Week 52 - Versalles 2

On Tuesday this week we went to meet the new mission President and his wife in the mission offices and they are pretty cool. He talked about how we have to make a lot of sacrifices in the mission and it won't always be easy but in the end it will be worth it.  I think they are going to be really good.

Wednesday we had a district meeting as normal.  Thursday morning we got wrapped up in a move for a member of the ward that ended up taking like 6 hours.  On Sunday night we went to the pension of the Elders from Versalles 2  because Elder Ruston finishes his mission Monday morning.  We made a ton of pizza and food and it was fun.  Sunday was also good because all of Omar's family came to church and they really liked it.  Omar's little sister Carla is getting baptized next week so we are obviously excited.

Tomorrow is transfers so we will see where I go.

Zone Meeting

Missionaries going home

Elder Meza's shoes

In front of a famous Soccer Stadium

Tanner and Angel Huaroto

Alex Guzman, Tanner, Ruben Sanchez

Pizza on P-Day

Elder Meza laughing :)

Week 51 - Versalles 2

This week we did divisions twice.  On Wednesday, I went with Elder Overbay to his area and we basically just contacted all day long.  I am kind of getting sick of the capital.  We contact all day long and still don't find anyone.  Anyways on Friday morning we went to a wedding of some investigators that Versalles 1 are teaching and it was literally a mess, like something that would happen in a movie.  First of all they were supposed to show up at 8:45 but showed up at 9:30.  Then one of their kids who is 5, went in an elevator and pushed a bunch of buttons and then the elevator went up and he got lost for 30 minutes so we were all looking for him.  Then it turns out the wife was getting cold feet and didn't want to get married. But luckily the relief society president had come to support and was like "well you guys have already been living together for 10 years and have 3 children together, eventually you were gonna get married". So then eventually they got married.  It was crazy.

The rest of Friday, I went with Elder Assuncao to Versalles 1 and once again we contacted a ton.  Right now we are teaching Omar's sister who has a baptism date for 20th of July.  And yesterday we found a super interested lady who basically told us her whole life story after knowing us for two minutes.  We have basically had to stop teaching a ton of people because they don't come to church even though they really like that we come over.  After we write today we are going to cook Feshuado (I have no idea how to spell that-that's Tanner saying he doesn't know how to spell it.  I looked it up and I think it's spelled Feijoada) which is like a super good Brazilian food apparently.  Elder Assuncao is going to show us how.  President Zuniga got to the mission on Friday of last week and we haven't heard anything from him so I guess that remains to be seen what changes he will make.

Week 50 - Versalles 2

This week went really well.

On Saturday we had the baptism of Omar Flores.

The other elders also had a baptism at the same time and a bunch of the ward members came and it was probably the most organized baptismal service I have ever had.

Everything went super smoothly and all we had to do was show up basically.  Omar got baptized by Brother Sanchez, the one who played for Boca and is the Young Men's 1st counselor.  Omar was super happy and his family came too.

On Friday we had our last interviews with President Smith and we had lunch there.  It was really nice and it is kind of weird because President Smith leaves on Friday.  So President Smith was really into giving us pyramids with the goals of the mission and so for this last time he gave us 3D pyramids and every one went nuts.  (I guess you had to be there to understand.)

 On Friday night we go to check up on Omar to make sure everything is good for the baptism and we see that he is missing a huge chunk of his eyebrows.  Turns out he like tried to make himself a gangster and cut a line in his eyebrows but kind of failed.

But anyways it was a good week and today for p-day we got together in the church with the Elders from Versalles 1 and we made a bunch of pancakes.  So that was fun.

Week 49 - Versalles 2

This week went well.

We did divisions Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

We got the baptismal interview done for Omar.  So now he is going to get baptized the 22nd.  It is going to be awesome.

On Sunday morning the lights went out in all of Argentina basically so we had our sacrament meeting in the dark.  It was also raining a ton so that's probably why it went out.  It rained basically the whole week.  But it was a good week and we got soaked everyday, but oh well, as of right now our building still doesn't have electricity and its not because of the power outage it's because our building is stupid.  We are the only ones without power.

But anyways this week will be great because Omar is getting baptized.

Week 48 - Versalles 2

This week went really well.

 On Tuesday we had a ward council where we talked about the new vision of the mission which is super focused on church attendance for the investigators.

On Wednesday we had a zone conference in San Fernando and it went all good.  We talked a lot more about the attendance and how for every investigator we need to find  the "3 Nephites". Someone to pick them up, someone to give them the welcome, and someone to sit with them.  The zone conference was supposedly going to end at 3:00 but ended up finishing at 5:30 of course so that took up all of our day on Wednesday.

On Thursday we took this 15 year old kid we are teaching, Omar, to the mutual activity and then we played soccer with them for 10 minutes and it turns out a member had brought three friends because they all wanted to meet Ruben Sanchez the famous soccer player in our ward who is in the Young Men's Presidency.  But it went really well.  Omar really likes being with the other young men and feels comfortable.

On Friday, we did divisions with the zone leaders and I stayed in Versalles with Elder Manica from Brazil.  So Elder Manica and I contact a lady in the street and she just explodes and starts going off about all the problems our church has and Elder Manica is trying to respond politely and then she starts talking about how we dress and says that women aren't allowed to wear pants and then finally I lose my patience and say to her "fine, you go to church in pants and I will go in a dress on Sunday. See you there."  Well she didn't end up coming to church but oh well.

That Friday we taught a first lesson to this 21 year old dude Juan who is super good and had a ton of good questions.

 On Saturday we walked a ton but we had a really freaking weird lunch.  It turns out that the woman who we were eating with had married the man who used to be her step-dad so that was really hard for me to get my head around. Like I said before Omar is really excited and we have his baptism scheduled  for the 22nd of this month so that will be awesome.