Went to the Buenos Aires Temple and Saw the Eberhards!

I cant believe you guys are boating already. That's so crazy. Here its starting to get really cold. I use my coat or sweater everyday. Here there are no heaters in the pensiones so we have to use portable ones, but my pension has a little fire place that works really good. It's so nice! This morning I went to the temple!!! It was awesome! I didn't see the Eberhards in the temple but right when I was leaving I saw Elder Eberhard walking around the temple so I ran and talked to him for a bit and then he brought me outside his apartment and I talked to Hermana Eberhard for a bit. It was fun seeing them. I will send you some pictures. This week we had interviews with president! They went really good. I have learned so much from president Ayre. He told us 6 things we can do to be a successful missionary. Be completely obedient, Do every thing with love, Teach a lot of lessons, Always strive to improve my teaching, Be bold, and Use my personality! This week the work went pretty good. We have been working really hard with Sergio. He is doing everything really good except for giving up smoking. We are trying to a lot of different things with him but he has not progressed at all with giving up smoking and he does not have much confidence. Right before Sacrament meeting yesterday he stepped outside to smoke. It was kind of funny but we weren't too happy about it. We found a few new investigators this week but a lot of them are like what Sam said - here no one is married. Its kind of frustrating but we found a few people that have a lot of interest. Yesterday was my companions birthday! He turned twenty four years old! Its so crazy. We didn't really do anything special but it was a fun day. Have fun boating! I love you all!!!!

Around town with Elder Florez

Facturas!!! These are so good!!! Its like 25 cents for every one!

My front door into my building

This is the supermarket by my house

I found the tennis courts!

Above the Freeway

Elder Florez

Hola como estan?? This week was good! We had a few investigators that made it out to church. We found Sergio this week and he is awesome! About 20 years ago he investigated the church and went to church for about 3 months but never found an answer about the church. Right now he is reading and praying but he smokes about 10 cigs a day. We are really trying to help him quit smoking. We know this will help him recognize his answer. Pray for Sergio so that he can give up smoking. He has tried before and couldn't do so, he tells us its impossible but were going to help him change this. This week started to get really cold. Everyone says winter just started so I will see how winter is here. A lot of the people that live in the streets are starting to leave because it is cold at night. I have no idea where but they are not here. In my ward there is an elder from Mexico and he made us lunch on Wednesday! He made hot sauce and we had a ton of tacos of meat and chicken! It was so good! Everything is going good here! I am loving my time with my companion! We are always having fun! He is hilarious! I love and miss you all!

Happy Mother's Day!

May5
Hows it all going? This week was pretty good. It warmed up a lot so I haven't pulled out much of my winter stuff. This week we taught a lot of lessons but we are really struggling to find people especially the elect. Yesterday we had a meeting with president Ayre and our stake president! I learn so much from both of them every time I hear them. President talked to us about how this is God's work and we need to put in our best and a lot of the time we are not going to see the results but they will happen. The Stake President talked a lot about the signs God sends us and how we need to act on these signs. It was awesome! Also we just found out that they are going to divide our stake! It will happen the end of May. I hear it will be crazy. We have heard several General Authorities are coming to our church and Elder Cook! The last time this stake was divided they couldn't fit everyone in our three story church. They had the parking lot on the bottom floor full of people. My companion is a funny kid. He was baptized when he was 15 yrs old. His younger brother is serving in Chile right now. Everyone in his family are members. He loves to talk so he is always talking and I think it will help my Spanish. That's about it for this week. Pray that we can find the people God is preparing in our area. Thanks for everything. Love ya guys!

May12
Yesterday was awesome! I loved talking with you guys. I felt like I didn't talk a lot with Max and Ryan so tell them to write me. Happy Mothers Day mom!!! Your the best in the west! I love you so much! After I called you guys I had bbq pork sandwiches with chips and salsa and then hot fudge brownie sundaes! It was delicious! Thanks for sending me Sam's video. I couldn't hear anything but that was funny he had to talk through a mic. You guys heard most of it yesterday but this week was pretty good. President Gonzalez of the Seventy came and talked to our mission. It was really good! We learned a lot about teaching like Christ did. They said the best way we can learn this is to study the 4 gospels and 3nephi and really observe in how He taught. President Gonzalez also talked a lot about teaching from the Book of Mormon. These are two things that I really want to improve so I was really happy to hear from him. I just got a letter from a kid in my old ward and one of my first investigators here in Argentina got baptized yesterday! I was so happy to hear that. This week we found a lot of new investigators but none of them have really progressed. Pray that we can find families that are prepared for the gospel. Dad thanks so much for the line of authority! Thanks so much for everything! I love and miss you guys!

