Dear Mom and Dad,
Good news, no dog bites yet...this week! Hermana Salas and I were just walking on the sidewalk and out of no where I had a dog biting my leg! I don´t think it was a stray, but who knows? It could have been. I wouldn´t really consider it "attacking" while I was mildly freaking out wondering what was going on Hermana Salas chased it away. And I am glad that I can check that off my list of things to do!!!
And da da da!!!!! We have water again!!! And it lasted for longer than three days this time! We are clean, and our shower lengths have increased exponentially!
President and Hermana Detlefsen are Argentine, they have 6 children, 5 girls and 1 boy. Their two youngest daughters live here in Bahia with them, they have a daughter and a son who are studying at the university in Cordoba and two daughters who are married, also living in Cordoba.
There are a couple of missionary terms I will explain now. When someone is training they are the "madre" or "padre" and the new missionary is the "hija" or "hijo" aka mom and dad, and daughter and son. The second companion is the step mom or step dad. And when someone goes home from their mission they are "dying." I "killed" Hermana Durham, and chances are that I am going to "kill" Hermana Salas as well.
When we got home from Zone Conference at 2:30 in the morning we took a taxi back to our apartment. It isn´t very smart to walk the streets at night, two girls, with a suitcase. It appears that we have things that people would want to steal. Although really all we had were PJ´s, and a bunch of church materials. So we took a taxi, it was a million times faster and it meant that we got to sleep sooner!!!
Cool, so the pictures! The first one is a little place we found here in San Antonio Oeste! When the tide is in it actually looks like we have a little bit of ocean here! So when the tide was in, we took pictures to prove that sometimes there is water!
Then there are a couple from the activity we had on Saturday. Okay, so I told you that Argentine´s have a lot a lot of holidays, right? Well in August there is Childrens Day. But I dare you to find out when it actually is. No one knows. Everyone celebrates differently, and basically all month there are parties going on. They should just call it Childrens Month!!! Haha. But we had a church activity for Dia del Niño! It was really fun. Hermana Salas and I helped Noelia, one of the members that we have become good friends with, come up with games to play. There is a picture of us helping getting everything ready in the kitchen, and a picture of us with our faces painted. And I think that is all from that day. It was really fun and we had a good turn out! If only we could get that many people to Church on Sunday....
The other pictures are from today! We got to go to Las Grutas with Noelia, her husband Ezekiel, and their five year old daughter Meilan. It was really cool! The Grutas are about 20 mintues from SAO, and technically they are in our branch boundaries, but for now President Detlefsen wants us to work in SAO only so we don´t waste time travelling from SAO to the Grutas. But he did say that we could go on Pday if we wanted too. So we did! Its still winter time so the town wasn´t very busy, but it was really pretty and it was fun to go to the beach for a little bit! Especially since we probably won´t be able to go in the summer.
Tonight we are going to have a FHE with Christian, and we are going to find out if he is going to be baptized this week or no. He is having a little bit of trouble saying yes. He says that he is going to be baptized, he just feels like he needs more time. We are not quite sure what is going to happen. He has a testimony and everything, he just needs to bite the bullet and do it! However, at this point it is all in his hands. We have taught him everything he needs to know, we have done everything that we can do, it is all up to him at this point.
On one hand that is really nice, but on the other hand its kind of frustrating. It is nice to know that we don´t have to do anything else that we have completed our assignment with him, he is prepared, he really is. But on the other hand I kind of wish there was something I could do to help him make the decision. Or make it for him. But that would be taking away his agency. And I can´t do that. Even if it might be easier. Haha.
I hope that everything goes well today in your first day of school, tomorrow in your first day of school, moving into your new apartment, and getting both cars fixed!
I sure love you!!!
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