[Ok first off, tell my friends of class of 2018 to invite me to their grad parties.]
IT'S THE LAST WEEK AND IT'S SOOO WEIRD! SO WEIRD: SO WEIRD. I can't even believe it.
Thinking here about everything that's happened. 2 YEARS. It's all coming to an end. All the good, the bad, the in between, the language, the culture, the schedule, and the responsibility. It's all ending. I don't know how to feel. All I know is that this week I have to do a ton of things and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. Just things like "visit this person before I leave, write this person a letter, take pictures there." And the list goes on. We'll see what I accomplish.
It's also gonna be a possible super great week because we have between 2-6 baptisms lined up. It's the familia Mercado that we've been teaching. They're now becoming more ready and their baptismal date is for this Saturday. I think I'll be in Comodoro on Saturday so I'm gonna see if we can move the baptism for Friday. Or if not I won't be too sad. I just want them to be baptized.
But yeah on Friday night or on Saturday I'll be returning to Comodoro because I want to pass my last Sunday in Abasolo and we have interviews and stuff on Sunday.
This week is gonna be insane. I'm trying to set up my last lunch with an hermana in Gaucho (my first area) because I ate with her my very first day and I want to eat my very last lunch with her. We'll see if she can this week. I hope so!
I have to tell you guys what happened this week!!!
So on Wednesday we parted towards the end of the world! We made the more than 12 hour trip, crossing mountains and oceans and even other countries to get to Ushuaia. It was super cool!! I now have a stamp in my passport because I've been to Chile!!! It's official. It was really fun because we went as a zone and so I was able to talk and make new friends with missionaries I didn't know too well. I have a ton of new memories now.
On Wednesday night late, we got to Ushuaia and we stayed in a super fancy hotel and it was fantastic! They bought us dinner and for real it was amazing. I seriously felt like I didn't deserve to live this fancily. In my nightly prayers I prayed for like 20 minutes just thanking God for the crazy blessing that this trip was. (And later in my testimony in the conference I talked about the blessings of tithing hahah) But this whole trip I was counting my blessings. It was unbelievable.
On Thursday we didn't have anything to do so they let us go roam around the city and we got a small group and we explored centro and the other smaller sites that are in the main city. It's soooo pretty. It didn't feel real. And the pictures I took don't do it justice. It was a great time. Taking it all in. Then at night we had a devotional type thing but my group that is going home with me is reallly big so basically it was a testimony meeting for us. And we ate dinner and I was able to see some old friends and missionaries that I haven't seen for over a year!!! So it was a great reunion. Then we returned to the hotel and enjoyed our time together.
On Friday we had the conference with Elder Packer. He's a great old guy! He served in Spain as mission president. The conference was good. Just kinda average but overall good. Then we ate and we had more time to go and explore outside so we went out and took some pictures and explored some other parts. The only problem is that the sun came out late and goes down fast so there wasn't a lot to see or do after a certain hour. And also on Friday it was the day of the revolution in Argentina so almost everything was closed.
And then on Saturday we woke up reeeallll early to start up our trip back to Rio Gallegos. It was a good time too! We crossed oceans and mountains and Chile again and it was fun.
We got back and Elder Walker (Kaden) stayed with us for the weekend because his companions continued the journey to Rio Turbio to do divisiones over there. So I got to spend some good time with Kaden for the first time on the mission. It was a great. I enjoyed it. He helped us clean our dirty pension. For real he's a saint. And we made some good food, hamburguesas and chicken, and we taught some cool lessons with him.
Now I'm in my last p-day and we are going to play volleyball and eat choripan so that's goonna be cool!
Overall the mission was too good. I don't regret it. I'd prolly do it again. Definitely worth it. Lots of great experiences and cool things I've learned.
Overall, my letters have been trash, but I hope that when I get back we can go over a few of the things that have happened and the crazy stories and explain it in more detail.
But it's been good to be a missionary. To be a representative of our brother and example Jesus Christ. It's been a process but I hope to come home just a little bit more like Him than when I left. Sometimes it's hard to see the progress but maybe you'll notice it.
For the last time,
Elder Ross
haha these guys were cool. They were in the bus with us. They are from Taiwan and we spoke in english. They didn't know anything in Spanish. They are friends and have 23 years. They are studying statistics but they wanted to explore South America and have been here for 2 months already, in Peru and Bolivia and Chile and now in Argentina hahah
