A Great Week!

Hello family!! It's P-day again! :)

Ok! So on Tuesday we woke up at 5 o clock to travel to Pergamino and have zone conference there :) We got there an hour late for the meeting! We felt so dumb walking in haha. But they waited for us!

It was a great conference! I learned a lot. The coolest part (I thought) was President Giuliani, and what he said about how we need to have a better vision for our investigators. To not just see them in baptismal clothes but in temple clothes. So we need the faith that they will make greater covenants and receive greater blessings after their baptism. I thought that was really cool :) I felt the spirit really strong. He talked about temples, about the ´'everlasting covenant of marriage' and how important it is. He gave a super cool testimony about the importance of that, and how he's sealed to his wife forever. And how the relationship isn't perfect, but he's with her forever, and that he loves her. It was great! I realized that helping them to baptism is just the first step. Being a missionary is really great because we get to help with that first step! And guess who I saw at the conference! I saw Elder Butler there! [Steve works with Elder Butler's dad at the church]  It was funny because we just talked about him and then he was there haha. I took a picture with him! So maybe you can share that with his dad or something :)

The trips to and from zone conference were pretty good, we talked during the whole 3 hour drive! I should've slept though, I've been exhausted haha!

Wow! Happy Birthday Greg and Scarlett! and I forgot to say Happy Birthday to Jake Hunsaker! That's so cool though, I hope you all had great birthdays!! :D

It's been really interesting, we have been stopping by a lot of people. While contacting we found several less active members that we've never met or heard about! And we've been setting up appointments trying to work with them. I've been learning a lot about being a senior companion which helps a ton. I feel like my companion and I are both junior companions at times, so it has been pretty tough, but the zone leaders have talked to me a lot about how I need to act the senior companion since I know the area better. Although being senior or junior companion means nothing, I've been learning a lot as I try to work hard and try to be really effective without tearing down his 'authority' you can call it haha. It's been a neat learning experience, although it's pretty tough at times! My Spanish has significantly gone down though! all that speaking English... so I've been trying to keep learning instead of forgetting. I keep remembering words or phrases that I already knew but forgot!

Today was pretty cool, we got up and met at the church as a zone. We can't meet together super often which is disappointing! So this morning we played ultimate Frisbee which was awesome! I loved it! I was REALLY hoping to play some soccer as you know haha, I don't play hardly at all, but sadly no soccer today. Dang! :P haha but after that Elder Luna's shoe broke, so we went to his pench to fix it. While we were there someone from his area called us and invited us to an asado! And an asado is basically like a huge BBQ with lots of meat haha, so we went! And it was amazing! The best asado I've ever had! Just really rich meat haha I ate so much. You don't eat like that often as missionaries, so it was a nice surprise :) Afterward we watched "17 Miracles". I've watched that movie so many times hahaha but every time I do I just get chills, it's an amazing movie. I love it so much! So that's why it took so long for me to write home! Sorry!

I love you so much family! You really are the best. I pray for you all every day, and I hope you all see all of the amazing blessings we have, that God has given us. I know I am blind to many, but as I open my eyes and see them, I am amazed at how blessed I am! I know our Heavenly Father loves every single one of you. I know because I feel God's love for me, even when I feel like I don't deserve it. I also feel it for all of His children. I know Jesus Christ lives, and He loves us as well, enough to suffer pains we can't comprehend, and die for me, and you.

Les amo :)

Elder Alek Clubb