Argentina Week 2

Hello everyone thanks for your sweet emails. I love reading all of them. So good. My nieces and nephew are getting big and will be talking perfect when i get back. That. Will be fun. Glad to hear things are going. Sounds like Hawaii is gonna be a blast mom and dad. Tyler! throw a house party! just kidding dont do that. ANyways things are good here having crazy fun time and having fun experiences!

I dont even know where to begin or what to say. BUt this week was slow but great also. We are almost finished building Nico´s house. We have 4 walls up and are preparing to roof it this week. Its been like a humanitarian mission so far more than teaching right now. But we are enjoying the service opporutunity. 

Down here we eat lunch with members cause thats the big meal. Some lunches have been....interesting. Nothing here is sanitary. They will just grab your cup and take a swig and then give it back to you.... kind of odd. Same thing with food. They eat salad out of a community bowl. Its been a little gross but im used to it now. I love the people here. So humble and happy going. Well. The members at least. 

ON wednesday we visited and taught a family about a story in the book of mormon. In ether about The brother of jarerd. The 9 year old girl is wanting to be baptized so we have that coming up. Although i hardly understand whats going on i still feel the spirit so strong its cool. 

My spanish is coming along slowly. Castellano is not spanish. Its its own language. completely different vocab and stuff. And slang im learning. I lvoe the language tho it flows nicely. 

Funny stories this week. We were walking home one night and a car hit a big bump in the dirt road. They lost their exhaust tip! like a 3 foot piece just fell off. Then they didnt notice and drove off. A guy comes running in the street, examines the exhaust pipe and walks off with it lol. Super funny. 

Another funny story is we were walking home another night at about 9 20 and we were just walking and heard a gun shot behind us and started booking it. For some reason we felt totally protected and we got back safely and started laughing cause its just so rediculously ghetto.

I milked my first alfajore. You freeze it. Then get a bowl of milk. Bite one und of the cookie, then the other. You proceed to suck the milk through the frzen cookies until milk is gone. Then you eat the milked alfajor. Incredible.

Final story. Sunday night, we all felt sick and just feverish and hot and we passed out after dinner in our apartment. We woke up at about 7 and took Nico some bread. and visited a few families then that night. I pooped my pants for the first time. It is uncontrollable when your stomach has to get rid of something. All night i was up just going to the bathroom and sweating and almost throwing up at the same time. Its normal to get it here though and im fine today. Just the adjustment. but that was interesting and a trial for sure. 

All jokes aside, I am loving this incredible country and area. The people inspire me and help me to be humble and appreciate what i have. We have so many spiritual experiences. Nico, our less active we are helping get to the temple (he got the aaronic priesthood sunday) and also helping build his house. But he has a cool story. He saw the missionaries walking 6 months ago and felt he needed them to talk to him and his family. He told them to come over and teach his family. They did. He was ready to be baptized the next week. Its amazing how the lord prepares people for us as missionaries. I look forward to finding some more people this week.

LOve you all. We have the most incredible family and i am so grateful to be a part of it. Keep working hard. I love 2 nefi 2. I just read it this morning all in spanish. i think it said something along the lines of ¨´we  have opposition so we can fell happiness¨´ sorry i dont quite understand spanish entirely. but it said something like that and its sos true. Its hard for me right now but im trucking over the hard times because its not only helping me grow but its helping me realize how good we truly have it. 

LOve you all. Hasta proximo semana! Chao! 

P.S everyone calls me westenhouse pronounced (Wet-in-house) Super funny. Love the people. also theres women breastfeeding everywhere its gross.

Love, Elder Westenhouse