Jack - October 30

Hi everyone! I hope everything is going well back home! Things are pretty up and down over here. Some days are really long and all of our scheduled lessons fall through, and other days we seem to meet some people who might be interested but then it turns out they´re not or it´s impossible to set up a lesson with them. We have some exciting things planned for this week though, and we had some good days last week too--don´t worry. I got to play guitar at a member´s house twice last week, so that was awesome haha. I wish I had one I could practice with on pday. One day we were walking through this one area and this dog just started following us, it wasn´t really bad because it was actually a really tame dog. So it was pretty funny, I turned to my companion and said we made a new friend. We turned a corner onto another street though and every dog on that street went berzerk at the dog following us. One dog burst after the one following us when their owner opened their gate to go inside, another dog straight up jumped over a concrete wall to start attacking this other dog. It was crazy. I walked into a members house the other day and Stranger Things was on... I was sad haha, I don´t want any spoilers so I was trying not to pay attention but it was also pretty loud. Luckily we were only stopping by to grab something haha, that and it was actually an episode from season 1. Last week pretty much the only lesson we had was with a group of four Haitians who don´t speak practically any Spanish, so that was hard. We had a lesson in the church building and showed them a video in French about the restoration, but they completely missed the point and were like how is there a video if there weren´t videos back then. Still not sure they completely understand it was a representation but the rest of the lesson went pretty well I think. On Sunday, two of the four we taught showed up to church with like four others, soooooo.... wish I remembered any french at all from high school. Pretty much as soon as I started learning spanish everything I knew about french went out the window. I need like a basic French book or something. Also last week after I emailed we met up with all the missionaries in the zone and played soccer for 2 hours on some really nice fields owned by the owner of our pension, because apparently he owns everything haha, he´s nice though, and a member. They invite us in for dinner a lot. Oh and let me just say, the lunches may be hard but the dinners are perfect. It´s basically just bread, deli meat, and guacamole. Everytime. It´s awesome how much they have guacamole down here. Anyways, I feel like I´m forgetting something, but that´s how our week went. We had a training for the new missionaries so I got to see some of the people from the MTC again and it was funny because we were able to talk about our areas and stuff, I got to show them how the owner of my pension owns a ton of stuff that we can use pretty much whenever, and I had to point out to one of them that it had only been a week since we´d last seen each other haha. They were acting like it had been a month, which it had felt like, but it was funny. Anyways I hope everyone´s doing well back home! I can´t wait to hear from you! 

Elder Blaylock

(PS Every night the sky is somehow different and beautiful)

Parker - October 30

Hey everyone!

So yeah, we´ve actually had a good week, especially compared to last week. 

So I´ll start with why I´m on a lot earlier this week than normal. It´s cuz we have a district activity planned, but all the stuff that we want to do is only open in the afternoon. Sorry, I won´t have pics of it for you guys right now, but I´ll try to get them sent fairly soon. 

And yeah, so we´ve finally started to have some success here. We finally got to talk with an investigator who´s been coming to church, we just haven´t been able to actually sit down and talk to her. She´s the niece of a member who´s the only member of his family who´s Mormon. She´s 8 and wants to be baptized, but her mom thinks she´s too young, so we need to talk with her more and get her to give permission. 

Then the next day, we went to another town in our area called Campo Quijano. It was gonna be the last time we went if we didn´t get any success. But lo and behold, as we were walking around a neighborhood, we felt like we should talk to some people standing outside a house and we managed to find six new investigators. They´re really excited to learn more. At first, they were just interested in getting us on their radio show to talk about different religions, but then they actually got interested as we began to answer their questions. 

Then, the next day, we went to Cafayate to do baptismal interviews. Got a silent version of the 2017 Mummy film on the bus ride. Couldn´t hear it, so no opinion. The interviews went well.

When we got back we went to a Church activity and found some more investigators! Now, this requires backstory. So there´s a recent convert here who´s family basically hates her for getting baptized. But somehow, her sister and husband came to this activity. So we sat with them and answered their questions. And they became more and more interested as we were talking. And so now we´re gonna visit them and teach them. 

And on Sunday, we finally got this one investigator to come to church. She was a Seventh-day Adventist, so getting her to church on Sunday was hard. But she finally went and loved it. Then in the evening we visited them and we finally managed to get her to commit to a baptismal date, she seems way more excited now than ever before, so that´s awesome. 

