February 22, 2016

This week was a good week. We worked a lot with members again.  Sunday Gabriel, Bruno, Martina, Ivo, and Benjamin came to church. They are all good kids. And kids they are. All of the adults we invite have a hard time changing their lives and committing to something they haven't done for 20 to 50 years. So teaching your kids the gospel when they are little is a pretty big deal. I started the good book again and I like how in the first verse it says that Nephi was taught by his parents to be a good kid. Helped him become the prophet he was. 

The rains came down and the lights shut off. That's the story of BellVille. If there is a lot of heat or it rains the lights shut off and it sucks.  It's super humid here and if you are sitting in the pension without air you suffocate.

Everything is going good here.  Lots of people to teach. We have a broadcast from Elder Bednar here Wednesday so all the zones come here and we will get to listen to Bednar in Buenos Aires creo. 

Love you guys, love the mission. Wish you the best.

Con amor

Elder Lindsay  

Elder Lindsay and Elder Hansen

Elder Hansen, Bella Regina and Elder Lindsay.

February 15, 2016

Hey Ma!

This week was the first week of the new transfer. My new comp is Elder Hansen from Idaho. He's a cool kid. Kinda like the 5A version of me.  Plays football, had a mullet, played basketball. Ha and every other thing too. 

We had a good week. We are working a lot with members. They are going to a lot of lessons with us and that doesn't happen often. The branch loves us and helps us out a lot. Ha we are practicing for a district choir that will go on it a few months. I think I'll be here, haha it's fun to learn to sing. Maybe I'll try out for Glee or something when I get back hahaha.

We went to Villa Maria and Villa Nueva this week for interviews. Mine turned out good but the one my comp went to wasn't there so only 2 baptisms this week.

Romina is super cool. She was lead to the church by an ex missionary boyfriend about 2 years ago. Ha ex ex I guess now. Her interview was cool. The spirit is awesome. Weird to think that I am acting as a representative of Christ to preform an interview. It's a real special thing.  At the same time it always makes you think of how it will be when it's actually Christ offering the interviews. Don't think there is much difference but we over look that a lot.

Got the two packages you sent. The Christmas one and the Valentine's one from Argentina. 

Still in the same area.

Investigators-

Walter, son of a less active family.

Soledad. Sister of Antonela, the recent convert

Luciana, 20 year old, old investigator.

Peñalba Family, friends of Flie Sosa, aka less active family.

Gabrial. Old investigator of 14 years 

Bruno and his sister Martina. 12 and 9 year olds, friends of Gabrial.

Selena, 14 year old grand daughter of a recent convert.

Alejandra and her son Hans, old investigators

Those are some of the bros we have. Pray for them.  They all are cool.

Love you and hope Valentine's went good. Thanks for letting me know what went down this week.

Talk to you next week.

Elder Lindsay 

Elder Lindsay and Elder Hansen

Giant Plant Leaves

Romina's Baptism Interview

Elder Hansen fixing my hog (It turned out ten times worse, haha and then we wrecked hahaha long story.)  

Ninja wall we found

The calm before the storm

Wild stallions we ride.  No, I just feed that white one.

The river that always floods the city around this time of year.

Elder Hansen

Elder Lindsay

I think they sell drugs on this corner haha.

Enos.. haha hes the devil but I love him

February 8, 2016

Hey my email isnt working... idk why.

I'm okay. Transfers were today. I'm with an Elder from Pocatello, Idaho.   His name is Elder Hansen. He likes sports, I like sports. He had a mullet for football, I had a mullet. Ha it'll be a cool transfer. 

Love you and sorry the email doesnt work.

February 1, 2016

Sup fam.

Here in Bellville is pretty dope..

That's the best way to put the area so far. The members are super nice and I guess my talk made them accept me haha. The ward is the best ward I've had since I've got here. I was freaking out about the baptism last night cause we hadn't had a lot planned but it's cause the mission leader here does it and had everything ready. So it makes the work a lot easier when people fulfill their callings. Just helped me see that the church is like a body and works well when all the leaders are fulfilling their callings the church progresses a lot faster.

This week we went to Leones and helped the hermanas there find some news and animate them a little more. We had a meeting with the district presidente. Some super spiritual lessons with Antonela. Also i broke my leg.... No jk haha that would suck. But those were the main things that happened this week. 

