Air Conditioning!!

Hey guys I have the greatest news this week we got air conditioning in our house!! Isn’t that great!? We were living in our house with only one fan and it was miserable. Then Hma Madariaga came to our house to do inspections and of course it was horrible cause the our side was a jungle of weeds that had grown taller than me in the back of the house!! The house is a disaster I clean it every day and I have slowly been chipping away at it, you guys would be surprised how messy and lazy Elders can be but anyway the house was super nasty when we moved in. So she helped us clean it up for like an hour and finally it was looking great inside, but the outside is still a big project. Saturday I cleaned up the trees with a machete then because of that I had about a million slivers. I spent about an hour doing hand surgery to get them all out! But the yard is making progress. Anyways when Hma came she was like wow this house is really hot Elders where are your fans? We were like Hma we don’t have any we just got here last Thursday and the other Elders had only one fan. She was like wow we need to get air in here this is too hot to live in without fans or air. So with my persistency in calling her every day since that day, we now have air conditioning in our house and let me tell you what it is a huge blessing. It is something that we often times take for granted living in the States, but wow what a great blessing it is!! Last night my feet were actually cold - it was amazing!! Ha ha you’ll see how happy I was in the pictures I’ll send you guys.

Well today we went fishing again and I guess I wasn’t humble enough last week about our last fishing expedition, because we didn’t catch anything. No one did so I think it was because we tried a new spot. It was funny my companion, Elder DeVoe from Boston thought that buying a legit pole, with a reel would help him. Well it turned out I spent most of my day tying new hooks on his pole cause he got snagged about every 5 minutes ha ha it was kinda funny even though he was pretty upset. So that was p-day today.

Now as for our week, our week went like this… lots of service I am trying to take the Ammon approach in this area because the people here were left a bad impression by the last Elders. So some are kinda like, ‘hum the Elders are here again, what are they going to do now?’ Well I figure if we serve them we will win their hearts and be able to work with them, so we did service almost every day which was great I have become a pro with the machete and now have great callused hands. It’s nice I feel like a man again, but we were also planning to go out with some of the high priests, but it turns out they love to coordinate more than they do go out and actually visiting the people they are coordinating for. Its super funny I try really hard not to laugh while they are coordinating. They are always like, "Elder come and sit down let us coordinate what we are going to do." Then I’m like , "Well we did that the other night. We have all the plans made lets go!" And they are like, "No lets coordinate." In the end we end up making one visit -- lots of coordinating and not so much doing, but hey they are helping and it’s always good for a laugh to get the 2 of them together shooting ideas around.

We are teaching one kid who’s 20 and a great reference from a family in the ward he is a rugby player and I’m talking to him the other day and he lives like a block away from a private tennis club so I’m like do you play tennis and he is like no I play rugby look at my nose yupp it had a solid 45 degree angle in the wrong direction his fingers are all messed up and his shoulders look like you could have dinner for two on them. I’m worried he’s only listening to what I have to say cause I look like ill be dinner ha ha --we are going to watch his game on Saturday but he is way cool and loved church on Sunday. Anyways my new area is great way way different from my last two areas. Harder in a lot of ways but I love it, it’s great.

I know this church is true. Earlier I was telling Cathryn in an email how I am so grateful for our prophets, seers and revelators what a great blessing they are in guiding us in a world full of all sorts missionary lead ideas and paths we have a firm path well lit and available to all who truly seek it. Our heavenly father has provided us with the means to know all things both spiritually and physically to those to honestly seek. I know that if we truly seek him now he will make himself manifest unto us and that one day as we continue to seek him we will end up in his presence and be able to enjoy the grand glory of god and we will be heirs of his kingdom. I love this gospel. I love this calling that we have to preach his gospel to the world to be fishers of men. It truly is a great blessing that I am already so so grateful for in my life. Have a great week-I love you guys

pics

1 Elder Meneseis from Argentina. Cool kid, lots of heart, convert to the church a little over a year ago!

2 Jaime I figured out the balloons-- I’m a straight clown now ha ha

3 Elder Sperry and Hma Orteyado in San Lorenzo

4 On the way to transfers there was so much rain that our taxi was flooded great story for when I get home but we died in the middle of the road cause of the rain. Truly crazy!

5 A non-gay pic of me and a rainbow

6 Putting in the air conditioning --so happy

7 Today fishing at the Paraguay river - other side is Argentina. The water today had a bit of a wind chop. Would have been a great day for wake surfing!

8 Oh yeah Elder Morgan ha ha

Love you guys have a great week.

Love,

Elder Morgan