January 5th Weekly Letter

Hello everyone. Once again i am an uncle!!! So great to hear that Tayson is here with us on this beautiful earth! Im glad everything went smoothly! I am excited to meet him! 

This week was outstanding and very busy. 

Monday- We had our P day. We went liek normal in hte morning to write the family. After, we did compras at Carrefour like normal, the supermarket. Its normally like 500 pesos for foo every week. And thats just eating hot dogs and noodles....but then we walked to the church to play some hoops a little. Some lady started yelling at us for throwing a frisbee in the church on the court. She is like ARE YOU CRAZY its 2 30 pm i am trying to sleep! All of us gringos just laughed so hard. This lady called the stake president but nothing happened. I hate the customs here. It is a very lazy people. But then we kept playing. I saw a kid walking on the street wearing basketabll shoes and a lebron shirt. i invited him to come play. He came and played. He got swatted like 5 times but he wasnt too bad. I got his info and we now have him as our investigfator he is soooo ciool. His name is Lautaro! We played for a few hours then went to the pension. We left to work at 6 like normal. We had a service activity with a big guy who cant walk very  well named cheeto. We cleaned his yard and maoved bricks, etc.  I saw the biggest tarantulas of my whole life. There are beast spiders here. But then we finished a few hours of service and went back to the pension to plan. that was the day.

Tuesday- Quiet day. We went to a district meeting in Roca 2 in the morning and then after for lunch we went to buy 1000 pesos of meat for the asado we were going to have with the zone on new years. Every missionary payed 50 pesos. After that, we went back to the pension and ate lunch. This week we never ate with memebrs as the economy sucks and no one has money. and lots of people are on vacation. But we found a few new investigators and a menos activo boy named marcos. He is 15 yrs old. He is cool. We challenged him to read the book of mormon. He accepted and seemed really excited.

Wednesday- We Went to ciber (computers) in the morning to send the enfermera (nurse) an email about my companions back. He is going to neuquen this week for a doctors appointment. Then we ate noodles and ketchup for lunch. me da asco eso ;p but my companion loves it haha We went to visit a menos activo family and then at 6 we went to enjoy new years with a member called Leo.He is cool. He served in the california mission...dont rememebr which one. But he also lived in the USA for 5 years so he knows english very well. We just hung out with him for new years and talked about cualquier cosa for 3 hours. That was that. We went back to the pension and they were shooting off tons of fireqorks near us so we couldnt sleep at all until 4 am.  we went to bed at like 11 i think. 

Thursday- We got up at 8:30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats what pres told us we could do. Then we went to the church at 9 to prepare the asado. It turned out great, we played soccer, and frisbee all day. I got sunburnt pretty crispy. It was a good time. After we showered we went out to visit some of our investigators. 

Friday- The asistants came and did exchanged with us. It was fun. We did some work. Nothing highlights really out of the exchange just that by the ed of the day i was beat. We ate lunch at a chines buffet which was ok. We all satyed there for a little so full we couldnt move haha

Saturday- We had an asado with a member, Cheeto. I think he sent you guys a picture on facebook. Check it out. But it was good ,then we went otthe church to have a baptism. My comp baptized the little 9 year old girl. It was a awesome. Then we went and planned for our busy week coming up.

Sunday- Tranquilo. We had 71 poeple at churhc. very low number. last week we had 99. Were focusing on re activating a ton of people because the church here is honestly sad to see. Its not growing by any means so we are focusing on truly strengthening the church, not just getting numbers and baptisms that go less active in a matter of weeks. 

Thats about it. I am tired as junk. EVERYONE tells me 2 things. 1. That i look like a friend or cousin that they have. and 2. That i look very very tired. Thats the life! haha 

Things are going great. Just cruising out here in the patagonia! Happy New years love you all!

Elder Westensee