HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTT!

I don't know if I have related this experience to you before, but missionaries don't use any system of time but transfers. It's not, "I go home in three months...it's I go home in two transfers." I guess we still use weeks, but months, no. So really the start of a transfer is like new year's for missionaries. We just set lots of goals and make big plans. The point of this story is I will now be titling my emails like I do to President.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELDER DUNN! Yeah, so the dad backed out of his baptismal date so only the wife and daughter are being baptized. It's good though as he says he still wants to one day, but right now can't. It's kind of like a surprise every time we go over there how his mind has changed. One Friday, he said no, then Sunday he said yes, then 8 days later on Monday when we started asking for the details, he said he doesn't feel ready. Some surprises just suck.

About getting my package, we are only going to get letters twice this transfer, next Tuesday, and then Zone Conference. So assure yourself that it is here by March 11th ish and you are fine. And about style not being important at the present,(this refers to Scott's complaint about the new glasses I am sending and the fact that they are not stylish enough) I don't think you understand how many American girls we run into that are going to school here. They are so grateful for people who speak English that they will actually listen to us talk about God as long as we do it in English. It's pretty legit.

Oh, tried praying in English the other day, pretty sure I sounded like a three-year old. I couldn't remember how to use thee, thou, thine and all of those words. Spanish is like 4.5X easier.

Mom, can you play All Creatures of our God and King? I am learning that one right now. Well, the left hand. I can pretty much play all the hymns with my right hand at almost the speed they should be but whoa....... left hand costs me. That is my favorite song to play and listen to at present. And to respond to Matt's blog, every time we have a residency appointment there is a Burger King in a mall right by the place, so all the missionaries who had residency go to Burger King after. Also, Burger King is more than double the price here, so be grateful for cheap food. And every time I talk to the Argentines in our ward and tell them I have friends in the Resistencia Mission, they always apologize. I am not sure what that means but I am assuming they have quite a humbling experience over there.

Oh, and so we are for sure going to stay open this transfer, and then one more. So until May 05. And if we can get the ward rolling they will keep it open. So I am going to kill off my companion now, then have to area train a new one for 1-2 transfers. I could be spending half my mission here. My district leader is in his 8th transfer here, going to complete 12 months ish. So could happen. And tell Allen to be quiet and get to work. And as for Elder McBride, he went home the same time as my trainer and he was a spectacular missionary. Good thing you tipped him a lot. Where were you guys? And yes, Spencer is in the mission of the parents of one of the assistants here. And also, Katherine, if you remember her, lives by this Elder's sister. Small world no?

Stay Pretty,
ED