April 13, 2009

Hey Family,

Well it was another week in Argentina. Pretty normal. I´m not really sure what to talk about. The mission wants us to be careful of getting dengue from mosquitos, I did divisions with one of the zone leaders which was fun, we had a district meeting on obedience cuz it´s kind of a problem with a couple of the elders in my district, we ate an asado (grilled steak) which was good.

The week was all just looking for people to teach and teaching. A few of our investigators fell including a great family which was really dissapointing. So we´ve got to try to pick them back up again.

Last night in our area we did a "choque de fuerza" (missionary blitz) in our area. All the missionaries in the zone worked in our area for a couple hours last night. Theres 16 in total, so we organized it so that every companionship just went looking for member families to get references instead of knocking doors or contacting in the street. It went pretty well.

I can´t think of a really stand out story from the week. I guess something funny would be last night when we were looking for a member family. We clapped in front of the house and could see everyone inside through the windows, and a little kid peeked his head out of the door/curtain "Everyones busy...uh, I mean, uh, no one´s home." Haha things like that happen a lot.

I don´t know why the parents always make their kids the ones that have to lie. Sometimes we talk to the kid about what God said about liars, but we just asked him to go get his mom and he said "ok!" Last night I was with an Elder that is going home in a couple weeks and it was kinda funny cuz we started talking about how there´s only about 5 different things you hear at every door.

Well anyway it was a good week overall. Even though there weren´t any huge events that happened there are still always the little miracles that happen every day in the mission. Have a great week everyone! I´ll talk to you next week, love you all.
Love,

Elder Boice