I'm loving it here in the offices! I have a really cool job.  I'm the "historiador", so I receive all of 

the references from members and missionaries worldwide (sent to our mission) then I get to find

which area the person lives and send it to those missionaries.  Also, I collect and put all of the 

baptismal records into the church system, so new members can be members.  The mission 

offices are smack dab in the middle (mas o menos) of Mendoza, Mendoza (the capital).  It's 

really cool here, but way different.  I've been in poor, wildernessy areas my whole mission, and

now I'm surrounded by huge rich people houses.  Our pench used to be famous for being the 

most disgusting in the mission, but not while I've been here!  Thank you so much for teaching 

me how to clean stuff, the pench was a disaster!  When things stop working, missionaries for 

some reason just leave it be until someone comes and repairs it... So I ended up fixing three

different toilets (and bidets) and a shower.  Little by little, the office pench is getting better.  I 

can't believe people used to live in such gross conditions here...  I've come to realize that I kind

of like cleaning.  It's necessary, so I might as well like doing it.

In the offices, we do have the opportunity to leave and work after 4 every day if we have all of our 

stuff done, but we have a lot of stuff to do, so we don't get out much.  Also, there's this weird 

"tradition" sort of deal here, where they don't go out to work, even when they can... I'm trying to 

change that, so this week, we've already left to work more times than my comp has for three 

transfers!  We don't end up seeing President Goates very much, he's mostly out and about doing 

stuff.  Its really interesting having a computer to work on 24-7.  I think I've seen just about all of 

the mormon messages by now. Have you guys been watching the cool new bible videos? they 

are really well made (a little stiff, but after a while, they get to you).  

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