April 14th 2014

hello everyone. im gassed. im tired. i was so tired yesterday after church we went to the pension to study for an hour and my comp went to the bathroom and i just plopped on my bed in my coat and with my bag and next thing i knew it was an hour later. I felt so sick in the night too like nausea. But i was fine and we continued on like normal. We fasted for our branch cause its struggling bad. BUt were seeing improvements. This week was great. we almost acheived the standard. only 2 companionships in the mission achieved it last week. So ts hard to get the standard but were closer every week. We have some baptisms coming up as well. So its exciting. 

SOunds like your all doing great i love and miss you all. 

This week was a quicky like normal as the days flew. it rained for a week and a half, but this week in the middle it stopped. There was bad flooding here and worse in neuquen.

Monday we played soccer in the pouring rain and got soaked. But it was great i have pictures. IT was a great p day. Then we went back and had a family home evening with a family.

tuesday we had district meeting in the morning. It was a good meeting. I didnt plan a whole lot but just talked the whole time and trained in a few things. After we went and didnt have any lessons but did some contacting and had some success.

wednesday we went to centro in the morning to pay the rent of our pension. It was good no problems. We had lunch with president alarcon hes the president of the branch. He has had a lot of problems with members and interviews and stuff. So we shared a message about love about what the prophet spoke about. He was quiet and didnt say much. But he warmed up to us and we had a good time. Then we had a lesson with sergio. From australia in english the lesson was. It was cool. He loves the church but wont commit cause he is not 100%. He had questions like if christ came tomorrow what would happen to us? or what is the celestial kingdom like and where will it be? These are questions that we answered but dont have a consice answer to them. We cant say exaclty how things will happen or how it will be. SO that was tough a little. But we had to give them to the elders over in pioneros cause he moved there. 

thursday.this day always sucks. so boring and kills. Weekly planning. Lots of rejection after and dropped appointments. But itsl ike this every week. We stopped by the guajardo and had a great lesson and commited them to come to church. 

friday busy day lots of lessons and menos activos and some new baptismal dates. good day normal work great experiences. not sure what to say..

saturday great we found some new people. We were walking and a guy started talking to us from his car and said he will come to church sunday....a little weird but hey well see! We had a lesson with German, our 21 year old capo investigsdor. he is going to be baptized si o si. but great lesson with him. we found him walking home one night we bumped into him and he said to come over. 

sunday. We had 3 investiggadors at church so that was good. Then lunch with a weird kid from the other ward.....he took forever to make the food too and we were starving. The guy was a weirdy but nice and were grateful for the food. Then we tried to visit some others but they werent there. IN the testimony meeting at church president alarcon got up and shared a great testimony and cried a lot. You could tell he felt bad for what he had done with some people. But now we feel more love in the branch so its great. He had an interview with a man he yelled at before and the man left the interview in the middle mad. This time it was different and wasa great interview and this man will noew revieve the priesthood. great miracle there. becaue we are in the middle of people being mad at each other and now were on the same page as them now. 

It was a great week. I will send pictures of our baptisms. They have been hard to come by here in these days but were almost there finally! Its a great reward!

Love you all. Take care.

elder westensee