Email Letter - 04 March 2009

Hey Family,

I got to Paso De Los Libres early Thursday morning last week just dead tired and not feeling well. I’m still pretty sick and my comp Elder Rapp is as well. I’m very excited to be here and I have a feeling that we are going to have a lot of success here. We had a baptism on Saturday of a 15 year old kid named Alfredo. He is way awesome and will help a bunch.

I’m excited not to have a calling other than missionary in this area. We have a full functional Branch here. My comp was branch president in his last area as well so we both have lots of experience and often look at the books to make sure that everything was processed correctly. They have asked us to do that because sometimes they just aren’t sure.

We spent the whole morning cleaning the house because it was just horrible. We live with two other Elders and it looks like none of them have cleaned anything in who knows how long so I got on them a bit and now things are a lot better and a lot more clean. Tomorrow Elder Rapp and I are traveling to Resistencia for meetings all day. We leave at 1am and the meetings start at 8am and end at 4pm. It is going to be a long day and make our sicknesses even worse. We are hoping to stop in Corrientes the Capital to go to Wal-Mart and as of like a month ago there is also a McDonalds that we are hoping to get to know.

We have been working a lot with the list of members that are old enough to be baptized but aren’t because they are in inactive families and I think that we are going to have a ton of success with that. We have 2 people getting baptized on the 14th of this month and that will almost finish this family. We also have a few other baptismal dates set up for the end of the month or early next month. We are really excited and we get a lot of help from the members here. We also have lunch every day but p-day and Sundays!! It’s amazing and something I’ve never had.

My comp is pretty cool. Like I said he’s from California and it’s really his way or the highway which will make things pretty interesting. I’ve learned to bite my tongue so we will be just fine. Other than that not much is going on.

We went down to the river the other day to look across at Brazil which was pretty cool and we will probably take some pictures one day which ill be sure to send. Its super hot here but nothing I haven’t already had to put up with so ill just learn to live with it.

On Monday we have our zone conference in Corrientes so I will be traveling a lot this week and we are staying really busy.

Well not much else to report. I love you guys and hope that all is well. I pray for you often. Take care!

Tay