How is it going? I'm writing you earlier than normal but today is p-day because tomorrow is transfers and I’m going to stay here in Federal for another transfer and my companion is being transferred to a different city to be a zone leader. So I will have a new companion tomorrow. This was a good week really short not a lot really happened. I have a deal with a members mom(veronica's mom) who isn’t a member and I told her mom that my brownies were better because she cooks and sells pastries and so she said she would listen if I made her those brownies so I made them and they were really good she liked them so now she has to let us teach her. We also gave a blessing to an inactive member’s daughter who has the same sickness her brother just died from and it was a really good blessing. We are also teaching Veronica's daughter who is 8 and she wants to get baptized but it doesn’t count because her mom is a member but her son who is 11 wants to get baptized with her and that’s really cool. So hopefully this will be a good transfer and I’m sure it will be. So I will give you my testimony I promised. I know the church is true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that Thomas S. Monson is the prophet today. That Jesus Christ lives and is the Son of God. That he knows what his missionaries need and he provides for them. In the name of Jesus Christ amen. Well I really don’t have anything else to talk about or say just that I love you all and I will write you all next week.
love Elder Herold
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Aug. 26. 09
So how are things going? This was a really good week. The time is really going by faster than I can believe because in a little less than 3 months I will be calling home again. We got an investigator this week his name is Rafael and it was really nice to talk to him. he has a niece that’s a member but in- active but he wants to listen to our message and he wants to learn more. We have a member that is so awesome her name is Veronica and she is the same age as you and has a son and daughter. Well she always has references and her mom makes facturas which is argentine version of dough nuts and a ton of other things like that so every time we go over there she always has treats. We have even had lunch with Veronica and her family. Also veronica and her mom make amazing pies and cakes and the other night she had a cheese cake that she owed us from a bet and she also gave us asado to go with it which is argentine BBQ which is amazing. Veronica is also the primary president and they had an activity which was really good. A ton of kids came and we also got some references from the activity. Yesterday was our last district meeting for the transfer and it went really well then we did divisions with the zone leaders which was fun. I went with elder Aguilera and it was fun to see their investigators they have some really good investigators and we stayed for today since its p-day and we played soccer which is really fun. It’s a pretty relaxing day it’s hot again its right around 26-28 degrees Celsius which is nice and warm. It really was a really chill week. well I really don't have anything else well I guess I will write you next week and we’ll see if I’m getting transferred or not. Well I love you all and tell everyone I love them.
Elder Herold
Elder Herold
Aug. 19. 09
Hola. Things are going good here not really a whole lot happened last week or the first part of this week. No cool or funny stories. Well Monday and Tuesday this week we got 5 new investigators, a dad and daughter who talked with the missionaries before so will see how it goes we challenged them to be baptized at the end of September. we’re starting to program everybody in the first lesson to see if the they or not my comp and I were reading a story about the missionaries years ago and how the missionaries along time ago in the church when they could baptize the same day but they in a sense would challenge the people on the spot to be baptized and that’s how the older missionaries had so much success. We also taught a husband and wife and they are really Catholic and they actually know what they believe which is kind of nice and they accepted the challenge to be baptized at the end of September also. The last person is a lady who is a catiquesta which is a catholic school teacher. She knows what she believes and has a really good knowledge of the catholic beliefs and she also accepted the challenge to be baptized the end of September. So we’ll see how it goes. Also the weather here has been weird as well this past week it got into the 80´s and the 90´s one day then it went back down to normal like the 40´s with misty fog and it feels freezing not 40´s but that’s because its humid. We also had an asado last week with a member. That’s an argentine BBQ. They do it over an actual fire outside it was really good the BBQ here is amazing the meat is just so tender it is so good. Also my comp saw a carpincu for the first time it’s a type of animal and I don’t know if I spelled it right but it’s about the size of a pig adult pig and it looks like a hamster so it’s a giant hamster. The people raise them for food and I guess it’s supposed to be really good but their going extinct so the people aren´t allowed to hunt them anymore but people raise them and breed them. Well that was my week not a whole lot happened well I guess I will talk to you next week I love you all and tell everyone I love them.
