February 1, 2010

I got a super slow computer today, so sorry this will be shortish!
This week, both the baptisms and confirmations went through, and we have 4 possibles for the 14th of Feb. which is 2 days before transfers :( We're hoping we get AT LEAST those 4 baptized this next month, we upped our goal to 5 woot!
After church Sunday, Daniel the counselor in the Bishopric called in Josè into his office and he was in there for almost 40 minutes while we waited for his outside and when he came out it was hilarious. I guess Daniel wanted him to get the priesthood ASAP so he had his interview to start to process and when he came out he was smiling so big hahaha The walk towards the busstop he had a whole new strut and kept saying how cool it was and how excited he is hahaha it was great! Pablo and Christopher had their priesthood interviews also, and their buddy Jonathan will be baptized shortly and he's a GREAT kid, 14.
On the way home from church yesterday we took Josè's bus to take him home before we went home and the when we were passing through a shady edge of town, a kid probably 16 or so robbed the busdriver with a HUGE knife! We didn't see it til a lady in the front started screaming for help at the top of his lungs and the driver chucked a handful of change and pulled out a baton. Noone got hurt , but today we went downtown to the Jew Ward (cheap shopping ferìa type stuff) and we were so paranoid of getting robbed with a machete hahaha
Yesterday I gave my first talk in church. Daniel asked me late Saturday so I spent a few minutes that night and an hour Sunday morning since it was on preparing to enter the temple. I applied my talk around missionary work and "bajè la caña" on the members, and only the people that always do what they should be doing said it was a nice talk, most wouldn't look us in the eye. Elder Grau "bajò la caña" the week before in his talk, so between a lot of calling to repentance and such our lunch schedule is more empty this month than ever before. Hahaha that's okay, we're doing our part, if the members don't do theirs....that's sad but not to OUR condemnation. dun dun dunnnnnnn....!!! If half our baptisms go through next month we'll have doubled the previous year, so I can only imagine the great things that could be happening if more members did their job! WORK ON REFERENCES FOR THE MISSIONARIES IN OUR WARD! haha, and prepare the people you give before they visit them, or it's just another door.
As for letters, I sent Nichole one the day after Christmas, and another a week and a half ago. Ask grandma if she regularly gets a letter from me I send one at least every other week. Michelle, too. The rest I write frequently are all on missions, so you can't ask them, so if they are not getting my letters, then I guess not all of them make it to the US, which is a shame, but there's not a whole lot I can do. They all go through the church mail service, so they never see Uruguayan hands so I dunno.
I learned how to cook some Uruguayan foods, so I can't wait to feed you when I return haha!
I'm glad to hear Seth made it home safely! Also, Titan is a freakin tight name.
As for the ward change, I was hoping for Saguaro Park :( Eesh, oh well. What's the new bishop's name? Usually the younger the better, not so burned out! I'm happy Bro. Egan is a counselor. If I had to guess on a new bishop, it would've probably been him.
Sorry to hear about Kaylis eye infection, if it makes her feel better, yesterday after cutting onion and garlic I put in my contacts. Needless to say, I wore glasses the rest of the day and today haha OUCH!!
I've heard so much about the super freezes in North America thats so weird. Here we're having record heat. Let's trade! I can't wait for winter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing much new to report this week sorry, I always think of a thousand things that happened after, I should start writing down points to tell you or something cause my mind is always blank when Im here.
Sorry to hear about the Romanian missionaries. Thats a shame, but no worries about us we can't use heaters or anything in the winter because the President is worried about fires or something like that happening. We use blankets woot! haha lots.
Well, we are working very hard and having a ton of success among investigators, inactives, and actives alike, and having a ton of fun doing it! I can't wait til you guys come down here at the end of the mission so you can meet some of these people!!!!!!!!!!! I also hope that I stay here for at least another change! For everyone that I've talked to, this is their least favorite zone in the mission because it has fewest baptisms, so maybe since I love it Prez will let me stay here haha I'm learning a TON!
Well, times up, love you all, sorry this is a fairly boring email, work hard and share the gospel!
Elder Magnusson