¡Hola Todos!
I loved your 2 left-feet skiing story! I can’t believe it worked out for you! To answer Nick’s question—no I don’t really watch tv or movies on the mission. Occasionally someone is watching tv in a house I’m about to teach or eat in and I catch a glimpse, but not really much. To answer Jason’s—I don’t know exactly when I’m going to change companions. We’re guessing it’ll be January 25th, but there’s still a chance that it won’t happen. I don’t know about staying in Salta either. The way things work is that every 6 weeks, we have what’s called ‘traslados’ or transfers, where the mission president decides where everyone’s going to work for the next 6 weeks—whether we’ll stay where we’ve been or whether we’ll head somewhere else. We don’t find out until a few days before the 6th week is over. The next transfer starts January 25th, so yeah! Have fun with the stake primary choir—that’ll be way fun!That’s cool that Jon Schmidt is in town though!I thought the car break-in was crazy! Was it just a crack in the window that they used to unlock from the inside? Reminds me of when I lost my CD case—only I had 75% of the music backed up...cuidado
Well, I finally got around to buying that camelback...for $170 pesos which is about $44!!! I love how things are cheaper here! I read that Peacegiver book you gave me...in 2 sittings of a few hours each :P Amazingly good, definitely recommend you read it!
New Year’s was nice. It turns out we had another dog-following-us story, only with two other elders in the district. A member has this dog that really is not that big, but apparently it follows the elders all around and acts as their guard just dominating all the other dogs! Well, it followed them back to the pension and we couldn’t take it back because mission rules kept us from leaving the pension due to security. Así que, we had a dog sleep over with us! The fireworks scared him to death though, so he slept underneath one of the elder’s bed! I filmed the fireworks for a little bit and I’ll work on getting that out. We woke up and cleaned a plaza up as 2 zones as a service project. Afterward we had about 40 poorer kids playing with us and we handed them out a bunch of candy—it was a fun morning.
January 2nd marked my 4-months in the mission—1/6 of the way through already!!! Super super fast!!! A bunch of kids are asking me for these little music-reading cheat-sheets I’ve written up. Apparently they’re learning from it too!
Scratch what I said about Argentines not liking the banana bread, I think the member lady we fed at first just didn’t like to eat super-sweet stuff :P We had another family think it was great and asked for the recipe! It’s a little tough to make it at their house though when the recipe is in American cooking units and they’re all about using grams! ¡Espero que todo tenga un lindo año nuevo!
-Elder Powell-
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