Soaked by an Argentine Rain

Dear mom,

         This week we had a ton of meetings. On Tuesday we had a zone meeting in our church so we just walked there. on the way there it started to rain, but like a nice big argentine rain so we got completely soaked in our suits walking to a meeting that´s like six blocks from our house haha. everyone else showed up in taxis so we were the only ones who got wet and we live the closest!! I told the leaders we had to leave at six and they told me they would be done, but six rolled around and they were just right in the middle of all their stuff and my companion and i totally just stood up and left ha. 

       On wednesday we had a huge meeting with all the leaders of half of the mission. I was once again reunited with Elder Solomon. I don´t know if you remember about him, but we started the mission together, he was my companion in santa fe, and we´re pretty much the closest thing to boyfriends you can be as a missionary, plus he´s from texas.  it was the first time i had seen him in  over 8 months so we went out to eat and just celebrated being alive and together.

     Then on thursday we had interviews with the president. i got my temple recommend renewed so i can i go to the temple when i get home for a solid 3 months

     The work is going really good. we haven´t baptized in this area yet, but we have 2 this week. We had 7 investigators who went to church and our bishop told our stake president to please not take us out of the area because finally they got 2 good missionaries haha, don´t know what he wants to say about the missionaries before, but we sure are working a ton. 

    I have a huge favor to ask for you!! could you please send me a list of our family haha, i realized taht i don´t know anyone, but i would love to have a list of everyone especially right now nearing the end of the mission, you know, just so i don´t forget about anyone if i try to bring home argentine stuff.

  I love you lots, have a great easters!!

  

Elder  Emett 

HOW CRAZY!

         HAHAHAHAHAHA I love this sooo much!! tell him i´m super sorry i couldn´t make it, but nobody called me! The whole family traveled to get there, you might as well have seen if i was willing to make the trip, but it´s ok, i´m not offended. HOW CRAZY. it seems like everybody is just getting married over there! all my brothers, my girlfriend, etc... Tell him congrats for me and that i´m so proud of him! I knew the day would come, but i thought i would have already been off my mission. 

       Everything is going great here, we just have a ton of work to do and i can never quite seem to find enough time during these preparation days to write everything i want to write. We have 3 people getting baptized very very soon so we have to teach like 800 lessons this week to each of them and set up all kinds of interviews.

        My companion and i figured out that cocroaches exist plentifully here in rosario so one morning last week we just killed them all, all morning! It was a super epic battle cuz we had this spray that made them go nuts for  like 10 minutes until it killed them so we sprayed them and they just went wack and showed us all their great ariel moves. there was just a pile of them in the middle of our floor in our apartment after we had got done killing them. Ask me to tell you about how my companion speaks in the middle of the night some time cuz that´s quite a story just waiting to get told. 

        Tell the fam i love them tons and tell Jer he´s a stud. i´ll try to write more next week. love you tons!!!

Elder Emett

I finally have notices!!!

wehehell, 

      Look at this. After so much time of never having notices about my move i finally have notices!! and good ones too. I´m leaving on saturday to go to the mission capital, Rosario!!! i have never served in Rosario before so i´m super stoked to go see what it´s all about. I´m going to a really big ward that works really hard. There were ton of changes in our zone, 9 out of 24 missionaries are leaving so they´ll pretty much be starting from scratch. This means i won´t really know how i´ll be calling, but i´ll try to let you know. have josh just send me emails and stuff, cuz that worked super good the last time!

      This last week we had the chance to baptize someone. Her name is Samanta, she is 18 and sooooo cool. She just knew the church was true with her whole heart. Her mom through her out of the house when she wanted to get baptized, but she kept wanting to get baptized anyway. Her mom finally decided to support her in her decisions and she went right ahead and got baptized. The best part was that her mom and her boyfriend came to the baptism and said that they both loved it so they´ll come back on sunday for sure!!!!

        Everything is pretty much back to normal in the mission... all except for Concordia... which is where i am right now... but i´m leaving!!! haha, so no worries for me. what happened here is that the cops through a fit and got payed more so now the teachers and doctors are throwing fits because they´ve seen that they can get payed more. 

        I love your letter about how great everything is!! i just have one question... who´s baby is Macie Jo? There are way too many pregnancies going on in our family for me to be sure who´s it is haha, sorry if that´s mean. I just sure hope it´s not mine.

      Merry Christmas!! because the next time we talk will be christmas day. I will try to see if i can find some way to warn you what time i´ll be calling at, but i´m not sure if i´ll be able to, so see you soon!

Loves, 

Elder Emett

Rebellions in Argentina!

Deer Mawm, 

             Thank you for your letter, i enjoyed it very much. Snow no longer exists, i have met three people in Argentina who have ever seen snow and it´s only because they traveled to other countries. Snow would be so crazy!!!! Right now it´s just the middle of summer and there is a lot of humidity, but it´s just my sweat. Save some snow for me, would you? thanks a lot, i would love that.

