Another Great Week!

Mams,

      This was another great week! super crazy, but great. So they sent me to a city called Concordia to be the zone leader of the Zone called Entre Rios which is the biggest zone in my whole entire mission and, being the biggest, has the most missionaries in it. I live in an apartment building on the tenth floor right across from the ´´stake´´ center. Not stake because it´s only a district, but serves just like a stake center. I live with 5 other missionaries, 4 of which are latins from mexico, honduras, uruguay, and argentina. My area is right on the edge of a river and if we were to cross that river we would be in uruguay so we´re right on the border. My companion and i are doing a white wash into our area which means it´s both of our first times in the area, he wasn´t there before i got there, we have to learn about the area together.

       There are no wards in our whole zone, only branches because the church still isn´t very big so there are a few missionaries who are branch presidents. The mexican we live with is the branch president of a pretty big branch so, pretty much, he´s just a bishop!

       My companion says that zone leaders have a ton of extra stuff to do, but up until now i haven´t really done anything. I´ve kind of just been hanging around and watching my companion except for when we are out working. The brach here is way cool because they all want to help us and they all love the missionaries a ton!

        I have a huge favor to ask of you! there is this guy that totally loves scouts here and all he wants is like an american scout badge and a handkerchief so if there are like any badges or anything laying around and you were about to send any kind of package, would you send that too? I would surely appreciate it and i´m positive he would appreciate it too much, this guy´s seriously nuts about scouts!

         I´m super stoked that Zac is going to get married!!!!!! Bummer i can´t be there, but i´ll surely be there in spirit :) I´ll see you next week at the summer party!! Love Elder Em

Really really really great week!!!!

MOMZIES,

           Really really really great week this week! yes, the lady got baptized and she´s absolutely my favorite! Her name is Zunilda and the coolest part about the baptism is that Ever already recieved the priesthood so he baptized her! Ever also already found a girlfriend in the church!!!!!! It´s so cool becuase he didn´t get converted for her, he met her after he got converted at an activity of the church. I´m way way way too happy about how that is going right now, i´m so privileged to be part of his conversion.

           Yahooooooooo for Zac! por fin, eh? That´s so great!! haha finally! Send a shout out to him for me would you? Please tell me they´re going to get married in 10 months, that seems like a good waiting period to me.
         I love this area like my home!!! But i just recieved the bad news. I´m getting transfered :( I´m going to a place called Entre Rios to be with one of the greatest missionaries in this whole mission. My companion is a jewish convert and he used to be my district leader, but we´re going to be zone leaders together so i´m way excited at the same time, but i´ve got some heavily mixed emotions about it. The worst news of all is that they changed all the cell phones last night so i can´t call anyone in my area to see when we can visit them!! This is kind of like leaving home again, but i can´t invite anyone to my farewell and they don´t know. Also my district leader here is pretty much one of my best  friends of all time. His name is Elder Solomon and he´s from Texas. He´s just a giant texan and super proud about it, Imma miss him tons.           

             But yes about the shoes! They´re getting fixed right now actually :) And i´m going to be able to pick them up today. Thank you so much for that! I love you mom! Send the whole family a ton of love for me, I´ll see you all too soon.   Elder BenEmett

    P.S.- 2 Pictures from the baptism then a picture of a hard candy sandwich i made (Chuck´s idea)

I'm super happy so don't worry at all:)

Mamer,

        It was great to talk to you all too! and Matt is right, i´m super happy so don´t worry at all :) YAHOO!!! another little Mathew and Shellie! I was so nervous to talk and now i´m even more nervous to be coming home to so many children i won´t know. Why wasn´t Zach there? That was a little bit of a bummer, but it´s all good.  

       So about the family that let me use the computer. That´s really the coolest family ever!! the parents are both converts to the church and both left for the mission right after getting converted. The mom got kicked out of her house at 15 years old because she joined the church, but lived with some members then went on a mission then met her husband. All of their children have gone on the mission so far. They have had 3 so far. 2 went to colombia and 1 went to like chile or somewhere. They have a kid with my same age who is going to leave on the mission at the end of this year, he had to wait because he has some heart problems, but they got it fixed so he could go on the mission. He always goes on splits with us and helps us teach all the people. That girl is already doing her papers and she´s planning on leaving at the end of this year too because she´s already 19. Then they have one other daughter who is 16 and she´s kind of girly so they´re not sure if she´ll go, but they sure are supporting her to go. Yesterday just like 10 minutes before we talked the dad´s second grandkid was born, but he told us he was going to be there so we could talk to our families with his computer so he left the hospital and he came back to the house. He recieved a text as Elder Monckeberg was talking with his family that the baby had been born! He´s such an amazing person.

        Yeah, i went to another bank that worked a lot better and i took all 200 out already. Thank you sooooooo much for that!! That´s really going to save me in more than one way. Sometimes the salvation is monetary, ¿Qué va a hacer?

       Ok, we´ll talk to you soon, eh? Thanks for everthing! besos. 

Elder Emett

Get's to use Skype for mothers day!!!!!

Mam, 

      This week was too fast! we did some services and had a ton of lessons with members so it was just really busy and awesome. Most of the week was just planning visits and way smooth. We haven´t been able to talk to the scientist yet, but we´re trying to take things at his pace. We didn´t have a baptism this last week because the guy we were going to baptize is not ready, but he´s certainly trying! His name is guillermo and he came to church yesterday. He walked right in and asked where the bishop was and the bishop was right in front of him so the bishop said, ´´i´m right here.´´ Then Guillermo said, ´´ here, take this,´´ handing the bishop his tithing. I think that´s the first time i´ve ever seen an investigator pay his tithing. He also gave his testimony during the fast and testimony meeting. It was short, but he basically said he knows that this church is true and that´s why he comes here. He has a way to go with smoking and his girlfriend, but he´s progressing really great! Also we are teaching an old lady named Zunilda who is going to get baptized on the 18th and she´s a lot more sure about it. 

       And you´re totally right that i´m going to be calling this week! But even better we got a few members who told us we could use their skype!!!! So i´m not totally sure about how that all works out, but i´m sure we´ll figure it out. Just tell Josh that i´m going to use skype so he can give me all kinds of little codes to type in and things like that. You still have skype, right? nice. And i´m going to call at 6 in the afternoon here which should be at like 3 in the afternoon there. It might be a little bit sooner, but that´s the plan more or less :)

        As for Jason´s question- first of all tell him i´m super sorry cuz that blows!! His sounds way worse than mine, I forgot a couple days but i could always still smell stuff and such. The headaches really were the worst part, that took the longest to go away and sometimes i´m convinced that they come back, buuuuuut all the super painful ones were gone in just like a couple short weeks! I sure hope his is only as bad as mine was.

        I´ll talk with you very soon, face to face! :) So i´m out for today. Love you mom.  -Elder Emett