week 8

So, this is my second week in Argentina. I have been asked by every us missionary at least 5 times, for each one, how I am holding up and liking it here. A little funny, cause I don't feel any different that I did back home, except a little warmer. We played soccer on p-day with some other missionaries. That was...interesting. Fûtbol is not my sport I don't think. The people here are super cool, and short. i have never felt so tall as I do here, except maybe in young mens and it was me, chase, shawn, and a handful of deacons. The food is pretty awesome, but since they don't have good water we drink soda whenever we are not in our pensione. i have drunken more soda in two weeks here than I have for my entire life put together. The thing we eat most is probably just beef. We eat a lot of pasta and a lot of chorizo also. Christmas was different cause everyone celebrated on Christmas eve instead. They lit off a ton of fireworks and partied all night, and on Christmas they slept all day. Empty streets. We had a christmas eve dinner with familia Coro, and Hermano Coro decided that I was the cook, so I cooked somewhere around 45 pounds of meat for 28 people. It was pretty good, we had two different chorizos, ribs, steak, chicken, cow tongue (which was gross), and some other meat that I liked but didn't recognize. For Christmas we had a service project and met some future investigators, tried to skype but that didn't work, and ate dinner with Hermana Claudia and her family. They gave us Messi t shirts, which are super cool, but a little big. We were able to talk to our families on the 26, pretty happy about that. Our oldest investigator told us that Joseph Smith saw the Devil, not God and Jesus, and that god doesn't have a physical body, and that he was the prophet cause white people are not part of the tribe of Israel. Pretty sad, but Moises is doing a ton better, and is getting baptized in two weeks. Jaime and Christina are getting married, so that they can be baptized in enero also, pretty stoked. Oh, almost forgot to tell you that this girl in our ward asked me to marry her, with the help of her mom. A little awkward situacion. i said no, in case you wondered. I hope you all had a happy Christmas, I like it here a ton, and am learning super fast. 

Hasta lunes,

Elder Winkel