Week 75

Another crazy week. First things first I was reading in a church magazine that came out in 2000 and there was an article about church cleaning that I read but I realized one little thing... The vacuum cleaner they were using in the picture was the exact same model that we still have in our church ...over 18 years later. It made me laugh a little and shake my head. I had splits twice this week the first time was with Elder Craig again because our companions went to Salta to do some paperwork stuff so they can be legal here in the country. We went to his area and they had bikes which I was happy for until I got on the bike and realized how awful it was. I wanted to hop right back off of it. Then later I had divisions with Elder Blaylock. So he could do our baptism interviews for us. We had baptisms this week and it is a family of 6. So we had to get everything ready for that. The missionaries are in charge of cleaning the font and everything but when we got there it was still half full of water and the pump wasn't working so we had to bucket out half a fonts worth of water. Then we had to clean it and take all that water out again. Luckily everything went well and we were able to have our baptisms the next day. There were actually a lot of people who showed up to see it. Today we went and visited a giant statue of Jesus Christ that was on the top of a giant mountain. The road to go down looked great for gravity biking though. Just a little more sketchy. This week was a wonderful one for me and really I am loving the work here. Love and miss you all lots

Elder Black

 

 

Week 74

Well what a week it has been. I was actually cold for a couple of days. A cold front rolled in and we were blessed with a break form the heat. It was raining quite a bit though, but the heat is coming back it was pretty hot again today so I don´t really know what is up with this weather. We have been working hard here and are preparing a family to be baptized this week. The people in our ward here are super awesome it is always great when we go out to visit someone and find members already in their house teaching. Really everything is pretty normal here...well as normal as it gets in Argentina, but

Love and miss you all lots

Elder Black

 

Here is me in a tree and then afterwards I realized it was covered in spider webs.

 

 

Week 73

Another week that passed by. They are getting faster and faster each day. Not too much happened this week just the normal walking and teaching. We found a family that is super awesome and they have been going to church but no one told us that part of the family wasn't member so we went to visit them. They are a super nice family and they have a lot of desire to be baptized. Today we played soccer which was a lot of fun I am just realizing though how bad of shape I am in because I get super tired super fast now, but we had a lot of fun. A lot of missionaries that I know got transferred to my zone so it was nice seeing them again. Love and miss you all lots.

Elder Black

Week 72

Hows everyone doing? I am well. This conference was super awesome. They announced a temple here in my mission which is what we have been working on as a mission here. Then they also called my antierior mission presidente to be an area 70. Super crazy. This week was a good one. I actually was quite sick yesterday for the conference puke and such but I am feeling better now. We had service this week as well helping someone dig the foundation for their new house. And when I say digging the foundacion it was 1 to two feet deep. One of my favorite talks this conference was the one by Lynn Robbins when he talks about success as going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Well love and miss everyone lots. I think I might be able to send some pictures today.

Love Elder Black

 

 

Week 71

This was another busy week this week. Today we got together a couple of missionaries and played some soccer. I had division this week so I got to visit lastenia and be companions with Elder Blaylock for a day. That was fun they are preparing someone to be baptized this week. The next day we had interviews with presidente and those went well I got a bunch of mail from December with mail from March so I don´t know how the postal service works. We also had a service project where we helped put up a little house for a couple of members that are moving to another ward right next to ours. This week I also made a member super happy because he has long hair and I showed him pictures of my hair before the mission. Although his is a bit longer than mine was. Well my camera is still being weird and doesn't want to connect to the computer so I will have to see if I can figure that out but no pictures this week.

Love

Elder Black

Week 70

Well this was a fast week we have been working really hard my companion and I. Today for P-day we wanted to visit a huge Jesus Christ statue but the bus never showed up so we just ended up wandering around for a while. I had some of the best pizza today it was the closest to American pizza that I have had in the mission. I can´t believe that this week I now have been in the mission for 16 months it is crazy how fast the time passes. My new area has been great all of the members here love us and give us lots of help. It has been a bit chilly here for a couple of days and I thought it was going to rain yesterday but it didn't. Well I have pictures but the computer won't read my camera so I will have to wait until next week.

Love and miss you lots

Elder Black

Week 69

This week was crazy but good. We had some very changing weather it would go from 100 degrees one day to 60 and raining the next. This Sunday there was a bunch of rain and we had to walk to church in it. We also had some service but luckily that was on the hot day not the rainy one. We cleaned up someones yard for them. This week we also had a zone conference and I got to see one of my companions who is going home this transfer. It is weird how fast the time goes by I really can´t believe it. Well other than that it was a pretty normal week. We visited a lot of people.

Love and miss everyone lots

Elder Black