E-Mail Argentina October 1st & 8th, 2012 (Batan)

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW....Buenos :) Hello flimmy flam. Well how goes it? Sounds like everyone is great and having a good time :) First off mother, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I know I'm a little early but..I'm in the process of writing a letter and still haven’t finished so...it will be a while after til you get it. So ya :) Happy Birthday mom! I love you tons y que la cumpla feliz :) I hope its a good one and buy something nice from me ;) But thanks for all you have done for me and for the family. I see families here that just are missing out on great moms. I'm just so lucky to have a great mom like you. I love ya tonz :) 

Okay, sounds like everyone is content. Jake made Swat, kids are wrapping up soccer, Hill's got a new house, sounds like everyone is good :) Grandpas having surgery huh?? Well I'll be sure to pray for him that all will go well :S Let him know I love him and that I'm praying for him! Man!! I'm not even going to know my own ward when I get home! haha So many changes! Marriages, missions and moving. That's nuts!! Man I'm SUPER annoyed that none of my letters are getting home. I'm starting to get nervous to send them cause I'm not hearing any news of them getting there, so I'm a little hesitant. And no, my package hasn’t come yet. I haven’t gotten anything over the past 4 weeks so it should be getting here soon I would imagine. The mail is pretty slow both ways it looks like haha. Some things that I can think of if you could send me a list of good object lessons. We need some good ideas for FHE´s and I would also love a pen drive if you could send me me one! Well today I got to go to the zoo, its SO sweet!!!! Seriously!! It's like...super different then the states, its like....I can't even think of the word....trucho? I don’t know if that’s a word in English but its that! haha. I will just have to show you pics. 

Hello everyone! great, this week has been great. We are working really hard with this couple. Their names are F and B. B is a member but has been less active for awhile, but he LOVES Missionaries. His mom is active and she said that he just has the deepest love for the Missionaries and F isn't a member. Well we have been working SUPER hard with this family. B and F aren't married and are living together so that’s kind of a problem. But they are so great, they have a son and are expecting another. But we watched a Mormon Message "The things that are the most important" and it hit them SUPER hard. He has to travel to work sometimes and he said "It kills me to be away from my family for few days, it just hit me that it would be horrible not to have them forever." He has such a strong testimony, he started crying and is a new man, he said "The Missionaries have passed by for a long time, and I always said I was going to go back to church...but this time is different" and F is AWESOME!! Before we even met her she has been studying the Book of Mormon. like STUDYING taking notes and everything. We were teaching her the Plan of Salvation the other day (the whole family was there) and she left mid lesson and we didn’t know why, but we talked to the mom of B and she told us that F was just bawling and bawling. The spirit touched her and now she's telling B "I wanna go to church, I wanna go to church" she told us that she had desires to go to church. Great things are passing in this family. I love them SO much and they are so great. We talked to them about marriage and they got excited and I think they are going to do it!! PLEASE pray for them. the sooner they can get married, the sooner F can get baptized!! The sooner B can get the Melchizedek Priesthood. not only will that bless them as a family but also help the branch to grow!!  I love this gospel and I'm so thankful for all you do :) Thanks!

I love you all tonz!! Hope you enjoy the pics!! I love you all SO much and hope you all well :) 

MOM!!! I'm so sorry that my email didn’t send last week!! I don’t know what happened!! I just sent it so you will have two this week :) Wow wasn't Conference great? It was amazing the announcement of our beloved Prophet!! MISSIONARIES AT 18 OR 19!! wow!! This WHOLE conference talked SO much about being converted!! and with these new missionaries they will need to be converted. Wow, so many Apostles talked about Peter!! I have dedicated all my study time to learning the life of Peter after watching conference and the more I look at his life the more I realize just how unconverted I am. I have a lot of growing to do. Like Elder Holland said "I am just gitty about this new announcement" I am so grateful that I have this time to convert myself!! It sounds like everyone is doing great and had a great time at Lake Powell!! and wow RILEY GOT HIS PAPERS IN!!! You have to record it and send it to me I HAVE TO SEE IT when it comes! I'm still thinking I'll train him ;) haha. Sorry I don’t have to much time but I'm so happy to hear all is well! As far as exciting news this week, I just wanna touch on a couple a little blessings, just to show how in every aspect the Lord watches over his Missionaries. So Saturday after Conference we took the bus from Mar del Plata to Batan (like an hour bus ride) when we got to Batan we were getting close to being late to the house. We asked the bus driver (which has become a friend of ours) if he would be going to pass by the street where we live. He told us "No, that’s not my route". We were thinking about how late we were going to be. as the route was ending it was just us in the bus and the driver. As we hit the last bus stop (which is like a 20 minute walk to the house) he drove right past the stop and took us right to our house, just to be nice, we arrived on time :) Another story, after the Sunday Conference, we were heading home from Mar del Plata to Batan, we hopped in the bus and sadly we only had enough credit on our bus card for one ticket. While we were digging through our pockets for coins, this girl said "falta chicos?" or do you not have enough? Before either of us could say anything, this random person payed our ticket and got off the bus, we didn’t even see her face or could tell her how thankful we were. I love you so much got to go bye!!