9-12-11

hello everyone. another crazy hot week in st. john.
it really doesn´t get that hot, but i does make me sweat a little bit...ug. and then i can´t wear the same shirt the next day...so that kinda stinks. anyways, i don´t want to say that i´m down...but i am suuper tired because we are working super hard in our area. you wouldn´t blieve it. its the biggest and best feeling helping other people become more like christ. it´s kinda crazy thinking about it to, waht i am actually doing but i love it and i am growing to love argentina more every day. i sometimes think about my life in the states and can´t imagine it with out the weird teas the drink all the food and all the crazy poor places we walk too. like...now i am way used to seeing kida play in the mud in the diapers while their parents are at work...but everything just seems so normal now. i kinda dont want to leave and i am glad that i still have one year to do it.
we are teaching an amazing family se llama the flia. gonzalez. there is the mom, maria rosa...the daughters, aldana, solangel (sun-angel...haha, i always make fun of her name) and the boy named roco. they are HUGE bosses...they all read the book of mormon on the bus and stopped drinking cafe. for the girls birthdays i bought them chocolate powder to mix with milk so they could stop drinking cafe. hahaha. they loved it. hahaha....we alse gave solangel a HLJ ring for her birthday and her family almost got mad because now they all want one...ugh. hahaha. love sweet families like this. they will be baptized next week for sure. the mom isn´t married so she cant get married right away, but she told us that on monday (today) they were going to centro to get the paper work done to get married. (getting married down here is a lot more difficult). anyways, they have way strong testimonies.
the church came out with a new program for missionaries with less than twelve weeks and their companions have to study the same thing. so we are trying to new program out as mission mendoza to see how it works. it´s a little different but alteast i don´t have to find stuff stuff to study...like its already there you know? hahaha. anways, that´s cool.
mom would be proud of this one...i bought a raw chicken and cooked it this week. the skin turned out good but the inside was way normal. how are you supposed to make the inside yummy? i put oregano, salt, lemon juice, pepper, and onions....mom, how would you cook a raw chicken? cuentame. anyways, i am learning to cook. thats. fun. pray for the flia. gonzales, and marcos and rosio. (: thanks. i love you all!

elder valle