this week we had a really good week. we had three more baptisms on saturday. it was really good. i was asked by one of the boys if i would baptize him, he wants to be a missionary and you dont even know the HUGE smile that comes on his face whenever he sees us come walking down his dirt road to visit with him and his family! it is so special!! i love it. i dont know what it is but the little kids here seeing there smiles and hearing there laughs just make my day so much better and make me so much happier!! and the other two were really excited as well and overall it was a really good weekend to see all of that.
we then got some references from some members to go teach people around where they live. and we found a really interesting man that had alot of pride and told us that he was his own god and did not need anymore then that is his life. and was just really confused!! nice guy... just does not understand much on the basis of god and religion. hopefully someday. then we went to this other house and the guy and his family moved. but this lady that moved in with her family let us in and we taught her and she was really cool. understood the stuff pretty well. she does not understand scripture talk so we had to explain some things to her from 2 nefi 31. about the doctrine of christ and how it is baptism. but she picked it up and accepted to be baptized. but we need to help her to come to church. everyone here accepts fechas, but its whether or not they progress and come to church is if they will actually get baptized.
this week we are in mendoza. we have zone leader consejo. which means i can finally get my toe looked at by someone a little more professional then i am. it rains a TON in san luis, and the roads turn into rivers and my feet get soaked!! and i dont think that is helping it to much. but i am tryiing this thing that silvio and his family gave me which is what i was doing kinda. but it is to soak it in hot water with alchol. then dry it and but alchol directly on it to kill the infection. so i have been doing it a couple times a day. but it does not burn at all. so i dont know if i do have an infection. but yeah that is how my toe is.
the other day we also went out fishing!! we went with silvio and his boys. he had no idea what he was doing and his takle box was a totall joke. i had to rig everything up for them all and teach them how to cast and use the poles. which were made i believe like right after huck fin died... haha but it was alot of fun. i think we would have caught some fish if they would have had some patience and not reel in right after casting out. and the boys would quit playing in the water right by where we casted out and stuff haha. but i finally stole one of the poles and ran over to a little cove and casted out and like 7 min later i had one hooked. it was like a 15 inch fat carp they said. but it looked nothing like the carp i have seen. but we cut it open and used parts of it to fish with and caught a couple smaller ones and then we ate it and left. we were getting eaten alive by moskitos. it was horrible i swear i go bit over 1000 times. my body hurt in the shower from itching so much and slapping the moskitos to kill them off of me. it was alot of fun. if you were with someone who knew more of what they were doing and possibly a boat or conoe. wow i think you could just kill that lake. no one here has any of that stuff or has any idea really of what they are doing or how to do it. no joke one of the fishing poles was a bamboo stick with a string attached to the end. and they claimed fish have been caught on the thing. but i did not really believe it.
last night was one of the biggest rain storms i think i have been in yet in argentina. it poured all night!!! and just destroyed. and there was thunder and lighting. i swear two bolts of lighting hit our house. the whole house shook and lit up and it was super hard!!! it was unbelievable the amount of rain that fell. then we got up this morning got all of our stuff ready and got on the bus to take our 4 almost five hour bus ride to come here to mendoza. so now we are in mendoza to have consejo and to start off the new mission competition we have every year in march... with college basketball. we have march madness. it is way fun and if i stay in san luis i think we might be able to win it.
i agree with you dad. ether is a great book and you can learn so much. this current time of reading the BOM again. i really understood jacob. and there is SOOOO much to be learned in that book. and in ether as well and mosiah in king benjamins last talk. it is so amazing that book. it has changed my life so much in my time here on the mission. i admit i never took full advantage of it before the mission. but i wish i had. i did not take full advantage of alot of things. especially in my great family. i look back on things and mom dad everyone. i appologize for the dumb things i did and being such a pain at times. i really do realize it must have been tough with me at times and i am sorry. i love you all so much and you are all such a big blessing in my life. i am so happy we can all be together forever and god has given me such a loving family in this perfect gospel plan. have a good week. your in my prayers.
con amor
tu mendocino
elder bigelow
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