And yeah, that was basically our week. Things are going great here.

I love all you guys,

Elder Blaylock

Jack - October 23

Hi everyone! I´ve finished my first week in the field! It was pretty difficult, but it was also pretty good. My companion always tells me that he appreciates my enthusiasm for the work, I have a lot of trouble with speaking the language and also knowing what to say, partially because it's a different language and partially because I´m really not a conversationalist. So that stinks, its hard to improve when you don´t know the words either. Nevertheless, whatever I can´t do, I try to make up for in enthusiasm. I set pretty high goals for our area in terms of contacting and handing out copies of the Book of Mormon, and we´ve seen quite a bit of success there. Whenever I´m walking down the street, or contacting houses, or even talking (well listening) to people, I´m always smiling, it´s weird because I don´t really think I smiled that much back home. Here I am constantly smiling, and I mean constantly because sometimes my face hurts a little at the end of the day haha. I figure that I might not be able to tell someone perfectly of the happiness of our message, but if someone always sees me with a smile they might wonder why, especially since I stick out here. I´m 99% sure I´m the tallest person here. Anyways my message to you is to smile more, practice having a resting smile on your face, even if you´re not actually super happy, it will always improve your mood, and make you an overall happier person. For our district meeting this week it happened to be on my companion´s birthday, so that was cool. The sisters made brownies and brought chips and soda and some Colombian food (because my companion is Colombian) called Arrepas or something, I don´t know how it´s spelled. But I do know I never want to eat them again. My companion also happened to make some for me for breakfast, and then our lunch appointment also consisted of them. It was not good, basically when you take a bite it seems to expand in your mouth and cover everything, kinda like if you´ve ever done that one game where you look for candy in a pile of flour, but you have to use your mouth. Yeah not a fan. The lunches here are real hit or miss for me, yesterday we had a really good lunch and for desert we had chocolate icecream with sprinkles on mini waffles, it was amazing. But then the other day when we had lunch at the owner of our pension´s house we had some avocado and some kind of meat and cheese and it wasn´t bad, and it filled me up so I wasn´t complaining. But then they brought out a huge meal. Apparently that was just a salad. I was so stuffed, especially since I don´t generally eat much anyways. Once while we were walking down the street we encountered a man who was really polite to us but as we talked he told us he was baptized into our church when he was a kid by some missionaries like us, but that he had a bad experience with the church, because his only friends were the missionaries, and they switch areas often. So he felt alone and betrayed because he thought these missionaries were his friends but then they left and never talked to him again. As he was telling this I felt so sad. It was a shame that the members at the time didn´t make him feel more included, and maybe he wasn´t really converted to the gospel, maybe he was only looking for friends, but either way no one should ever feel alone. I hope to do better than those missionaries in helping people realize that. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ will always comfort us, also as a church we should always remember to be friendly towards everyone, include everyone. Nobody should feel alone. A good church should feel like family. This experience was also hard for me because I failed to respond how I wanted, I wanted to try and comfort him, to express how sad I was that that happened to him, but I just stayed silent because I was afraid I wouldn´t know what to say or it wouldn´t be received well. Either way I felt bad for failing, all I could think about afterwards was Mosiah 28:3, but my companion tried to make me feel better and remind me that it was only my first week. I´ve got a lot of improvement to do thats for sure. This week I had some incredible studies of Helaman chapter 5, because as I read the Book of Mormon I´ve also started keeping a study journal, and Helaman chapter 5 is incredible. I wish I had more time to explain why, maybe I´ll explain it next week, but until then I encourage everyone to read it and look for examples of the Doctrine of Christ. Faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, Repentance, Baptism for the remission of sin, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and Persevering to the end. I hope every one is doing well back home!

Elder Blaylock

Parker - October 23

Hey Everybody!

How`s everybody doing? I`m doing great. Wow, this training is a piece of work. 

It`s actually not that hard, like I said in my last letter, I actually feel really prepared to train because I remember well how crazy everything was at the start of my mission, and how I just wished someone could explain things to me. So now I can do that for my hijito. (That`s what we call them in the mission). But yeah, everything`s going well. I basically have the goal to put this new missionary in the mindset where he can go out to work, not have any success, and still be able to say at the end of the day "I did a good job today." And yeah, we didn`t have a super successful week, but we`re getting there. 

