Week #4

Dearest Mother,

 

I just want to start off by wishing you a very happy birthday! :) i woke up yesterday pretty upset that i was missing it. 19 years without missing it. I thought about you a bunch yesterday and I missed you more than ever! I hope that it was good and im sorry i couldnt be there! But i promise i am working hard so i hope you understand :) Happy birthday mom! Im so grateful for you! I dont know where i would be without you! Not just because you gave birth to me but because you are my best friend :)

 

Proteslyting this Saturday was freaking awesome! I got to go to the same place one more time. Not even 10 minutes after getting off the bus we met our first 2 contacts! They asked us where we were from in so we told them United States so they were immediately interested in why we were here. We told them about a mission and how we are going to paraguay in a couple weeks. One of them his name is Leonardo and he is 19 and his boss Gustavo. Gustavo offered us some water, which was really nice but gave Elder McClelland the squirts hahaha, After that we taught them about the book of Mormon for like 30 minutes on the sidewalk! They were really interested so we took their contact info down. After that Leonardo told us "You guys are my Amigos, I love the USA!" It was freaking awesome haha :) That was our best lesson of the day. Another experience was we were knocking on the doors and this lady answered. She told us we were crazy for walking around in this heat and offered us a drink. So she went left for a minute and brought us back drinks with her daughter who was older. These drinks were orange colored. And i had heard stories of people giving the Missionaries alchoholic beverages before, not to be mean but because the people dont know about the word of wisdom obviously. So i took the glass and said in my head "Heavenly father please remove any alchohol if there is any" haha i didnt want to be rude and tell her no! Turned out there wasnt any :) So we talk to them outside her door for 20 minutes about The United States and we bring up we are Mormons and this lady gets really excited and she shows us this ring. Its a CTR ring like an english one! She said her mom gave it to her but she doesnt know what it means! So we told her it meant Choose the right in english but in spanish its Hace Le Justo or HLJ. So she was really happy :) other than those two experiences the day was pretty hot and alot of walking! But i didnt even care! Those contacts have made my week :)

 

So sorry about the shortness! Ive never remember what to write and i only have an hour to think about it! After im done i always remeber stuff that i needed to tell you haha! But school sounds really hard and but i know you are doing great! You cant help it! The food here is really good sometimes! and other times its so so. We have a couple different cooks so one of them i usually prefer! We eat so much meat. Its awesome. Argentina is infamous for its beef i guess. So much steak. :)

 

I hope i get some letters today! They only give them out on P Day so we will see later if i did! I have been waiting pretty patiently haha. For my package i have one request please! I would like a SD card reader that you can plug in via USB. My friend has one so thats how ive been uploading pics! But without it theres no way to get them uploaded! so please if you can send me one :) i have some sweet pics for you!

 

Im so sad i missed megans first dance! She looks beautiful :) Aiden better have treated her right! He looks like a nice kid though! Please give her a really big hug for me! :) I love the red tie! Kody and his prayers. I love them because theyre arent repeated phrases that he has just heard over and over again! He really prays with his heart! Im so proud of him! Thank you guys for all your prayers :) i know for a fact that they are helping me!

 

Next week is Christmas! Holy moly its so hot and humid here i dont know how it can be christmas! But I will get to email next wednesday :) I dont know what time but make sure you check it out :) Please tell the family I said Merry Christmas and that I love them! I miss you guys so much! I am probably the most homesick ive been yet! Yesterday we set up a couple christmas decorations so I was so sad haha. I love you Mom! Thank you for the email :) it means the world to me! I pray for you guys all the time! Thank you for your support! I will see you on Christmas.

 

Love,

Elder Milton :)