Thanks for the email. It's good to hear that things are going pretty well back home. I was really glad to hear that Sam is leaving. That's really exciting. I'm sure he will do great.
Yea, so the whole eye infection stuff is pretty bad here, lots of people get them. Who knows why. But right now me and my companion are good health wise. Well minus that my companion has destroyed both his pairs of shoes. I think we bought pretty good ones since he lost 2 pairs in 4 months...
Ah man, I almost ate all the peanut butter, I ate probably 6 PB and J sandwiches for lunch the other day, ha ha. But its sooo good.
And about the Christmas calls....Hmmm. One of us is going to call about 5 here and the other about 7 Argentina time. So I don't think we will have a problem. You should send me information on how to call home. I don't remember what numbers I have to press to call the States and Idaho ha ha.. I think we call the 24th as well. But really I gotta ask someone. And I probably can skype if a member will let me use the computer. But we haven't prepared anything as far as that goes. If I call it will be the same as before where I will call you and hang up and you have to call back.
For Christmas I'm not sure what we are allowed to do....I guess we will see. We cant go knock doors, ha ha. I think the 22nd of Dec. we go to Mar Del Plata for the Super P-day. I'm pretty excited to play some sports. Its been a while.
Alright so this week. In Argentina. I gave the missionary lesson in District Meeting, which was weird, since I'm not district leader. But apparently, President said that every once in a while another missionary should give the lesson. So that was pretty cool.
We had a pretty decent amount of success this week. 5 investigators went to church. Estela, She is the mom of a member, she has gone to church like 3 times now. Just needs to get married. 2 little kids, Juan Cruz and his sister, they are in primary and well we can't actually baptize them because there parents wont commit to supporting and bringing them to church every Sunday. But they went this week without the parents. In order to baptize a young person into the church we have to be sure that they have an adult to at least bring them every week to church. Just so the missionaries don't go out and baptize a bunch of kids who will go to church for 1 year and that's it. Then another kid named Brian who is friends with an active member came. Which was really good. He is about 16 years old. We taught him the 1st lesson in the church. We taught the class for the young men that day, ha ha. Which went pretty well..
Then Adrianna went of course. Carlos didn't because he had work. We had two citas with them this last week, we talked a lot. Finally Carlos read, and prayed. But he didn't really connect with the Book of Mormon very much. But he said he was going to read more, I think he is really trying, so if he keeps it up he will get his answer. This was pretty exciting for us. I think there is a chance with him right now, he seems more open.
If you remember Walter, the kid who went to church last Sunday, they had a huge change this past week. His Dad no longer lives in the house. The mom was sick of him and kick him out (which wasn't a huge surprise since he was always drinking). But still it was hard on the kids to lost their dad. So they are going through the judge process. So they had a big change. But with all that happening Walter and his little sister Sophia went to a youth activity Friday. Which they loved. We have a appointment tonight with the family. So we will see how it all goes with them. They didn't go to church and we thought they all would go. So I guess we will see what happened.
We also met a guy named Daniel Suarez who was baptized when he had 9 years (now 32) but he lost contact with the church cause he started to work. We talked to him for a few minutes and he has some really good memories of the church. We put a appointment for this week, so we are excited cause he asked us what time church was at. That never happens, ha ha. So we will see.
We talked to a guy named Hugo Blanco this week. He is a menos activo. And was married in the temple and everything. But got mad at a member and never went to church. I get frustrated with these people who know so much but don't go.Oh yea those pictures where of a plate mashed potatoes. MMMmmm good. And then a pictures of my shoe ha ha. One of my shoes is dying the other is fine. but you can see my finger sooo.... maybe they will send me some new ones. But I'll use these till winter probably.
Then a picture of a dog. Our dueno (duno umm....English...lady who owns our house? since we rent) anyway she took care of a dog, and it started to rain really hard. So we let it stay inside a little bit of our house. Well because of that he thought we were best friends of course. So that night when we came back to our house, we opened the window, and look, the dog just sat on the windowsill allllll night. Seriously. When we got up in the morning. Still there.
We were looking for old investigators for a while this week to see if they changed there minds. And we knocked one door, and 3 kids came out, a kid of 5 year, a kid of 10, and a girl of 13. We asked if the mom was home, the 10 year old said no. BUT the 5 year old is a honest little kid, and with a grin on his face he said, "NO! Mom is home". But the 10 year old wasn't done yet. Alright well shes sleeping. The little 5 year old says, "NO! look shes washing the dishes, she is right there."
At this point we were laughing. and the 13 year old girl went in to talk to the mom. Unfortunately the mom just sent the 13 year old out to say she didn't want to talk right now. But still. At least we found an honest 5 year old.
We were pretty satisfied with the lessons we had this week. If things continue we hope to have a few baptisms (that would be nice, its been a while).
Anyway, enjoy your week, its almost Christmas.
Love ya,
Elder Obray
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