Well it´s been a really wet past couple of days, especially Friday. We got dumped on. Friday was our p-day this week because we had zone conference on thursday. Zone conference was pretty cool, we learned a lot of stuff. The AP´s challenged all of us to start introducing ourselves to people as a bautizador instead of a misionero. It seemed kinda weird to me at first but I actually like it a lot more because people would always get really confused when we said we were misioneros, due to the fact that there is a province in Argentina called Misiones, and people from that province are called misioneros, and so some people thought we were saying we are from Misiones, which they obviously knew wasn´t true because they can clearly tell we are yankees. But anyway, now soy un bautizador de la Iglesia de Jesucristo.
Friday was an adventure. We took the train with our bikes early in the morning to Rodriguez to get haircuts with the zone leaders. They have a member in their ward that does it for free, and he actually does a really good job. So we rode our bikes with them clear out to this guy´s house out in the middle of the campo. Right when we got to his house it started to rain really hard. It was still raining really hard when we left so we got absolutely soaked. We also had to ride through about a mile of straight mud which was really difficult. We finally got back to the main part of the city where the roads are paved to see that the roads had been replaced by roaring rivers. I think we invented a new sport called underwater biking, because that is basically what we were doing. I didn´t see my tires until we finally got back to the train station. We were completely drenched from head to foot. My clothes are shoes still drying to this day. Our hair looks good tho.
It rained more Saturday so that was another adventure. Basically we spent the day riding through miles of mud. Our tires got stuck so many times, and I also lost my shoe to the mud several times. We did not find a lot of success haha. When we were coming back to the pensh that night we had a pretty funny experience. We had finally made it back to the paved road, which was now a river. At some parts it was so deep that our tires completely submerged. Well of course right when we´re at the deepest part a bus comes flying down the street towards us, and I kid you not, it was literaly casting a wake. Elder Nash was in front and so he got hit by the giant wave first got knocked off his bike. It was probably one of the funniest things I´ve ever seen. I was somehow able to ride out the wave, but I got completely soaked in the process. Basically, it´s been an adventure. And it´s going to continue because it´s supposed to rain today and Wednesday.
So some more sad news. I don´t remember if I told you that the mom of the big family with 7 kids was pregnant with number 8. Well we find out friday from the bishop that the mom was in the hospital and had lost the baby. We went and visited the dad and the kids that night and it was pretty sad. They all went to the hospital on sunday so we will have to postpone the baptisms until they get their second attendance.
Well I think that´s about all I got. Hopefully everything is going well for you guys. The four of us are all talking in church next week, so I´ll have to find time to write a talk I guess. Hopefully it goes well.
-Elder Shelton
P.S.
Could you send me some more pictures? I don´t really have any particular pictures in mind, just some I could print out to show to the people here. The members always ask to see pictures, and we show our pictures a lot when we contact people, so it would be good to have some more.
Also, sorry that I haven´t sent pictures in a while, I don`t really have any pictures of the past few weeks. My comp got robbed about 2 weeks before I arrived, so we are pretty careful about what we carry with us. I think we´re going to the zoo this pday tho so I should get some good pictures from that.
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