numero dos

family! what what a week so I forgot to tell you every saturday everyone gets to go out and do proseltismo for about 7 hours every saturday with your companions you get your own area and everything! so saturday we went out ya know pretty scared the streets of argentina are nuts. so anyways the first person we talk to is this mechanic named miguel and he immediately invites us in to have some matte with the other mechanics....haha sooo funny so being the new missionaries we are we gladly except the invitation i told my companions like some mission presidents let you drink it and others dont so i dont know if were allowed to drink it. so we just went for it for fun haha (we found out we are allowed to drink it but not with people on the streets for the sanitary issue and its just a waste of the lords time) so yea that was funny elder harris didnt know you were suppose to drink it from the straw so he immediately just goes straight for the cup and all the mechanics start freaking out waaayy funny. than we meet this lady named elsa. elsa had her husband pass away last month and is just in the prime situation for comfort and love which the gospel provides exactly that so its a golden opportunity we gave her a book of mormon challenged her to read some chapters and i guess we will see where that goes on saturday we set up an appointment with her so its pretty cool we get hands on lessons with proseltismo and spanish. you certainly meet some crazy people. also we had an area president come on monday hermano gomez WOW what an amazing guy the spirit he has is sooo strong and everyone can feel it he talked about how families are going to consider our names sacred to their families forever and thats way awesome that my work here is just going to be cherished by generations. mark i have tried alfajors.....oh my gosh bomb diggity we get one everyday for lunch on saturdays and we can go into stores and by some for movie night on sundays if you want as well they are quite good. we also have barbeque fridays and the meat here is absolutely delicous no comparison. so all the latinos leave today and tomorrow morning that usually happens on a tuesday but this week the mission presidents have some type of conference so they had to do it early than we dont get anyone new until next frday so for a whole week its my district and another district of north americans will be here that makes a total of 9 missionaries in the whole CCM kinda crazy that provo has 2000 and we will only have 9 for a week. my spanish is still coming along absolutely terrfiic i think that in the classroom but im sure once i get out on the streets saturday it will be a humbling experience and i know i gotta go back to work on it haha my gospel spanish is great. street spanish has a ton of work left but thats what the CCM is for to get you more prepared for the field i just gotta keep working hard rely on the lord and great things will happen! weeks are starting to fly by feels like i emailed you guys yesterday but hey i got some good pictures of all the latinos i have made friends with and im excited to send you em later on. ummmm anything that i missed i have no idea i have a feeling im going to be bad at the whole hand letter thing every chance i get to either write letters or sleep i choose sleep everytime the work here is exhausting haha so i will try and gut out a letter every now and again. sue good luck with your dealio on saturday you know how to host a good party everyday at the barton household is a party. mark sorry to hear about your trip getting canceled but im sure your glad it did haha rybart whats happenin with you? work bueno? lady friends? guy friends? real pete?. sarah is morp coming up ? who are you going with? are you going? trust the phantom it will never lead you a stray its my own personal leahona. heather.......did you forget you ahve a brother on a mision i havent heard from you once! carly....dont get a boyfriend. stay innocent me and ryan can both confirm that innocent girls are the cutest girls. mary my balla hows lacrosse going is it over? basketball season? let me know how that goes glad to hear the jazz are killin it. i knew BYU would be no bueno thanks for the sports updates. alright i gotta go have fun look forward to hearing from you. please pray for elsa as well as the people of uruguay that the spirit might prepare them for the message we have to offer. your all in my prayers love and miss you all. -elder barton