Week 33

Well this week teaching wise was a little bit better. Me and my comp went out of the town and started to try and find the houses that a missionary probably wouldn’t go to. We found this one lady named Angi, and she had like 4 members in her family that are all kind of interested. The dad said he would come to church next week, so we are going to keep teaching them and hopefully we finally get someone to come to church. They live out in the middle of nowhere down a really muddy road (because it’s been really rainy lately), but they are good people. They are farmers so that’s even better. But they just aren’t very well educated, so it’s kind of hard to teach them, but estamos haciéndolo. That’s basically the only good family we have to teach.

We had a lesson with this person Elvangelica (it’s in Spanish because I don’t know what the word is in English), and she was doing all this stuff with the Bible. So I told her the Bible wasn’t perfect and how a lot of people get confused with it because it really isn’t perfect and that’s why we have el Libro de Mormon. Then I showed her acts 9:7 and acts 22:9 and how it’s relating the same experience, but it got changed up. After I showed that, she kind of shut up and listened to us. It was great. If someone could send me info like errors in the Bible and like verses taken out of the Bible of the Jehova Witnesses, that would be great, so I could study some of that to be ready to talk to those people that are super stubborn about their religion.

I’m really glad I have those weird rubber boot things that go over your shoes, because like I said it’s been raining and those things have saved my shoes a ton.

We are planning to do some family nights here with some members with them inviting some of their friends who aren’t members, and we are going to make apple crisp. They love American desserts; they are so good to them.

Yep, then we stacked some wood and some pallets. I felt like I was back on the sod farm.

Well that’s it. Happy Mother’s Day!
Love -Elder Nuevohombre

-well my comp never does the same face in any pic

 -you should tell buster I’m still stacking pallets on the mission jaja

-this little pup its such a weird looking dog

-this is the after lunch stomach

-they should really fix that

Week 32

We did a lot this week...jaja a lot of walking.....well that’s the life of a missionary. We taught the lady that lives out in the middle of nowhere. Her dad died so that’s why we visited her. We taught her the Plan de Salvación, and we might be able to teach her again, I’m not sure. When we went [there], we were just going to offer service, but she let us in without us asking, so we taught a lesson. That’s the most of what happened this week.

It’s starting to get a little colder, so that’s good. One day this week we had a guy come running past us on his horse, and he shouted to us in English, ´´Go home it’s too late,´´ so that was pretty weird.

We only got like 5 lessons this week, but they were hardly lessons. These people here don’t want anything...but we have found some good people that might turn into something good. Let’s hope they do because we have basically contacted every house here. We don’t have any solid investigadores right now. And the lady that had a baptismal date, we haven’t been able to teach again.

One thing cool.. this Sunday we were waiting in the bus terminal to go try and find someone to go to church with us, and this guy just started talking to us. So we invited him to church. He asked when is it, and we told him right now, he said bueno, and we all went to church....In my 8 weeks here in this area, we haven’t been able to get anyone to come to church, and we invited this complete stranger and he came to church with us. The thing is, he doesn’t live in our área so we can’t teach him.

We also went to Nuequen to listen to Elder Gonzalez (member of the 70) so I was able to see a lot of people I knew again.

Yep that’s basically all that happened this week.

Love, Elder Nuevohombre

 We went to an Indian statue this last pday.

 
We (me and an Elder from México) about died. The sign about came out of the rock and we about fell off the cliff, jaja.

Yep I was a flag.

I also roped the Indian.

Some pics of our area. 

We are gangsters with our beanies. 

Some missionaries I know...

We didn't have anything to lift, so I bought some cement and built us this barbell. It only weighs about 60 pounds.

Week 31

Well not much new [this week]. We have had a lot of investigadores drop us, but we have found new ones. It was amazing. One day this week we had 4 lessons and we got a baptismal date. We taught a lady the Plan of Salvacion lesson and then invited her to be baptized and she said yes. The date is for the 14 of May, but it already can’t happen that day because she didn’t attend church. I hope we can teach her again this week. A lot of people are one and done.

That’s really all that happened. Yep....any questions?

It’s getting cold now, but where we are at it won’t snow.

Elder Nuevohombre

 
Us and the hermanas in our district.

Hermano Blanco, this is where he cuts our hair.

This is a member from Allen that came to check our heater (for an inspection).. so that was a cool reunion. He said my Spanish is so much better right now.