Elder Herold
Elder Herold
Aug. 12. 09
So how is everybody doing with being sick? Things this week were good nothing really happened besides 3 baptisms. The parents and oldest daughter in the familia franco got baptized and I got the privilege to baptize them. It was really cool and my comp and I made brownies for afterward. There were a couple of cakes as well and it went really well. Hopefully we will have a couple more the 29th of this month. We also got to go to their wedding in the Registro Civil it’s the name for the place they do it. And when they walked outside afterwards we followed Argentine tradition by throwing rice. I got it on video but I’m not going to send pictures this week because the computers are going way to slow. The wedding was pretty cool I guess it would be the same in the states in the court house there were two witnesses and they read whatever it is they read like the legal stuff and your married. It was fun. We also went on divisions with the other elders in our district and it was fun we spent the day in Concordia because my companion had to do a baptism interview. It was fun I got to meet some of the families they are teaching. So we have these vitamins that the president’s wife gave all the missionaries and they have like cabbage and spinach and things like that in with the vitamins and they have been giving all the other elders gas. Fun!!!!
The water gets turned off certain days and weeks but you don’t know when because they clean the tanks kind of like the big one in Florence but they turn the water off and they rotate between barrios or neighborhoods. But oh well it happens right. Oh also it doesn’t matter when you send the package because it gets sent to the mission home and I will get it at a zone conference. Also on the package when you write the amount its worth in American dollars don’t put a big amount on it since I have to pay a tax on that amount. It’s just these things don’t exist here. They don’t even have root beer because it tastes like a medicine they have so the people think it’s gross. Oh you could send some Kool aid packets. and anything else you think would be good sorry I’m talking about this again but I thought of a few more things the other day but just these things also and nothing else. Oh teriyaki sauce promise that’s it. So has it been hot there. The last couple of weeks it’s been getting warmer and warmer and yesterday and today it’s been hot. So I think were in spring and their spring is a little bit hotter than our spring. And then it will be summer I guess it gets in the high 38 degrees Celsius to the mid 40s which is from high 90s to like 110. So the summers here are defiantly hotter than the states. Well I love you all and you all be good and stay out of trouble.
Love you all Elder Herold.
The water gets turned off certain days and weeks but you don’t know when because they clean the tanks kind of like the big one in Florence but they turn the water off and they rotate between barrios or neighborhoods. But oh well it happens right. Oh also it doesn’t matter when you send the package because it gets sent to the mission home and I will get it at a zone conference. Also on the package when you write the amount its worth in American dollars don’t put a big amount on it since I have to pay a tax on that amount. It’s just these things don’t exist here. They don’t even have root beer because it tastes like a medicine they have so the people think it’s gross. Oh you could send some Kool aid packets. and anything else you think would be good sorry I’m talking about this again but I thought of a few more things the other day but just these things also and nothing else. Oh teriyaki sauce promise that’s it. So has it been hot there. The last couple of weeks it’s been getting warmer and warmer and yesterday and today it’s been hot. So I think were in spring and their spring is a little bit hotter than our spring. And then it will be summer I guess it gets in the high 38 degrees Celsius to the mid 40s which is from high 90s to like 110. So the summers here are defiantly hotter than the states. Well I love you all and you all be good and stay out of trouble.
Love you all Elder Herold.
