Churrasco

Mon- It was pday. We went to Central and looked at some stuff and what not. For lunch we bought some food from a street vendor. I bought a Churrasco and it was delicious. 

Tue- We had to wait in the pension for some guys to come by to clean our heater. We had district meeting. And we were going to have mission correlation but the ward mission leader didn't show up. 

Wed- We contacted with not much success... We visited a less active and a recent convert though and that went really well! We helped with mutual for the youth. and some drunk guy yelled Colorado at me. That is what they call red heads here. 

Thur- We contacted again with not much success. We tried visiting a couple people but they weren't home. But we were able to see 2 investigators. And today was 9 months in the mission! Crazy

Fri- We contacted and had some success. we found a couple good potential investigators. We didn't our weekly planning and had English class. We went and visited a member family. 

Sat- We had choir practice for the stake conference on Sunday. WE also went to the Saturday Night session of conference. We had 4 other missionaries staying with us so that was fun.

Sun- We had the Sunday session of stake conference. That was really good! We tried visiting a few people but they weren't home...

We had a pretty good week and I hope all y'all did too. Have a good one!

con amor

Elder Opfar

1.  I saw that the volcano erupted again this week and that your weather said "dust" a lot.  Did you have to stay in a bunch again this week?

no we didn't have to stay in the pension so that was good

2.  I also see that it is raining right now...that has to be good, right?  Does that clear out the ash pretty well?

it is not raining right now. but yeah it has cleared up the ash some

3.  I read that the Cordoba Temple dedication will be transmitted to all the buildings in Argentina on the 17th and that they are cancelling the 3-hour blocks for it.  That is awesome!!  Have you heard anything about it?  What a special time to be in Argentina!

yeah on that Sunday we are watching it in the church! Pretty exciting! 

4.  Do you have any info about our Skyping on Mother's Day?  

YES. I am going to skype at 6 pm here. so 4 pm there? on Sunday!

5.  The South American Area Presidency has given us permission to send packages to you.  However, all the same problems still exist, including exorbitant costs from customs to get things out.  But, I can send things that you need if you like and cross our fingers and pray hard you get them!!  Anything you want?

Meet the Mormons dvd in Spanish and English? and I don't know 

6.  Have you gotten either of the 2 small padded envelopes I already sent?

I have not. but we didn't get a bolsa last week because of ash and we haven't checked today

7.  I saw that you spent money this week!  Hope you got something fun!!  Or yummy...or maybe bought postage to send me a letter.

we actually don't buy postage. it is you take it to the post office and they weight it and send it. but I haven't sent it yet.

8.  What has been your biggest success this week or your most significant tender mercy and why?

we found a couple potential investigators. so we are hoping that they can progress and stay good.

9.  What scripture has made you think this week and make you want to be better?  Lucy Scholl wrote a blog about putting things in the right order in our lives (especially scripture study) and quoted the Helaman scripture "Behold...these are my days."  (Helaman 7:9) I loved that thought.

I cant remember any specific scriptures. but I listened to some really good talks this week. Some from President Hinckley from some devotionals at BYU. and they were good. One about forgetting yourself in the work and in service to others

10.  What are you looking forward to this coming week?

SKYPE!