Hola todos,
The battle surges on: we still haven't found a new place to live, the success still is a little low (I'm driving the zone leaders crazy because the 3 of us can't figure out what's missing), seasonal allergies are coming on a little, and the heat bakes your head a little! We have this one lady though that's terribly close to her baptism though. She basically just has to make the decision that she wants to do it and she's already ready for this weekend! I'll give her full story once she hits the water!
We had a unique experience this week. The 10-year census rolled around! So we couldn't leave the pension until the census person came and interviewed us. We played Monopoly until she got there :P It was a rather odd interview for the lady because we're 8 20-year-olds that all come from places other than locally here in Jujuy. We did "work" last week, but we don't really receive an income :P We couldn't really tell her where we habitually live either because we randomly switch between all areas of Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, and Santiago! Our names were a little funky too. It came and went though, and luckily she came by at 12:00, so it wasn't too late. We were walking around that same day and actually spotted our bishop giving the census interviews as well!
This week was our stake conference. The talks were really nice. It was also nice to see the mission president and his wife there! We'll be seeing them again in a week and a half for our interviews.
As for Halloween weekend, it didn't affect too many people here. We actually spotted a few trick-or-treaters though, but just in the richer neighborhoods. If you want to say "trick-or-treat" in Spanish, it's "truco-o-dulce" (you can get away with combining the two 'o's together). Lot's of people kindof ignore the holiday though because they don't want North American comercialism to impact their northern Argentine traditionalism. It's slowly creeping in though, it can't really be helped seeing that more people are watching tv and watching all the US shows with Spanish translations. Oh well!
That's about all I've got though, love you all!
-Elder Powell-
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