Somewhere in Argentina

hi guys! This week was awesome and I hope all is well with everyone. We had a baptism, and we are preparing people for the weeks to come, and I am loving the work here in Embarcacion! There is still a ton of heat and rain but what else is new? and our apartment is undergoing construction so that kinda sucks but once its ready its gonna be great.  We are teaching a family that's going to get baptized soon, and in one of the lessons there was a girl that showed up and stood behind a chair. Afterwords we asked her if shed like to come to an activity in the church and she said yes but that we had to ask her mom. we went and ended up teaching their whole family! we are now teaching all of them and preparing them for baptism!  This week I also ate two of the best mangoes I've ever had in one of our lessons two guys ran a motorcycle into a fence and it looked like they had stolen it. but then a group of guys with machetes and sling shots appeared and they almost started to

Hey guys! This week was so great! it was the first week in my new area with my new comp. Elder Espinola is from Buenos Aires and hes super great! Weve had a lot of fun. Also I love Embarcacion! Its small and the church is a branch so theres only like 15 people each week and our area is kinda in the middle of nowhere. Parts we have to teach kinda in the jungle and almost all the roads are dirt. The people are amazing and there are soccer fields and mango trees literally EVERYWHERE! In one house I ate 8 mangoes and they were so freaking good! And as we were leaving we passed a soccer field and they kicked the ball to me and told me to start juggling. That was fun and we told them wed come play with them later.  This week my comp asked me if I spoke Spanish before the mission, so that made my day! Before I left I barely knew anything haha, but I'm grateful for the companions I have had that have helped me progress with the language. BEES! We had an activity for the kids We

Hola my friends!  Today I rode a bus for 9 hours to get to my new area, but I love it! its in Salta and its pretty small and is right next to a big river. My new companion is Elder Espinola from Buenos Aires and I'm excited for this transfer!  It was tough saying bye to Villa Alem and the people there, and my comp Elder Rios, but I was there for 6 months and its time haha. Elder Rios taught me a lot and is one of my best friends here in the mission. Gonna miss him Elder Rios and I did a lot of service this week  and I fell off a ladder and afterwords the families gave us mangos! i thought I knew how to eat mangos growing up in Hawaii but Rios showed me a new way and my life has forever been changed.  This week the Elders in Independencia moved in to our pension while they are fixing up their pension and that was interesting because our pension isn't that big, especially for 4 people. But its been fun living with them THE MOST ARGENTINE THING happened when w

As i write this my clothes are soaked because we played soccer all morning in the rain, and that was a lot of fun! Things are really good in our area and we are seeing lots of small miracles and finding people that are prepared to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ! Each day I love the culture here more and more, and I'm so grateful for this time I have in Argentina. One lesson we had this week the mom was telling us about some problems she has been having recently and her kids were talking SO loud the whole time! but the spirit was so strong and despite her loud kids there was a peace that was felt, with the hope of the message we were sharing. BLESSING- This week we went to a members house whose kid was sick and she asked me to give the blessing. I was a little worried and not feeling confident in my ability to give a blessing in Castellano, but the mom looked at me and said simply to follow the spirit. I had been thinking too much in MY abilities and not in the blessing fro