Week 63

How goes everyone? I am doing great. This week we had a conference with our mission presidente and we got to see all the other missionaries from Tucuman. I also got to try ceviche which is pretty good. It is a dish from Peru with fish that is cooked using lemon juice no mas. There was also hot peppers fish and squid it actually wasn't all that bad. We also had some service this week and we cut a ton of weeds with machetes it was super fun just super hot. It finally rained this week and I got soaked coming home from church because we were riding our bikes and it suddenly got a heck of a lot rainier then when we left.
Love and miss everyone lots.

Elder Black

 

 

Week 62

Wow it has been a bit crazy here. I have been absolutely dying from the heat. Everyone keeps telling us it is going to rain the next day and it only gets hotter and hotter every time. today I turned 20 and that is super weird I am no longer a teenager anymore. I am getting along really well with my companion. This week my companion some how busted 5 spokes on his rear wheel while riding it so we spent a lot of time at the bike shop. Today we played soccer and and elder cooked for us. I don't got much else to say but I miss everyone a ton and I hope everyone is enjoying the cold for me.

Love you all lots.

Elder Black

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​​​​​​​​