January 19th Weekly Letter

Hello Everyone! How are ya`ll. Hope your all just loving life. Too bad Oregon blew it again. Sounds liek they had such a good team. They are always just right on the edge of winning it all. Andrew and Tasha are Spurs fans???? Thats gross. Anyways. Its good to hear baby Tayson is doing good :) I cant wait to meet him! Along with Dustins Baby!

As for me its been going very well. Very busy. My last companion is the new asistant now and I am with Elder Furlanich one of my good friends here. 

Sunday Night-- Elder Lubomirsky stayed with me in the pension. He is from argentina and a good friend as he was my last zone leader. But now he is a district leader. BUt we dropped off Elder Yañez at the terminal at 10 pmto go to neuquen. Then we went home and ate dinner and went to bed pretty late. 

Monday-- We woke up at 4 am to go to the terminal and help those missionaries who were leaving to be off. Everyone was there on time and it was great. But hte collectivo was 2 hours late. So it got here at 6 30 am. Then they told us there is no room for any bags. The missionaries who were getting transfered had 3 big bags each. So we figured we would go on a KOKO bus, or a smaller more normal bus to bring the bags to neuquen. So we did that. I went with elder Lubomirsky and Elder valenzuela with 7 huge bags in a bus for 2 hours to neuquen. We got there at about 9 30 am. I felt so tired and sick from the rough bus ride. It was soooo hot too. But then we went into the termainl and gave hte bags and just hung out for a bit as we felt sick and couldnt ride the bus back to Roca just yet. So we took a taxi to Jumbo and ate some subway. I saw a lot of friends in the mission becasue everyone is always in the neuquen termainl for transfers as neuquen is like hte centro of it all. But then after Subway we caught a bus back to Roca and went to send the datos for the week. Then we had a little free time at5pm before my companion arrived so we took a nap in the cool chapel. It was great until an hermana came in and was like hola???? And i woke up like.....i hope she doesnt see us haha but after the nap, we went to the terminal and right when we got there, my companion arrived. We brougth him back to the pension and just talked until bedtime. We made a sweet dinner and played some trucho. It was good.

Tuesday- We Went to a ciber in the morning to let Elder Furlanich write his family because he had no chance before to do so because of transfers. After, we made a lunch and then went out to visit some people. A guy named Fernando called me. I met him a week ago in ciber and he told me he wanted to learn english for his petroleo job. So he came tothe church and took us to his house. He rolled up at the church in a black pimped out PT cruiser haha and was blairing music. Kind of funny. We taught him english he knows a good amount, then we went later to a menos activa family. The familia Tura. They are great. We were supposed to eat dinner but they forgot. We ended up almost being late to he pension. 

Wednesday-- In the morning we had service. Clearing weeds. My allergies have been the worst. So bad. It sucks. a lot. Then we went back to he pension about 12 and made some lunch. ravioles. It was really good. Then studied a bit. We all showered and then went over to Roca 2 for elder lubomirsky. He was still with us waiting to to go neuquen for his new companion who he will be training. Then we were at his pension for a little bit we helped him clean and what not. Then we walked back. It was a long long walk to we had no time to do anything in our area. 

Thursday- In the morning we dropped Lubomirsky off at the terminal and did exchanges with the cervantes elderes. I went with elder Rodriguez. He is a new district leader so I helped him understand what  to do and stuff. We talked all day to people and found some great new investigators. Lots of people are related as Roca is a small town. Like hockinson i feel like just all mushed close together. ANd the houses are trash for hte most part. (no disrespect) But it was a great exchange and we had a lot of fun!

Friday- We went to the terminal to greet the new missionaries who are coming to Roca. They are cool. 2 elders and an hermana! Capos all of tem. After we went to a district meeting. Then we ate lunch at the pension and studied. Then we went out to wrok and visited some awesome people. 

Wow theres no time left gonna have to go quick now. Long story short:

This week we found a family of 4 who wants to be baptized! 

iN A LESSON THIS GUY  told me he got stabbed in the nalga. I was like....este.....cool. Then he stood up and pulled down his pants and showed me his butt! Pretty gross right! 

We were just walking on the street and some lady stops us and says elders! We went over and the lady said her son was missing......so we put the flyer she gave us in the church. The next day walking she stopped su again and asked for a blessing. We went into her house to find 4 new investigators who got to witness the blessing and feel the spirit. These 4 are different from the family of 4. But they dont live in our area so we will pass the miracle to the sisters. I was able to give the blessing what a cool experience it always is. 

Were seeing some awesome miracles here in Roca. The more we consecrate ourselves, the more miracles we have seen. 

Well talk next week!

Elder Westensee