Family and Friends,
Another week passes here in the Patagonia.
In the next two weeks we are going to receive EVEN MORE
MISSIONARIES! This mission is growing and growing. Because of such things, the
President told us to split our area to open up a new area for another set of
elders! We´re going to have 3 sets of missionaries in this ward: Two sets of
Elders and one of sisters. It´s exciting.
That´s what a large part of my week has consisted of:
thinking about splitting the area, and finding an apartment for the new elders.
One day there was a big wind storm so we just stayed inside
all day. We went through the ward directory and counted up all the members that
live in each barrio. A barrio is like a neighborhood and they kind of divide
the city into barrios. We had so much information on our map. There were sticky
notes, and little home made marking flags for families, and investigators, and
points of interest, and orange string pinned up marking our ideas for limits of
each area. It was crazy.
After a lot of thinking and information crunching, and
praying, and asking, and praying, we came up with a plan.
Also, this week we´ve been looking for a new apartment for
the new elders. It´s pretty rediculous to think about. Me and my companion are
two white kids walking around in a foreign country calling people and talking
to realtors looking, trying to rent an apartment. Haha, its fun. But we´re
doing it, we went to three or four inmobiliarias (realtor office), but we
haven´t found what the mission needs, where the mission needs yet.
I keep hearing about a bunch of the boys in our ward leaving
on missions, but you keep failing to mention where! So let me know where
they´re going, could ya? Also, if you have their addresses, that would be
appreciated as well.
Going to that pottery place sounds awesome! Also, it´s good
to hear that some dating is going on. Keep up all them good things.
Okay, fun thing: Last week we were able to go to the main
city of Neuquén and they have a Walmart there! It was crazy. They had a lot of
stuff you´d expect Walmart to have, in other words almost everything, but it´s
not American Walmart. They even had the brand Great Value Jam. But other than
that everything was Argentine. We went a looking for manteca de maní, or Peanut
Butter, and we searched and searched down every aisle. Finally in one little
corner we found the two brands of peanut butter that exist here. It´s not Jif,
but it´ll do. I bought some and have been eating it ever since. One thing I
found very delicous, is a peanut butter and mermelada (jam) cracker sandwich.
See the picture attached.
Well, keep on keeping on, family, I love you and I know that
you pray for me all the time. Thanks, I need it and appreciate it. I pray for
you all, too.
Elder Bradley Turek
P.S. Dad, how cool that you got to have dinner with Robert
Redford, and that´s pretty crazy that he has a holiday, now. Did you ride in a
limo or have any other fancy fanceries to tell about? About the pictures, yes,
email would be fine. I can put them on my handy-dandy 16gb SD card and use my
handy-dandy SD card reader to get them printed or put them on my camera. A photo of the car,
photos of you guys collectively and seperate, photos of me doing things
(climbing, with friends, at camp, half-marathon, etc.), a photo of nutmeg,
a photo of the house, photos of places that I/we frequented, photos of the
property, pictures of what you guys are doing right now, (Garden, halloween,
thanksgiving, christmas, yoga, school, football, double dates, snow food,
homework, the fam, and such) photos of anything that I might bring up in
conversation. Check dad's computer for pictures (\Brad) and
check my facebook too; give mom her camera and let her
rip.
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