Tuesday, August 6, 2013

August 6, 2013 - Another week come and gone.

Hey it sounds like you guys had a pretty fun weekend with everyone down in st. george. Thats cool uncle klint and aunt Mary joe could come down to see you guys.  That made me really want to go to the lake with everyone.  The lake sounds like so much fun but its weird for me to think its summer there because we´re still in winter.  Also I didn´t know Nathan Peck was getting married! Thats crazy! 

I am glad that Mike Mclaws came by to drop off that picture for you guys. I didn´t want to give him anything big because I figured he wasn´t going to have a lot of space or anything.  I am glad he could tell you a little about my mission and everything. I will definitely tell you a lot of stories when I get home.

Well this week has been kind of a crazy week.  We had a meeting this last wednesday with the mission president and the other zone leaders which turned out pretty cool.  Our new mission president is super nice and knows a lot of stuff.  I guess he has taught religion for like 36 years or something like that. He his a great teacher.  We also had a good council too and we set some sweet goals for the mission.  I am really excited to see how everything works out.  

This last saturday we also had interviews with President Thurgood as well.  I talked with his wife a lot too while i was waiting for my companion´s interview and she doesn´t know like any spanish haha. I imagine that its pretty tough for her sometimes.  She is super nice though.  My interview with President Thurgood was pretty nice and chill. It was good getting to know him better.  He is a super nice guy as well and very peaceful.  I am glad I got to know him before I leave.  

Well I got kind of a crazy story for you guys, it was kind of weird.  So yesterday we were in church and there is this 19 year old kid named Alejandro who is semi inactive and kind of struggling right now I guess you could say with the church.  So he was acting really weird in Elders qorum and kepting like taping his feet kind of loud and someone turned around and told him politely to quiet down and he just kind of stared and got kind of mad and then he left and came back.  He was sitting right by me and he turns to me and is like hey can you give me a blessing. I said yes and grabbed my companion and told the bishop we were going to give him a blessing.  So we start walking with him to an empty room to give him a blessing.  I could tell something was wrong with him and he was kind of out of it.  I asked for his full name and he like struggled to remember it kind of.  So I gave the first part of the blessing and my companion starts giving him the second part and he like started laughing but like creepy laughing and he stands up during the blessing and is like its too late.  Then he grabs the folding chair and closes it really hard and I felt like oh crap this isn´t good and I moved closer to the door and he then like picks up the chair like he was going to hit us!  I was like crap and he just like screams like run elders!  So i grabbed my companions arm and pulled him out of the room with me and we shut the door as he threw the chair and then he punched the door so hard that he knocked the little window bracket out.  We ran and grabbed the bishop and his mom.  They helped kind of bring him back out of whatever he was in and I grabbed my stuff while they talked to him.  He then just hugged us and was crying and telling us he didn´t have any control and that he didn´t want to hurt us.  

We helped him to the car and his mom was like pleading for us to come with her to the hospital so we got in the car and took him to the hospital in a nearby town.  He was pretty out of it.  Turns out he has like skitzophrenia (I don´t know how to spell that) and we went through every with him in the hospital.  He was telling the doctor that he kept having like seeing things.  It was super weird.  We helped him through everything though and they gave him some medicine and shots and stuff.  I guess they didn´t have money for the medication and thats why he hadn´t been taking any.  But he should be alright now. I guess its happened a lot of times before.  It was super weird though.

The hospital was horrible and looked like from a horror movie or something. It was just super run down with bad lighting and pretty dirty.  It was kind of spooky in there.  I hope I never have to go there.  It was werid.

But yeah that was a really weird experience we had yesterday. haha Its never a dull moment thats for sure.  We are doing alright but it kind of wierded us out a little.

Anyways today  we just kind of had a chill p day and cleaned the pension up pretty good.   It was nice and I slept a little bit but not too much.  Things are going good and I can´t believe only 9 weeks left!!  Well I hope I didn´t weird you guys out too much with that story haha.  Well I better run but I hope you guys have a good week!!  I love you guys a ton!!! Hasta luego!

con amor x 180 zillion,

Elder Peck

July 29, 2013 - Still here!!

