Oct 17, 2016 - The Wonderful and the Weird

October 17, 2016 - The Wonderful and the Weird

Wow the weather has been crazy huh? The weather here is getting really hot. We just bought some hats

They have here rice with milk (with sugar) and it’s like a dessert. It reminds me of ris ala mande.

This week was pretty good. I’m enjoying getting to know the ward and we have been working hard to find new people. We have been working with an investigator, Ariel. He is super awesome and he got baptized this week. We taught him but he goes with his uncle on the weekends and so he goes to a different ward. This meant that we taught him but he wasn’t going to be part of our ward. I worried about this and I was a little bit sad that we weren’t going to see this baptism and have him in our ward, but we worked with the sister missionaries, and we got permission to go and help in his baptism. Elder Damron got to baptize him for his first baptism in the mission and we were so excited to be a part of his baptism. We are currently teaching his dad and cousins too and they are really awesome!

We also have been teaching someone named Juan Pablo. He has accepted the teachings and has been a perfect investigator. He is 18 years old and is in a wheel chair.  We got some members to help us take him to church. He has accepted a baptism date and he has been progressing a lot. I was really happy with the people who greeted him in the church. Other than that, this week we ate in a restaurant that a member payed for. It was really nice of them and it was really yummy! We ate empanadas! Elder Damron and I are working really well together. He’s super awesome and we laugh a lot. 

Weird experiences:

We were looking for a member that lived in an old persons’ home and it was a little scary. Haha.  They let us in then we couldn’t find the people that worked there. We were surrounded by older ladies that were just staring at us... Haha.  We looked for the brother and we couldn’t find him and then we returned and asked for help.  We found him and I think he’s one of the most sane people there. One of the old ladies asked me for food and I didn’t have anything to give her sadly. Then we left with the brother, haha.

Also just last night I guess there’s like an old wives’ tale that says that if you rub the belly of a frog on your acne on your back it’ll go away. I would never try this, but a young man that lives next to us asked one of the elders to help him and, well, I wasn’t going to pick up the frog but elder Brown did and well he helped the guy out and apparently it worked, haha.

That’s about it!

Love you all

Elder Wolf

Here is 2 of our investigators, Iziquiel and Guillermo.

 

And today we bought sombreros for the sun because we have been burning a little bit. Haha

 

A picture of the district.

 

We worked together to baptize an investigator that we had. 

  

Another Picture with Ariel.

 

Some cool sunsets....This is why i love to be by the mountains :)

  

October 10, 2016 - The new area

October 10, 2016 - The new area

The new area is super bueno. I like it a lot, buuuut its more richer... the work is a little difficult because of that. When I got here we didn’t really have anybody to work with, but we are working to find people. There is a family, Silva, that is super awesome. The son and the dad are both working towards their baptism.

I am happy that I have the opportunity to work with Elder Damron. He is from Utah and has a little fewer months in the mission than me. We get along really well, and we both want to work a lot. We are really seeing the fruits of our obedience and our efforts. We walk a lot we have contacted a lot this week. One day we get rejected a lot and it was hard, but we managed to keep our animo (spirits) up, and we both knew that we were being prepared for something better. I know that sometimes we go through difficult times so that when we pass through the good times they are that much sweeter. We have been finding a lot of people who are interested, and I am really excited for the work and the impact that we are going to make in the area.

I am in a pension of 4 again. Haha. Also I think we are going to be moving pensions. We will see.

The patriarch (for the area) is in our ward and we ate lunch with him. I think it was one of the most spiritual lunches that I have had here. The spirit was so strong in their house and when we shared a scripture it was there also.

But everything is good.  It’s still getting hotter here!

Thank you again for the packages, I am going to love them!

Much love Elder Wolf :) 



Elder Rudder and I,  our last night with some members

Elder Damron and I when I arrived

The area has a lot of different parts to it.

Us walking in the road

A picture of us.

Some really awesome mountains and a place where we went in our area.

 

I GOT THE PACKAGES! yaaaay haha thank you so much! I haven't opened them completely. I want to save the presents, and some of the sweets.

