There is a lot of wind here!
Hello Beloved family and friends!
Life is pretty good here down at the end of the world! We have been doing work down here. I am tired a lot of the time! But its all good! The members down here are really really nice. So nice that I'm probably going to get fat really soon! But I guess there are worse things that can happen.
This week our water shut off for a few days! It felt good to take real shower after a few days of bucket showers!
This Sunday I went up and introduced myself in front of the branch and bore my testimony. It was pretty cool. I think its awesome that you can still feel the spirit even in broken Spanish.
It was a good week! I love you all, have an excellent week!!!
Love,
Elder Himes
Bonus Info from a letter to Mom with more information about travels:
We flew into Buenos
Aires. When we landed we had no Idea how to get down to Comodoro. We met up
with a big group of missionaries and we were all just waiting there to see how
we were going to get down there. Then these random people that I didn't know
told me to get into this semi creepy looking van, so I did. And then they drove
us to another airport. When we got to the airport we were just kind of standing
on the sidewalk chilling, cause we still didn’t know what to do. And then a bus
of Latino missionaries drove up and we met up with a few other missionaries
going to our mission. Only one of them spoke English, so we all kind of
translated through him.
Then we got on another
plane to Comodoro. I slept to whole way, except when I was eating Argentinean
candy, which is really good!
Then we landed in Comodoro
and no one was there.
We waited, and no one was
there.
And then still no one was
there!
So told everyone that I
had presidents number (Cause I was travel leader) and we called him. Apparently,
they thought we were going to arrive like two hours later. Ha! So we met the APs
and put our stuff in their trucks and started driving. They drove us around Comodoro
and then we went to go do street contacting. I’ll be honest, it was so scary!
But it was good! I just don’t know Spanish. It’s fine!
Then we slept in some
other Elder’s pension (apartment).
Next day we did some training and all of the trainers came in and we ate ravioli
for lunch with them. Then they assigned us to our areas and companions! Elder
Boyd is awesome! He is from Florida and has a year in the mish. After that we
kind of just waited for a bit until we took a bus to our area, and didn't
really get to bed until midnight! It was like a three hour bus ride.
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| The First Pension (Apartment) |
This past week we taught a new investigator named Deborah (Sorry Mom not you.) She is super prepared for the gospel! She said she likes it when we visit her because she feels peace in her house! Oh man! So cool! She has a baptismal date set, and I think she is really going to progress.
