Letter Dated October 10, 2011

Dear Mom and Dad;

Well I'm glad thing at home are still good. Seems like a pretty normal week for you guys, ha ha. Which is pretty good.

Elder Stewart and a family from Mike's last area

This was a pretty interesting week. The weather was actually pretty bad. Pretty rainy and cold all week. My poor companion from Mexico was dying from the cold.  But he made it and now, at least today was pretty decent

This week started out pretty bad for us, we didn't find anyone, Marcelo and Cecilia will be in a city called Tandil for a month. And this was bad news, and it didn't get much better till Friday.

Friday we found a young man, like 23, called Nestor. We were visiting a Menos Activo and he happened to be in the house. And we started to talk to him tactfully (since people are legitimately scared of missionaries) fortunately when I asked if he was interested in religion he said yes. So we pounced, ha ha, and he listened to the first lesson and everything. We took our a fecha, which is a surprise. Then we left and we set a time to come back the next day, to visit with him and the menos activo. But he never showed up and he had left his Book of Mormon in the menos activos house. So we were saddened. But we found his house and talked to him (and he said something came up and he couldn't come) so we fixed a cita for Tuesday which is tomorrow so we shall see.

Then we had two good lessons with menos activo families. Man, I tell you what. Every family the wife and kids want to come back, but the dads are lazzzzzy, ha ha. (In the mission they are called Bago Pa´s which means lazy dads in Argentine Spanish.) In seriously every menos activo family we have its the same kind of problem. One of them legitimately said this¨I know I need to go to church I have a testimony and I know this is the only true  church, but I'm lazy. But I know I'll come back someday,¨ ha ha.  We got a bit frustrated. We have a cita tonight with that guy. One of the other families the dad got offended because he didn't get a church calling after a few years. Which is impossible here since there aren't any members unless he had some sort of problem...I guess we will see.

Sunday was a weird day for us. We spent the entire day searching for people to teach, ha ha. Well we walked out our door and a car stopped and a couple were arguing about religion, and somehow we managed to get a cita with them tonight and come to there house. Hope that goes well. Then we got into a house of a teenage kid who told us he had NO interest in religion, ha ha. But we taught and we Know he felt the spirit. and we have an invitation to come back, but his schedule is crazy since he is a soccer player, ha ha.

Then we were walking down one street and we decided to knock a door with cracked windows and a broken door. Humility right? Well turns out they were a menos activo family. And there house literally exploded (from gas fire) and their lives were miraculously saved. And the hermano was a ward mission leader. They loved to talk to us (the family is crazy a bit ha ha) we didn't get much chance to share cause they don't have a whole ton of interest. But they invited us to eat dinner with them Saturday night, ha ha. And we left there house at almost 9, which is when we are suppose to be home, and the hermano was soooo worried about us he called us and sent us a message to see if we were alright, ha ha. I thought it was funny. But anyway. We had some interesting stuff happen this week. 

And in our mission there is a senior missionary couple and they visited our branch. They are really cool. The poor sister was trying to learn Spanish I felt bad for her cause its not easy. But she did really good. Tell you what, talking to senior missionaries is awesome. They help make life for us missionaries a lot better. Its kinda (as in the way they talk) like having another mission president.

We did have a bit of success with  a menos activo, named Oscar Lopez, who came to church. Which was good. I was pretty happy somebody came. Everybody else bailed on us ha ha.

Anyway I am going good. I sent a few pictures of people in my last barrio. So I hope you enjoy them.

Hope things continue to go good. We have transfers this week. But I am almost 100% positive we will both stay.

Argentina has elections in the end of October.....should be interesting....I've heard we can't leave our houses that day, ha ha.

Anyway, love ya, enjoy your week.

Elder Obray.

P.S.  I get a wedding picture of Nate and his girl right? That would be cool. Since I can't remember what she looks like ha ha...am I bad...I forgot what she looked like. Black hair?  Maybe, pretty sure it wasn't blonde.....anyway that would be cool thanks.