¿Que onda?

Ok so this week was interesting...

I'll start with talking about the service we did. Let's play "WHAT DID COLIN DO FOR SERVICE THIS TIME?" If you guessed "picking up peoples trashy backyards and a ton of dog poop...as usual. whats new??" then you guessed right!! But get this... we were supposed to cut down a small tree and the other 3 elders did that, and I was the only one who had to pick up trash and dog poop :'(( oh well it actually wasn't bad and it took maybe less than an hour. 

This week Elder Kidd had to go to Comodoro to do paper work for his passport and Elder Rosas went with him because he has to do his too so I went with Elder Nuñez to San Benito, which is like the outskirts of Rio Galleg

os and it's more of what I thought Argentina would be like. All dirt roads, the houses were all spread out, dogs running wild in packs. I didn't feel like a missionary, I felt like a hiker. We crossed vast fields to get to people's houses. You know when you drive through Utah and you see those small beat up old towns? Imagine that. That's basically where we were. I loved it! It was definitely more windy and chilly though. I don't know much about Paraguay but I imagine that it's more like what Holly served in. They called the house lots "manzanas" and it was cool all around. Nuñez has been out a year and he's from Buenos Aires. He's super funny!  

Then I feel like Kidd and Teixeira are pretty fed up with Crawford and I by now and so they put us on divisiones and just kinda threw us to the wind. It was actually better than I thought. I mean, we had one aight lesson (and only because it was with a CRAZY 82 year old man who can't hear) and one real good lesson. We only had 9 contacts but it was alright. He stayed in our pension. The hardest part was thinking of who we could teach because we were in my area and I hardly know our investigators and where they live still. We survived, but they said that we were going to be doing that more often. It's pretty much like the MTC though. Good times....

This week I got asked if I was from Cordoba so that was sick. Also someone asked me if I was from Mexico.... idk. The other missionaries in our zone were talking and they all agreed I could be Porteño though!! That's cool! But for real Argentine people don't have a specific look. If you guys look outside right now, the next person you see could be Argentine. Like a lot of people here look straight Filipino. I've seen like 7 black people, 2 legit asians, and then the rest are white people that look like me or you and the other part are like native american or latinos. Sometimes the people here are so white I expect them to speak english and then they don't and it throws me off. I'm not used to it. 

We played basketball on Friday with some investigators and the other missionaries and it was a pathetic mess. Nobody really knows how to play here so it was just traveling and double dribbles the whole time. Anyone that went to my one church ball game knows I'm a lost cause but here I'm a pro. Como se dice "dunk contest with myself"? It was real fun.  While I was there, this kid in our ward showed me "Purple Lambourgini" by Rick Ross and Skrillex and I'm dead. Love Skrillex. Always getting one step ahead of the game. 

That's basically all I have to say this week. I've finished 1/2 of my training. Everyone thought Elder Kidd was gonna leave because he's been here for like 7 months or something like that but he's staying. I think he's ready for change though. Can't blame him. Ekblad got a new comp though! Also we have a 50/50 chance that we will get new gringos here so I might not be the baby of the group anymore!!  It kinda scares me how fast time is here. Mom, when you said I'm basically 1/8 done I was like "What no way! slow down!"

I had a dream the other night where I finished my mission and was chilling with the family and it was a good time but my Spanish was the same as it is now and I woke up like scared. I can't let my Spanish plateau. I'm going to master it or I'm not coming home. I need to be good at Spanish. I've decided that my mission goal has changed. It's still to have a successful phone call but the new goal is to be able to tell a funny story to a group of people correctly and have most of them laugh at the story and not at me telling the story. That's my new goal. I think it's do-able but i might accomplish it my last transfer. Vamos a ver. 

Anyways thats all I've got to say about that... keep me updated with your lives, and whats going on in the world. Also big shout out to Mandy Huang for sending me a handwritten letter! That's D1 friend/ editor in chief material! The rest of you step up your games. 

Love, Colin Ross

Colin's Address: 
Elder Colin Ross

Argenina Comodoro Rivadavia Mission

75 Fray Luis Beltran

Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut

U9000 Argentina

Colin in his apartment.

Eating dinner with a family.

His room.

His mission twin, Elder Rosas.

V artsy.

More dinner with a family.