Aug. 5.2009
Aug. 5. 2009
Hola How is everybody? So things are good here. Yesterday was zone conference and it was good we talked about committing more people to baptism and speaking to the people more. Also my companion got sick later on in the night and we decided to stay in Concordia and good thing we did because he threw up and it would have happened on the collectivo(bus). I saw the whole thing he woke up from sleeping at like 10 at night and we were all just hanging’ out and he asked if the box next to me was empty and I said “No there’s Books of Mormon in it so he got up and just started to throw up and it got everywhere. It’s really the only pench(apartment) beside the mission home with carpet and it was really funny. Also this week I rolled my ankle jumping across a sana or a open sewer but I´m doing good now and I didn’t land in it though. Also this week one night we had hot chocolate when we came back and we made it and drank pretty much all of it and we started to look and these black floaters that had been in their the whole time and they were flies or nats they must have gotten into the coco mix. Yum. Well that was the interesting stuff. This Saturday we are going to be baptizing 3 people which will be really cool. It´s the family Franco the parents are getting married Friday and the oldest daughter is going to get baptized with them the rest of the family is already members. Also we are teaching this guy Diego and his girlfriend I guess. They are not married and I guess they found each other in Buenos Aires and he´s 20 and she is like 25 or 26 and there are a lot of problems. They were all living in his mom’s house then they were building a house or living with the grandma. But the broke up and she has nothing and the only place she could go was his moms house. She also has 5 kids and they are not his from a previous relationship well they want to get baptized both of them and they were together the other day when we taught them so were not sure if they are going to stay together. But they both want to change and get baptized. The other day we taught them and we used the November 2007 General conference Liahona. I found a talk in the back it was the talk President Faust had prepared but he could never give the talk because he died before that general conference. But the talk was about change and wanting to change habits from cursing to drugs and the talk was perfect for them we pretty much shared the whole talk and I didn’t know how it was going to go because Diego seems like he would get stand offish or think it was directed all at him but it went amazing and you could feel the Spirit by the end and you could see the want to change in their eyes. But there is a lot of problems so we committed them to read the Book of Mormon at least one verse a day and to start and end with a prayer. So will see how it goes. We also have a family with a possible 14+ baptisms but the Dad won’t give permission. But he did listen to us the other day so we are preparing a lesson that will be really good and highly spiritual. So we started a 40 day fast but not of food. A fast to stop anything that drives or pokes at the spirit and so we made a list of all the things to help us also to have the spirit more. So we will be prepared especially for that lesson. The dad with all those kids is Catholic and is set in tradition. It´s hard but were not going to give up. Not this early anyways. So we have some good work for this transfer there should also be some more baptisms at the end of the transfer also.
Well since I’m all most out of time tell mom and dad and the rest of the family I love them and I love you guys to and I will talk to you all next week. Love Elder Herold
Hola How is everybody? So things are good here. Yesterday was zone conference and it was good we talked about committing more people to baptism and speaking to the people more. Also my companion got sick later on in the night and we decided to stay in Concordia and good thing we did because he threw up and it would have happened on the collectivo(bus). I saw the whole thing he woke up from sleeping at like 10 at night and we were all just hanging’ out and he asked if the box next to me was empty and I said “No there’s Books of Mormon in it so he got up and just started to throw up and it got everywhere. It’s really the only pench(apartment) beside the mission home with carpet and it was really funny. Also this week I rolled my ankle jumping across a sana or a open sewer but I´m doing good now and I didn’t land in it though. Also this week one night we had hot chocolate when we came back and we made it and drank pretty much all of it and we started to look and these black floaters that had been in their the whole time and they were flies or nats they must have gotten into the coco mix. Yum. Well that was the interesting stuff. This Saturday we are going to be baptizing 3 people which will be really cool. It´s the family Franco the parents are getting married Friday and the oldest daughter is going to get baptized with them the rest of the family is already members. Also we are teaching this guy Diego and his girlfriend I guess. They are not married and I guess they found each other in Buenos Aires and he´s 20 and she is like 25 or 26 and there are a lot of problems. They were all living in his mom’s house then they were building a house or living with the grandma. But the broke up and she has nothing and the only place she could go was his moms house. She also has 5 kids and they are not his from a previous relationship well they want to get baptized both of them and they were together the other day when we taught them so were not sure if they are going to stay together. But they both want to change and get baptized. The other day we taught them and we used the November 2007 General conference Liahona. I found a talk in the back it was the talk President Faust had prepared but he could never give the talk because he died before that general conference. But the talk was about change and wanting to change habits from cursing to drugs and the talk was perfect for them we pretty much shared the whole talk and I didn’t know how it was going to go because Diego seems like he would get stand offish or think it was directed all at him but it went amazing and you could feel the Spirit by the end and you could see the want to change in their eyes. But there is a lot of problems so we committed them to read the Book of Mormon at least one verse a day and to start and end with a prayer. So will see how it goes. We also have a family with a possible 14+ baptisms but the Dad won’t give permission. But he did listen to us the other day so we are preparing a lesson that will be really good and highly spiritual. So we started a 40 day fast but not of food. A fast to stop anything that drives or pokes at the spirit and so we made a list of all the things to help us also to have the spirit more. So we will be prepared especially for that lesson. The dad with all those kids is Catholic and is set in tradition. It´s hard but were not going to give up. Not this early anyways. So we have some good work for this transfer there should also be some more baptisms at the end of the transfer also.
Well since I’m all most out of time tell mom and dad and the rest of the family I love them and I love you guys to and I will talk to you all next week. Love Elder Herold
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