Week 50

How is going with everyone? I am still dying from the heat here. I am sure it has started to cool off a bit at home. This week went super fast I can't believe it. In one year exactly I will be getting on a plane to head home. I haven't quite been out on my mission for a year yet but I will be coming home for about 3 weeks early because of the way the weeks work out and because I had 6 weeks in the MTC the 2 years doesn't divide equal for 6 weeks periods so 1 year left. It has gone so fast and I feel like I was just leaving home a few weeks ago. This week was pretty normal. For our P-day today we got all our district together and had an asado. This week we had our zone conference and it was with another zone. I got to see my first companion from Pichanal and he is finishing his mission this next month. He lost a lot of weight now that he left Pichanal. It was weird being the one who knew almost everyone in the conference. I think I was actually in the older half of the people there which is CRAZY I still feel like I have been here for like 3 months. Nothing much else happened that was interesting but love and miss you all lots.

Elder Black

Week 49

This week has been a bit stressful but everything went well. The weather got super weird. One day it was about 110 to 113 and then the next day it got super windy and rained in the night. The rain was nice because we actually had a cool day this week. The other day I went out on our balcony and there was a bird stuck in a pot of water we had out there. I emptied out the water and then left for a bit and he was gone but I got a couple of good pictures. This Thursday for our activity we played a version of LDS jeopardy and that was actually pretty fun because we were all learning things that we didn't know. We also had service this week helping someone cut the weeds in their lawn. It turned out that their weeds were super short and that I don't even think they needed to be cut, but we did it anyway in the blazing hot sun. My arms have actually gotten super tan these last couple of weeks and it has surprised me a bit. Love and miss everyone lots.

Elder Black

 

My companion and I

The bird I helped

One of the last Reese's that I had it was almost a year old

A kitten I was playing with

My coin collection that I now have coins from 6 different countries

 

Week 48

Como estan todos? This week was super crazy with transfers and a lot of stuff that happened but in the end I am still in the lovely town of Pichanal. I am now the District leader here, That means that I am responsible for 6 other missionaries instead of just my self, and I got a new companion Elder Herrera. If you see some pictures and he looks familiar it is because he was one of the missionaries living with me in my old area but we were never companions. This week was astounding. My Zone leader just got called to be a asistente, and we finally had our intraviastas with our mission president. This week we also helped a couple get married and it was amazing how everything just ended up working out. The very next day we had her baptism and that was amazing. Oh also happy mothers day to all the mothers out here because this Sunday was mothers day here in Argentina. This P-day my companion wasn't leaving until later in the day so we went and visited a river with some members and crossed a train track bridge and just relaxed. 

Love and miss you all lots

Elder Black

 

 

Week 47

¿Como Estan? The rain has finally arrived. We woke up to the rain lightly falling. It is supposed to rain all this week. We didn't end up doing much this P-day because of the rain. We had plans to visit the tropic of Capericorn but the member that was going to take us couldn't go today. I crossed the line to go to Oran but we wanted to stand with one foot on either side of the line. This week was pretty great we had a trip to Salta because my companion needed to make special soles for his shoes. We left the house at 2 in morning because it was just going to be a day trip. It sucked because in the middle of our 4 hour trip they woke us up and made us get off the bus to check our bags. After that we had a pretty easy trip. We got super lucky because we were getting a birth certificate for someone so they could get married and we had the wrong day for our appointment but by a miracle we were able to get the paperwork. We visited the old area of my companion to eat lunch. Then we came back home. We also had splits this week with the Elders from Embarcacion and I got to be with a new missionary who couldn't talk at all, but Elder Dotson is super awesome. We had a lot of fun. Love and miss you all lots.
Elder Black

A little snake we found

My district

A really good lunch

Some ties I bought in Salta

Week 46

This week was super great with general conference and everything. The talks there were super awesome and I think my favorite session was the Saturday morning one. The weather got super windy for a couple of days and we were worried that we were going to lose electricity and not be able to watch the conference. This week we also got some rain and cold. I was super happy for that because it has been a long time since it has rained here. We have plans to help one of the members get married to his girlfriend and then she wants to get baptized afterwards. I went on splits this Tuesday with our Zone leaders. It was super hot that day and we were dying walking the streets of Oran, but we had an experience really awesome where someone hadn't been to church in a year but just 2 days earlier started praying that someone would come and help her back to church. Then the next morning we woke up super early to play soccer as our exercise with the other Elders of Oran. While we were in Oran we were getting a couple of papers for the couple that is getting married and that took forever we waited in line for almost 2 hours just for that. Well I love and miss everyone a ton.

Elder Black

 

The very end of Pichanal

My provision to make it through the priesthood session at 9 at night.

The very end of Pichanal

A huge lunch