We`re doing a lot of contacting, because we don`t have a whole lot of investigators, and we`re trying to figure out good places to contact. Oh yeah, just for mom and dad, cuz they were asking, I am in a tiny city called Rosario de la Lerma, it`s about 40 minutes away from the main city in Salta, and we have a couple other small cities in our area, and we`re trying to decide which ones we`re gonna try working in. Last week, we went to one called Campo Quijano, but we didn`t have a ton of success. This week we`re gonna try a different one called Cerrillos. 

But yeah, my comp`s actually cool, he`s doing really well on the Spanish for someone so new. And he`s really enthusiastic and has little fear. When all of our plans fell through one day, he just went right into contacting, it was inspiring really. And, since he lives in DC, it`s been cool, cuz we`re the only east coasters. And guess what? Last year, for their family pictures, they went to the Booth House. Yeah, no joke. Literally the Booth House that`s a 10-minute walk away from the house. And then they went to Coldstone after. Isn`t that so insane?

But yeah, other than that, I`m doing great, a lot better actually. I keep thinking about how much time I`ve been here and how much I`ve got left, and it`s actually comforting. I`ve still got time to work, but not a whole much longer until I get to come home. 

I love all of you guys.

Elder Blaylock

Jack - October 18

Chile is beautiful!!! It is so much better out of Santiago, which was still nice but you couldn´t see much because it was such a big city. It was a pretty nice city though, there were trees everywhere along the roads and there are plenty of parks that people actually go to, it was cool. But the Viña del Mar area is way way way better, there´s houses up and down the mountains and cities near the ocean it is so beautiful everywhere. My first area is in Valparaíso Placilla area or something. Luckily it´s not super far from the mission home like Coquimbo or something, so I didn´t have to ride a bus for four hours. Our house/pension thing is way better than I imagined because when we went proselyting in the CCM (MTC) I saw the pensions of the santiago oeste (west) mission and they were tiny appartments, I´ve got a cool cabin thing with some pretty rich members next door and a tennis court too! How weird, we haven´t used it yet though. My first day was pretty long, I´m hoping it´s kinda like when I arrived at the MTC and it starts to speed up because it was so long. My companion/trainer is Elder G and he seems great, he´s really excited for this transfer because apparently his last companion was doing a mini mission or something and didn´t want to work very hard. He´s very happy I´m his companion because of my excitement. There´s so much I want to do and help with but it´s hard when I only understand a little spanish and speak even less. Which is partially why the day felt so long. I had my first meal with a member yesterday... It was basically beans in bean juice with potatoes and some meat that I couldn´t cut because of all of the bean juice, so then after eating everything else the meat tasted like beans too. That and it was all very very filling. Then the member brought out a huge strawberry cake/pie thing, which wasn´t bad but so so filling. I ate everything though, it was hard but I did haha. We´ve got a lot of work to do in this area because of the last transfer there´s basically no investigators, I´ve heard my ward here is one of the biggest with a good 200 people or so, which should be good. I´m not exactly looking forward to looking for new investigators because I stink at contacting, I prefer teaching lessons. My first day after dropping stuff off we went to a Family Home Evening with a recent convert family and it was fun, that I could understand and I even contributed to the discussion so that was fun, they´re a nice family. I´m glad to be out of the MTC but now it´s all just kinda overwhelming all over again, I hope I get used to it and learn quickly. I hope everyone back home had a good week!

Elder Blaylock

Parker - October 16

Alright everyone, 

I`ll be quick, cuz I have to get back to work, but here`s the rundown.

So last week, me and my last comp, elder F were working hard, trying to contact some of the people from the Tormenta Blanca, so far, not a whole lot of success, but we`ll keep tryng. 

Then, on sunday, we get two phone calls, one from the president and one from the assistants. President called me, telling me that I`m gonna be training these next two transfers and telling me what I need to do now. And the assistants called my comp to be District leader in the zone I was in before. 

