Here's a post...I have been repremanded:)

Well that was great work this week family and friends.... I am glad mom and are forwarding my emails..., good to know. But also I have gotten a couple of e mails of people telling me to update my blog... haha they dont understand Im not really in charge of that.... but for this weeks questions.... I think Im going for the saints... not that Icare that that much but I remember when I was young and I saw the saiunts and I was stoked the church had a team even though we stank... at that time... I remember think well at least we still have BYU. Now The colts did pretty much steal our high school jersey, I think that happened when coach Dungi came to see me play, haha. But I am old now, its time I go for my boy Shockey... who deserves another ring to show the Giants what a boss he is. Second... about the Dogs dad... that last photo with the latins and the dogs was taken Al fondo... whjich means behind, at a lot of times we live behind people in small cheap houses... its safer. Plus everyone has dogs here, even at missionaries houses sometimes... they arent pets and cant come into the house but they chill on the porches and protect the place.... also having lambs and sheep is quite popular... the nieghbors put them in our yards to eat the grass... espeacially the lamds because we gotta get em fat so they are good when we eat em haha... Personally I am not a fan of horse... but I did eat cow heart the other day... I feel like a new man haha. jk. I didnt like it that much. But this week was really interesting... super long with divisions with my DL who is just so dull. But the awesome news is... we had 3 investigators in the church!!! It was great.... It was a lady who we are teaching who is super stud.... just progressing really well. Then an old man we found the day before... and some random druggy who showed up to church saying he wanted to change his life... alrighty... lets do it. So things are looking better but those are the only people who are listening and I got some bad news today.... Not sure but the Assistants are coming to myt area to do divisions for 5 days!!! I like the Assistants but five days... not sure how they are going to like it...l.. DANNNY and JULIA::::: holy cow... I am in a cyber and Poker Face just came on... haha.. its crazy, first time that I have heard it since the US.... I shoulld probably leave this cyber but they all play really loud American music and the loud fast music helps me type faster haha... funny. Well thanks to all your good letters and advice I am sticking in there, its not that bad... just super hot and for some reason they dont like me here that much... then again my face isnt that welcoming when its so hot and I am super tired but I always try to smile. But the things they yell... man Sometimes Im just like why... but its all good. And no dad we shouldnt really fight back because the areas are small here so when a missionary gets in a fight with robbers the chances are thatthe will see them later that week and it will just be worse and worse. And that is why they pull elders out of areas sometime... those elders who were robbed last week were robbed again... man that stinks.... the kids have nothing now. Well other than that everything is going well... the best thing about all this persecution is it is another sign that I am in the right church... just look in the bible with Paul... now I am not as baptizing as many people but sometimes people just ask why.... why do peole hate you... and that is my favorite thing to explain.... when people ask that question it when they are just golden and rewady to hear the gospel. Also sometimes when people ask....why... its a billion degrees outside and everyone is sleeping or at the beach, what are you doing.... though half the time I am not quite sure why I am here I just pull out my old wallet that used to be dads and show them our family picture and say... thats why... theyre the reason I am here in front of you right now. So thank you all for the great words and advice all throughout life.... keep up the good work fam.... thanks for the letter maria.... hope sam likes this photo... tell him congrats and I wish I could be there.... Elder Blanco.

Sweet dreams are made of these

Hola todos.... howare things... luckily i had a much better week because we had sector conference with president and it went really well... sorry but there is not much time i have... it is dia de los muertos here in uruguay and its nothing big but i am writing you at an investigators house..... it is really hot down here in uruguay... wow i can not explain how hard it is getting to work here with this heat... i have not recieved the packages yet but hope to get them this week as well as i hope to send one to you all this week... not sure if it will get through with guayo mail but lets hope.... this month elder bednar is coming the 20th.... what a blessing... i am really excited. Also halloween was nothins special here... just the teenagers and adults have dances but it is nothing like america..... sorry i do not have much to say this week other than keep being the amzing people you are and remember to read, pray, and go to church.... i lve you mom and dad... thanks for everything.... wish i had more time... I also dont have many new pics this week... so i am sending one or two of when i was in the ccm...
elder blanco

Uncle Bill is in Uruguay

Well family….
If you already saw the Pictures you can see that i found Uncle. Bill… he is in uruguay…. How crazy is that…. He looks just like him and really is attitude is just like him too. He loves to live life and has a moto cycle and likes all the coolest bands. I Could seriously sit and talk to the guy all day because he is hillarious and it is uncanny how similar they are He is super cool to work with…
This week investigador wise wasnt too bad, we actually found a lot of people to teach thanks to some help from other elders in this area
we had two hours were we just had about 18 elders in our area go out and find people.
But that is that for this week.... not much really to say.... today I got chasd by a lion.... one of the coolest most auxillerating (sp) things that i have ever done.... i have it o video. It was a the zoo but still... they only have this tiny fence inbetween us... i felt like i was playing with ricky bobby or mushu again....
But to answer your questions about my mission president.... he is absolutely awesome... butunfortunately no i doint not see him that much. But when I do see him it is sweet. He has made this mission so much better. And his wife is an amazing cook... I am super sad that they are going to leave in like six months because they are phenominal.
Thank you for sending the package and thatnki you for the personalized letters this week it really helped... I am going to need them for the next few weeks. Thanks for the the updates on the family and friends... looks like everyone is changing which is good but weird at the same time.... The only thing i can ask is that you send a few of the addresses of people that i wanted... and if you could get brents and ryans that wouyld be sweet..... I love you all and hope to snd you a package within the next couple weeks.... take care and please be safe....
Elder Blanco

