Week 25

hey everyone and mom i dont have much time this week. I got lots of emails. BUt this week is good. Not too much new.

As you know this week was transfer calls. Im staying right here in my pension jewkes is going home and Quinonez is opening a new area. My new companion will arrive friday. My son. For the meantime, i have to stay with elder bennett, another gringo in my area.

Things are great here. BUt its going to get harder. I got a lot on my plate and a lot to worry about. But im ready for a challenge. Im really sorry i have no more time. 

LOve you all stay doing well, love yall tons

Elder westensee

Week 23

Sounds like home is good. Good to hear. I miss you all. Tyler, your going to have to help me get back into the real world! im gonna be weird like you were haha. Eventually. But i miss you all very much and am excited to see yall again. Pero, ahora, voy a trabajar ;) 

well. It was a good week. We had a baptism! whoo! That was a good experience. We had a district meeting and zone training this week! Very good and i learned a lot about how the spirit assists us if we allow it. Something funny that happened is Elder Quinonez my companion was standing under the tree outside the church gate with us at 7 am (we were waiting for the ZLs to open for zone training) and out of nowhere a bird poops on his head lol. It hit his glasses and streaked down his glasses. He got hit and just blinked and stood there with a scrunged face lol. So funny I almost cried. But i felt bad too. No one likes getting pooped on. 

As far as the work, its slow. It is a very european mission. The people, the lifestyle, the gospel work. We have 0 investigators. No one wants to hear our message. But that doesnt mean were going to stop trying. Were going to make it happen one way or the other. I am sick of people complaining here and saying ¨We just cant do anything else¨ or ¨The work sucks here¨ im here to change this area to a ¨whoa! i want to go to that area¨ Thats the plan. well see. Im ready to bust my butt. I want to just fall on my bed at night and pass out. Thats the goal. 

So hopefully it can happen.

Sounds like Utah is going to have a good winter. i hope not. in fact i hope it rains in the mountains for 2 winters.....ya....then in the winter of 2015, it snows a lot. that would be cool. JK andrew would be super bummed. I wish the best.

Oh, real quick, the other elders in san lorenzo told us a story. And this is elder Bailey from Oregon, North Plains, hes 18. Elder Ogden, my MTC comp and elder amaru from colombia, the District leader. They were walking one night home, and a car came drifting around the corner. Followed by a motorbike with a 9mm in his left hand. He shot at the car 5 times as the elders were walking right on the sidewalk. They ran away and hid for dear life. Meanwhile at 8¨55 we were in the pension and we heard 5 shots go off.So glad they didnt get shot AT. We are protected here i have seen many different times where things could have gone south in a hurry. But thank goodness we´ve been ok.

In other news......ya. there is no other news. Argentina is still smelly, dusty and windy. Dragon Ball Z, sonic, and Ben 10 are big down here. The bishops son gave me a little paper drawing of sonic and Dragon Ball Z guys they are going on the front of my agenda. or planner in ingles. But hey, hows Derek been? Whats everyone up to? 

I am going to spend more time on putting pictures up now. And exp`lain the pictures if i can. Love you all. Peace. 

Love, 
Elder Westensee

I have to send them all seperate. lo siento. 

After 28 hours of traveling

Building a house

He has a wooden carved gun

Yuuuuuummmmmm

His companion is an amazing cook... Here is Evans omelet. 

What tracting looks like everyday

At a ward party

30lbs of meat

At a members house on a Sunday 

Getting to the mission home at 10pm.

Week 22

Hey mom i miss you. Hello everyone as well. This week was the most humbling week of my life. I guess i got what i wanted right? A sketchy foreign mission where theres gunshots and swap police with ak 47s on the streets. Its not what i thought. it sucks. But really. its doesnt suck cause guess what. I am working for the reddemer of the world. I am working for the right purpose here. SO that gives me comfort over ewverything. I think a lot about all my family. Andrew and tash, heather and kev, Tyler down in provo, and the judds often. I LOVE our family. Seriously though holy crud were lucky!  I cant even describe how great our family is. Well enough about that.

I lvoe you all and i love your emails. How is it possible that i have already been gone a solid 5 months!!!!! HOW!! I feel like i just left yesterday. We were just at pizza pie eating some good pizza and now boom. Dougs going into the MTC, mom and dad are in Hawaii and BRooklynn has blonde hair almost! How can this be? I am super pumped about our family, we rock.

Here in Patagonia its getting hot and im talking TEXAS hot baby! I sizzle at night! I wake up drenched in sweaty G´s. Love it. Makes the morning shower so great and its easy to get up and start killin the work! The language is not good still really. I cant understand but i can understand more of the scriptures. reading the spanish scripps is like watching paint dry or grass grow or a snail crawl. Its hard but its teaching me spanish and patience so its good. My companions bug me cause they dont want to work, They just walk to walk cause they want to lose weight. I keep telling them if we just keep losing weight im going to blow away. Well see. 

I know i am losing weight. Its not good. But i dont know what else to do honestly! Im trying to survive. I will survive, i will survive! (like that song) I know the lord will look out for my subtle frame. 

Anyways sorry im in a rush this week i really love you all and im glad your all doing stellar. Hawaii sounded splendid and marvilloso. Love you all again. Nos Vemos Chao!

Hasta proximo semana! 

Love, the paperweight, 

Elder Westenhouse (as they call me here)