So Monday, in the morning we hustle to get to the bus station on time for my comp to leave at 9:30, then after that, the zone leaders took me to the offices of the mission to stay there for the rest of the day. So I waited around, After a little bit, missionaries began trickling in, a mixture of trainers, office people, and ending missionaries, so it was fun to talk with all these people we got a nice group of trainers here. Then at like 1:00 we have lunch and after that, we have a meeting for the new trainers where they tell us more about our responsibilities for these next three months. At like 4:40 the new missionaries got to the airport, so we were all out of the building, chillin while we waited for the mission president to get done interviewing all of the newbies so he can assign companionships. At like 7:00, we all go in and we have the assigning ceremony. And I got paired with Elder G, he`s from Washington D.C. so we`re like the only people from the East Coast in the entire mission. It`s pretty cool. He`s also pretty cool too, we like a lot of the same stuff, and he`s actually not bad at all with the spanish, he`s doing exceptionally well for someone so new. 

But yeah, then, after that, we had a barbecue with everyone, then went to go sleep in a hotel. At first, I was kind of nervous about training, but as I started talking with the newbies and answering their questions, explaining things to them, I started to get more excited, to the point where I do feel completely comfortable in this new role. In the morning after their first Argentine breakfast, they went off to go do paperwork, and we were hanging out in the offices. Us gringos went on the mormon channel and watched a recent face2face with a bunch of mormon singers. It was good. 

After that, when they got done with the paperwork, I took my new comp to our area, cuz we`re just like 40 minutes away. We had lunch, he unpacked while I reorganized the apartment, and then we went out to go to work. And we actually had a pretty successful day in comparison. 

I am so grateful for this opportunity and I know that the Lord will bless us and that this is really gonna help me become the person that Heavenly Father wishes me to be. 

I love all you guys,

Elder Blaylock

Jack - October 11

Hey guys! I hope everything is going well for everyone back home! Not a ton happened this week, other than the fact that I´m kinda sick of the MTC now. I´m gonna miss hanging out with my district all day, and it´s gonna be weird to get used to just being with a companion everyday, hopefully I get some good companions. But yeah not much really happened, it´s kinda just the same old again. Yesterday though we had a cool surprise, we were walking around the grounds of the MTC and some guy stopped us and was asking if we were the missionaries giving a tour of the MTC to a bunch of kids from a nearby school and we were really confused but we were like no that´s not us. Then about 10 minutes later in the middle of class another teacher runs in and is like ¨come on! you guys get to go teach all of these students!¨ It was actually really cool though. We started setting up some chairs so that each companionship would be able to teach a kid, then about a minute before we started they were like Oh actually there´s like 100 kids here so you´ll each be teaching about 8-9 kids. It was really cool though, we were able to answer questions and teach a bit of a lesson. Other than that the other cool thing that happened was that this past Sunday I was assigned to teach a lesson in our priesthood meeting about the Holy Ghost and it was probably the best lesson I´ve ever given, and by a long shot because I´ve always been bad at teaching anything in general. But now my district keeps telling me I should be a motivational speaker or something, it´s strange. Anyways as I was preparing I first figured I would just teach about the gifts of the Spirit again because that´s one of my favorite topics, but then I figured I should say a prayer for guidance from the Holy Ghost about what I should teach about the Holy Ghost, which is kind of a no-brainer now that I think about it. Anyways I was looking in the Preach my Gospel manual for some good scripture references to the Holy Ghost when I found a reference to the word earnest in the Bible Dictionary. Before I tell you what it means, Paul the apostle uses it in reference to the gift of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament about 3 times. In 2nd Corinthians 1:22, 2nd Corinthians 5:5, and Ephesians 1:13-14. One of the names for the Holy Ghost is also the spirit of promise. And in each of these scriptures it talks about God sealing us with the earnest of the spirit. Or in Ephesians it´s a little clearer, ¨...ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.¨ The Bible Dictionary says this: Earnest. A pledge or security. The word thus translated is a commercial term denoting the deposit paid by a buyer on entering into an agreement for the purchase of anything. As used by Paul it means that the Lord gives us his Holy Spirit in this life as a foretaste of the joy of eternal life. The Spirit is also the Lord´s surety that he will fulfill his promise to give eternal life to the faithful.¨ WOW! How incredible! The gift of the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost after being baptized and confirmed is just a foretaste of the blessings in store for us, just a initial down payment to show the Lord will follow through on His end of the deal. This ¨little downpayment¨ is the 3rd member of the Godhead, if the companionship of someone so important and capable of so many things is just a taste of the blessings to come then truly God has so many blessings in store that we won´t even have room to receive them all. What an incredible and loving blessing, I explained it better in my lesson, also going over many of the other things the Holy Ghost can do to help us, but I don´t have a lot of time, so I´ll leave that to you to study. If you have preach my gospel, there´s a brief list on page 96 and 97 I think. That blew my mind though, my perspective on the Holy Ghost completely changed. I encourage everyone to be worthy of the companionship of the Holy Ghost. I hope everyone had a good week this week, I leave the MTC on monday, so i don´t know what emailing will be like next week, it may be even longer than a week until I email you, but I´m hoping for the best.