Tonight we will go to Cordoba for concilio tomorrow. I think a 70 is here from Buenos Aires so maybe something cool will happen. 

Also I ate huevos de un buey.. look it up.. and intestines. (mom here-looked it up- eggs of an ox.  I should not have looked it up. haha)

Sorry this is short, love you guys and have a great week.

Elder Lindsay 

Juan's brother that made us an asado.... haha that day I ate cow testicles and intestines... yes testicles. If you didn't know the meat is soft, almost like butter haha  

Juan when we helped him prepare his talk 

Señor Bautismo 

Baptism Day

Baptism Day

Thumper

January 26, 2016

Hey mother, please tell dad feliz cumpleaños for me and count every spank and pinch he deserves haha.

Hey this week was good.  We got back at 3 Wednesday in the morning. Had a meeting with the zone later in the morning, ate some pizza and lomitos and then we watched a meeting for the missionaries around the world. They talked a lot about the missionary work with members and teaching with the spirit.  Something I liked was talking a lot about repentance. To the effect we teach repentance and baptize converts. It was cool to listen to.

Later in the day we had to do some zone plans and then went to a BBQ for the ward.  Hahaha just happened to be the day I got here they had one too. So I got to know a lot of cool members. 

This area is smaller than my last one but the ward is better.  It's actually a branch still cause we are in a district but it's cool. The members actually hold their callings and fulfill them. 

Sunday in the church I was stressed, just cause it was a habit to be stressed in my last area.  Sundays were always stressful cause the members scared away the people we brought.  The church was run down.  The bishop, well we never knew if he would be there or no, we taught all the classes and led the music and also talked most Sundays. Ha here I got to church and they have a different schedule. Sacrament is first here and I was asked to talk before so it wasn't a surprise. After I pretty much just participated in the classes and helped Antonella (the miracle we are teaching) in the classes. Ha super relaxing compared to the other ward. So it was a very nice Sunday.  Makes me think of the churches we have in good ol Utah and how they work. Sometimes I feel like we all get a little too lacks though at home and get stuck in the rut of just talking during class instead of teaching.  Anyone can physically go to church but saints go spiritual. If something isn't how we want it we can't complain until we've done what we can to change it. 

So the emergency transfer was cause a kid has a few bad discs I guess in his back so he is in the mission home with physical therapy and yeah, that's why all this happened so sudden. 

Antonella......

Coolest, most chosen lady I have ever seen. So my comp had contacted a lady in the street before and we had a date to return. We went to see how she was and Holy Moses..... Long story short, she is getting baptized the 31st. We taught her twice, felt the spirit super strong in each lesson and she understands a lot. Never knew the Mormons but when we taught her about everything she was kinda frustrated because she didn't find it before and started crying. We would just share our testimonies and she would get teary eyed and wow.. We take the church for granted a lot. There are people that go to church for the first time and are impacted so strong it's hard for them to explain. Makes me think about us needing to find holy places and being elevated in a spiritual aspect. TEMPLE!!! If we are comfortable in the church and don't feel the spirit as strong, it's time to go to the temple.

Hey love you guys and hope your week goes great.

Elder Lindsay.

New dope shades

Cordoba Temple Selfie

An Asado

Elder Campelo from Brazil (he goes home in two weeks)

January 19, 2016

Dear mother,

This last week was pretty crazy.....  So Wednesday night the missionaries from La Rioja called us and asked us where we were. Ha we had no idea what they were talking about but it turns out we had to do tramites in La Rioja Thursday. So we left our pension at 3 in the morning to go to the terminal and then we left for La Rioja. When I woke up we were passing these cars in a big race called Dakar. It's a race they have every year here that goes through Argentina, Chile, and Peru. It's dope, look it up ha. Also we spent all of Thursday doing the legal stuff and then spent the night in a HOTEL!!  It was super cool. Then in the morning we went and did some more stuff. They thought I only had to renew my DNI BUT! Turns out I was suppose to be doing all the paperwork like the others there haha so they will prolly be calling some time soon to get me legal. Cause I'm super illegal right now. The other picture is of some of the kids waiting for tramites.

We got to ride on the bed seats on the bus ride back ;) Saturday morning after we got back we had a service in the church with bishop and his family cleaning the church. Holy moses it is dirty. It was pretty much me and my comp cleaning but I sent the little kids on a bug hunt and whoever found the most dead or alive bugs in the chruch won. Ha each bug alive or dead, depending on its size, got a score and the first to 500 won an alfajor. They didn't make it to 500 so they didn't get anything ha but they did find like scorpions and stuff.

