August 30

Hello Family!

This week my comp and I tried our hand in the kitchen a little more than normal and we were able to get our hands on some brown sugar, so we made some chocolate chip cookies. They turned out yummilicious, so we’re going to make 4 batches tomorrow and bring them by every single one of our investigators. We’re pretty excited about that. I also introduced him to wild and wacky willies and he loved it. The missionary pancake tradition shall go on!

Also great news. We had a lesson with Carlos, our awesome investigator who’s been coming to church for the last month or so, and we challenged he and his girlfriend to be baptized. We had been asking them for about the last three weeks when they wanted to do it, but they were both super nervous and didn’t want to think about it at all. Now, they are both super excited and want to get baptized on the same day. Wéve tried changing our approach after teaching them for a while without seeing much progress. Instead of continuing to teach them the lessons, we started just reading chapters out of the Book of Mormon with them and praying with them to help them develop more faith. It worked super well! Lesson learned: Read the Book of Mormon!!!!!!

Some other funny stories, we were talking to the bishop this week and apparently that crazy lady we met last week, after she was baptized told the obisbo (bishop) that she got a revelation she would be the next obisba (female bishop...) heh heh heh, gotta love the crazy people.

I don’t know if I told you yet about the political parties yet, but out here politics is pretty funny. When I first got here I thought there was a ton of graffiti, but turns out that *before* election time, all the political parties send out groups to clean up the streets and paint their name on all the curbs and walls so the people like them and vote for them. I was talking with a member who works for one of the clean up crews and he told me they have turf wars just like gangs, and when the other political party gets into their neighborhood, they go over to their neighborhood and paint over the other party’s names and paint their own. Haha, pretty funny. Argentines have this other weird obsession with watering dirt. Some people have real sidewalks and driveways, but a lot just have dirt sidewalks and driveways. Anyway, you always see the people with real tile sidewalks outside hosing them off to keep them clean, but the funny part is seeing the people who have dirt sidewalks hosing off the dirt to get it... cleaner? Yesterday we saw a lady who had wet down the entire dirt road in front of her for about 50 ft. in either direction. Haha, what a waste of time.

Anyway, good to hear from ya’ll. Keep up the updates, and email or send pics, I like seeing your smiling faces.
Church is true!

-Elder Spencer