April 13 Weekly Letter

Hello family. Its good to hear things are going well. I feel like a lot has been changing as of late. Lindsey is getting married, and LINDSEY IS GETTING MARRIED! holy crud. My cuz is getting hitched to someone i dont even know! Que loco. I am very excited for her though. I am so excited to see her in arizona!

Este..... as for here in Argentina not too much NEW. Just my companion and area. The work of the lord just keeps going on. I learned this week that the work of the lord will always move forward. The invitation the lord gives us is that we participate and dont get left behind. Its helped me here late in the 9th inning. In the 4th quarter. Standing on the 18th tee box. Tired. I feel pressure of having to go back to real life. But i know that if i just finish strong and trust the lord. EVERYTHING will be ok. 

ME and Da Silva have been real busy here. We have i believe 5 baptisms this transfer. All they have to do is get married and ya está. Its amazing how much is focused on marriage and the family. It has to be for something. BUt i am really enjoying the time here in 5 saltos. I will expain howm y week went.

Monday night we had a great noche de hogar. Tuesday we cleaned the pension just about all day. I literally could not even think it was so dirty! NASTY. I got way into cleaning and i cleaned from after studies until 6 pm. thats like 8 hours straight. We got the pension in shape finally and now were able to feel the spirit there and work better. ON wednesday we went out to one of the neighborhoods in our area. Its about 45 minutes walk. Everything is real seprated. BUt it was great.

We did service for a less active family. They were doing construccion on their house. We helped pour concrete in a column....it makes no sense and its terribly done but oh well. They build houses terribly here. its sad. After the service we had a obra misional reunion. It was ok. But that was our day,.

Thursday we played basketball at the church. We got up at 6 am and ran to the church and played with a crazy member who has tatooed face and eyebrows and dragons and what not. He is nuts. But were heloing him and his friend who came is non memebrs o were working with that. But htat was fun.

Later that day we ate with a member and played his guitar a little bit and just had a good lunch. Then we helped the sister s move their pension. They are closing a lot of areas becasue the mission is shrinking. We had 250 at one point and now were dropping slowly to the goal of 16-180 missionaries. ANyways, it  was a good day.

Friday We got up again at 6 and.....bueno. Quickly i will explain the goegraphy of our zone. We have cinco saltos. its a small city. 4 missionaries including us are here. Centenario is 20 minutes up the high way. there are 8 missionaries there. Catriel is an hour and a half away. 4 mor missionaries. And 25 de mayo is 3 hours north, 4 more missionaries. SO. we got up early to travel to 25 de mayo to be in the district meeting. It was great. We halped the other elders area a ton and traveling is really fun on the double decker buses. We really had a good time and found al ot of new people to teach with them.

Ok. Saturday we had a good morning in our area and the n took a quick colectivo to centenario for the district meeting there. It was ok. After the meeting we waited at the bus stop for almost 3 hours. We got back to our area and had 2 amazing lessons and that was our day. We talked about mosiah 5 and it was just really great experience with this guy whos son was just baptized, NIko. HE also recieved the Priesthood. He is 14. And so his dad is planning on getting married then baptized. So excited. 

Sunday was ok. Really boring, my comp was sick so we had to sit in the pension a little but its ok :) I am reading hte doctrine and cvenants and am very excited to get to the later chapters that are very deep studies. 

Love you all unti lnext week!

Elder Westensee

p.s. estoy comiendo como chancho! :p ganando poco cada dia