57 Days To Go...

¡hola familia! ¡esta semana fue re copada! i am grateful for all of the things i was able to learn this week. we had the conference with elder zeballos, his wife, president lovell and his wife. i attached a picture that president lovell sent to me of our zone, and the missionaries in neuquen oeste, zapala, and roca. there was a ton of us, and the conference was very powerful. we talked a lot about our vision of the argentina neuquen mission, and more specifically for our own areas. we talked about having the sufficient faith to make that vision a reality. elder syddall and i have been talking about that already so it was cool to hear it from elder zeballos too. he talked about how we need to do everything in our reach to show our love and share how we can be happy. he said that that is all the people really need. they don`t need answers to deep doctrine, they just want to be happy and live with peace. we talked about how we can do our part so we can be pure instruments in the hands of God that searches His guidance and does His will. during the week, we have been meeting with the elders quorum president, the bishopric, and the relief society`s president. we don`t want to be a burden for the ward, we want to build it up and help them ``salir adelante`` and progress. they were very excited to meet with us and we were able to talk about their own visions and how we can help. i feel like we are going to see fruits very soon. we just have to keep the ànimo up and get the ward to a point where they find more people for us to teach. we met with the bishop to work on our ward mission plan. our bishop is awesome and you can tell that he gives his calling everything he has. he is going to call ward missionaries to help us. this week went really fast, didn`t it? we traveled to 25 de mayo again for another baptismal interview but the guy isn`t quite ready yet so he wasn`t baptized. i felt like he was only going to be baptized because he felt pressured so maybe with some more time. this weekend is the temple dedication of buenos aires. i am so excited for it! we are going to get a broadcast on sunday that we will be able to attend. it is going to be a very big day for argentina. our ward is planning a temple trip to buenos aires for the end of the year. the members have had to travel to santiago, chile, or to montevideo, uruguay to be able to attend the temple, so it`s going to be awesome. i saw pictures of the temple yesterday and it is beautiful. we are pretty excited! right now we are with elder carquin because his companion is in bariloche doing his visa tramites. it is cool being with him. it is nice to have a latino around to help me with my spanish. i am getting to a point where i can speak very well, it is the accent that gives me away. they say i kind of speak like a colombian, but i am ok with that. :) you said that jamie mcpherson is getting married? that`s crazy! i bet you are all excited for elder holland in parker too. dad- i think i will have to read that book too after shane is done with it. we are looking forward to another great week. i feel like everything is coming together and going smoothly. we have had it kind of rough lately, but nothing serious. it is all getting better. like they say, the future is as bright as your faith. love you guys! hope everything goes great this week, happy labor day! con mucho amor y ànimo, elder summers p.d.- you`ll find that i was very smart in the picture. easy to find me :)