The Lamb and The Lion

Alrught so I am noit going to lie to you this was a tough crazy wek but all in all it was good. First off the craziest thing in my life happened to me last week... not to scare you mom... but we were walkking in a storm to a house with a returned missionary who does divisions with us... out of no where came this crazy strom... it was super bad... but we were going to the Barbosa house (which is far away) and then lightning stuck about ten feet away from all three of us... it was so quick and so hard that all three of us fell over, Elder bitnoff on his back and I just stumbled and fell to a knee and hand. it was the longest five seconds of my life... we just remember blinding flashes and loud noises. We got up and we all felt supper weird and super grateful to be alive... we want to go on the discover channel 'i shouldnt be alive thing'. Our hair was straight up.... it didnt hurt and i was hoping it would have some crazy side affects like i could learn spanish or my knees would heal or my hair would stop falling out... but that stuff didnt happen. But yeah... I just think it was so sudden and frightning that my boidy tensed up and it was just a cool feeling. But yeah i am still normal, kinda stinks but oh well. Butwe came to later figure out the next day that that lightning that stuck the wire pull broke almost eveyones tv that was on at that moment... therew are not many tvs in Barriuo Lopez but of the ones that had it on at that moment it was really tough.... it caused a lot of problem with money in the area. which leads me tomy next story....
Carlos and Maria Bastos... the Carlos that we baptized that is absolutely golden and his wife maria that is sick withthe baby. The guy is amzing and humble and hard working and the family is just golden.... but something happened last wek, with that lightning strike the family lost their tv, and he cant leave her bed, to be without a tv is tough, then she was in the hospital, then the bathroom broke, all this stuff added up and they got into a huge fight and we walked past their house and the scooter was on and there was a bag of clothes... we stopped to see was was up. Wow we are lucky we stopped... he was leaving, going to his brothers house where he probably was going to get back into drinking because he told us he was done with the church... he said that eversince he started his wife has been in the hospital and sick and they dont have money and the tv broke.... it was hard for him to see the blessings in his life. Luckily we had a talk with him and his wife then stopped by the next day and he was okay... he apoligized and said an amazing prayer saying that he will never stray again... it was great. It was tough for us that night though because they are our golden family... but luckily they made it back on track.

bananas and dulce de leche

Hola Familia....
How are you.... Things aree going pretty great here in T -Bò. As you can see in my photos we had the baptism of Juan y Maria this weekend and it went great. I got to baptize juan. They got married tuesday and baptized saturday... I know that Maria is going to be a great member and is going to love to being a member but I am a little scared about jaun, maybe i just need more faith but the guy is always askisng for money and stuff but he has changeda bunch since we anitially met him. The wedding was pathetic.... hah nobody showed up. They said there were going to be soo many people and wow it was sad and embarrassing. But the baptism was pretty good, still no one really there but Maria said it was the best feeling ever.
Aslo week took out a date with anopther family last week and and now we are going to take out another this week. Last weekwas with the Familia of Carlos and Maria Fernandez who are studs... the watch BYU tv all the time and love it. She helps clean the church. They are pretty much members but they are going to get married on the 5th and baptized the 26th.
The other Familia is Barbosa.... remember that name because you are going to hear it a lot. This are always crazy with this family. This is the family where the mom lost four sons. Well she has two girls and one boy left. Well the boy was hit by a motorcycle this last week and was in the hospital. It s sad because the people who drive here really are crazy, this last week we had the brother of a investigator get in a crash and die, after church this five year old girl was crossing the street and was hit bya moto... she is in the hospital now, I am sure she is going to be okay, after she was hit the guy picked up his bike and drove off. Then we had this boy, the barbosa boy, gethit. He is fine (one of the pictures is me and the boy and the two girls outside their house). But as you can imagine the mom freaked... she only has one boy left... she lost the other two. We watched how to find faith in Christ and she said great movie but I still dont believe in Christ. We talked with her and we are really trying, I feel terrible. She has gone through so much. But her kids want to get baptized which is great but Elder Bitnoff and I wont do it unless they are baptized as a family. If we baptize the kids now they will go inactive within 2 weeks, but if you baptize them as a family they have a better chance of making it. So we have toget them married first and there is a lot hat we have to work with like the parents... they need to grow a lot stronger in the gospel. But just keep them in your prayers and I am sure that everything will be great.
But once again... much to say and so little of time. I have soo many stories but soooo little time. I hope all is well with the family and I am not sure if I have ever told you but I really look forward toi your e mails and letters.... they really help me out. I recived a packet of letters forwarded to me from the MTC... thank you Kris and tori and all of the nieces... that was awesome to recieve that. But I am in Uruguay now just so everone knows.
and to answer your question dad it takes about 7 to 10 days for mail to get to uruguay and we recieve our mail ever tuesday so depending on when they get it in the office it could take from 8 to 20 days to get to me which is not terrible.
But I hope all is well. I know mom is super busy so kids help her out a bit. love you all...

Elder Blanco