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

Time for a new post

This week was a lot better than last week. That lady who lost four sons.... well her name is maria and I told you how they were doing great but then they were rude to us. Weel we had two amzing appointment with them this week. First off we got to the house and they were jst kinda seeming like they didnt really want us there and it was hard to talk to them and what not but then we asked if they were saying their prayers... and the mom went crazy... in a good way. She said it was hard at first but the family pushed her and they said their family prayers... then her husband found work (they werent able to eat because the dad had no work) but he found some at a potato factory so now they get potatos super cheap which is awesome. She said that when she looks at the pictures of her sons that have passsed that she doesnt cry anymore because she knows that she is going to see them someday. This lady didnt believe in God!!! But things are getting a lot better for them... but only the two daughter went to church this week... the mother doesnt like church.... very common here, we have tons of problems with members and the Bishop that we are trying to fix right now. But yeah everything is marching with that right now. Lets just hope for the best....
Also we had our first baptism this week... sweet dude named Carlos... I got to do the confirmation which was pretty awesome. I hope I get to see his family go through the temple.
My Health is good... when I first got here I lost a good amount of weight because we have one meal a day from 12 to 1 and then we are back in the streets the whole day. But now the mewmbers are super nice to us here. They always give us food when we come over and it is hard to get out. So I have gotten back to my mormal weight again...haha its all good I decided a couple months before I go home I will get worried but right now I have plenty of time.
And I have a speacial project for Dad.... We have this crazy church here called Pare de Sufrir... or in english (not direct translation) Stop the Suffering.... This church is growing huge down in south america and now when we talk to people they say its all over in america and everywhere in the world. I have never heard of this church till I got here. I think the church might be lying to their people a little bit but it could be true cause its pretty big down here. But I kinda wanna know the gist about this church... Dad if you have time. They have a bunch of websites, we try and talk to a lot of their people about their beliefs and why they like it but we cant quite figure them out.... they selll soap that washes away your sins!!!! So just copy and paste a little bit about them... what they beleive... if you can find it, anything to help me out. That would be awesome....
Pride is killing this area of Tacuarembo for sure, there are close to 600 members in this small area and maybe 150 are active. Everyone is either a member here or wants nothing to do with the church.... at times it is hard buch we still have people that are going to get baptized showed its show that this area isnt quite done yet.
This week we had a Rat in the house.... the thing seriuously ruined the house.... I saw it, no one believed me then we moved my bed and picked up a bag and they it was... thing was super freaky... and ways we tore apart our room trying to find it then I saw it run into the Bathroom... once again the other elders thought I was lying. But we went it and check under the cubboard and it came runnin out... one of the elders freaked and tried to jump om the sink but ended up breaking the water so the house got all wet then we turned off the water and now we dont really have water in our house. Someone has to hold the pipe closed while the other takes a shower... but then we figured out a better way to fix it to save the embarrassment in the mornings.... but it doesnt work that welll... its a cork but it stilll leaks. So we will have to get that fixed soon.
I know you have been dying to know where I write e mails Dad... haha. The place I live in T-bo is on the outskirts by the farms and whatnot not... there is some stuff in the central part o town like a Cyber where you pay to use the computers.... its not really that expensive. But yeah thats what I do.... I am sorry I really have no Idea what the Perpetual Preparation Fund her in uruguay is.... but I doubt they have it.... the gov is dumb here.
But I gotta go.... love you all and miss ya.
Elder Blanco

A few good stories...

But a few awesome stories for this week. The Sister missiuonaries here are all crazy.... it keeps me entertained. They really struggled wirth the language so me and my comp decided we would try and teach them lessonns slow so that they could learn. Well about half way through the lesson they started to look like they were feeling a little unconfortable.... then I realized something that I had been informed about the day before.... when I speak spanish I WINK.... no lie its the craziest thing and I cant stop it. If a word has a rr or is long I cant say it... so they got unconfortable cause I was winking at the whole time... I cleared everything up but I still dont think they believe me.
Proselyting this week was amazing.... Seriously we were in the ghettoest place I have ever seen in my life. The people were lucky to have roofs and doors and there was one park if you wanted to call it that... it was dirt with two goal posts. Believe it or not the best success ever. These people would listen to us all day... I gave out probably 40 pamflets and 5 book of mormon and we have 4 appointments for this week. All the people were so amazingly humble and all they cared about was family and they were blessed... even though they didnt have a roof. So remember them.... there wasnt one person we talked to that I didnt show a picture of my family too.... we get a auotomatic connection through family. Thanbk you for alll of your prays and tellling me about you weeks.
The language is impossible likee always hahaha... but I am surving. Cant wait to get out.
Thanks to all my friends for the letters!
I wish I could write more but I will write the family a letter cause I have no time.
Love all of you
Elder White