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