Week 7

Well... I am here in Argentina. I like it here, especially the temperature. Sorry for my spelling, I don´t have spell check, and spanish is killing it. For spanish, you know how everyone says that  ¨that´s not the language they taught me in the mtc¨, well, my trainer told me that this isn´t the language I was taught in the Mtc. Here people speak casa juano, and you can´t understand if you speak perfect spanish. Me padre is super cool, his name is Elder Rosti de Brasil. He speaks english pretty good, which is a major blessing for me. I thought that i would miss music or some other thing most, but no, I miss english most. The food here is awesome, and a little lacking in green things, which is okay with me. We mostly just eat pasta, cause of our area. Me and my comp have El Faro which is the highest baptisms, and most dangerous area in the mission. We have this part called Campo Tongui, I don´t know if you could find pics online, but it is pretty poor. We are not allowed to carry cameras, and I had to get rid off my bag because it was too big and attracted unwanted attention. The people here are super nice, and nobody has called me peche gringo. We have 21 investigators, and 4 with baptism dates. i invited one of them, Moises, who is an amazing guy. The others are roberto, who has been investigating for a year and a half, and familia chencun, who have been investigating for one month. The parents need to get married, but we are baptising their two oldest boys. We flew for 15 hours, kinda long, and I was a little tired when we got here. Our MP is super cool and nice also. We have a walking area, and walk kinda a lot. My shoes are not holding up, but oh well. Someone stole my watch, that was fun. Me padre helps me a lot, and is super excited cause I guess argentinos like americanos. Everyone wants me to teach them english, so we may start a class to get people to investigate. Teach Engilish and the gospel at the same time, and ¨lead them carefully down to¨the waters of baptism. Our house is alright, i am being eaten alive here, because there are kinda a lot of bugs. Our water got turned off today, so we don´t know when they are going to fix that, but hopefully soon.

Hablo con ustedes pronto, 

Elder Winkel

The district leaving the MTC for Argentina