Crazy Weeks in Tucuman

Hey everybody! So this week was another pretty good week. One thing about this place though, if Hell had a sauna, it would be my new area. It was literally like 45 degrees Celsius half the week. It wasn´t until Sunday that we got blessed with some clouds and some cool weather. So we had a really cool find. Rather, we changed something we were doing. Elder McDonald and I decided that we are really terrible at finding new people. Which is true, because most people you contact literally do not care. So then I was like, why don´t we just start praying for the people to find us? So we started doing that, and we were in a lesson with our investigator Jarold (Harold in Spanish) and his mom told us there was this other kid that wanted to go to church that lives real close. So we went and visited him and his name is Thiago, and he just loves church and the gospel. So we had Jarold and Thiago committed to go to church with a member that lives close by. The real crazy part is, on Saturday we asked Jarold at the end of our lesson to go and look for Thiago in the morning to make sure that he could make it to church. So when they both arrived, both these kids are 10 by the way, Jarold told us that he had to go to Thiago´s house and knock and the door for like 20 minutes and had to tell Thiago to get ready and everything, and this kid is not even a member! Crazy stuff of miracles. All of the members of the ward also totally thought that these two 10 year old investigators were already members because they showed up and wore shirt and tie and were super helpful in the primary. So we are going to be able to baptize Jarold the 23rd and we will see how fast we can get Thiago in the water. It has been a really good time. 

There are not a whole ton of new fun stories for this week. Elder McLovin and I went to see the San Javier Big Jesus Statue today. That was pretty cool. Oh also, we live in this kind of dangerous area, and our door is broken and doesn´t lock, and we always hear things at night, and McLovin will always tell me to get out of bed and go check it out. So while we cleaned out the apartment before, I found this random metal tube which has become the most useful thing I own. It is a hammer, and also now it is a go-check-the-noises-in-the-night-tube. Yeah, and if anything happens McDonald won´t be able to help me really cause he needs glasses to see, so I am pretty much on my own for that. But it is fun. Makes it interesting. Also, there have been more cockroaches in this apartment than the other, so we totally have a lighter and a large bottle of raid and burn the cockroaches to a crisp. Then we decided it would be a good idea to make a pile of the burned roaches by the door of the apartment, so that the other ones will know their fate if they choose to enter. So that has been good. 

Other than that we are working a lot through members and references. This ward is actually pretty god at sharing the gospel considering how little it gets brought up in any of the meetings. As long as we are baptizing and bringing people to church, I don´t think the bishop really cares what else we do. 

Y bueno, en la navidad, lo importante es pensar de Jesucristo. Este semana, aprendimos mucho de la gracia de Jesucristo y como es suficiente para ayudarnos volver a la presencia del Padre Celestial. Y este es porque nos preguntan hacer el evagelio, vivir digno de esta ayuda, para que podamos cambiar y mejorar hasta que estemos listos volver y seguir vivir con Jesus y Dios. Por eso Jesucristo murio. Estoy muy agradecido saber que este sacrificio fue directamente del corazon de Jesucristo. Se que es la verdad. 

Here´s some pictures! Love you guys! Besitos!