March 17, 2014

Well hello hello everyone. Your all so great i love you all thanks for the emails. Love them all. 

This week....well lets start with last p day. We went to cerro companario. Most beutiful place i have seen in this country. We went up with the other elders and sisters in the district. I lvoed it and got lots of pictures. 

The next day we had....oh no. we didnt have district meeting cause we had zone training friday. so truesday was boring. But we did find some new people to teach and hopefully a baptism. a less activer family with an 8 year old son. he doesnt have baptism so were working with them. They have lots o doubts and questions but were getting closer. 

Wednseday. good day. did some good visits and stuff. Then we had english calss in the afternoon. We taught a lot of people and they are liking it. its also very fun. After we waited for 2 hours cause we had council with the ward for missionary work. not sure how to say it in english. But we waited all night and finally president of the branch comes out and says oh we dont have time. This guy is really testing my patience cause he is,,,,,different. Not sure he cares about anything we do. Its sad. But were working on it. 

Thursday we cleaned the pension and did a lot of walking. WE found the family guajardo hallelujah and taught them the plan of salvation! they loved it and want to be a forever family. So we are excited for them. but they didnt make it to church., minor setback. 

Friday. we had zone conference in the morning. We got there and they asked me to conduct. Super easy. Super fun. good meeting. I enjoyed it and enjoyed cinducting. After we took piuctures and talked with quinonez my old companion. I love the zone. 

Saturday. Boy it was cold and windy as junk. I left my rain coat at the stake center as well so i was walking all day in my long sleeve white shirt soaking wet and dying so we went ot centro to get my jacket finally. Then in the night we had a noche de hogar with familia guichanoa with the sisters in our district hnas woodruff, usa and Aguero de paraguay. It was great. We all brought foods from our countries i tried some interesting stuff. We brought pancakes because hot dogs were invalid they said. but it was a great time . we had 5 menos activos go and an investiogator. Loved it. >So great.

Sunday. Not much to tell. I found out at a membersa home they kill people here around the world cup. So thats comforting right? NO they just told me to work on my accent and wear an argentina flag pin and i llbe fine. but they say I will be fine but to be careful cause rwally its nuts during the world cup. Lotsd of people drink.

Im doing well. I will try to send pics real quick love you all chao.

Elder Westensee

March 10 2014

hello hello. I love you all. This week was boring a little bit and had some fun challenges. But before i go to that. THe MACDONALS SOLD THEIR HOUSE AND ARE MOVING TO UTAH??? I think thats what i read just barely. Let me know whats hapnin. 

Hope your all doing well. I miss you all and its sad im forgetting a lot of memories. But its ok. I am loving what im doing right now. Its great stuff. If you get the chance, look up on youtube, or i dont know where....but the video with elder holland and eyring titled ¨The atonement and missionary work¨ it is genial. It makes me motivated and gives ganas a trabajar!!!!! But its fantastic and powerful. 

p DAY Was HARD. We just walked around basically and i was beat. but oh well. we ate at pizza libre again. I will tell you what! the service here is a joke, the people are so rude. They dont understand that we are customers and not guests. we are the ones paying !!!! man this lady was a butt. But oh well. I miss resturaunts like b dubs and stuff.

Tuesday we had district mereting. Super great. Lideres de zona came and it was a solid meeting. After we went to find some people and tau8ght a little bit and yadada the normal good stuff.

Wednesday dont rememebr sorry 

thursday. dont...remember. 

friday....dont remember seriosuly its weirdOh wait DUH! We had a family home evening night at the church with the branch. We had an investigator and about 15 members. Started off rancid but it turned out great. We showed that video i was talking about and we stunned everyone. IT was great stuff. 

saturday we had exchanges with the zone leaders. I stayed in my area with elder randall. He is from Layton or Logan. ya logan. ANd he looks like Jared Weiss. He is on fotos of the blog you cant miss him. He taught me a lot. He taught me that we cant help other people until we help ourselves and understand for ourselves. Same thing with members. If the members arent strong, how are they going ot have ganas to come o9ut and teach along with us. SO thats what i learned. An eternal principle right there.

Sunday we had 8 investigators who said they would come and wouldnt you know NOBODY came. I love it. Because next week were going to have 8 people in the church. I caqn feel it. But...I spoke in church about the priesthood and dropped the kane a little bit but oh well. They are capable of what we ask. 1 hour a week to help us. BUt still we need to make sure they are strengthened first. Its a sad thing a little bit that we are just helping the ward more than anything else. We are waiting for the branch to join with alto 2 the other ward. we juyst dont have sufficient people to function properly. 

but then we had an asado with the family guichanao. Then we stopped by a bunch of houses to find people busy or un interested . Can i just say its freezing here, and windy. And its been cruddy. But i love it. A breath of fresh air and some good nights of sleep.

To answer moms questions..i htink it was. The living conditions are good. Our pension is again on the top floor. We have a small bathroom. One where you can poo and shower at the same time. Its good though we got hot water. Its a good pension i have pictures that wont send. I will show you in 16 months. haha

The ward is full of people who want to help and say they awant to help. But honestly i think they dont know how. So i think the next noche de hogar, were going to focus on that......i just recieved revelation while emailing hallelujah!!! But nayways ya that makes sense cause they always say they want to help but never end up helping. They dont know what theyr doing so we can help guide them on what they can do. 

