¡Hola del pais de la factura!

Bueno, como podeís ver, tuvimos una buena semana acá en la misión Buenos Aires Oeste. Tuvimos la conferencía del Distrito de Mercedes, y tuvimos que viajar casí tres horas para llegar allá. La Hermana Carter sacó una buena foto de nosotros, ¿no?. Okay, voy a escribiros a vosotros en Inglés ahora.

Well, we had a great week this week. Oh Mom, to answer your question, yes, we do see spiders like that often out here in the countryside. That thing was the size of the palm of my hand. Gigantic. They´re not so common toward the city, but here they are. My companion had a piece of paper that he rolled up. He touched the spider´s leg with it, and, in a thousandth of a second, jumped and bit the rolled up piece of paper. I think my companion jumped just as quick as the spider did. Afterward, the spider just crawled up on top of the window pane slowly. I think it was sleeping when we bothered it. Spiders are evil creatures. I don´t even know why they deserve an existence on this earth. It says in Corinthians that: "In Adam all things die, but in Christ all things shall be made alive". When Adam was thrust out of the Garden of Eden, the earth fell under the circumstances of his fall. Which means that all things were now subject to death. So, does that mean that all things, including animals, insects, fish, and other creatures, will all be made alive and resurrect? Ooooo....deep question right? Tell me what you think.

This week, we went to District Conference, almost three hours away from our chapel in another city called Lujan (Loo-hawn). We left the church in our city at about 7:30 in the morning to arrive at about 9:30-10:00 for the conference to start immediately after. The conference was really good. President Carter gave a great talk and the spirit was definitely felt. We are in a district, not a stake. Which means that the Mission President is the presiding authority and is in charge of all of the dealing within said district. We all hopped on a big bus and traveled to Lujan. I took some pictures, but my computer doesn´t have a USB hookup right now. I´ll do it at the chapel later today. I took some pictures on the busride. It was way fun.

On saturday, we had a miracle happen. We were a little down because all of our really great investigators were telling us not to pass by anymore. Way sad. We would go by the house and they would say...yeah...we don´t want you to come by anymore. So, we were feeling kind of down. On saturday, we didn´t have anything to do, so we decided to pass by somebody who lived really close to our house. We had contacted this lady my first day in Chacabuco, over two weeks ago. We went by the house and rang the bell. The lady came out and said "come in!". We looked at each other with a look of disbelief and went into the house. She sat us down at her table and started asking questions about the church. She said that she had never spoken with missionaries before and that she wanted to know everything. We started speaking and she was way interested. She then interrupted us and said, "let me call my family in". She left and called her fifteen year old daughter and her husband. I thought, oh no, the husband. Because the majority of the men here are really stubborn, especially when it comes to the subject of religion. We continued and they just listened. We came to the part of the Book of Mormon and then the husband started asking questions. He asked "Okay okay, stop. Now, who is Nephi? Did he live before or after Jesus Christ?" I drew a timeline on my planner from Adam to us and explained where each of the characters were in the timeline of the world. Nephi 600 years before Christ, Moroni 400 years after Christ, and Joseph Smith in 1820. He said "Okay! It makes sense now!" They said where can we get this book? My companion and I, now feeling a little bit stupid, said that we didn´t bring any, but that they could read the pamphlet that we had left the last time. They said okay. We ended with a prayer and that asked how we do our prayers. They asked if we did Father in Heaven from chapter 7 in Mathew and we said no. We offered the prayer on our knees and it was amazing. They said, I like that prayer a lot better. They then started talking about marriage and how they could get married in a few weeks. We challanged them to Baptism and they accepted. The family is absolutely golden! So, we´ll be working with them a ton to get them into the water. You know, from your missions, when you meet a family that makes you say to yourself, this family is going to contain the next bishop, relief society president and young womens president? Yeah, thats this family. It was an amazing day that just lifted our enitre week.

On thursday, I had my first opportunity to do a baptismal interview, which is one of my duties as a District Leader. It was way cool and spiritual. Even though they aren´t getting baptized for a few problems, the experience was really spiritual. We had to travel for an hour in a bus to get to the area where we needed to go. But, it was a way cool deal.

Thursday is thanksgiving and no, Argentina doesn´t recognize the holiday. But, we´re going to have dinner with a member family and they are going to do a mini thanksgiving dinner for us. I´ll send pictures.

Gavin, I hope you shaved dude. That barba (beard) was looking gnarly. Did it hurt to shave? I bet it did.

Paige, I have my fingers crossed for you as you go into your interview. I hope it goes well and that you can get the job. Put tape on your eyes so you look chinese, it´ll increase your chance of getting the job.

Dad, I feel so bad. So, I hope this makes up for it....

¡Feliz cumpleaños!

I felt really bad for not wishing you a happy birthday when it came around. So, I hope that made up for it.

Well, I have to go now. Thanks for all the love and support you guys give me. I always love getting your letters every P-Day. Mom, good luck on your new calling that you´ll get next week. I hope its a good one. I love you guys and I´ll talk to you next week.

Vuestro hermano, hijo, y amigo en Cristo,