going way good here in Albardon. If you hadn´t heard, it´s been super hot in San Juan. I just realized that as soon as I finish up this transfer I will have had 6 transfers in San Juan and 6 in Mendoza. So maybe I´ll head over to San Luis to finish my mission. I´ll be home in 6 months. My goodness how time has flown...

Here´s a quick update on our investigators. The grandkids couldn´t come to church yesterday, and we went to go visit them, and apparently one of them is going to spend the summer in Rawson (far away.) So hopefully we´ll be able to baptize the other one (Julian) in the coming weeks.

Susana and her son came to church again yesterday! We were pretty pumped. It was also the primary program yesterday, so it was kinda weird to have investigators there but it turned out okay. The kids just have a hard time singing along with the music (a teacher holding her phone to the microphone haha). But they did a good job.

It rained all day Wednesday and Thursday. I´ve never really ridden a bike in the rain. By the end of the day I had slung a TON of mud on my back, (like, a lot.) from the bikes. My companion was laughing pretty hard but he also slung some mud on his back so it was okay. The rain made it really humid so Friday was a sweaty disaster trying to work haha. But things always work out.

On Friday we had the Ward Christmas party. It was pretty fun. We enjoyed some all-argentine chicken from the oven, french fries and mayonaise, a couple of salads, and a lot of soda. It was all really good. This dude named Alberto (an investigator who has been investigating the church since the late 90´s) showed up and totally ate our chicken without permission. I´ve never visited the dude because all he wants to do is fight with us, but I always see him. But, maybe some day he´ll get baptized hahhaha.

Also, yesterday there was a Superclasico soccer game, Boca vs. River. (And Boca won 4-2) We were working in Campo Afuera when the game got over and we totally saw a big street fight (Campo Afuera is pretty ghetto). Soccer is life haha.

This saturday we have a christmas devotional for the stake. The hermanas in Rivadavia basically signed me up to play the piano for the entire thing so I have some practicing to do today. God will provide hahaha.

Well I hope you are all enjoying the Christmas season and that you all remember who it´s all about. I´ve continued my study of the New Testament and I know that Christ lives! #IluminaElMundo (light the world.. i think) is a great way to celebrate and if you haven´t seen the ´25 ways in 25 days´ you should go check it out!

That´ll do it for this week. Have a good one!

love,

Elder Anderson