But ya. Hope all is well with yall. Yall are just so great and good lookin. Miss you alll. Stay classy, and mom dont forget, your young and your reckless hahaha I remember at the cabin when you threw that wood in the fire and said ïmyoung and im reckless haha i love you mom. 

Have a great everyone love you all!

Elder Westensee

Tomatela! March 3rd

Hola Capos ¿Que Tal? Espero que esta semana fue copado. Ustedes son las mejores. Le amo mi familia. Es la cosa mas importante in la vida!

Bueno. I hope you all had an awesome week. Its weird to be english here. Its frustrating typeing when half the words i type are english and spanish. But here we go i will try to describe this week....

Monday, we went bowling i bought a guitar book for PINK FLOYD. I know can play Wish you were here, brick in the wall part 2, time, money and comfortably numb. Acoustic version of course. Butits fun. 

Tuesday. District meeting. We played jeopardy aqnd i think everyone loved it. But then we ended with a nice spiritual thought and it was a good meeting. Then went on visits.

Wednesday. We had a rough day. casi nada paso!!!! almost nothing happened. We contacted and contacted until...nothing happened. But htese days happen.....a lot. But we ended up teaching some menos activos at the church. then had our english class. It was fun. Theres an elder from peru who flurts with everyone and their dog. Its annoying but im worried something might happen. SO i talked to them in the night. Also they are struggling as a companionship. I dont like this part of the job. It stinks and its stressful. But im happy to do it and trying my best.

Thursday. All day was rough. We actually had a miracle though. And can i just say that ether 12¨6 is true. Because it seemed like when we were about ready to just quit we found florencia. Super Capa. (stud?) i dont know the translation. But she is great and we set up a cita for friday. Nightime, we had intercambios. I went to alto 2 with elder shearer. and elder cruz came to the pension with figgy. In the night for about an hour until bed, me and shearer wrote a little song. We are working on it when we have time, like later today. its great.

Friday. We walked aroubd a lot. Today we had like 3 people drunk come up to us and just go nuts. One guys was dangerous and threating so we just kind of said we have a cita and walked away. This world is ugly folks. Every day is worse. Lets not fall into the side of the world please. Its groosssssss. And im glad i have this opporutunity to help those lost people. For example a man named kookah, one of the drunks came up to us in the day walking and just pleaded for help and said he has been drinking a week straight. He is humble though and asked for help so were going to find him this week. Not sure how but were going to i can feel it. Then we found out Florencia (elder cruz and figgy set a date) accepted baptism!!!! yayayayayaya. thats 6 dates now for our area. very happy with that. Julian moved his date back though 3 weeks. Julian is 16 and loves green day. hes cool but a punk.

Saturday.....i dont really remember. We had Julian thats when he moved his date back. Then...set up a lot of appointments for this week.

Sunday was good. Church. The rama or branch is super problematic. And i dont feel very good in the  chapel. Its rough here. But i think they are joining the two ramas. SO that will help. 

NOW. NOt sure what else to put. I have been eating better this week and feeling good. tired as crud, but good. I love milonesa de polla con arroz. My favorite. We make it for dinner almost every night. 

Hope you all have a great week love you all. I feel weird sometimes and i know i will be weird when i come home. I am changing and its weird but im just going to stay focused and see what happends. Love you all. Chao! 

If you have any questions let me know!

Love, 

Elder Westensee

p.s. Tomatelà means like get outta here

February 24th

Hello everyone. I have almost no time. sorry- But here we go. Sounds liek veryone is doing great! That temple trip yall did. That sounds legendary!! Thats cool. I miss you all. Your all genial. 

This week over here was a rough one. Just getting settled in among other things. Its hard to stay positive. But somehow, some way its going good. I am enjoying bariloche really. My spanish is getting better and better. Its a challenge every single day to do the tasks that we have but its so busy and great. The work is slow. HELP THE MISSIONARIES IN YOUR WORD. It says in the doctine and covenants that the lord will hasten the work in its time. THOMAS S MONSON has said that the time isw NOWW. So help the missionaries. Also, he has said to help the missionies (smiley face) The ward im in is super cruddy. They havent come to help us once. Its a joke alñmost. I dropped the cain in sacrament when they asked me to present myself finally i took like 10 minutes but i dont cxare. I dropped the cain. Maybe they dont like me now.....but if they dont like that we want to work i dont know waht to do. I lo0ve the members here but hey need to start helping out and i think it will come in time.

Today were going bowling as a district should be a good time! 

The weather has been great, we have been busy with tramites. Or visa work. All the visa work is done in bariloche and neuquen. So we always get calls to go to centro to pick up tramite missionaries and they stay for hte night. We are doing it agoing late tongiht. It sucks losing ssleep but anything for the lord! 

Its so much easier to go throuhg this and work hard when i understand its not for me. This is not MY work. This is not for me. We are doing the work of jesus christ. ANd I know for a fact that he has a hand in every missionaries work. 

Love you all stay chill. Take care. If you have any questions? shoot. CHao!

Love, 

Elder Westensee