¡Hola!   This week was especially difficult, but also very rewarding! The 18th was a pretty big day for me.  

All in one day, it was my three month "cumplemes" (month birthday), one year without Loche, and we had

some really big lessons to teach. The whole day, I was trying not to be sad, and to "forget myself and go 

to work".  We had two investigators we were talking with, and both had really bad depression problems, 

so that made it a bunch more difficult.  Anyway, we taught them both as best as we could, and in the end, 

one wants to hear more, and the other wants to be baptized! (She can't right now, she needs to get 

divorced first.) Not much else happened this week, but I just want to remind everyone the lessons taught 

in 3 Nephi chapter 12, 3 through 10: 

3 Yea, blessed are the poor in spirit who come unto me, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 And again, blessed are all they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. 

5 And blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

6 And blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the 

Holy Ghost.

7 And blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

8 And blessed are all the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

9 And blessed are all the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

10 And blessed are all they who are persecuted for my name’s sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

I love these scriptures, they are great for when you're thinking about those who have passed on.

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¡Hola! This last week was was certainly interesting. It started out so boring, but ended crazy spiritual.  

I won't write about the boring parts because they're boring. The other missionaries in my area (senior 

missionaries) had two baptisms this week, and we got to go! Actually, we cleaned and filled the font, 

which took 7 hours because no water pressure, then both gave talks during the service.  During the 

baptism I had a pretty incredible experience, and it might sound a bit weird but here it is: Right after the

first baptism, I looked around at everyone, and everyone had perfect hair, skin, eyes, todos perfecto. 

At first, I thought, "Oh, Ramone and his family got haircuts--how nice," but then it hit me, everyone was

PERFECT, and with white clothes. It was strange, too, because there were way more people there when

I looked than before, many of them I didn't recognize. At this point, the second baptism prayer was 

started, so I had to close my eyes.  After the baptism, everyone was back to normal and my testimony 

was a hundred times more powerful.  I think I got a little glimpse of what we look like after this life.  

Gosh it was cool.  

Anyway, life here is as great as ever, the reinas fiesta is over, but now they have carnival! I guess we get 

more time in the pench while this whole explosion of festivities blows over--yay. During siestas I've started

drawing scripture stories.  It is really fun compared to hot sweaty terrible day napping.  More next week bye!

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¡Hola Todos!

     These past three weeks have been really strange, The first week went by swimmingly: We visited our many

menos activos, and I really got to know the area because my bike broke. Then my comps bike broke, so we've

been walking everywhere. My mission area is primarily La Consulta, but Consulta has a bunch of smaller

(equal) towns included in the mission area.  So really, my area is La Consulta, Vista Flores, Eugenio Bustos,

and San Carlos.  Without bikes, going from town to town can get interesting. Llately, we've been using

colectivos (buses). One day, we walked all the way to Eugenio Bustos to pick up our repaired bikes. It was

something close to 3 1/2 hours straight in the sun. On the way back, Elder Vegas bike broke... So, again, we 

have no working bikes ahora.  Woop.

     Life here in Argentina has been crazy with the reinas all over the place. Last night, we couldn't sleep 

because there was a HUGE fiesta right outside our pench. I swear like half of Mendoza was there.  There was

fireworks, loud music, and a terrible band played until four in the morning. OK, time for church stuff.

      This week, we found out that one of our investigators has a son on his mission right now, and his mission

is over in two weeks! Why she didn't tell us this, I do not know, but hey! Now we can teach her and use her 

return missionary son to help with all the other investigators here!  One of our recent converts just had a child 

(really cute, with tons of hair) and is really interested in teaching the plan of salvation to her whole nonmember

family!  Also, we have been having giant noche de hogares (family home evenings) once a week, and because 

of them, we have like 20 new investigators! YAY!  I think the giant reina election is this week so I'll keep you 

guys updated on it.  ¡Nos vemos!

my friends (missionaries)

my favorites

 Today at 5:35 PM

1. If you look closely, you can see how darn flat most of Argentina is.

2. The amazing foothills of the Andes.

1. The tire explosion of my companion's bike. (This is why we walked 6 miles instead of biking.)
2. Me in a grape harvester--they are MASSIVE!