This week has been the worst greatest week yet! With everything we have been getting ready for the apartment (the last 4 years of elders has pretty much destroyed everything in the apartment). We haven't gotten much sleep and the work is exhausting, but the reward for our work is that we have had the most lecciones eficas (efficient lessons) of any other week! We hopefully will have a baptism this week with one of our investigators (Adela Riquelme) and the hermanas tienen 2 investigadores tambien! Hopefully we can start moving into our apartment next week but vamos a ver haha!
Tuesday (cause I wrote about monday last week) we were painting all day and did nothing else until p-day ended and then had a great and suuuuppper long lesson with our investigator (adela) who is going to be baptized this saturday. The argentines talk soooooo much. You ask one question and then they talk for no joke like 5-7 minutes haha. So our lesson was about 2.5 hours with her.
Wednesday: "Paint, lession eficas, paint, pretty boring. Oh and 5 alfajores & a giant headache" - my journal entry for wednesday. Speaking of alfajores, they have really grown on me, and I really regret not eating the ones Ellie got for me. The best ones i have had so far are the Jorjelin alfajores, and they have cookies called Tody down here. Best (manufactured) cookies ever! (cause nothing beats mom's:)
Thursday and Friday we were able to teach lessons and stayed up really late Thursday night because Friday morning our landlord wanted to see our progress (which wasn't that much by Thursday afternoon). So we were really tired but we still got 3 lessons in!
Saturday we both felt so sick (both from lack of sleep and maybe some hamburgers we bought that weren't cooked all the way) but that was a really poopy day. Elder P. went and made himself throw up to try to feel better, I don't know why you would want to do that but he said it kinda helped.
Sunday was District Conference (like stake conference) and so we traveled together with the branch in a pretty run down mini bus. We were all meeting at 5:30 in the morning to leave so we got up at 4:30 to get ready, and hurried to the capilla by 5:30 and of course no one is there, not even the bus! So around 5:50 everyone shows up and we leave by 6:15. I tried to sleep but for some reason the kid sitting next to me didn't want me to sleep and kept grabbing my nose and ear so i wouldn't be asleep.....why, i don't know! haha. We had a really good time at district conference and Pres. Francos counselor came and gave a really good talk about how the responsibility of the fathers is to work, and the mother should raise the family, clarified dating for youth, and the importance of paying your tithing. On the way back (2 hour ride) I did get some sleep, and about 30 minutes out the bus driver stops and starts filling his radiator (that doesn't have a cap) with water because his temperature was redlining. After the first 4 gallon bottle he goes and fills up a bottle from the zanja (ditch with water, pretty nasty) and fills up his radiator with that water too!! The poor engine hahaha! But we made it back safe.
Today has been another day of painting and we are almost done!!
Elder Mason Tuttle
Argentina (2 hours of this)
Capilla en Pasos de los Libres
Elder Peterson
Hermano Ricardo
Rama Mercedes
Ya know, just yellow antifreeze
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