Feb 10th

Hello family!
Some questions answered:
So I take it you are back in 25 de Mayo?
Yes, I´m back in 25 de Mayo, and I will be here for another 6 weeks as we recieved transfers the other day. It was a little difficult to recieve them because... I lost our phone in a bus...more about that later.

In your last e-mail you talked about doing things in the office.  How far is 25 de Mayo from the mission office?
25 de Mayo is about 3 hours from the Mission Office in Neuquén. We travel in big double decker buses. It´s like airplane travel, but slower.
What are the best of worst things about the area you are in?
One of the best things that I can think of that all of the roads are asphalt, and the city is pretty nice in general. They must have hired a good engineer because all of the things they are building are modernly built and pleasing to the eye, unlike the majority of other things that are made of just bricks and concrete.
What is challenging and how do the people compare to Plottier?
It´s challenging, but not impossible, to deal with a Brazilian companion who sometimes has pride issues. It´s challenging when I plan to get better and want to do it, but then when the time comes, my flesh is stronger than my spirit. The people are about the same. I´ve met a few more people from mendoza here and they speak without the Argentine  ¨Sh-¨sound in their Y´s and LL´s  In Argentina ¨Yo me llamo¨ =¨Show may shawmow¨ which is very normal for me now. and the rest of spanish speakers say it ¨Yo may yaumo¨. So sometimes I don´t know what they´re saying; not that hard to understand, but an interesting difference nonetheless.
Do Argentinian people celebrate Valentine's day? 
Yes, I just learned right now. It´s called Día de San Valentin. Who knew? Not me.

Things were difficult this week because I wasn´t in 25 de Mayo for 3 days this week between going to Chile and going to Zone conferences. Jorgelina, a nice old lady of 70 years, our investigator, who calls us her ¨Hermanitos¨, and who can´t read and so therefore really enjoys pictures of book of mormon stories and temples, still has her Baptismal Date, but she didn´t come to church because we couldn´t coordinate her a ride.
I lost our dang phone in a collectivo and so we haven´t been able to call anyone this week. We tried calling it a ton or calling the company, but to no avail. I said a few prayers that we could find it. Even if it´s broken, and looks like it´s pregnant because of the bulge that we call it´s keyboard, it has all of our numbers in it of all of our investigators and members and everything.

So I prayed. And we went a few days without a phone, but yesterday, the Sisters gave us some good news! That someone found it and called them, but that that someone is in Buenos Aires, which is like way, way outside of our mission and really far away. SO, prayer: answered, but we won´t get it for like a month, but prayer: answered.

Another cool thing I like here is the wall art they have. Yes, there is a ton of graffti, but there´s also a good amount of cool things too. Specifically, this group called ¨Acción Poetica¨. Here´s one of their´s attached. It says ¨The nicest things in life aren´t things.´

It´s good to hear that for the most part you all are doing well.

Well, that´s all for now.

Until next week,