After the Activity we went and ate in the pension. Hermana Rita was sick to the stomach but she sent us empanadas. She is the best!  After, we had to go and look for the keys from bishop for the activity we have on Saturdays and inviting some people. Then we went to set up for the activity. We opened the church and went to buy a few drinks and when we were buying the kiosco lady told us that the other day when we were gone someone was trying to break into the chruch where we have the goals stored and the police and people came. So when we were walking back to the church I was kinda keeping my eye out to see who lived around that could have done it.  When we got to the church it was full of kids. haha I thought it was the kids that tried to rob in there but they came with a member we reactivated. We played soccer, ping pong and watched a church movie.  The guy we were reactivating´s wife came with like 4 other little girls and they were like, hey when you gunna finish cleaning the church. We told her Sunday in the morning we would have to come in and she was like well let's just do it now. So she, with her kids, started cleaning the church!! Then she came Sunday! Ha and I had to lead music again Sunday.

After church we went and ate with Dora. She lives alone around the pension and then after I bought a big bible for a member that her husband is in a vegetable state and can't move. She can't see very good so I got her a big bible and some hymns. Cool stuff to see them reactivating too.

Sunday night we stayed in the pension of the other elders. Elder Peterson and his son Elder Smith. In the morning I cut his hair and we went to the church. Played soccer, ate tacos, and then had a splash. Thats when all the elders from the zone go to one area to work. During the splash I was with Elder Quary from Canada and I get a call...... it said. Presidete........ Ha I was freaking out a little and he told me that I would be going from one area to the other of the mission. Ha and I would be ZL.  So I had to pack my bags in 2 hours and leave at 12:30 AM. I got to cordoba this morning and went to the asistents pension and now I will be heading to Belvile... Ha crazy stuff. But I'm pretty sad to leave that area.

Love you guys, this is getting long. I hope everyone is okay and I'll talk to you next week.

Elder Lindsay 

PS my new comp is Elder Campello from Brazil and he ends here in 3 weeks haha so I have 3 weeks to learn the area and how to be a ZL haha que caaaaaaaaapo no?

Service Project Before

Service Project After

Intercambio with Elder Peterson

Dakar Race

Hotel Fun

Leaving La Rioja

La Rioja

Big dog of a convert

I found this map online just so we have an idea where Elder Lindsay was transferred to.

January 11, 2016

Hola Mom!

This week was pretty long. We spent this week trying to help out the ward. The baptisms that we have had here don't stay so we are trying to help out the leaders. The Bishop asked us to come over to the church one night and we were there till like 12 talking about callings for people and stuff like that. It was cool to help but the bishop here is kinda hard headed. He just says everything against what we say to "be boss" but between the counselors and us we got a lot figured out. There are a lot of leaders that have been less active for a while now, so we went and passed by some.  For example, the counselor to the young men's was contending super hard and asking why we are going condemning people if they could get the gospel in the spirit world..... Ha after a little discussion they said they would go to church. They are a family of nine so it would help a lot. We had 29 people this week show up for church, so anyone that goes helps. 

For investigators, we are still teaching all those folk but the ones that are progressing the most are Ever and his wife Karen. They are friends of my comp from Jesus Maria. Ever came to church this week while we were teaching the gospel principal classes about temple work and stuff and had a bunch of questions of how he could make his family eternal.  So we are helping him out now. Alos Maria Eva, we found her again. She was kinda hiding from us but this week there was a ton of rain storms so no one thought we were working haha but we were.  We showed up to her house and you could tell she was kinda freaking out. She promised us she would get baptized in December but then we couldn't find her or talk to her again.  She said the closer she got the more she felt like something didn't want her to get baptized. She is praying for the 30th now. So are we  ;) 

Tell goober good job in the game.  Just gotta take it to the varsity now. Ha I'll train him up a little when I get back. Like 3 months ago I couldn't touch the rim and Friday night I almost dunked it so maybe I can help the runt out.

Mission is going great. It's hot and humid but it's dope. Hope you guys are having a good time at home. Be safe and love ya

Elder Lindsay 

These pictures are from our friend Rita.  She was making Fig Jelly.  She is AMAZING!

And she snapped a fun little picture of Elder Lindsay teaching.