Week 61

Wow it has been a while. This week was a little hard for me but we are still working hard. My companion is called Elder Hanson and he is super awesome. We didn't do much for P-day today. We were going to go to a fair but it didn't exist or we couldn't find it. All of our investigators seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. Our ward also had its temple trip and it was super great to see a family who was able to get sealed together this last week. Sorry I don´t got much to say but I finally got some pictures downloaded so here you all go.
Love and miss you lots.

Elder Black

Week 60

Well I don't have much time again today because we had transfers. I got a new companion this week called Elder Hanson. He is from Utah and is the first white person I have lived with in almost a year. Transfers were crazy and we almost had to stay in San Miguel de Tucuman because there wasn't any transport to get back to my area because people were protesting something about the buses so there wasn't a single bus. I have a whole bunch of pictures but the internet here is super bad and I will have to try to upload them later. This week has been a bit hard for me I have been thinking a lot in the the plan that God has for us. And I remember a family I was talking to the other day said something that really stuck to me. It isn't that LDS members don't get sad when people pass away. We still do, but it doesn't consume us because we know that there is something better after this life and that it is really just a goodbye. Goodbyes hurt but aren't permanent and this has been helping me out a lot this week. Love and miss you all lots and thanks for all of the emails.

Love  Elder Black

Week 59

I just want to let you all know that I am not dead and that I had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. I just don't have internet in my church and every place that has internet to write is closed for the holidays. The elder from Aguilares are lending us their church to write so this will be super quick.
Love and miss you lots.

Elder Black

Week 58

Elder Black called home for Christmas and didn't write this week.  He is doing well and it was the best Christmas present ever to talk to him.

Week 57

This week went super fast. I don´t know how but the weeks keep passing faster and faster. This week I had splits with our Zone leader Elder Erickson form California. I got to go to Concepcion which is a city about an hour north of where I am at. It was super fun. We had some service in the morning and we spent it taking apart wood pallets for a recent convert so he could make furniture out of it. The next morning we cooked breakfast for our companions when they got back and we had scrambled eggs with salami made from llamas. It was super good. I thought it was going to be a bit weird but it tasted just like salami. We managed to get some new chairs for our house because I managed to break one of the ones we already had. It was breaking before I got there and then one day I sat down and it just gave out and through me to the floor. This week was also super hot. I think my other area was hotter than this one but here I just sweat so much from the humidity. We had a super long bike ride the other day. It really was only about 30 minutes but the bikes are super bad so it seemed way longer but the sweat was literally pouring off of me when I got there. I love and miss you all lots. I hope everyone has a great Christmas.

Love Elder Black​​​​​​​​

 

 

Week 56

Como estan todos? This week was great we had a baptism this week and that went well. It was not too hot this week and it was raining off and on through the week. I did see some pretty cool lightning though it was a bunch of clouds rolling in and the lightning just lighting up the clouds every 10 seconds. I felt like I was in a movie when the storm comes rolling in. My bike has manage to break itself a bunch this week. I think I am going to have to get it fixed again today. My companion is super awesome I am his second companion so he is still pretty new. We didn't do much today for P-day but we hung out with the other missionaries and cooked hamburgers but with lots of sweet mesquite barbecue seasoning that was brought from the USA. Love and miss you all lots.

Elder Black

 

p.s. We are trying to get together a Christmas dinner in our district so if you all could send me recipes that would be great. Some that traditional and some that could be super easy.  A little of everything but I am also looking for a few specific things....pumpkin pie from real pumpkin, honey smoked ham, cinnamon rolls, y eggnog.... thanks everyone. The faster you can send them the better because I think I will have to go on a treasure hunt to find the ingredients graciassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

 

 

Week 55

Wow what a week this has been! I am now a couple hundred miles away from where I was before but everything has been great. I will try to remember everything that happened. I left at 2 on Monday and didn't get to Tucuman until 930 but then I had to take another bus to my area and that was about another 2 hours. So I didn't get to my area until almost 12. I got a new companion named Elder Cañas. I will send a picture if I can. He is from El Salvador and is super awesome. I am still district leader here and I have Elder Carter in my District. He is from the Dalles. It has been super crazy here. I am once again in a biking area but I manged to break one of my cranks on the very first day. We went and got that fixed and then the pedal wouldn't stay tight in the new cranks. Lets just say my companion pulled me around a lot this week. My area is much bigger than my last one and there are a lot of people that are rich here. This week there was a bunch of rain which was a nice change from the heat but the streets were super flooded. We ended up just riding our bikes and getting super wet. There were a couple parts where we went into a puddle and when I was pedaling my foot went into the water.
Love and miss you all lots.

Elder Black