Week 30

Well.. not much to report on. I’m still stuck here in this area, but at least I kept my comp, Elder Elwood. Yep, that’s about it. We saw some pretty interesting things here, but I can't tell you about them over email. I’ll write them down and maybe I’ll tell you them over Skype.

I’m glad it’s raining up there. It looks so cool and clean there. Here if you see a field, it's usually covered in trash or junk. I'm still waiting to see something beautiful here, but all I’ve seen is dirt, and some sunsets.

I might learn how to cut hair on my mission. I’m about to buy a machina para hacer lo.

I made some peach cobbler in the oven for a family night activity. It didn't turn out great, but everyone here loved it. We didn't even have ice cream with it. (helado)

I’m surprised at how well I can talk and communicate with people. It seems like just yesterday I was learning to pray in Spanish.

I do miss America very much. We are so spoiled to live in America. We were told a story from a member who went to his neighbor's house to start his stove because he didn't have matches, and he said that all he had was a stove, a sink, and table. At least he has the house for right now. We hear so many things that happen to people and other things that happen just because people are lazy, greedy, and dishonest. We are about the only people here (missionaries) that try and bring joy to people’s lives.

I was telling a member how we always have our doors unlocked, and he said if they did that here, people would walk into your house even if you are home and take what they want or hurt you if you tried to do anything. (I think in his neighborhood) And there are so many areas us as missionaries can't go because we would get robbed as soon as we entered the city. Satan has the hearts of a lot of these people. Soooo, be thankful you live in America where you can plan on being on the earth a week later, and how you can basically do whatever you want.

I love the people here, they can barely afford to feed their families, and they feed the missionaries every week too. ALWAYS THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE AND WHAT YOU ARE BLESSED WITH...I know I didn't do enough of that before the mission.

Well I’m going to try and send some pics but we are in a different cyber[café], so I don't know if the usb ports work.

Love, Elder Nuevohombre

[No Pictures]

Week 29

Well not much to report. This next week is transfers, and I don’t know if I want to go or stay. We have some people that it’s possible that they could be baptized, but the church is so far away they would probably go inactive after.....We really need more churches, but for that we need members that pay tithing. It’s super hard to get anything done in this area.

I just found out today that one of the [missionaries] in my district just went home. I don’t know what happened.

Yep that is all really.... If you have recipes for like hard fudge, that would be great, along with any other easy recipe that you have. Sweets are the best.

Love –Elder Nuevohombre

I translated some Spanish, French, and English

My comp.

We saw the baseball game, well a part of it, until we had to tell the guy to turn it off so we could teach him.

Week 28

Well I don’t have much to say. [This week] was really the same as last week. Conference was great. We had a gringo room so we didn’t have to listen to it in Spanish. We could have understood it, but it would have been really annoying with the two voices.

We have two different people that I hope will turn out to be good investigadores, I’ll tell you more about them when I find out more about them.

Overall our numbers are really low, and it’s kind of getting me down. We are working a ton, but people just don’t want it here. There are some that want it but are never home, or their schedule doesn’t line up with ours, or we can only teach them on Mondays. Oh well, hopefully something good comes out of all this.

My comp. is still good. I’m learning how to speak more correctly from him than [from] my Latino comps, so that is great. It’s awesome having a comp that knows about a lot of stuff that you do.

That’s about it I think. I have some pictures that I’ll send.
---Elder Nuevohombre

A family we eat with, they are great!

Sunset

El resto--the gringo room for conference.

Week 27

Como estan? Not much going on here. We had our best day yesterday in this area! We had three lessons, and we got three new people to teach.

My Spanish is where I can talk with anyone, anytime, anywhere. Elder Elwood said I yelled in my sleep ´´todo día,´´ then went back to snoring. So I must have the language down if I can do it in my sleep, haha. This transfer I’ve been a really crazy sleeper. I’ve got lots of stories, and my comp has videos. haha.

Other than that, I don’t have much to say. Nothing really is happening in this area right now. There are a lot of problem people, and we contact a lot,,,,,, We also went and gave a lesson to this drunk dude. He asked us if we cared if he smoked weed during the lesson,,,,,Umm yesss, please don’t. Luckily he didn’t, so we didn’t end up getting high. So that was a good thing. haha.

I hope you are all safe at home.

Love [you] all -Elder Newman

The Hermanas had a baptism in Villa Regina.

That sign says ´´welcome to the area watch out for your wallets. It was a scary time to take a pic, but it was worth it haha.

He is a super cool missionary from Mexico. A lot of people do that. You think they are behind you smiling, but they make it look like they are trying to kiss you.