Hey Mom and Dad!!

That sounds like you guys had a pretty sweet 24th of july!  My companion is from Utah too so we celebrated it kind of too! We didn´t really do anything but we talked about it.  Thats super cool Elder Holland came! Seriously that would have been so cool to see.  I wish I could have been there to see him.  I was thinking about that parade and how I used to decorate my bike and ride in it.  So Weston gave his homecoming talk? Thats super sweet!! It will be cool to try to talk to him in spanish because mexican spanish is kind of different than the spanish here.  Here in Argentina they use different phrases and words sometimes. 

Thats cool Mike Mclaws is coming over tonight to see you guys.  I just gave him something little to give you guys because I figured if he is anything like me he was probably hurting for room in his suitcases but I just got a little something for you guys. Don´t expect anything big.  Tell him hi for me if you can!  

Well this week has been kind of crazy but good.  This last tuesday we had our district meetings and its weird because I am the oldest timewise in the mission so everyone kind of looks to me for the answers.  Its kind of funny how that works.  Its alright though.  Also this week we did some intercambios and I went to an area called Guernica for a day.  I went with an elder from Chile named Elder Colivoro.  It was a nice and chill intercambio.   Elder Colivoro is just starting his mission and is on his 3rd transfer.  Its weird I am starting to reflect a lot more on mission and stuff now and man I can´t believe how fast time has gone.  I remember when I did intercambios with my zone leader when I had about his time and thinking that my zone leader knew everything. I still don´t feel like I know everything or even close haha.  

This saturday was pretty sweet because we had 2 baptisms!!! I was super excited for it too.  We baptized a 38 year old lady named Beatriz, it was her birthday, and her son named Lautaro.  We set their baptismal date like a month or so ago and they made it! It always cool to see them make the change and get baptized.  Luckily the baptism went pretty well and we had a handfull of people come which was sweet.  I think the water was kind of cold but  here in Argentina everything starts like 30 minutes to an hour late always and so the water sat for a little bit and got cold.  Then after the baptism we ate some cake to celebrate Beatriz´s birthday.  She is just a little older than Jenny.

Then yesterday we had their confirmations which always worrys me but they got there early and were really excited.  Then during sacrement meeting I gave a talk! It was pretty sweet.  Last week though the audio stuff caught on fire so I had to give my talk without a microphone so I just had to talk kind of loud.  The clock was kind of slow in the sacrement room and the bishop turns to me and is like there is a lot of time left kind of like saying can you talk for awhile?  I was like I can talk for 20 minutes so I gave my talk and it last for 21 minutes (I timed it).  But since the clock was off I think I talked a little bit over the time. oh well! I felt pretty good on my talk and I felt like I prepared really well for it so when it came to talk it really wasn´t that hard.  That was my second talk here in Alejandro Korn.  I was a little nervous but not too bad and when I started talking it wasn´t too bad. I just hope they can understand my spanish and everything haha.  Its going to be weird giving a talk in English I think.  It will be interesting to see how that goes.

Today we had a pretty chill p day.  We went to go shopping and it was kind of a bust because we couldn´t find anything we were looking for. Its kind of hard to find stuff in my area because its semi country out here and so there isn´t a ton of stuff.  We´ll keep looking.  They we just came back to the pension and took a well needed nap.  It felt good.  

But wow can you believe only 10 more weeks? Thats nuts!  I can count my weeks on my hands.  Wow thats so weird to think about. I feel like i am always going to be here in Argentina. I am going to miss it a lot when I leave. Its all good though.  But I hope that you guys are doing well!!  I love and miss you guys a ton! I keep having dreams where i am already home! Its super weird.  Well I hope you have a good week and I will talk to you in a week! :D

con amor x 178 zillion,