Semana 35 - Yuto

Hola Todos,

We discovered a possible reasoning why 'sister-in-law' (all of this also works for brother-in-law too) means 'cuñada' in Spanish: the word 'cuña' means 'wedge' in English, so 'cuñada' is saying that the sister-in-law is trying to wedge her way into the family! I thought it was pretty funny.

 

Just like I had San Lorenzo as a little extra part of my area in La Loma, there's also a place called Caimancito that is also a part of my area, even though it's a 30-minute bus ride in between. We headed to Caimancito this past week with a member who used to live there and we actually had a ton of success. We had 6 new investigators turn up there! So it seems like we'll be received well there, the trick is finding those prepared to travel to Yuto every Sunday to go to church...there's usually always something tricky about the situation. We also found a less-active family there too, so it seems we'll be working through them as well.

Speaking of traveling far, our investigator, Alicia, who needed to get married or separate has already made the decision to separate...and she's already left to a city called Palpalá! We were surprised by her quick departure, but it will be good for the kids to experience the city.

 

This weeks service project was digging a 2-meter deep and 2-yard wide hole for a bathroom! I'm telling you, there's no place like Yuto!!! I'll be getting a photo of it this week. In the meantime, I have plenty of other photos at picasaweb.google.com/cpu3140.

 

We recently received our church's computer back from Buenos Aires from a month of repair time. We found out even more recently that the modem is now disfunctional so we can't send or receive anything to Buenos Aires now! We're supposed to buy a new modem using our branch's budget, but the credit card has been blocked because we didn't send any financial info to the church during the month that we didn't have our computer--talk about complicated!!! We've sent a backup of our financial info to Buenos Aires and we should be getting the problem fixed somewhat soon, but holy cow this is frustrating a lot of work that we need to do!

 

We had an awesome mutual activity this past weekend. For the past week and a half, Elder Sangroni and I have been planning and taking pictures of Yuto for a photo scavenger hunt. We had 7 locations picked out, all close by a member's house because the two teams had to find where the photo was taken first, and then they'd go to the member's house, tell them where it was, (in one of the houses, they had to share a scripture too), and then they would receive their next photo clue. We were pretty brutal though--they were walking in circles all around Yuto instead of in a nice straight line! They took about 2 hours to find them all, so while they were out searching, Elder Sangroni and I actually left the church as well and did some teaching to pass the time--talk about working both our callings at the same time!!! The kids cheated a little, and a few got lazy and left in the middle of everything, but I'd still say the activity turned out to be a success!

 

Well, that's about all for this past week. Hope things are going well in everyone's lives! I'll have zone conference (and a new cellphone!) for this next week!

Love,

Elder Powell 

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