Day 321

¡Hola Familia!
Hey-OOOO! i loved all the pictures that i got today! very awesome!
life here in rawson is very different... but it is great. it isn´t a lot bigger, but it is a lot more ´´modern´´. all of the streets (or almost all) are paved. it has more plazas with huge green trees and little parks that i haven`t seen for almost 8 months! and it is spring time so the trees and flowers are starting to bloom and it so beautiful! í´m excited to work here.
rawson was split in 2 parts to have 4 missionaries and we have the southern part below the street called vucetich. most of the investigators that the other missionaries had lived above vucetich so we don´t have very much to work with right now but we are going to fix that soon. we have 4 people that are progressing right now so i guess that´s pretty good. 3 of those people we found this week... but we found 6. yay! this week should be a lot better. i have never walked so much! we are on our feet a lot... before i was able to get into a lot more houses and visit a lot more people but i guess we just need to build that up. i have an interview with president peterson tomorrow because he is coming to rawson so i am sure we are going to talk about that a lot.
we live on sarmiento a few blocks from the chubut river. rawson is half an hour away from trelew on a bus and about 15 minutes from the beach. i´m really excited to see the beach again! we are going today in half an hour with our ward mission leader, hno chemín. he is really cool and he really wants to help us in any way that he can. there is one ward in rawson that the four missionaries are sharing and it is very large. there were about 80 people there but i was impressed with how many priesthood holders were there. i would say there were about 15 but that´s pretty awesome. our priesthood meetings in zapala had about 3... but it was awesome!!!
i am with elder colombres and he is really cool too. i am really excited to work with him. he has a lot of energy with people and he serves with a lot of love. i know that we are going to see a lot of miracles in the next few weeks here in rawson. his last 2 companions were a little trunky so he had a few problems but he is excited to be working harder with me... but it´s going to be good and we have a lot of fun. he speaks english perfectly but most of the time we speak castellano. oh! he is from tucuman, a province in northern argentina and he says that the difference between his house and in rawson sometimes scares him because the people here are a lot ´´colder´´ (pun intended jajaja) because it´s cold here... pero bueno.
we had 3 people in church yesterday!!!! jajaja. i was so happy! i hope it helps us build more trust with the members. one of the guys we brought is named manuel and he is 70- something. he is golden! we asked him to pray and ask God if it was the correct church and he said that he already knew it and his son is a member in chile. awesome. he told us that he wants to be baptized and we are preparing him for the 24th. but then he told us that he killed someone. fetch. but i think we will be able to baptize him still because he didn´t really kill anybody. he got in a fight with his step dad when he was beating his mom and he stabbed the guy. his step dad didn´t die but he ended up dying later because of those wounds that he gave him. it was a really long time ago and he has repented but still feels really bad and we are going to talk to our mission president about that one... then another woman noemí is getting ready for the 24th too but she doesn´t have any big problems. two other guys martín and daniel (cousins) came to church with us yesterday. the dad of daniel is a pastor for another church but his mom´s family are all members. church went very well and i was happy to bring them into the building! oh! and those people that i interviewed for baptism in zapala were all baptized except for one because she decided that she isn´t ready yet. but her family was baptized. i have to go now! but i love you guys and i will have pictures of the beach next week! and a scripture... perdón!
elder summers