Soccer and siestas and beauty queens--oh my!

I´m going to talk a little about Argentina:  Right now, Argentina is considered as being a second world country, and for the most part, this is pretty accurate.  Most people are living off of close to nothing, but they are all super happy and amiable.  They just went through a significant change in government, so everyone is hopeful and happy.  They absolutely love soccer. Every p-day, the missionaries in my district get together tunuyan to play soccer at the church.  Right now in front of our pench, the street has been barred off and huge nets are on the side of the road, and I think they are going to play soccer.  This week has been loco because of the "reinas".  Every year, in Mendoza and the surrounding regions, each town elects a reina (a hot girl) to represent the town.  They also have a huge fiesta for the reinas with tons of wine.  Right now, almost every five minutes, a huge congregation of cars goes past with a reina on one of them (kind of like a parade, but every car is honking the whole time...).  I tried to get a picture of one of them, but she was moving too fast for it to look good.  Every day, the people here have a huge five hour siesta, and I hate it.  Because of siesta, our proseliting hours are in the morning, and 9-11 at night...

     This week I had a pretty good spiritual experience:  During a visit with a member, the member was feeling really sad (I don´t know why, her Argentine accent was really strong) and I felt prompted to have us all pray on our knees.  After the prayer, I felt that we should open the scriptures and just read whatever we opened it to, and the very first verse was exactly what she was looking for! (I also have no clue what it said, my Spanish is mas o menos terrible). My Spanish is coming along pretty well, actually. I had an interview with the mission president this week, and he said that I am way ahead of other new missionaries (yay!).

 Anyway, I´ll talk to you guys next week.  I´ll try to give a spiritual experience every week, I know my last email was kind of depressing...  I seem to email at 11 every Monday, so if anyone wants to instant messege with emails, I'll try to get on at 11 again.  We´re four hours ahead of you though, so it will be like 7 there I think.  ¡Nos Vemos!