Back to building houses

So Im a little bit late because I spent a good part of the day putting on a roof.. Building stuff here is waaaaaay different than in the US. What we did for a good eight hours would've taken one hour. We made the cement, shoveled it into buckets and then passed the buckets up to the roof. It was a back killer. What would've gone down in the states is there would've been a huge remote controlled truck full of cement and it would've poured out all the cement onto the roof and ya. That would've been that. We were helping out an investigator though, and we had a massive asado, so it was worth it. Plus all the guys we were working with were jokers, so it was a good way to pass a p-day.

This week I hit six months. Elder Meadows-we were MTC comps-and I burned some ties as a ritual and then had a whole ton of tortas fritas. It was pretty awesome.

Other than that, I  ate a lot of alfajores and walked around a lot. This is gonna be a short one because I{m kinda low on  dough since its the end of the month and this ciber is spendy..

I love ya guys! Do good things!

Maximo Bazolo

So this week was a blur.. transfers are always crazy and this time I actually participated in them. I said goodbye to all the people in Rawson and headed out on a super comfortable bus to Comodoro.

We arrived in Comodoro at about 12 and their wasn´t enough taxis to take us to our area, so we stayed at the missions "casa grande" for the night. Its just where the secretaries sleep and where all the new arrivals come to and where all the missionaries who finish leave from. There´s like a million beds there... so I swapped stories with some other Elders who I hadn´t seen in a while and then headed off to Abasolo in the morning.

The whole area is pretty poor, but the people seem like they´re pretty humble. The area is kinda on the outskirts of town, so we have some sort of makeshift houses and then part of the area is a forrest. Its actually the most green I´ve seen in the Patagonia, so thats pretty nice.

A couple days in it started raining.. and it didn´t stop all day.. we went out and the roads were literally rivers, our apartment had turned into a sort of island. It was switching off hailing and raining until I was soaked and frozen to the bone. So we went back to the pension to avoid frostbite and or death by drownding. The next day there were some drowned dogs in the streets, so you could literally say it was raining dogs.. cats are a little less common, probably because there are so many dogs..

So that was my week, we´ve been doing a lot of contacting since we´re opening this area and tons of people have been open to listen. Its amazing! My companion has one transfer more than me and he kinda struggles with the language, but he wants to work, and thats all I ask for in a companion!

I love ya guys! Have a great week!!

Doughnuts

This week has been a doughnut filled week. In other words, it was good. I finally got around to using grandmas recipe for doughnuts! I made some dough one night, raised it, and threw it into the freezer. Throughout this week I've been cutting off portions-since it was a grandma recipe it was intended for like forty people-and frying them up. It´s been awesome. 

Not only have the doughnuts been good, but the work has been growing as well. Its kinda sad though since I´ll probably be leaving next week.. we met this girl-Lucia-who really wants to turn her life around, she´s quitting smoking and drinking and wants her baptism to be a sort of rebirth into her new life. We have a few teenagers that we play soccer with that have started coming to church and are really sincere and interested. The other day we met this guy on the street just talking to people(we try to talk to ten new people every day) turns out he was a member who hasn't been to church in 38 years and he came to church this Sunday!! He kinda reminds me of the guy with a lot of hair on jumanji.. 

Anyways, that's that. I´m super excited for general conference and I hope you guys will go prepared with a specific question because I know they´ll be answered! I love you guys! Have a great spring break!

Penguinos!!!

Alrighty, this week has been a week for nature... Yesterday, on the way back to the pension I found a massive three inch bug crawling across the street. Naturally my first desire was to take it back to the pension for a pet. My comp wasn´t agreed, but he´s kinda a stick in the mud. Then I decided to take a picture with it. I lifted it up by its leg and held it next to my face.... thats when it sprayed me.. apparently it was some sort of mutated giant stink bug, because juice got in my mouth and on my eyes... it was reeeeaaaaaallly disgusting. I ran out of the pension and threw it across the street in the general derection of the catholic church-theyre our neighbors. So that was that. I showered, brushed my teeth, but the pension still smells funky... 

Today we went to see the penguins. There were a bajillion. Like literally there were thousands just chilling in the dunes around the beach. We took a tour bus thingy and we went as two zones. It was super fun. There were penguins, armadillos, guanacos(llama sort of things), and ostriches. That is pretty much every single wild animal the Patagonia has. I feel very fullfulled. I was with Elder Meadows-my comp from the MTC-and he took pics that he´ll send me, so don´t you worry yourselves.

On the bus on the way back, Elder Meadows had peanutbutter, so we had peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches. It was heaven. over here, peanutbutter is like gold. Its impossible to find. And then someone had chex mix that their parents sent-we don´t have that either-it was like I was back in good ol´merrica. If something has come in a package from Amerrica it tastes better, no matter what. If I sent an alfajor to you guys and you send it back, it would gain goodness. I think its the freedom in the air.

Anyways, I only got a little time, so I gotta go. I love ya guys!

P.S. I´ve gotten super patriotic since I´ve been here.....