As I was cybering
this morn they cut the power and so I couldn’t write you guys then so we’re hoping
that this email will go through—oh, how I pray. But yes, how goes it? Is it still
hot in Utah Argentina
Through the
smoke and flames we managed to have a baptism this week—a young chap by the
name of Misael who is the nephew of Pres. Angel. It went great! It was a hot,
hot day so we planned to have the baptism in a pool at a place called (in Spanish
and English) "Camping". We got
there to find—GASP—no agua in the pool! I panicked because we hadn’t filled the
font in the capilla since the water was being weirdly gross there so we did the
next best thing: I went with Angel and we found a good-sized irrigation ditch
in an orange grove, dammed it up with an old tin roof, and had the baptism
there—on the spot—yes! It was a most last- minute thing but it worked and it
was a blasty blast. He got confirmed the
next day.
Speaking of
the scripture in a bag thing (suggestion that he keep his scriptures in a plastic gallon bag), I really wish I would have done that because my
scriptures got soaked. I have my fancy leather cases but I'm not going to use
those out in the field. I’m using the scripture covers you guys sent me way back when. The
zipper broke on my triple combination a few months ago so it’s just been open
this whole time and bwahhhh! It got drenched.
They are all marked up so 1 Nefi had the pen all washed away and the
paper stained. Yet, not to fear, yesterday I embarked on some serious scripture
surgery. After 2 hours with white out,
tape, etc. they’re back to normal with just a few great battle scars.
Yesterday, Gabriel
passed the sacrament for the first time. I was blessing it and told him if he
ran out of bread or water he must go to the front, spin around 3 times and that
will signal me tol go get more bread and water(I know, he thinks I am hilarious).
Alas, neither the bread nor the water ran out :(
Well, other
than that, it’s been a week of searching for newbies so my comp and his next comp
will have a nice, fresh batch of people to work with. It’s kind of hard finding
people right now because Yuto has a lot of stuff going on right now: Local
bingo at the high school (no joke) selling bread and, of course, POLITICS! Every
Yutan down in Yuto likes politics a lot, but the Elder Allphin, who lived in
the middle of Yuto, did not. F´reals, I’m about to swallow a knife listening to
all the politics here. They put up huge speakers and play propaganda with
Chacarera and Cumbia music at volume levels that makes a train horn sound like a
ladybug sneeze. We have the headquarters of the Peronistas right in front of
our pench so every day they play the Peronista march song to wake me up.
Nothing says “Good morning anti-radicalistas!” than Eva Peron (except without Madonna).
That’s about all the buzz in Yuto. Everyone is practically naked with the heat on
and I’m tempted to join them in on that. But first, some queztions.
- How is the dog situation? Has Angel’s dog stopped following you?
- What will you not miss about
- When and where do you have your final interview with the Pres?
- Will you be able to go to the temple when you swing through
Well
kiddlingz, that’s it for this week of the weekly stuffs. I’m currently in the
process spending my change collection from my whole mission. It’s a healthy $26
pesos and a kilo of strawberries are running around $20 pesos. A kilo of
strawberries for 5 bucks—good luck finding that in the States. So I gotta go
hit that up. ‘Till next week, I love you all so much, thank you for all you do.
Happy belated Argie Mother's Day Mom and everyone. I love you, its all good.
Con Amor,
Russ
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