Hola familia!
Ok, so as I mentioned we had transfers and I moved! Right now I'm in the
ward 'Las Heras' in Rosario. I'm in the stake center, a huge church
building! The biggest I've seen since I've been here! We are in the
city, which is a huge difference to me! I've always been in little
cities or places with dirt roads and now that I'm in the city I feel so
lost! There are TONS of people everywhere! It's great though, I really
love it. The first thing everyone told me when I found out I was coming
here, was that our pench is like 8 blocks outside of our area. So yeah,
we walk so much! We have a pretty big area anyway, but walking those 8
extra blocks back and forth is pretty exhausting! We've actually been
taking the collectivo a lot, which is really nice. Because our area is
so far away, we leave early in the morning and get back late, we don't
come back unless we have weekly planning or something long.
My new comp is Elder Argueta, and he's awesome! I love this guy! He
speaks perfect English, haha. We only speak English at night after we
get back to the pench, which really helps me out a lot. I can ask him
questions on grammer or vocabulary and he tells me! The rest of the
time, talking to him only in Spanish is great! It made me realize how
low my Spanish is and how much I lack in that, haha. I've actually had
some really embarrassing experiences... where I just blew it in Spanish.
That's ok, I'm learning a lot faster now. Elder Argueta is from
Honduras and was born there, but he grew up in Guatemala. He's super
funny haha, probably the funniest Latin I've met, and he's a really hard
worker. Which is really great! My first day, right when I got here, I
left my bags and we went out and taught 3 lessons with a member haha. I
was so exhausted!
The weather has been really good this week. Almost like it is when it's
summer! Not that hot, but it's been getting pretty close.
Something I noticed as I look through my journal, is that I wrote 'great
lunch' every day this week! We have lunches with members every day and
they all cook great! I haven't eaten this well since I left Venado
Tuerto! We have awesome members in the ward! There are members who will
come to us for lessons, they all want to feed us, and they're all really
nice and excited to talk to us. My favorite family is the family
Menacho! They're from Peru! That isn't why I love them though, haha,
they're all just really nice and really funny. They really care about
us. They remind me of Mrs Marlene and Grandma Aranda! They have a
daughter and a son. The son comes with us a lot to lessons, his name is
Yarro. He served a mission for like 10 months in Buenos Aires and
Venezuela, but he got sick and had to come home. He's so great! He helps
us out a ton and is super nice.
Happy birthday Luke! Was it on Wednesday?! Haha he probably doesn't even
remember me. Happy birthday Aunt Melanie! I'm a couple weeks late on
that :P I'm sorry! And wow, Dallyn's birthday is coming up! That's
freaking me out... haha she's going to be 18. That's so crazy! I love
you Dallyn!
So some weird stuff has been happening, that doesn't normally happen. We
have this investigator who is awesome and has a baptism date and is
progressing really well. The first time I met him, he was completely
wasted, haha. Just acting really crazy and out of it, and was expressing
a lot of random doubts. I guess that's never happened . Yesterday in
church, something bizarre happened. There's this lady who has been less
active, but she's been going to church regularly lately with her kids.
Her boyfriend is an investigator but he doesn't go very regularly. Well,
after church, her kids were out and playing while she was talking to
some people in the ward. Her daughter started screaming and freaking out
(she's 6) and was walking over to her mom. There was blood dropping on
the floor as she was walking over and then everyone started going crazy.
The girls thumb got smashed in the door and cut it really deep, like
almost cut it off. And the mom freaked out and grabbed her daughter and
just layed on the floor screaming 'why God, why did this happen, if I
didn't come to church this wouldn't have happened', stuff like that.
They called this emergency number and the doctors came and put a cast on
her and she's fine now. you don't get that every day :P It was pretty
crazy, I'm just worried about the mom, more than the girl to be honest.
Our bishop is awesome by the way. Really humble and he really loves and
cares about everyone. The ward has grown a lot with his help. And he's
only been a member for like 6 years!
This has been my week, a lot has happened! I love the area and the
members, and I love my comp. I feel like I've been growing in the spirit
and in knowledge of the gospel, the language, and effective working.So
I've improved a lot in this past week :)
I love you guys! I hope and pray you're all doing well. It sounds like school is going well, and that everyone is doing awesome!
Los amo,
Elder Alek Clubb
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