December 17, 2008

Hola Familia,

This transfer just ended, so that´s why P day is on a Wednesday this week. The last week was a good week. We got some good work done, but the exciting part is that we have a baptism tonight. In fact it starts in about 2 hours so I gotta make this fast!

Let´s see, tomorrow I´m gonna send some packages home for Christmas but there´s no way it´ll get to the States before Christmas. But just so you know, it´ll be on it´s way so be on the lookout!

Today we found out the new transfers. I thought I would just stay here but nope! I´m leaving Santa Fe so I won´t be here for Christmas. Oh well. Santa Fe is pretty bad on Christmas I guess just cuz there will be drunk people everywhere the next day, but apparently my new area is even worse cuz it´s like the party city of our mission. I´m going to a city called Gualaguaychu, right on the border next to Uruguay, and aparently they´ve got the whole carnival thing really big there. So I´ll let you know but I might have to stay inside for like a whole week lol.

Ok well I need to go now. We made a cake for the baptism and we have to go decorate it then run to the church for the baptism. Oh but Mom you asked me if I am senior comp yet. I´m surprised you asked that but the answer is yes, I´m gonna be senior comp now. Super wierd, I haven't even hit 9 months in the mission yet. Basically it´s cuz theres a lot of new Elders coming into the mission right now. I can´t remember my new comp's name, but he´s from Canada lol.

Ok, I´ll write again on Monday to tell you the plan for when I´ll call on Christmas!

I love you all,

Love,

Elder Boice

December 8, 2008

Hey family,

Not much time left to write right now. But I had a good week. A little frustrating cuz we have so many people to teach and we´re having a hard time doing it. But overall I would take that anyday over not having people to teach at all. Obviously the frustration is worth it.

This last week we had interviews with the President which was good. Haha sometimes I think interviews can be really different just depending on what mood the President is in. It was a pretty relaxed interview for some reason.

I don´t know what happened to the last week. We just kinda ran around trying to teach. We have a family that we tried to teach every day this last week but it just never happened. Oh well.

This last Saturday night we had a stake dinner, and the chorus sang and we watched a movie about Christ. It was really good, and we had 10 investigators that came. Ya!!

Ok well I have to go now but I hope everyone had a great week, and is enjoying the Christmas season. Love you all!, and I´ll try this week to decide on a time that would be good to call home on Christmas.
Love,

Elder Boice

December 1, 2008

Hey family,

sounds like you had a fun Thanksgiving heading up to Utah, or la fabrica, as the members say down here lol.

We had a good week down here for sure. I was about to say there was no thanksgiving turkey but I was wrong there was. We had a Zone Conference this last week and they made us turkey and mashed potatoes. That had to have been super expensive too. Cuz you can buy an amazing steak down here for a few pesos but the only place I ever saw turkey was when we went to Wal-Mart down here and it was SUPER EXPENSIVE! But anyway, that was a realy fun zone conference and a really tasty turkey.

But besides that this last week, we taught, gave a blessing in a hospital, and it rained a lot. It rained a little this last Friday, but on Saturday it started to pour! It started to flood a little bit. There were some streets where the water was up to your knees, but it only lasted a little while, then the rain stopped and everythings fine now.

We also had a super great lesson yesterday during the siesta. We taught a big family and we taught them at a members house. A tip that should be passed on to future missionaries is to Do a KNEELING prayer at the end of a lesson, and have the investigator do it. We had quite a few teary eyes at the end of that lesson, and I think we´ve got some more baptisms coming up soon.

Also in about 45 minutes from now we´re gonna be heading over to the church to have an activity. My comp and I and another companionship we live with planned an activity that we´re gonna be doing at the church. Pioneer night!! Haha. Actually the other companionship planned most of it but our branch is gonna combine with their ward for the activity. Hopefully it turns out well.

Alright I´ve got to go now. So have a great week everyone. And Calvin probably has finals coming up so good luck Calvin!! And have fun during the Christmas season everyone!! It´s the most wonderful time of the year! Woohoo!
Love you all,

Elder Boice