Working hard in the hot sun

Elder Albrethsen

Bella Union, Uruguay
Companion:  Elder Miles

Monday, 28 November 2011

HELLO!!!!!!!!! and happy Thanksgiving!!!! I totally forgot about Thanksgiving.... well, at least while emailing.  So happy day of food!!! I hope the pumpkin pie was just as delicious as always.

This week was rather ordinary to say the least.  We didn’t have any big adventures or weird experiences or crazy abnormal happenings.  My comp did squish a huge spider that was about the size of the palm of my hand. Haha It left a blood streak about a foot long and an inch wide haha. We live next to a huge field so critters just pop in when they want to.

We had part of the family we are teaching in church yesterday!!!!! It was awesome! They are pretty cool—Jenifer and Carment. They are in a rather difficult family situation with how things are with the dad and brothers.  They are family relatives of some members in the ward. It’s just a difficult situation, but we are going to have another baptism this next weekend! So that will be awesome!!!

 

Working hard in the hot sun:  We have conference a week from Wednesday. For the most part we are just working and working and burning in the sun. Haha, I envy you in the winter times.  What I would do to see snow here haha... goodness.  But all is well in South America, apart from the bug invasion. 

Directions that didn't fail us!  We made it out to Gomensoro again this week and taught the same investigators. We received a referral to visit from one of them and managed to find the woman, considering the great directions . . . haha, turn left at the end of the street, pass the barking dog, and make a quick right into the small path past the big tree, and there a man in a yellow poncho will give you a couple glasses of water and he will give you the coordinates from there.

She mistook us for Jehovah Witnesses. It was cool, I guess. Hahaha, I wonder how many times that happens without us knowing.  She wasn’t too interested after we clarified things, but we had a great week.

We are praying for miracles!!! They are going to happen ‘cause this town needs a miracle to change it! haha

I love you all! The church is true and be awesome continually!

Elder Albrethsen

 

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