October 3, 2016 - General Conference and Transfers

October 3, 2016 - General Conference and Transfers

Woooow the snow! It’s super weird to think that it’s snowing over there! It’s definitely warming up here. A lot... Haha, but it’s ok, the people are always willing to give us a glass of water! We have a big fan in the pension and we have asked for air conditioning, too, haha.

Transfers, we got our transfers!!! I am moving areas! I will be in the other zone of Salta as the senior companion. My companion, Elder Rudder, is going to train an elder, and he is super excited. I’m super excited too to go to this new area. But also I’m a little nervous, haha, like always. But I know I can do it and I’m grateful for the opportunity to step up a little more. I’m going to be with an elder from Utah. I believe his name is spelled Damron. I have talked with him before and he seems like a really nice elder. I’m looking forward to working with him.

We got to see the General Conference in the stake center. They had a room for the missionaries to listen in English. I enjoyed it a lot and there were some really good talks. One of the talks that I loved is that of one of the Seventy that talked about how we need to stop comparing ourselves to others and that the only opinion that matters is the opinion of our Heavenly Father.   I also loved the talk about the mission work and how every member and missionary is working to solve this puzzle. Everyone has a piece of the work to do! Yes, mom, I loved that talk too. That we are here to find JOY - really that’s the point and I love that he explained how we can be in different situations but we can still feel joy. This gospel really is something that the world can’t destroy, when we have internalized these principals, I know that we can find joy in any circumstance. Such a great talk. I really enjoyed the conference, and we managed to have 5 investigators in the conference between the 4 sessions.

I got some letters from a group from Girls Camp. Sister Dobbs sent me the letters and they were really nice. :) It’s always nice to receive a little note, haha.

I am sure that Elder Rudder will continue to do great in the area and I am excited to hear about the people that get baptized!

I’m looking forward to the new area. I have heard that it’s a little richer and so we will see how the people are. I have heard it’s a great barrio and I’m really excited. Hopefully I stay in this area for a little longer than 2 transfers.

I’m doing good, though, I have to pack and that’s about it they are going to start to do transfers on Tuesdays. I think that’s all the news for this week.

Love you all,

Elder Wolf :)

Here we are at the house of Santiago Luna and he had a little dog that I just couldn’t resist.

This is a view.

 

Mi compañero y yo duspues de la conferencia. This is us after general conference.

September 26, 2016 - Service Project and Teleferico, Part 2

September 26, 2016 - Service Project and Teleferico, Part 2

Jacob sent so many pictures this week that I had to break it up into two posts.  For the first half, go to: http://elderwolfinargentina.blogspot.com/2016/09/september-26-2016-service-project-and_27.html

This week we worked a lot, we tried to contact more of our referencias (referrals) and it went well, we had a lot of hope for Sunday, but not a lot of people showed up. We did divisions (splits) and I went with some jovenes (youth). We found a family and they gave us a pizza, haha.

This week I ate a sandwich and I think it made me feel sick because I had a fever and I was so sad. I didn’t feel like eating and my body ached all over. We had one of the best lunches with one of the best families and I didn’t eat and because of that I was super sad, haha. This was yesterday and I got better really fast it was just for the evening and then today I felt fine. What a blessing.

I’m learning a lot from Elder Rudder, and we get a long pretty well.

We had a service project this week and we picked up trash. It was pretty fun actually.

Also this P-day we went up the teleferico (cableway), one of the things I wanted to do in Salta. I don’t know if I will be in Salta still in one week because we have transfers in one week.

That’s about it for the week

Much love!

Elder Wolf

We made a cake for Elder Ellis who is about to finish his mission. He is our zone leader from Colorado and is super awesome. He did divisions (splits) with us and was in our pension.

These are some jovenes (youth) that left with me to teach. We did divisions (splits) to have time to teach more people and I was with Kevin and Ivan (who is in the motorcycle)

Our service project was to clean part of a hill. We picked up trash.

Here is Elder Wetzker and me.

Here is me with a bit of a view.

More photos of the view.  

  

Some of the Elders I was with, and some members:

Our Zone

Here is Elder Erickson and I. He is working in the office now and is pretty cool.

Elder Rudder and I about to leave.

