Week 2 in Pergamino!

Hola mi familia!

It's P-day again! This week was a lot better than last week :) The 'uncomfortableness-thingy' is going away and I feel more accustomed here. Last week for P-day we went and played basketball and soccer, it felt great! It was great to go out and play some sports again! haha. I was sore all week from that! My muscles aren't used to doing things like that! Which is really sad haha, I'm losing it!

This week all of the leaders had a meeting in Rosario, so my companion as well as Elder Sands went to Rosario, and so I was with Elder Chatelain on divisions that day! It was so fun, he's a really cool guy. He has a tranfer less than me. It was my first time being with someone younger than me! It was a pretty neat experience :) We found a really great family in my area. We actually went by to visit him, my companion and I. He has gone to church with his family before and talked to the missionaries. When we found him though he was drunk and wasn't making a lot of sense :P but it sounds like he went through a rough childhood. He doesn't love his wife, they just fight the whole
time. I am excited to teach him (when he's sober haha), because I know the gospel can help him. It will help him! It can strengthen his relationship with his family, it can remove guilt and he'll feel closer to God.

My companion and I programmed (scheduled a lesson with) a kid the other day! He's like 10, I think, his parents are members but aren't active. They are really supportive of their kids though, he and his sister go to church every Sunday with their grandparents. We just need to teach him so that he can understand the importance of baptism better :)

I love the fact that I love soccer. It instantly gets so many people's attention and we have great conversations with it!

Wow so Friday was a crazy day haha. In the morning we cleaned the church. There was an elderly lady that asked us to help her with that, and then after invited us to lunch. She even fixed my sweater with the
big holes in them! That was really nice. One of her brothers asked me if I knew any Japanese (I said I was a little Japanese) and so I said 'hello, my name is Alek'. He asked me to translate and so I did, but in English haha. I've never had to translate anything other than English and Spanish! So the guy was confused but the other elders
explained haha, and I didn't realize it until after we left! It made me laugh haha.

Friday was tough, we walked all over the place and got a lot of contacts, but nobody let us in all throughout the day. We even got into the Villa! First Villa experience! But we weren't having much luck contacting there. At the last house, this guy came out trying to look all tough and he had a gun. The gun was really old, like Pirates of
the Caribbean era haha. We just went on introducing ourselves and we shared a little of our message with him and asked if we could go in. AND he didn't let us, haha. I think he tried to scare us but we got a good laugh out of the Villa guy with a gun.

We heard some tough news the other day, my comps baptism before I got here has been smoking. She's 12 years old :/ Her parents came to us for help. Which is crazy because the dad doesn't want anything to do with us, but he was really humbled and asked if we could help. It was really neat to see these parents, who basically lived a life of regret, now humbled and willing to do anything to help their child. Her parents really love her. I can't even imagine the pain of a parent when a child goes through hell, or chooses it:P I only feel a little of it when investigators or members do that. I'm so sorry for every time that was me.

I love the guys we live with haha we get along so great and laugh so hard, I haven't laughed harder my whole mission as much as I have here haha.

Happy Fathers Day, Dad! Yesterday right? Thank you for everything, Dad. :) I love you. You're a rockstar! Thanks for your example of hard work and priorities, of love and selflessness. You've always done everything for me and I am so grateful for your example. I could always count on you reading your scriptures every night, and you were always so excited to share what you found and learned. I have a love for the scriptures because of this. I hope you had a great Fathers Day, Dad! If I can be a missionary like you were, I know I'm succeeding. Thank you, Mom, for your example as a missionary as well :) I love you both!

Thank you all for writing me and letting me know how you're doing! I hope you're all having a great summer! You're always in my prayers. The church is true, and I know that God knows our potential. And we can reach that potential, if we turn to Him. Because with Him, we can do all things. I have a testimony of that.

Los amo,

Elder Alek Clubb