Well yeah so I have just been here doing some stuff trying to get used to being in the mission Offices. So here is how it works. Basically we leave the house at ten like normal and walk over to the offices, which is a tiny complex pegged on to the local church building. While there I spend my time ingresing the many many baptismal registries we receive through emails or hard copies into the churches sistem. I also organize mail. All of the Christmas packages started coming in so it is getting crazy. Then there is a bunch of other stuff I am supposed to do that I am not really sure what it is yet or how to do it or how to use a computer. And yeah. Then we leave every day at five to go proselyte. So we share the Malvín ward with the financiers, and they proselyte in the geographical area of Malvín sur which a bunch of wealthy homes and beach front condominiums south of the avenida Italia, and we proselyte in the area of Malvín norte which is mostly a bunch of cantegrillas and low income apartments. So we don't usually leave with anything more than books, but is more interesting that way.
But some cool things have been going on in our area, like we recently were able to start teaching a woman named carolina. She has been coming to church for the last five weeks with her suegra but we weren't able to teach her until this week. She is very interested in learning more about the gospel, and she is super sensitive to the spirit and says she has seen a ton of changes in her life and the way she feels ever since she started coming to church.
Also we met a guy yesterday named Ricardo who was very drunk and also very convinced that people with type A blood our descended from chimpanzees and people with type B blood are descended from gorillas. But he had a copy of El Libro de Mormón from the 80's which was cool.
Then we also have to do Mission chores sometimes. Like on monday all six of the office elders went over the the apartment of the wankiers, who are a senior missionary couple that just went home, and move everything out so that the apartment could be closed on. What happened is that it was a large seventh story apartment full of stuff from years of missionary couples living there, and we had to get everything down this tiny little old timey elevator into the tiny little basement parking garage, and make trips back and forth to the offices using only the tiny little trailer hooked up to the mission van. So we were there from six until midnight. But it was all okay because we got to call for midnight pizza afterwards.
I think one of my favorite things about uruguay is that there are just horses everywhere, even right in the middle of the city. Every patch of grass usually has a little horse tied to it. People use them to pull carts for collecting recycleables. I think that is one of the things that helps me not to feel super claustrophobic after so many months of living in Montevideo.
Well Thanks for listening guys, see you on thursday.
Accidentally made up word of the week: Engripación- Por Diego nuestro investigador
Quote of the week: It's getting hot, Christmas must be close- Elder Manzanares ( He was being completely serious)
1) Elder Newman has a different bag of yerba for the five days of the week.
2) This is the office building.
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