Hey guys!
Yeah sounds like you had a pretty typical Halloween. You guys have all been pretty
busy it sounds like. Hope lifes going well! And way exciting about the
Lawrences baby! And glad to hear you guys got the pics from Hermana Hunt.
So you guys all asked me about Halloween, so I guess I´ll
answer that first. Halloween isn´t very popular here and most people don´t do
much for it. We saw maybe like 10 people out knocking doors for candy, but
nothing like the US. Although their was a family in our ward that decided to
throw a Halloween party for all the young men, young women, and their friends,
and they invited us so we could meet their friends. It didn´t start until like
8pm so we had to leave pretty soon, but it seemed cool. My companion took some
pictures, so I´ll have to steal his camera and send you some pics. Apparently
that family loves going all out on everything. Oh, and we had lunch with them
yesterday and I had my first Asado (basically argentina bbq). Way good. I like
the food here for the most part. I´ve heard stories from some of the other
missionaries about crazy stuff they´ve eaten, but its all been normal so far.
They love their meat and pasta. And lots of it.
You also asked what the city is like...I think. It could
definitely be worse. Could definitely be better. They´re in a big economic
decline and it shows. Haha and they love american music so its weird walking
down a street seeing spanish everywhere but hearing familiar music from some of
the stores and cars. Even though they don´t generally know what the songs are
about. All the movies are US too. Haha talked to a member about Captain
America. But of course, everyone´s biggest source of entertainment is soccer. You
can´t go anywhere without seeing soccer jerseys or team inisignias graffitied
(is that a word?) on walls.
As far as people we´re working with. There´s this girl that
went to church the past 2 weeks and went to see a baptism with us on saturday.
She likes it all, but she says she doesnt feel anything and is hesitant about
being baptized. But she goes to catholic school and has decided to not go
through with the church stuff all her friends are doing, so thats cool. Haha my
companion told me that they found her last transfer when her and her friends
started laughing and making fun of the missionaries in the street one day. So
not really sure how she turned into an investigator, but...cool. We also set a
baptismal date with a little girl named Milagros. Her grandma was baptized
early this year and we´ve been working with the rest of the family. So
hopefully that goes through and the rest of the family will join too. Other
than that nothing too exciting. I dont want to sound negative, but the area is
a bit dead, so we´ve been doing a lot of work with less-actives and trying to
find new people, without tons of success. Oh well, it´ll happen when its
supposed to.
How about as a verse of the week, Galations 1:10-12. Kinda
makes me feel justified when I have to walk into houses and tell people things
that they sometimes don´t want to hear. Yup.
Oh and you asked about the spanish. I don´t know. I get told
everyday by members that my spanish is surprisingly good, but I´m pretty sure
they´re just trying to give me a big head. How much I understand depends a lot
on who is talking and what we´re talking about, and I can generally convey
eveything I want to. I don´t know how good my grammar is, but they generally
understand what I mean.
Haha speaking of not totally understanding. Yesterday there
was a meeting for district leaders that my companion was in, so me and someone
else whose companion was in there went to go talk to people in the street. He
got here the same time I did. We met this guy who either wanted us to cast a
demon out of him, told us he could cast out demons, or told us that someone had
cast a demon out of him. We weren´t really sure. I think it was the 3rd one.
Not positive.
Anyway, everything is going good! Lifes good here and its
fun. Hope everything is good, and hope thats enough information to hold you
over until next week! :) ¡Espero que tengan una buena semana!
Les amo,
Élder Webster
PS-attached 2 photos. One of the most beautiful things I´ve
ever seen....like 10 little kids playing soccer with a flat ball in a dirt
street...but doing tricks with the ball I couldn´t do until I was like 4-6
years older than them. The other is a "standard of liberty" we wrote
up during our last district meeting. I´ll try to steal my companions camera to
send some other stuff
some pics from my comp's camera. Halloween, Asado, the walk
to someones house Enjoy!
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