Elder Blaylock

Parker - October 9

Hey everybody!

So, this week has been interesting. 

Last Tuesday, we had District Meeting, and it was the first time we had the entire district there! Yeah, There are two elders in my district that live suuuuper far away, five hours in bus, so they haven`t been able to come to the district meetings. And something happened to their phone so we can´t call them and they can´t call us. We communicate by texting. 

But yeah, it was interesting, I based the entire thing on the Book of Mormon. I had each companionship prepare a lesson plan using just the Book of Mormon, without any pamphlets or using the Bible, in order to help them see that we can use the Book of Mormon in every lesson, and it can teach whatever point of doctrine that we need. it was really cool. 

It was also one of the elder´s birthday, so we had a cake that my comp made from a cake mix he got in his package from home. 

I`m sending pics of the District Meeting. 

Also, in order to help us find a few more investigators here, we did something called a Tormenta Blanca here, which means "White Storm." So two elders and two sisters came over to our area and helped us contact a whole bunch of people, so now we have a few more potential investigators to try and visit. And now, EVERY area in the district wants to do a Tormenta Blanca, so that`s gonna be fun. 

Then we tried really hard with one investigator named E, to get baptised, but it`s so weird, he and the only other real investigator we have, J, are like basically ready, totally ready, and they want to get baptized too, just for some reason, they want to put it off. Sigh, it`s rough. 

But yeah, and then my comp got to a year in the mission last week, so we burned a shirt of his. (I didn`t do that, there was no space back in Aguilares.) But yeah, it was fun. Even though he just recently he got to a year, he`s probably ending the mission with me, cuz he needs to get back and go to school. 

Other than that, the only interesting things that happened this week are that a bunch of missionaries in our zone went home a week before the transfer ended. Not because they broke a rule or anything, they just went home a week early. Cuz of the whole extensions thing. I knew like half of them, one of them, the Zone Leader, was a good friend of mine, he was also my zone leader in Tucumán. 

Anyway, I love you all!

Elder Blaylock

October 4 - Jack

First, Mom, you owe me 31 pieces of candy. I took notes on all of the general conference talks (Man I miss that tradition)

Second, How cool was it to hear President Russell M. Nelson mention the missionaries in Chile? Let me answer that, REALLY COOL.

