Two laps down, two more to go.

Hiya folks,

Well I wasn't actually going to mention this but it was fun so now I have to. I finished a year this week. I was planning on ignoring it and just pretending it was a normal day, but Elder Helske is the best so he mad us go to the super market so he could buy a bunch of stuff, and then we celebrated with Toddy time, Mate celestial, and a ton of alfajores con leche. I felt really full. Elder Helske is the best.

We also got to go to the temple last tuesday. I really like going to the temple. It is a good place to seek revelation. We were taking the G La Paz bus back from the temple wich takes a really long time. When we got off we walked a little of the ways toward home and I realized that I did not have our phone. It slid out of my pocket on the bus. A phone is really important in our daily routine. That night when the Colòn elders got home we used their phone to call our phone. A guy answered claiming to be Estèfano who told us to meet him in the morning in the plaza de colòn. I thought he sounded Just like our zone leader Elder Paulson, wich was really confusing because we weren't on the bus with them. So in the morning we went the plaza and Elder Paulson and Elder Jones showed up. Then a guy selling key chains came up and started bible bashing us. Then they gave us our phone, except they had dropped and broken it. So we went without a phone for a few days. Then at the conference for new missionaries they gave us a newer nicer one.

I also got to use my new found soccer skills to start teaching four new investigators in the street. What's even better is that the brother of one of them was there and is already a member although less active. So we are going to be working a lot with them.

1) Elder Diaz at the new missionary coneference

2) Elder Helske covered in Junk food. The junk food is better here because it is made with grasas trans

week 51 ish

Hey everybody!

Well it has been a cool week this week. Elder Helske continues to make steady progress. Except that he likes Uruguyo junk food way to much. Every thursday and monday there is a churro cart in the far corner of our area, which really isn't that far becasue our area is tiny. But it means that every thursday and monday night we have to go and throw down 100 mangos on churros. Other than that the assitants to the president came over to do divisions in our area because Our district leader Elder espìnola asked them to because he is kind of broken with a herniated disk. SO I spent the day with Elder Hunt. We had this slightly drunk guy come up and talk to us and we taught him about how he is a child of God and how through the atonement he can be healed of his alcholism. So he through away the water bottle full of cheap wine in his hand. His name is Javier. He has forty six years of age. Just like my dad as of this week. Except he looks way older than my dad. Uruguay wouldn't be uruguay without large quantities of boxed wine. It has also been raining a ton the last few days. Rain is fun.

This is just what a month in Uruguay does to someone so don't judge.

I can't even remember what week it is so I am going to stop trying

Well I was seriously hoodwinked this week. There we were just sitting on the curb teaching nelson about the restoration, when Patricia, one of our investigators saw us and was like "hermanos come over here when you are done" So we went over and she asked us if we liked mortadela, and I didn't know what mortadela was so she sent her daughter to go get us some. She brought out two sandwiches that had some kind of lunch meet on them, and she told us it was made of horse. So I thought cool Ive never eaten a horse before. So I ate it. And it had a weird flavor. And I thought it must be what horse tastes like. Except Elder Helske said the horse flesh in finland is a lot stronger. So then the next day we were eating lunch with Presidente Viera. And I told him about it. And he said that Mortadela is traditionally made with horse meat. But it is illegal to sell horse meat here excpet for export to france. And that they just make it with a mixture of cow flesh and swine flesh. SO it would have been a cool story. But now it is Just a dissapointing story.

Also Elder Helske is having a problem. He has been struck with the new missionary alfahor addiction syndrome. I don't blame him because they are perfect, but now it is like every day, " Can we buy alfahors? Do you think we could get some alfahors before we go in for the night?  What do you think the best alfahor out of all these would be? It is okay though because he is dangerously underweight and can't eat much in one sitting. We did try deep frying alfahors in fat and it was good.

Other than that I have just got to say I am really glad to be on the mission. It's worth every sacrifice. So go on a mission if you didn't get the hint.

1) Refined fat. Just the thing for a rainy day

2) Playing uno with the zone