6 Weeks to Sexy!

Hey fam,
 
So i still cant believe another week has gone by, i barely even
noticed the last week haha and now ive officially been out in the
field for 10 months! Sweet! Happy fathers day dad, hope it was a good
one! haha And before i start, i just had some questions for you guys.
Are you all studying the scriptures every day? mom and dad, thats
probably more for you, i dont think i ever asked you before if you
did.  Also, what has become of that magical creation i bought called a
morphsuit? just wondering haha Another request for the next
packet.....mac n cheese!!!! i miss that stuff so much! haha and
speaking of packets, i got your last packet with the gravy and it was
awesome! Thanks! We already had a formal sunday dinner with one of the
gravy packets, so it was awesome to have a little taste of home again
haha
 
So now for the week. First of all, last week during district meeting,
we learned how the presidency of the area wants us to work differently
now.  instead of going house by house and teaching one or two people
in each house, they want us to start forming groups that consist of
members, less actives, recent converts, and of course the most
important the investigators.  This way, all the members can get to
know the investigators, and the investigators can form friendships
with the members and it just works better.  I guess 2 elders tried it,
just on a whim, and it took forever to set these groups up, but after
2 transfers of work i think, they got groups up and running and are
just having an incredible amount of success.  One week, they had 7
baptisms, and they have enough lessons, people in church, baptismal
dates, etc for 2 areas.  the numbers and amount of people you teach
just absolutely shoots through the roof.  and within these groups, you
get the members to go look for the investigators sunday morning for
church, and after every lesson, you invite everyone to invite their
own friends and family to come and listen. this way, the group just
keeps growing and growing, and we start baptizing a lot more than we
are now.  so im super pumped to start working like this and form some
groups, even though it might take forever.  ill keep you updated on
the groups.
 
Last week, we went back to that one evangelical guy, and he basically
just ended up pissing us off.  He just already has like a predecision
made up in his head and wasnt interested in the answer god was going
to give him.  He had been reading the book of mormon, and basically
told us it sucked and lacked "exhortation" in his words.  he also told
us that we talk too much about Joseph Smith, and we need to talk about
Jesus more.  So we tried committing him to pray to God again, but its
very doubtful, and i dont think were going back.  He basically just
ends up trying to teach us whenever we go there.
 
We are still teaching Anahi´s mom, and we had an awesome lesson with
her last week.  It was basically a group like we´re supposed to be
working in right now, and we got a little taste of how a group works
and how awesome it is.  Basically, we didnt even have to teach
anything, cuz everyone else who was there did the teaching.  It might
have helped that they were all family, like kids, aunts, cousins, etc,
that are all members or recent converts, but still, by the end every
single one of them was bawling and silvina is going to get baptized on
June 30th!!!! Super sweet :) She also came to church on Sunday, and is
really excited about the gospel.
 
We are still talking with Alejandro, who has all the assistances and
stuff to get baptized, but we´re not really sure whats going to happen
with him now.  It kind of looks like hes lost interest, even though he
came to church on Sunday with his family.  We went there last Tuesday,
we had a set appointment and everything, and when we got there, he was
waiting outside on the sidewalk and told us he didnt have time cuz he
was going to his grandmas house.  We asked if he could wait, and the
bus passed by, and he just hopped on it without a word basically and
just went away.  So we´re going to be passig by this week, and we´ll
see wht happens.
 
We kind of were forced to waste a lot of time last week, because Elder
Cancapa had training all day wednesday, and my comp had to go to salta
to do imigration papers on wednesday night.  So wednesday morning, we
had to walk like half an hour to the highway so Prez could pick him
up, and then we had to walk back there in the afternoon to pick him
up.  Then we also had to go to Jujuy centro that night to drop my comp
off with a whole bunch of other missionaries, and it was just kind of
ridiculous.  Then we had to go back to jujuy on thursday to pick my
comp up, and me and him werent able to do our weekly planning.....so
that was a kind of irritating part of my week. But we pulled through
anyways.
 
On saturday, we also had a big ward activity at the church and it was
the yearly fathers day lunch.  We ate the traditional soup of Jujuy
called Locro, and it was delicious.  Its basically a soup for winter,
weighted with super heavy stuff like beans, meat, and tons of fat, and
its basically made to fatten you up so you can survive the winter haha
ill see if i can learn how to make it so we can have it when i come
home.
 
Also, we went to Kikos house last week, the productor, and it turns
out he got a huge job offer in buenos aires and might be moving there
soon.  he´ll be going there to work for a huge famous news channel,
and i guess thats where a lot of stars from the united states go to
make their music videos cuz its cheaper here in argentina.  so he´ll
be there making music videos for people like ricky martin, enrique
iglesias, and maybe jennifer lopez haha So we´re super pumped for him,
and helped him pray to know if that was the right dcision to make.
before he goes, he wants to help this one website called
playingforchange.com make a video of all the cultural music here in
northern argentina.  he wants us to help him as like his film crew on
a monday if he can get things organized.  he made me write the people
at playingforchange.com a message in english because their whole
website is in english and he wants to get their support.  So we might
get to help him film some stuff one p-day!!!
 
Also the last thing, last monday, i was bored and i wrote myself up a
workout calendar and what im going to do each day for the next 6
weeks.  i actually was able to follow it every day last week, and im
gonna keep it up! I took a picture of myself with my shirt off last
week at the start of it, and we´ll see if this 6 week program bullcrap
is really true haha maybe ill send you the pictures of before and
after!
 
But yeah, thats about it for now, hope everyones alright, and
everythings goin good at home! love you all, and hope to hear from you
next week!!!
 
Con amor,
 
Elder Sirrine