Semana 94 - Villa Muñecas

¡Hola Todos!

This was a really funky week. We didn't start out the week too well, but then I had divisions on Wednesday. My district leader and I found all of the new investigators and set all the baptismal dates we needed in the week in just that one day!!! I expected to have similar success the following days, but it was quite the opposite: we just found 1 new investigator and set 1 baptismal date with that same investigator. Not sure what happened, but I can't complain too much, the numbers show we had a good week :)

The cold is really setting in. The killer part is that it's humid here, so no matter how many layers you have on, the cold still penetrates everything. It's keeping a lot of people from making it to church because the shock of getting out from under the covers is just too much...it doesn't help that we've had rain for a couple days too, so things are just freezing down here :P

We took a district trip up this hill today to see one of the world's largest statues of Jesus Christ. It was really pretty being up on top of everything. Too bad the cyber lady just prohibitted me from plugging in my camera to upload the pictures..."I don't have a virus, I swear!"

President Northcutt and his wife leave for home on Friday, bringing in the new president--President Levrino--and his family from Santa Fe, Argentina. Hope the switch goes smoothly!

I love you all! Keep reading those scriptures!

-Elder Powell-

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Semana 93 - Villa Muñecas

¡Hola Todos!

It's been a rollercoaster ride this week! Still having the same difficulties with finding new investigators and keeping the current ones progressing. I was surprised with President Northcutt's last zone conference this week! It was a very very spiritual one--dead silence after the closing prayer :P It was really good though and we learned a lot, yet again. There's a certain kid from the ward that got his mission call to Chile. He was supposed to leave 2 weeks ago, but a volcano in Chile caused a ton of ash to cover the two airports in Buenos Aires, making travel impossible through there. He got set apart all the same last Sunday, so he actually accompanied us for a couple days, which was a great help! He finally had to take a bus down to Buenos Aires to go to the MTC there until he can fly out to Chile. The missionaries that had to leave last transfer got jipped as well, seeing as they couldn't fly out to the US again! 3 poor elders from Chile had to make the 36-hour bus trip to Santiago to be able to go home! And then supposedly 2-3 incoming elders from the states got stuck in Texas, so the mission pres had to go and pick them up and keep them there until they can travel! Such a nagging issue!

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers seeing this! Unfortunately the holiday coupled with really cold weather made mission work impossible yesterday, but happy holidays anyways :) I had to give an emergency talk yesterday because none of the speakers showed up. I talked about how fathers should be like Heavenly FATHER, using lots of scriptures that explain who he is, and the blessings that come from being like him. I also showed examples of good fathers in the Book of Mormon, showing how their knowledge of God helped define their character. It turned out really nice :)

Love you all!!!

-Elder Powell-

 

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Semana 92 - Villa Muñecas

¡Hola Todos!

This was a rather rough week, but we made do with what we got. The hardest part has been finding new investigators to teach, as usual. We're still managing though because we have a rather large list of people to be visiting anyways, so we keep busy. The big highlight of the week was an area conference that we had on Sunday. President Packer, Elder Anderson, President Wixom, and Elder Zivic gave a broadcast conference from Salt Lake to every stake and district center in Argentina yesterday!!! It was so great! The talked about a good variety of topics, from family scripture study and prayer, to tithing, serving a mission, and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Elder Zivic is from Buenos Aires and showed a little bit of worry in his talk because he says statistics are showing that a great majority of Argentina will go less-active in 20 years if we don't take care and spiritually mature. It was a funky conference too because Elder Zivic spoke Spanish, President Wixom didn't (live translation), Elder Anderson spoke sorta-badly-pronounced-Spanish, and Elder Packer took the English option as well. Watch out though, Elder Packer gave a subtle farewell during his testimony, saying that "perhaps" he might not return to Argentina...It was a nice conference though.

Elder Brown had his last day in the area and is now in Santiago del Estero. My new comp actually comes from his MTC group. His name is Elder Rasmussen, from Pocatello, Idaho. He a really nice, smiley guy, and excited to get going in his 2nd area of the mission. He'll probably be the elder that's going to kill me off, seeing as I only have 2 transfers left! We'll see......

Love you all!

-Elder Powell-

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Semana 91 - Villa Muñecas

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This was a rather gloomy last week. The cold weather has been coming on now--practically every day was cloudy. Lots of plans failed this last week, with door knocking being at its worst! 

I hit my 21-month mark this last week. Tomorrow, I hit 21 years old! That seems just a little weird :P I'll be celebrating tomorrow during lunch with a family that has 2 members of their family that have the same birthday!

Schools are ending all over in the States...the schools are still going in full force down here, setting sights on their 2-week winter vacation, and then ending in the beginning of December. We're going into week 6 of 6 in the transfer as well, so we could be seeing a change in companionship next week. The fun never ends!

I just got my travel plans home today! The secretary wrote me a note saying, "Just FYI......don't get too trunky!" I couldn't help but laugh :D I should be getting home late on September 7th, just so y'all know ;)

I love you all!

-Elder Powell-

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