Day 188

¡Hola Familia!
i swear that the time is going faster and faster every week. even faster for my companion because he only has 6 weeks left on his mission. i celebrated 6 months on my mission and i´m feeling good! on wednesday, we had a good time burning my tie and my comp took pictures for me. e´ suarez never burned anything so when he finishes his mission, he is going to burn tons of stuff, like some old messed up suits, shirts, pants, and his sleeping bag too. i´m pretty sure that i´m going to burn my sleeping bag too but so far it is in really good condition. it´s losing the ´fluff´ but it still keeps me real warm at night.
e´ suarez and i had to move this week too but we upgraded to a beautiful, spacious house all to ourselves for 1,200 pesos every month and we have a dog (that lives outside)! we are renting the house from a less active family that is living in bariloche for the next two months and then they are going to come back and finish the pension that they are building for the missionaries. it is incredibly nice of them and i´m going to be really happy for the next 3 months (at least) of my mission! i didn´t take pictures of the house yet because our stuff is still in disorder but i promise to take pictures soon. this week, an older couple from the mission office came to zapala to buy us tons of new stuff (including beds and desks that we are still in the process of building) and we didn´t have time to unpack everything yet but we are going to clean everything really well. we slept in the house for the first time last night and it was freezing because we didn´t know how to turn on the heater but the son is going to come over tonight and teach us. i´m so happy :). it´s been quite an adventure building the stuff but it´s been pretty fun too. we are about 5 blocks from our old apartment and two new sister missionaries are coming later today so we cleaned our old place really well this morning. it´s all ready for them.
i got some good news and some bad news. pablo finally is going to be baptized this saturday but it doesn´t count as my baptism because pablo doesn´t want to come to our ward and the zone leaders set the baptismal date. i´m pretty ticked and my comp and i have talked a lot about punching the guy in the face. i´m thinking he probably won´t even invite us because we haven´t heard anything from him. brian wasnt baptized but we met with his parents and the bishop. his parents set his fecha for june 25 because they want his older siblings to come see the baptism. the only bad thing is that my companion will be in his house a few weeks before that. other than that we are really excited for brian!
a lot of our work was in the ward but now we have been reassigned only to the branch. that means we now have a little area and we are losing almost all of our investigators. we now have 5 with some work to do with the menos activos but we have lots of support from the branch (rama) and we will be able to go on divisions with the members. now we are going to have to find tons of new investigators this week and we pretty much already knocked every door in the rama. otra vez!
i´m pretty excited for mother´s day!! sunday! the best time will probably be after 6 my time. i´m not sure what my companion is thinking about for his time, but we are planning on going to the church and calling from there. i will just call the house from the church and you guys can call that number back? i´m going to buy a small calling card. i´m so excited to talk to you guys!! i have tons of pictures that i have to send and i´m going to start downloading them. i love you guys!
¡hasta domingo!
elder summers