Hey Everyone!
We have reached double digits with the months!! Wow time
flies by. I ate a delicious alfahor to celebrate. One of the
glorious treasures of Argentina. I love Argentina I can`t even tell you.
Yesterday we were contacting and there was absolutely nobody
in the streets. Normally everyone is sitting outside on a Sunday
afternoon sipping mate, but it was dead. We found out that River and Boca
where playing so that explains everything. Biggest soccer teams from Buenos
Aires. I don`t know who won, but Vamos BOCA! For all my soccer fanatic
cousins out there I have grown to like soccer on the mission. I want to
play a few pickup games when I get back. I am getting a little better, little
by little, but I am still terrible. I will stick with basketball.
We have been in the street contacting all week. I
don`t know if it`s the water here or something but the people are rough.
haha It`s been hard to even get people to listen to us. But I like
a challenge, so we are going to see if we can take Victoria by the horns and
put someone in the waters of baptism. I read about the Army of Helaman
this week. I love their example. That just had total faith in God and
went out to battle. As a missionary you just got to go out there and
fight. It`s a battle of souls.
We had a little success this week. We received a reference
and went to visit a lady named Natali. We talked to her on her doorstep
for a long time. She is a young mother, in her early twenties and she has
been smoking for over 10 years. She wants to stop smoking and join a
church to have a better life for her daughter. Well Natali, there isn`t
any other better church than this one. It was way cool to hear her life
story and her desire to change. She said that she liked talking to us and
it helped her feel better. She says she feels like we have been the only
people to listen to her and to understand her. Little moments like these
make the mission all worth it. Just to listen and to help someone out.
The gospel would bless her life so much :) We are going to keep working with
her.
Enjoy the week everyone! I love you all!
Un abrazo,
Elder Maynard
We went a little sight seeing
Green hills filled with horses.... Argentina baby
La costanera. THe shore of the river that looks like a sea
The river has been really high all year. There have been huge floods in Santa Fe in the past and people are scared that it will happen again, but I thought it was funny that it says Beach and there is just water
Visiting a branch called NOgoya.
Late night Pizza!!!
Elder de la Rosa? With Christmas Presents?
Thats right baby, christmas presents of facturas
