hey guys,
we had a killer week here in guaymallen this weekend. first things first.
we had the baptism of the flia. perez. thanks for the prayers. at the beginning of the week, me and my comp had a meeting with are seventy, pres. avila and stake pres. it was way good! nothing intense, but i learned a lot from it. it was only thirty minutes (: not a big deal. then, pres. came with us to perez home, they still hadnt taken the decision to get baptized. but we didnt want to take president with us to make hime look like a problem solver, so we just went in and shared our testimonies (: it was amazing. we were out kinda late with pres, but it was worth it. he took us home in his car. we talked about politics...he started it. haha. amazing guy. then next day, i went with my comp, and we were racking our brains for way to figure out how to get these people baptized without being obligators or anything. anyways, we went over there and they looked pretty normal. and we sat down and they started to hold hands and sit closer to each other, and walter started talking, "well, chicos, we´ve been thinking about it and we actually prayed last night about it too and..." by this time i was getting super nervous...getting ready to come up with a magic solution to this situation. "we want to get baptized". boom, fireworks, angels regoicing, happy missionaries, and water already filling up the font. easy. the spirit totally did that one. what a great conversion. they all come to church with modest clothing and shirts and ties and they want to do everything in the church. especially vanessa, she goes to activites at the church just to clean up and she has an interview with bishop this weekend to set up with her plan to get to the temple. she wants the gospel principles books and just wants to go all out. she is for sure a strong convert (: i am so happy! yay. thanks for your prayers. walter asked us how to get a temple reccomends and what he has to do to get the priesthood. haha. so good. love these people
we had 25 de Mayo this months. Its like indepence day. we have locro and chori pan and everyone gets the day off. we dance folkloric. the whole ward, young and old started doing fold dance (i kinda wish the USA would get into this kinda stuff) it looked so fun!, i cant because im a missionary. ug....it sucked. it was a great activity and we had seven new investigators there! super cool. love argentina culture.
then yesterday and this morning we had consejo. of course, it was super fun. my zone did good! our goal was 8 and we got 7. other zones got 1, 2 and....0 yeah. its tough out here right now. but, they were super disappointed with the baptisms. i spent this morning with aps doing stuff for the mission and they said my zone, mendoza zone, and chimbas (one of my old zones) were the best ones. so that made me feel good. pres. avila wants to visit the flia. perez again and we spent alot of time at his house.we had tacos...oh man!!! super good! and then, we sat around presidents house giving testimonies, and elder jacobs played songs on the guitar while we sang a bunch of songs.

 it was super fun. then this morning we had a little meeting and alot of people left, but i played basketball with ap´s, elder roche his comp and the office elders. i couldnt believe how good i was! people actually passed me the ball and i almost made a three pointer (: yay (:haha. so you could say my physical ablities have improved. hanging out with all the other elders is super fun. than we got permission to go the new burger king that just opened up in mendoza....have it your way! it was yummy whopper time for me. yum yum yum. anyways, that was my week (: hope you guys enjoyed the photos (: haha.
love you guys, elder valle