Dat Boi in Argentina: Week in Trio

Yo what's good fam?

Real talk did I miss Thanksgiving?? I kinda forgot about it. Is Thanksgiving in November? Oh well, no me importa.

So this week was real chill. It's kinda like Stephen said. I'm looking for the little good things and then life is way good. I mean, I already knew that but it's helping.

Turns out Gonzalez doesn't think I'm funny either. Nobody does...#simp but anyways we were in the La Anonima buying groceries doing adult things and we passed the noodle section and I saw some alphabet letter noodles and then I casually (JOKING) ask him "How are you supposed to read these if they're in English..??" and he just gave me the look like I was the dumbest kid ever. I mean, I had a good laugh about it but he didn't.

Ok so another side note. I've been meaning to tell the world my opinion for a while now but I keep forgetting. How much of a man is Messi!! Have you seen his beard and his bleached hair? I'm just a big fan of it. Also he's a super stud. Like he just gets things done. Except when we played Brasil..oops. But I heard he got a golazo against Colombia. Speaking of Colombians, I played soccer against some. Super hilarious guys. They're like dark black. They had corn rows and it was cool. The mission life just gives you some crazy experiences.

Another note about soccer. We were visiting a member and he was watching Paraguay vs Bolivia and sorry not sorry but that was the MOST pathetic game I've ever seen. It was trash. The Boliviano scored off his own goal and celebrated like it was his first goal in his life. You should look it up. It's super chistoso. But ya we don't get to watch a whole lot of soccer. I mostly just hear about the games after.

So on Thursday I think, we were in a trio [companionship] with Elder Jimenez until Saturday night because his comp got sent home. Trios kinda suck badly. But actually the convos were flowing more and we had some pretty funny ones. Somehow we started a convo about if Stephen Hawking was a missionary and in broken English Gonzalez pretends to be Stephen Hawking and says "I know I say that God doesn't exist but I feel the spirit..." and by then we were busting up laughing.

I've been helping Gonzalez with his English and I think I'm only making it worse. I'm the worst explainer ever. I always just teach him slang things and ways to say things, but the way I would say it. He's helping me with my Spanish now. It's cool. He tells me the Argentine slang too. It's dope.

But on Friday night we received the 3 best texts any missionary could ever hope for! En serio, it was unreal. We just all looked at each other and we said "Yo sé que Dios existe, y que Él nos ama!¨" ["I know that God lives and that He loves us!"]

[I think all these texts are about food smh- Rachel]

"Hi, If I'm going to be there all day, will you come?"

"Hello, if we have free all afternoon tomorrow but we will

Anyways, we had two BOMB lessons with both of my FAVORITE investigators and it was so good and we put fechas [dates for their baptisms] for the day before I leave Rio Gallegos and it was great and they basically had it in writing that they'd attend church with us and it was perfect and things were so great.

Sunday morning rolls up. We get to church early. I'm stoked to have 4 asistencias [people attending church] and hang out with my faves, and then it gets closer to when church starts and still nothing. Then church starts and still nothing. Every slight sound towards the door I just looked over so fast to see if it was them. And nothing. Then the sacrament started and nothing. After about 10:20 I figured they weren't coming. I was SO sad. Like devastated. It was terrible. Day went from 100 to 0 real quick. So so so triste. And now all the fechas fell and now I'm not gonna be able to see them baptized. So basically I'm leaving Gonzalez with 4 baptisms and they are all my faves. He barely knows them.

That's pretty much it for this week. Elder Ixcot is still hilarious. He loves me and told me that he wishes I was his companion. That would be too good though and we'd probably get into some kinda trouble.

On Saturday we did a thing for Family Search and we went dressed as not missionaries so I told everyone my name was Diego. It was cool.

Chau chau chau chau chau chau for now.

Elder Ross

See you soon.

When the selfie lighting is perfect, you can't miss that opportunity.

Ok, so we finally got Joana (our 12 year old investigator who's SUPER RIDICULOUSLY UNRELIABLE) to come to noche de deportes with us. And we knock on her door and THIS dog comes out. I honestly laughed sooo hard. For like 10 minutes. And after I started to stop, Gonzalez tells me that it's the 2nd dog he's seen with makeup on during his mission and I lost it again for like 5 more minutes. The dog followed us to centro, like a 20 minute walk.