Staying in Constitucion

Easter was just a normal day yesterday. No one really talked much about it. So today was transfers. I am staying here in Constitucion and Elder Fuentes got transferred. My companion is Elder Flores from Colombia! He is awesome! I only have like 2 hours with him so I don't know a lot about him but I am really excited. He is from Bucaramanga, Colombia. Ask Grandpa Clark if he knows where that is. You need to have Grandpa write me and tell me about Colombia or things my companion might know. Elder Flores's first companion in the mission was Elder Harrison who is Tyler's friend and is from draper. Yesterday Agustin got baptized! He and his family were former investigators that me and Elder Fuentes found like 3 months ago but they did not progress at all so we dropped them. About 2 months ago we passed by their house one morning before church and invited them to church and Agustin decided to come. We didn't really think anything of it and we didn't talk to them for a while but about two weeks ago Agustin found us in the street and said he has been waiting for us to go to church every Sunday morning ever since he came to church for the first time and we never came to pick him up. We brought him to church the next Sunday and taught him all the lessons and he got baptized the next week! He is a funny kid! This week we were working and president called all the missionaries in the zone and invited us all to go to the stadium of the boca and he payed for all of us to go in and we hung out for a bit and he took a picture for our zone. He is starting like a blog or facebook page for our mission so he wants to have pictures and stuff for it. The barbecue last Monday at President Ayre's house was awesome! I felt like I was in the US. We had a ton of hamburgers, hot dogs with soda and chips. There was basketball, trampoline, ping pong and American board games inside. It was super fun. That's about it for this week. One of our investigators his name is Miguel and he is reading the Book of Mormon and praying and really wants to get to know our church so pray that he can receive an answer about our church. Pray that we can find the elect! We have a lot of people that we are going to contact this week so we are super excited for them. Thanks for everything! I love and miss you all! 

A barbecue at President Ayre's house

Hola hows it going? How was jaxsons birthday? Sorry I am writing so early but today President Ayre invited my zone and a few other zones to his house and we are going to have a barbecue so we have to do our mail right now! President is so awesome! This week my companion had a doctor appointment to see what they should do with his heart problems and he is going to have surgery in a few weeks. From what the doctor said it is really simple. It will take like 40 minutes and within a week he will be able to do what ever he wants. They are going to get to his heart by operating through his groin! He is so scared about that. But he is all good and hasn't had any problems for awhile. The day we went to the hospital was paro in Argentina. It's where they shut down everything. There were no buses, trains, subways, gas stations, and almost everything else was closed. And this was through out all of Argentina. And the hospital is a few hours from my area and we had no transportation so President Ayre drove us around all day. It was super fun. After the doctor appointment we found an open store and he bought us cookies, chips, and drinks and then we went to McDonald's and he bought us combo meals with mcflurrys! Mcdonalds was practically the only thing that was opened everywhere. It was awesome. This week was pretty good. We dropped a few more of our investigators because they were not progressing. We are working really hard on receiving referrals from the members. We had zone conference this past week and we are really focusing on visiting less actives and finding through them. The four types of less actives that president wants us to visit are members that are endowed, Return missionaries, Brothers with the Melchizedek priesthood, and Sisters that are widows and have kids. There are a lot of less actives and in actives in these categories and we are really trying to find through them. This week got really cold but I am enjoying it for now but I hear it gets a lot colder than it has been. Oh and I got one of my packages! The one with the blender and candy and peanut butter! Thanks for that mom- I loved it all! There is nothing better than American candy. Thanks for everything! I love and miss you guys. And next week is transfers so I will be writing you guys Tuesday.
Oh and make sure to thank Uncle Mike for the birthday card he sent to me. It was funny!!! He put some Spanish words in it.

Conference!

Happy Birthday Jaxson!!!! Have an awesome day! This week was awesome! I loved conference! I watched the Saturday sessions in Spanish and the Sunday sessions in English and the priesthood session started at 9 and that's when we have to be in our house so we weren't able to watch priesthood but we will see it soon! I loved all of it! The Saturday session Richard G. Scott recorded his talk in Spanish so it was fun hearing his voice and a few others also spoke Spanish so they recorded theirs also. I really want to hear the priesthood session. I heard President Monson said something about Jabari Parker? I loved the talk from Gary Stevenson about the Olympics and how this life is our 4 seconds. I heard people from Utah did super good in the Olympics? I also loved the talk from M.Russel Ballard! Take his challenge and study preach my gospel and invite at least 1 person every quarter! Its the least you can do. I also loved the talk of the sister that spoke Saturday morning. Remember to read the scriptures and pray daily and have a weekly family home evening. Thanks to you mom I have a testimony of Family home evenings! I love doing them in the mission! This week rained a lot but it is not cold at all! It feels so nice. I just go out with my umbrella and its perfect! Yesterday a cable or something exploded so we have no light in our pension and its super dark in our pension so we have been doing everything with these two candle lights we have. I feel like a missionary in the old days! I'm really enjoying it. That's it for this week! I hope jaxson enjoys his birthday! I love and miss you all!

La Boca vs. River

This week was good. We found a few investigators that made it out to church! I still wish we were finding more but i was happy to have investigators at church. The ward is starting to give us referrals so I'm loving that. A recent convert in another ward gave us two references and they both came to church! He was baptized about 3 weeks ago and he says its his responsibility to share the gospel now so he is super involved in the work. He is awesome. Yesterday was a huge soccer game here in Argentina. La Boca vs River and it was in the stadium of the boca which is super close to my house. These are the two biggest teams in Argentina and they only play a few times every year. The people were going  crazy before it started. There were fireworks in the streets and people hanging on the sides of buses going to the stadium. But after it started the streets were empty and we could hear the noise of the stadium while we were working. It was cool. This week the weather was really nice. A ton of overcast and a few days of rain. I loved it. I am so excited for conference! This is my first conference away from Utah. Its weird to think where I was at the last conference! That's it for this week. I love the mission! I love and miss you all!