September 26, 2016 - Service Project and Teleferico, Part 1

September 26, 2016 - Service Project and Teleferico, Part 1

Jacob sent so many pictures that I had to break this up into two posts.  For the second half, go to: http://elderwolfinargentina.blogspot.com/2016/09/september-26-2016-service-project-and.html

Today we went up in the teleferico (cableway) up the same mountain that we did service on with the zone!  We rode in one of these pod things, haha.

  

 

 

 

 

A picture with my companion and Santiago, a member that always helps us.

September 19, 2016 A Very Busy Week

September 19, 2016 A Very Busy Week

This week was very eventful... Very.

It started to get busy with a service that we did for a less active named Gaston. W helped him build part of a brick wall! It was fun! And super interesting to see how they do it!

After that, on Thursday I did splits with one of the assistants, Elder Olson. He was in this area at one point and we had a really good evening. He found some new people and visited a lot!

Over the next day my compañero got sick and was vomiting. The next day we had 11 visits that were for sure and my companion couldn’t get out of bed. I spent the morning trying find members to leave with me, and a member to stay with my companion for the evening. It was exhausting, haha, but we had some of our leccions in the morning and I visited them with another elder in the pension. In the morning I called the president’s wife and she told me to buy some things, some medicine, and so I went and bought that. After I found 4 members to leave with me and stay in the pension for both parts of the evening. It was super hectic but my comp ended up resting the day and I was so grateful for the members that left with me because we were able to visit the majority of our appointments.

We would have had 4 baptisms this week but they all fell through and weren’t at church. Kind of depressing but on the other hand a new investigator was in the church this week named Gabriel. He is 16 and he read what we left for him, the pamphlet and he is super awesome!

And yeah we all played capture the flag again and it was super fun, haha, but at one point I was being chased by 3 people and I was escaping and got grabbed by 4 thorny bushes, haha, and I couldn’t move. I said, “Ok ok just tag me”, and they tagged me then I said, “Ok now help me get out of here.”  Haha, But it was super fun!

That’s about all for this week. The time is flying and I’m trying to capture the moments as best as I can!

Love you all, and I’m so grateful for you, my family!

Elder Wolf

September 12, 2016 - That Dog Again

September 12, 2016 - That Dog Again

Hola, family!! I’m glad to hear that all is going well! 

I received the package and I LOVED IT.  Haha ( the package with paracord! I carry the Burts Beez around with me and my shoelaces were about to break again right before I received the package. I now have paracord and it won’t break for a while! Muchas gracias! And I loved the letters!

Mom, I’m doing good! We are doing good, but our investigators are progressing super slowly. It’s tough to see right now and it’s hard for us when they don’t progress but it’s going well. Thank you for your words mom, they are a strength to me, and I will definitely start to put more trust in the Lord.

Bella I think I am engordando (fattening) a little! You can ask Mom what that means. Haha.  But I don’t know, maybe I will be more different! The weather here was super cold and now it’s super hot. It didn’t snow here but in the mountains there was snow! I heard about Matthew and I talked to him, too.  It’s pretty crazy!

Mom and Dad, I love you both so much and I am so grateful to have you guys as my parents, sincerely. I hope you both know that you are amazing parents!

Grandma! Thank you so much for your love and support, I love you and hope you are doing well!

This week was pretty exitoso, or successful, until sunday. We were teaching a lot and doing really good, we were really busy this week and had a lot of plans! Always good for missionaries but we struck out in the sacrament meeting. We didn’t have any investigators and it was hard because we were planning a baptism of a boy named Jose for this week. Now we have to put back his baptism and some other people too. We were blessed with the help of some members this week. We found some new families! Really exciting. 

We had some family home evenings and we talked about the prodigal son. There is a Mormon message that talks about the other son and how he felt. It was super awesome!

A dog peed on me this week and but I just shooed it away and it took a lot in me not to kick it. Haha ( and this is coming from someone who loves dogs) haha but some dogs are the diablo here.

Also a little boy spit on my companion so we both have some stories to tell for this week.

I think that’s about it! Thanks again for the other packages and for the packages that you sent! 

This is the hat that a Hermana (Sister) made us. It’s super warm.

We went to the San Lorenzo Creek again this week and this is a picture of us.

There was the same dog from last time. Haha.

This is pizza from Argentina. Kinda weird but I really like it now.