This week went really well for me. Not only did we get to watch general conference but I also got a chance to go proselyting this week, which was incredible! I don´t know if it is just because I was a missionary this time, but general conference was awesome, I loved all of the talks that were given. I hope everyone was able to watch all of it, and if not go back and watch it! I know I want to listen to some of those talks again. It seemed like a lot of them were focused on self improvement and strengthening each other. A lot of talks were given about service, which is so important because it is much better and you will be much happier if you try to think of others before yourself. I loved that a few spoke on Christ´s moral character and how we can all strive to be more like Him. The other topic that seemed really important this conference was about the importance of reading the Book of Mormon daily. One of my favorite talks given was from Russell M. Nelson about treasuring the Book of Mormon in our lives and gaining a personal testimony of it. So many talks addressed this topic, and I even wrote about it last week in my email, which I don´t think is a coincidence, so I urge all of you to read the Book of Mormon for yourselves and truly study and pray about it. My favorite talk however was from Jeffrey R. Holland. I loved that talk so much. He spoke with such love and emotion and power. I love Matthew chapter 5, which his talk was kind of focused on and I loved all of his advice on trying to be more Christlike everyday. If you only listen to one talk from General Conference, listen to this one. He spoke at the end of the Saturday morning session. Also remember to always try to apply what was taught in General Conference to your lives! My other awesome experience this week was when we went proselyting. It was incredible! I can´t wait for the field. Everyone in my district were assigned a companion from the santiago west mission for the afternoon and as soon as we got there I totally called it. First, I called that I was going to be assigned the shortest companion, and then I called that I was going to be in a trio. Both were correct. But my companions were really cool, they were the zone leaders. The whole time we were walking around I had such a big smile on my face. I learned a lot that day about faith. Faith is incredible, it is truly the opposite of doubt. I´m probably the only missionary in my district who hasn´t really worried about learning the language because I´ve seen all 3 of my brothers learn their mission languages, and I always just had this feeling in the back of my mind that if I really need the language for something, then I´ll know what to say. I´ve only been learning spanish for 3 weeks (4 weeks now) but I was able to understand everything except one conversation while we were proselyting, which I´ll explain later. We taught a lesson to a recent convert and I was able to understand all of it and even teach and testify for part of it. It was incredible. The same principle applies to everything, all week I´ve been pretty sick but I´ve done my best not to worry or complain about it and just trust that while I´m on the Lord´s errand I´ll be taken care of. Whenever I teach, especially proselyting, I´ve never felt healthier. It´s incredible, have faith in the Lord. Near the end of our time proselyting we went to an area where there were a lot of Haitians who speak French-Creol. One of my companions was able to speak it pretty well(as well as english which was nice for me), but I was again astounded as I was able to understand their conversations, I couldn´t speak back, but I could understand what they were talking about. It was so cool. There was one Haitian who could speak a little spanish and a little english, so he really wanted to talk to me because I was clearly from the United States. I felt so stupid, for some reason I couldn´t understand what he was trying to ask me though, all I could gather was that he mentioned me being in Chile, and the verb venir, which means to come. So I assumed he was asking why I came to Chile and I began testifying of why I was serving a mission and of Heavenly Father´s love for us(my purpose for serving a mission was in my farewell talk if you´ve read that), and eventually one of my companion stops me and tells me that he was asking where I was from. I FELT SO STUPID. After thinking about it for a little bit though I realized something cool. That was the only conversation I didn´t understand all day. Before he left that guy stayed back and shook my hand continuosly telling me over and over again that it was beautiful talking to me. I think I was supposed to misunderstand that conversation and bear testimony. As all day i´d been able to understand the language with the help of the Lord, by the same power I couldn´t understand that question, but only in order to bear testimony to him. It was a powerful realization. I hope everyone is doing well at home! I´ll talk to you next week!

Elder Blaylock

October 2 - Parker

Hey Everyone! Quite the week we`ve all had. Ending it off with a nice general conference. 

So yeah, to start off, not much happened until thursday, that`s when stuff got exciting. So, we were scheduled to have president interviews that day, and we were also planning on doing comp exchanges with the elders in Cafayate, an area in my district. We had to do it then cuz they live lke four or five hours away by bus, so since they were already coming to Salta, we decided to take advantage. 

So I go with the new missionary, who`s still in his training, elder Baum. And we have quite the bus ride ahead of us. Then we get there and get to work. Since I am District leader now, I have to give the baptismal interviews for everyone in my district, and they had four candidates. So we went and visited all of them. The first was an old man named P, who was very nice and was very sincere, even if he needed a little nudge on the answers to the interview questions. The second was a woman who was also really nice, very repentant and also ready for baptism, even if she`s a little new and uncomfortable with certain church practices. The last two were two brothers under 11 years old. They were also excited to get baptised, even though one of them said "I don`t want to commit to not drinking tea, cuz sometimes we`re out of maté and we only have tea." Maté is like an herbal tea here, not against the word of wisdom. It was funny. 

So yeah, because it takes so long to get there, the other elders left and came in the middle of the night, so that wasn`t too fun. Then early morning, we went back.

Then we had general conference. It was really good. Didn`t get to see the priesthood session cuz it`s so late here, started at 9 and went till 11. But other than that, it was really good. I liked Holland`s talk, I never thought of the parable of the two debtors like that before. There were also many talks I loved, like Nelson`s, and Eyring´s, and Anderson`s at the end were probably among my favorites. Also the one by Callister, who talked about the book of mormon. 

And yeah, that was basically my week. Today for pday all we did was play a little bit of soccer in the morning and then we went to go eat chinese food. It was like legit chinese food, it was pretty good. 

Anyway, that`s pretty much all so far. The work here is tough, we`re probably gonna have a Tormenta Blanca here this week to help us find new people to teach, cuz it`s hard. 

Love you all,

Elder Blaylock