November 4, 2009

Hi family,


Well I hope everyone had a fun Halloween. That doesn´t really exist down here, even though there will usually be some kids that try to do something. We saw a little group of kids dressed up on Halloween night trying to have a little costume party in their house, but that was it.

Thanks for sending the pics by the way :) , Brad looks super tall now.

Well this last week has been a little bit weird. Last Wednesday my companion and I talked on the phone with an Elder in our zone who´s been going through a rough time I guess. That was pretty weird cuz I had never talked with an Elder who was negative about the mission before. Then on Thursday he just kind of dissapeared so we had to go look for him and find him. The mission president came down and they talked and now he´s ok (and staying in the mission). Talk about a crazy day!

Well then on Friday we travelled to another city to do another baptismal interview, and we worked there with those Elders for the day. That was a lot of fun. I spent the day with an Elder from southern Argentina (Chubut), and so it was fun getting to know him. The church is pretty darn small where he comes from.

On Saturday I got "the death call". The mission secretary called and asked me a few questions and said that you should be getting an email pretty soon with my tenative flight plans. So be on the look out for that.

We also went to a baptism Saturday afternoon. It was pretty rainy and stormy outside so not many people were daring enough to come. I still don´t really understand the whole rain thing with Argentina. Everyone has some kind of superstitious belief that you would have to be crazy to go outside when it´s raining. Oh well.

A funny story from Sunday: we found a super cute little puppy Sunday night before we went back to our house. We knocked a couple doors looking for the owner but no one claimed it. My companion couldn´t leave it in the street (cuz it looked like a storm was coming) so contrary to mission rules we took it to our house. We decided to ask for permission to keep it for the night so we called the mission home and they told us we could keep it for the night. So Cody (the puppy) slept in the bathroom and in the morning we just put it back where we found it which was kind of sad haha.

Besides that we taught a couple of pretty crazy ladies this last week. (In the sense of their beliefs about the gospel.) It´s always fun teaching people that are out of the ordinary. We´ve seen a lot of hearts melt this last week. People that were way hard-hearted have totally changed their opinions in just a minute or two after talking with them. Thats way fun to see.

Ok well that´s about all the time I have to talk this week. I love you all! Thanks for being so supportive and such a great family. May this next week be your best week ever :D. Take care!

Love,

Elder Boice