Día 139‏

This was a pretty crazy week. On Tuesday we went to San Fernando to a mission conference. It was really fun to see all the missionaries, even if I only know about 4... haha. As part of the conference we did that little activity where you read a story and every time it says right or left you pass your present. President Ayre bought all of the presents and we did the activity. I got a little thing of peanuts... not quite the tie that a few others got. That night we had dinner with the family of Olga, Graciela and Dani. It was a lot of fun to spend part of Christmas Eve with them, and we ate good. We had asado, milanesa napolitana, and all sorts of stuff. There was also blood sausage, which I was the only one brave enough to try, and it was disgusting.

About to try blood sausage

I didn't like it too much

Wednesday, Christmas, we had P-day, so Elder Popoca, Elder Johnson, Elder Fuentes and I went and explored Puerto Madero and the central and took a ton of photos. Afterwards we had lunch, which was an asado also, pretty much the best beef there is. Afterwards I got to talk to the family, which was pretty cool. It was a bummer that I could only talk to Joe for about 5 minutes tops, but it was still great. Unfortunately, the family of which I was using the computer was really, really loud the whole time I was talking, so I don't know how well you heard me. When Elder Fuentes was talking, all of their family and friends had left, so it was a lot quieter. It was really nice to see you all and see how big Josie, Jackson, and Liesel are. I also think Rachel's grown a lot, no one believes me when I say that she's only 13 years old.

Elder Johnson cut my hair...

Friday Alan had his baptismal interview, and Elder Popoca told us that he ws really excited about his baptism and he wants to serve a mission. He said he knows you have to be 18 and he's only 15 and doesn't want to wait. Anyway, we were really excited and he was really excited. When we went to his house to pick him up for his baptism on Saturday however, his mom told us that he had gone to Provincia and wouldn't be back until nighttime. We went back later that night and he still wasn't there. We went to pick him up for church yesterday morning, but his mom wouldn't let him go because he had to take care of his nephews. Fortunately when we went back for him later that night he could come and we baptized him last night. The service was really small, becuse he didn't want a whole lot of people to come, but it was still really special. We also went out Sunday afternoon with Graciela and talked to a whole bunch of people in the villa and have new investigators, so we're pretty excited about that.

 

Baptism of Alan

Anyway, I love you all!

Elder John William Garrett