Letter 2

Hello Family!!!It sounds like you all are doing well and are all happy! Im so glad to here that Steven is doing well. Thank you so much for all the emails, but I might now have time to read all of them today because of my time restraint. The dearelder.com letters from July23rd to July 26th all came today Aug. 6th. It is a pretty slick service so please try to send those instead of emails. It has been a very eventful week here in Buenos Aires. We have had several GA´s Elder Aidukaitus of the seventy came on monday, and the rest of the Area Presidency came tuesday along with 5 of the new mission presidents. I got to meet president Da Silva and his wife (my mission president) and saw Cameron´s mission president I think. So very eventful there, On sunday we got to watch a few taped devotionals from the Provo MTC from the end of June, one by Elder Holland that was super amazing!Next on Saturday we got to go out proselyting!!! It was so much fun!!! Scary but fun.... we went to an area of Ciudad Evita(you should look that up on google maps) and you can see a rough idea of where we were. There are tons of dogs roaming on the streets, the streets were dirt and paved. The houses range from being shacks to being pretty nice middle class homes. The people are all super nice and they were amazed with all the white missionaries from the US that were out and about. We talked with one man who was fixing his fence (well he mostly talked, he did a 10 min monologue) about his experience with the church and how he has had missionaries and he has the BOM but he just cant seem to find the time to read it and become part of the church. It was really interesting. So we just bore our testimonies of the BOM and the restoration and left him with a pamphlet. Another contact was with a young man named Daniel who was out washing his car. We talked with him a little about the church and he said hed heard about us but that he was catholic. We testified of the Book of mormon being another testament, like the bible of jesus christ and then left him a book of mormon. He said that he was going to try and read it and if we could we would come by this next saturday and talk to him more about it. So my companion and i have been preparing for that.So some very cool experiences, ill try and send you a letter with some more experiences. Im not sure when u will get the letter i sent last thursday, hopefull sometime soon. Umm... lets see I feel like i have so much to say but im so rushed I dont know what is the most important to tell you.Some funny stuff... to answer your question mom, yes i have been having lots of Vitamin C. Almost too much the first week so that there were some bad consequences... hahaha... but i have decided to save my VC tablets for the mission bc i have one orange for breakfast with a glass of orange juice and the same with dinner which is plenty! I am not sick (knock on wood) and the weather here is great so i dont need my jacket till prolly next year.In the morning we all have fights to find the best showers. the ones with the most pressure and the warm water. I normally just be patient and wait till around 7 then it dies down but i normally get really cold water or really hot water, sometimes i suds up and i dont get any water so most of the time we are singing one or two songs... count your many blessings or come thou fount(ain) of every blessing. It has worked a few times... hahaTo answer stevens question, Uruguay is on the Planet of Earth! :) that made me laugh... Sam, I am not on an Island. But I did find out that my mission will include part of southern brazil. Im super excited!Ummm thats pretty much it... Thank you so so much for the letters and emails. If you want to send packages(i dont need anything right now) but if you want please send them in the packets through USpostal bc the boxs will be stopped in Customs and we cant get them from there.Anyways, thanks so much, we get to take pictures sunday. I ll see if we can upload them and send some to u next week.Much Love to all of youNos Amo,Elder Stapley