New President

i got online on manday and saw that no one had wrote me so i did my own thing and no one wrote elder roberts either so today we are on to write the families we have back at home. happy fourth of july to everyone. it is a little late now i know. but im sure everyone had a pretty good one. here it was cold and no one celebrated except for us gringos who went out to a cafe and got a cup of hot chocolate some empanadas and watched to uruguay vs. peru game with some of the elders from peru in the zone. so it was good all and all.

well we have our new president know. it is president and hermana avila.... they are from buenos aires and are about 15 years younger then the lindahls and are here with there kids. two girls and a boy. and another daughter who is married and another son who is on the mission in washington state. president avila was formerly a 70 and now is our president. his older brother was the mission president before president lindahl got here. i have had the chance to meet and talk to him and his family. and they all are really great!! he is an amazing man as well! really energetic and excited abuot he work. and his wife is really funny and always making jokes. elder roberts and i both dropped and came to the area of mendoza centro. it is one of the biggest chapels in the mission. and the area is in the heart of mendoza capital. it is a big area. but really cool. i like it alot. everyone is really rich so it makes it a challenge for us to teach people. but we have some really promising leads right now and are preparing two people we found on our first two days of working here for baptism on the 23rd.

all the members are really excited to have us here. we are trying to get everyone excited and do some reactivating that president lindahl asked us to do. everyone wants us to come over and visit them and eat with them. and they all have friends and families they know that they want us to go out and visit. so we are really excited for what is to come.

last week we went through the area book looking for people to go by and teach that elders taught before and we found this lady ruth. that is friends of a member. so we went to talk to the member about her and he told us she is in chile now but wants to be baptized. the roads are closed from chile to argentina due to snow. but will be coming back soon. right then his computer made sounds and it was her on skype!!! in chile!!! so we taught her over skype and she is one of the people that has a fecha for the 23rd. she will be back like on the 15th we hope. so that was one of the coolest lessons i have had on my mission is over skype to someone in chile!! haha

the area is really great though i am really excited to be here these next some odd weeks finding and helping people. i have alot of energy and excitement for the things we are going to do this transfer and i know we will baptizel. and it is known to be one of the toughest areas in the whole mission and is really rare to get a baptism. but WE ARE GOING TO BAPTIZE!

but i hope all is going well. i will keep sean in my prayers! i hope he does ok and is stayng strong. the temple will be missed by you guys. but you still will be able to visit and thngs im sure. its one thing i miss the most is gong to the temple. two years without is tough. but thanks for everything. have a great week i love you all and miss you.

con amor

elder bigelow