Week 4 in ARG- Elder Gillett 5.19.14

Thanks for that email! It was really good to hear about stuff going on
outside where I am at again! I have been emailing shel a ton lately!
Make sure to let him know I miss him! Can´t wait to chill with him
again soon! And That´s so crazy about Andrew and Shelby! hahah I knew
the day was coming but never thought about it coming this fast!
hahahah i don´t know who the girl would have been! I will have to
start asking around about Javier! (Javier Morales who is on Real SL 
Soccer team is from Buenos Aires, Argentina) I would think somebody 
would know him because I think that place is in our mission! Thats 
exciting for Colton! He is a stud!

Nope not any service yet! We have been asking around trying to find
any opportunities but none have come up yet! Hopefully they will soon!
Companionship is going good! No problems there! Yeah we are going to
Quilmes with the whole zone(like 25 people) for an activity to watch a
disney movie, eat tacos, and play soccer at the chapel! hahaha i will
try to get some pictures but i won´t be able to send them until next
week... the computers we use here are ancient sometimes so it doesn´t
have a USB easily accesible!

Sooo this week went pretty good! First we taught Omar one of our
investigators who is a super cool guy and stuff but definitely
different! He believes in UFO´s and aliens and all that so he had a
really easy time with believing the Joesph Smith vision story but he
is having a hard time understanding how WE have the proper authority
to baptize and to act in the Lord´s name and stuff like that! So we
are trying to help him understand! He said he will think about baptism
but isn´t sure! Then we have Martha! She was doing really good until
this week we visited like 4 times and she was always cooking or doing
something or gone so out of the 4 times we didn´t teach her once!
Really crazy but then we went back there yesterday after saying
alright we are coming sunday at 5pm and be ready. We made sure she
didn´t having anything going on or anything.. And then we got there
and clapped and her son or someone like that came out and said that
she left back to Paraguay.... Really weird story but we don´t
know what really happened with her or what but she lives close to some
members and investigators so we will see if she did leave or not! haha
Now on a more positive note we met with our investigator Ruben! This
guy is a CAPO (stud) hahaha after everytime we teach him, he sets the
appointments with us! haha we don´t even have to ask him! He makes
sure we are coming again! super awesome! But he is trying to quit
smoking and drinking and this last time we went and visited he said he
went to the doctor for a liver or lung problem and the doctor told him
he needs to quit! (thank you doctor!!) haha so he quit smoking for a
whole day! but is smoking again... (its progress though) And we
haven´t even told him of the word of wisdom yet! Crazy how the Lord
works! We followed up and talked to him more about The restoration and
the gospel. We answered a bunch of questions and then we got him to
pray at the end of the lesson! And he also accepted a date for
baptism!!! There is a lot of things riding on whether he can get
baptized or not but at least we know he wants it! Super excited for
him and we know he can do it! He already has the desire to learn more
and to quit smoking and stuff so it is a little easier for us to help
him now! hahah anyways it has been an interesting week! I really
understand almost everything we talk about in spanish unless we start
talking about mermaids or something like one of our members did. Then
I just get really lost... hahha Argentina is so much fun though! Last
night was the finals of Argentina soccer league! River Plate beat
Quilmes 5-0 so that was pretty crazy and after the game we had to walk
home through the strip mall thing that everyone was driving through
cheering for River and celebrating in the streets. Shooting off
fireworks and guns and everything! It was pretty weird but super
awesome experience! hahahah I loved it too because people like soccer
here in Argentina! hahah anyways love you all! Until next week!
Les Quiero- Elder Gillett


PS I remembered I had $60 in American dollars so I found out that the
family who let us skype at their house has a son on a mission in
Ecuador where they use American money or something so I traded that
money with her! So now I have like 600 pesos and we found some
Argentina jerseys for 120 pesos! Which is super cheap like 10 dollars
and I bought a jersey! I will make sure to send a picture next week!