Day 258

¡hola familia!
i hope you were able to hear my voice recording! if it works i think it would be cooler to just send those. we will see and maybe you can hear the excitement in my voice every week instead of reading my thoughts for the week. maybe both! yahoo!
i have some pictures of me and brian and then with my comp elder ruano (the little one behind) and hno payllalef the mini misionero. the other picture is of me and elder taylor. we are all in the hall of the house next to the heater because the morning can be a little brutal... but i am loving my hot chocolate! sometimes i drink malta too and i have come to love it all. life is good here in zapala.
today we are planning on climbing el cerro michacheo again and we are going to have a picnic on top, just the four of us. it should be really fun and i´m excited. it will be my third time so i should be able to stay here in zapala (according to legend) and marry myself with a beautiful argentine woman (which wouldn´t be too bad either). just kidding. i´m not thinking about that stuff. :)
jamie- congratulations! i´m excited to meet little jack. amelia looked beautiful in her blessing pictures too and i´m looking forward to meeting all of my new sobrinos. it will be so interesting in one year!
this week, not a whole lot happened but we did find 12 new people. some have a lot of potential to be members of the church and we are excited to teach them. we have been praying to find the people that are prepared to be baptized and we can see a lot more progress. this week was the third week in a row that nobody came to our english class and i´m thinking we are going to stop teaching but then more people promise they are going to come the next saturday. they just don´t fulfill. it´s for them but they don´t want to come... sad.
but we did find great people just clapping doors. i didn´t think of that but actually i have to take off my gloves to clap my hands. fetch. sometimes i play rock paper scissors with my companion to see who takes off the gloves for the contact but for some reason i always lose with him. it´s like he knows... he is getting a lot better speaking and he´s not as timid. i love watching how he is progressing and i´m feeling really good about where we are. i think this week was huge for us because we are getting a lot better as a companionship. the first few weeks were kind of awkward because he isn´t the most social guy but now we are getting along just fine. last week i did sing the national anthem and it was really fun and elder taylor made some awesome pizzas for us. i am learning all sorts of awesome stuff here! i´m happy :)
i played the piano yesterday in church and a lot of people heard me play for the first time and they are wondering why i haven´t been playing this whole time. i have almost 6 months in zapala but there is always a young girl playing in sacrament meeting and i never asked to take her place because her teacher sits right next to her. i´m thinking that they will probably ask me to play again next week and i´m looking forward to it. i really love the piano!
i haven´t been teaching because on saturday some women get together in the chapel to practice and there is not a good time to teach anymore. fa. today is the birthday of a boy in the rama that turned 9 and still hasn´t been baptized. that means that he officially becomes an investigator and we have been teaching him. things are going well but the hardest part for us now is getting them to the church on sunday... AAAAGH! but it´s ok. they say that they try but they can´t wake up in the morning to come. sad but we are running to their houses to wake them up. the bolsa just arrived and i recieved some letters. !que kpo! i love getting love on paper and in emails too. bueno! i love you all and i hope you have a great week! next week will be more detailed, i promise!
con mucho amor y animo
elder summers