2018-12-10 Christmas Conference and an Exciting Week.

12/04/18, Tuesday: Hey guys so this week was great. Today, we had the Christmas conference with President Haymas and it was in Mar Del Plata. It was really fun. Elder Anderson and I made brownies for our zone and they were really good. We had a couple talks and teachings from president and the assistants.

Then after, we all changed into P-day clothes and then we played games. We played hillbilly horseshoes, made cookies, and beanbag toss kind of thing. We all made and ate the cookies with frosting and everything and then we played minute to win it games with the others. After that, we cleaned up and watched Coco for Christmas and it went really good. I have no idea if I like it in Spanish or English but it was good. After awhile we were waiting for our convery, we played soccer in la cancha and it was fun. A little crazy when we tried to play with different teams made up of 3 different zones jaja but it was fun!

12/05/18, Wednesday: So today was good. We had a lesson with Familia O and it was good. A little weird but we were going to teach L about the commandments but for some reason the dad L who is not really interested in anything or doesn’t believe in god, started getting curious. We taught him the restoration and it was good! We even asked him if he would read and he said maybe.

12/06/18, Thursday: We had weekly planning and then I was a little sick but not too bad. I had a runny nose and sore throat. We tried to find the reference from President Hymas but he can’t be found. WE NEED TO FIND HIM!!!!!!

12/07/18, Friday: We did not do much because we had the leader council in the morning but in the afternoon, from the first day I arrived here in Quequen, we finally found M!!! She is really crazy but were put a fecha with her so hopefully she can get baptized this month! She is ready but I do not think she knows or thinks she is.

12/08/18, Saturday: Today we had a competition with the Hermanas from Necochea. We had to have 3 lessons, 10 contacts, and 5 of them had to be street contacts. We had to work hard because no one was outside! It was hard but we beat them! We won! Now that we won, we get bread pudding from the hermanas. Hopefully it will be good. We went to visit familia O and they were there but then a friend came over and she is a boxing champ but she brought the O’s to her church and I guess her church is one of the ones where people fall on the ground after being touched on the head. She is the typical evangelico and she knows nothing about the bible but we tried to talk to her and she just did not want to listen or anything but were polite and good.

12/09/18, Sunday: So today was good. We went to church and then after, we had an asado with Familia G. He runs a delivery restaurant so he cooks good. We had fried empanadas which are way better than the oven and I finally ate morcilla which is a blood sausage jaja. I do not have an opinion on it right now but it is decent. I ate kidneys also and it was good jaja.

Then the Boca Juniors and River Plate played soccer this afternoon, the biggest rivalry match in Argentina. So there was no one outside. They played in the cancha of Real Madrid and I guess River Plate won (3 – 1) jaja. Dang it! (Soy de Boca!!!) Then we went to Guemes to stay the night.

I have tramites in Bahìa to process my paperwork and to get my DNI card so I can stay here. Hopefully, it works out. So I will be going there Monday night.

2018-12-03: Never get the Sister Missionaries Mad

So this week was good. 

11/27/18, Tuesday: Today we had our district meeting and it was good. I have a new district and they are all Hermanas and they all roast Elder Anderson! It is always funny.  Every small thing, they roast him.  They are a good district.

We talked with M and we got him to start to quit smoking. We set him up with a calendar to see if he can stop smoking by December.  Everyday he reads the scripture that we send him and prays and does not smoke, he gets a point. Then if he comes to church, he gets 2 points. At the end of the month, if he wins and he stops smoking, we will have an asado with him and we will buy the meat.  Hopefully he will quit!

11/28/18, Wednesday: So today was really crazy!  So we were in the house and an Hermana in the district calls. We ask if they took out sig and they said they didn’t have a bank in their area so we started laughing.  I guess it got her mad so when we said bye and to have a good day, but then the hermana said that to us, you should not have a good day jaja so that started it.

We were walking in the bajo (a village and municipal) and a girl walked past us and she had bottles in her hands. Then we saw a guy on a moto pass us.  He was just cruising and then maybe 5 seconds after, we hear the girl yell after us. She asked if we saw the license plate and we said no. She said he stole her phone.  I guess the guy on the moto yanked it out of her pocket and then drove off!  She left and that was really crazy! 

We grabbed sig and then went back out to find people. We found a menos activo and his name is F.  He lives with his mom but we just talked.  Later the mom came out mad and yelling "I am hungry, F, go buy me some butter!"  so that was weird.  She went back in and then we started to talk with him about his family. Then his mom came out again and said some weird stuff about a member that is an "Uncle" but then the mom said that he is the dad of F and that he has a drinking problem and he indulges in infant porn. It was really weird and we talked with the kid more and we will set up a futbol activity weekly so he can get some time away from his house.  We felt so bad and went home.  And to top it all off, Elder Anderson pointed at a dog that had its head mutated and then its legs were in the air. He said it was dead but I thought he was joking. Then I tried to call after it and it did not move a muscle so to top it all off, the dog was dead!  All this happened because a Hermana said don’t have a good day!  Que Loco!!!!

11/29/18, Thursday: We had weekly planning and then we saw S and J. They are in the process of getting married but the judge here is taking his time to sign the papers so they need to wait a little longer.  Hopefully she can get baptize this month!

11/30/18, Friday: So there was a leader meeting so I had to go with my comp to the counsel meeting. On the way, the old dog that lives in front of our neighbor's house we looked and it was upside down and then the head was twisted weird.  Then we saw the eye ball and it stuck out so there was another dead dog!  It was weird.  We got back home during lunch and it was a rainy day.  We smelled really bad smoke and the dog was gone.  The neighbors were having an asado but it was weird. The dog was gone, it smelled bad, no one has asado on Fridays and in the rain. Argentines don’t like the rain so I think they ate their dog!!!

12/01/18, Saturday: So we visited Familia C. They are super cool but a little weird. They asked to see Elder Andersons photos and they saw them. Then the mom started to ask questions about his dad and how he would like a Latina mom instead of his mom now and it was weird but they were just joking. Then they asked about sports and I told them about wrestling and they joked and thought it was sumo and started to tease me.  They are cool!

12/02/18, Sunday: Today was good, we had district conference and then we made a big batch of "Bentley Brownies" for the Zone on Tuesday when we go to Mar Del Plata for the Christmas conference!.  Hopefully the brownies are good!