LANGUAGE IS COMING ALONG, FRUSTRATION WITH INVESTIGATORS AND ALMOST BIT BY A DOG

I know Taylor gets my emails, because he answers my questions for the most part, but I wonder if he reads anything but the questions sometimes!  This last email was filled with news from our Stake Conference including the names of our new Stake Presidency and what it was like hearing from Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve.  It was a wonderfully uplifting weekend!  I am so grateful to be living in this day and age, where we can share letters instantaneously!

¿como andan?

 

lets start off with the questions. the language is coming rather well i think. i am told i sound pretty good by argies, i can understand almost everything most of the time, and i can express myself pretty well too. so i guess how the language is coming is up for interpretation. define definition of sick. i had a bad exp after i cooked some hamburgers here but i think i just didnt cook them all the way. most of the time, i am eating at a members house. i dont use the sleeping bag, i use the liner though. its pretty hot at night. it has rained a lot for quite a while. there are a bunch of mosquitos here now. i have been poked by them many times and i may be crawling with diseases jaja. elder cox and i are going great. we havent butted heads and we can teach together pretty well too. i need to bring my camera to the ciber if i want to send pics. i forgot today. maybe next time. carla didnt come to church. with maxi, we read the family, a proclomation to the world with him and his mom. he still hasnt changed. we have just one fecha really for the 29th and its elisa. when we got to church yesterday to set up chairs and unlock the building, we saw her sitting outside and motioned her to come in. she nodded her head and we were like, ok lets go in. apparently she left before ever coming into the capilla (church). so we got into a car with a member to go off looking for her before the meeting started and did not find her. we were very frustrated. we had no invest at the capilla yesterday. its annoying. omar is coming along. he reads and hasnt really said no to us, but he hasnt prayed for the answer to what we have taught is true. i think that is what is holding him back. i believe there are about 150 missionaries in my mission i believe. jaja no, i have not been mugged or robbed. i almost got bit by a dog though. i noticed the dogs who roam around the pueblito are nicer than the ones who are behind fences and gates. the ones behind stuff always bark and yelp. but the dazer you sent keeps them at bay, or at least quiet.

 

so this past week was alright. we found four new investigators. but they all kind of died as well. three were some old people who are friends that we found doing contacts. we had the first charla (lesson) with them and then set up a cita for later. when we went back, they didnt have interest so we kind have dropped them. the other is a mother of two little girls. her name is soledad. she is in her twenties i think. we taught her the first lesson and then committed her to baptism for the 30th of the month if she had recieved an answer concerning this gospel and the like. so when we went back to visit her the second time, we found she is gone on vacation until february. so her fecha fell. we also found a family of five. the parents are silvio and silvia, yes i spelled them correctly, and three little niños. contacted silvia and set up a cita with her and when we went back we had the first charla with silvio. so it is kinda all over the place. we have a cita with them later tonight so pray that we can get in and continue with them. other than that, we are doing a lot of contacts, trying to bring menos activos to the capilla and trying to get people to pray. we have a cita with the head jehova witness here in cerri for later this week. my comp is kinda excited while i am not at all. but we met him doing contactos and hopefully is can turn into something good. thats all i got. i have no more time. thanks for all the emails and i love you all! your all capos! (stud muffins i believe is what it translates to)

 

your argentino elder,

elder jones

o i forgot my scrip. its alma 26:22. pray without ceasing. its a good one.

 

love you mom!

Alma 26:22 Yea, he that repenteth and exerciseth faith, and bringeth forth good works, and prayeth continually without ceasing---unto such it is given to know the mysteries of God; yea, unto such it shall be given to reveal things which never have been revealed; yea, and it shall be given unto such to bring thousands of souls to repentance, even as it has been given unto us to bring these our brethren to repentance.