          Mam, the craziest thing happened. I´m totally fine, just know that i´m absolutely fine and everything is under control right now. On sunday night there was a huge break out of the citizens of the city here. i´m in a city called Concordia and all the police of this cute little city decided they wanted a salary raise and they went on strike and they told the poor people about it so that the poor people would rob the stores so that the strike had a huge effect and that people died and got injured and they had to call in the feds and it was just a huge ol´ mess. Just know that i´m so very grateful to live in a free country that has such a great government set up and protects the citizens so much! What a divine commandment that we obey the laws of the land, that´s really a huge blessing that everyone in the united states is in agreement with doing that. The police are working again, they came to an accord so everything is just fine and under control, but there are just some days when i stay in the pench the whole entire day and realize why i love the U.S. A LOT. 

          If you hear anything about rebelions in argentina just know that i´m not in it at all, i´m super safe and loving my time here. I opened my stocking and i got so excited for all the american candy! i´m going to show it to all the argentines, i hope they love it as much as i do. Just so you know i´m probably leaving this area next week, sooooo i don´t know if i´ll be able to communicate with you about how we´ll talk on christmas.... i´m probably going to be  training a new missionary in an area that´s not mine so i don´t know what i´ll use to talk to you, but we´ll work it out for sure. 

            Have  a great week this week with the christmas calender! I love you all tons! see you next week

 Elder Emett

IGOCHPAKJ!!!!!!!

Wutta Thanksgiving!!

         Wutta thanksgiving. I already knew that they didn´t celebrate thanksgiving here, but i guess i just had a little bit of hope that we would do something fun, and we did!!! we worked, but i did have a lot of desires to do some thanksgiving turkey bowl and eat at aunt Pam´s house. It´s all good though, the time is flying by so fast right now that that whole week was just like 8 hours long. 

        IGOCHAPAKIJ!!!!!!! Kolby can definately read that if nobody else gets it. it says: i got your package! but i was excited so i yelled it and the words all slurred together. But i´m so excited!!! i already put the little goo things on windows and mirrors and now it looks like a woman decorated our apartment :D Can i really not open the stocking until Christmas? I´ve held back all of my curiosity up until now, but i know you mentioned that so i just wanted to see if it´s a rule or not. THe little book i recieved from the older boys has already become treasure without measure and i can´t explain the enjoyment i know i will have when i eat all those sweet little marshmallows. 

        Christmas has begun! i´ll probably be buying the nativity scene soon, but that would be cool if you told me exactly what you are expecting out of it. Everything goes good here in my house, argentina. I´ll see you all at the movie night and dinner at durangos this saturday!

Elder Emett

What he is grateful for!

La Mamá,

   Yo quería escribirte en castellano hoy porque todos los wachos lo están haciendo. Na, i´m just kidding. I´ll try hard to answer all the questions.

I´m doing super good! I don´t really know how rosario is, i´ve never actually served there, I´ve only been there for meetings and stuff, but from what i hear they are doing really good down there. I did not ever get the christmas package that the lady sent me, but even if it got to the mission perfectly fine i still wouldn´t have had a chance to obtain it yet so hopefully it´s all good :)

   Addi could talk, but she could only say very very small words that were more like burps so i´m super excited to get home and see how she´s talking!!!! i´m not excited that when i get home she´ll have no more reason to pray for me :(

    About the missionaries going home early, that is a real thing that it´s hard to not have access to technology to socialize all the time. I would definately say that the reasons go deeper than that, but it sure is a real thing about getting hooked on facebook and getting to a point where you need it. 

     I have not figured out how to call you on christmas yet. There are transfers the week before christmas and, more than likely, i´m going to leave my area so we won´t have a ton of time to set it up, but i will call you!! don´t worry about that. I´m sure that i´ll be able to find some kind of computer to do skype too.

    About the release date... i asked for an extension and the president told me it would be an honor to have me stay in his mission.... so i´ll be getting home in the middle of september of next year! Na, i´m kidding. Our president doesn´t give out extensions except for really special reasons. Kolby was totally right though, my mission got extended by 2 weeks so i should be going home around march 12th. But no worries, i´ll get flight plans and let you know all about it.

     I won´t get to be seated around the Thanksgiving table this year when we say what we are grateful for so i´d love to take the oportunity right now!! I´m grateful for family!!!!! I know that i do really bad at expressing that, just based on the amount of letters and packages i send, but every day i´m reminded by the spirit how grateful i am for my family. I´m grateful for parents who are so giving to be paying for this whole mission gig that i´m doing. I´m grateful for the redeeming power of Jesus Christ´s atonement that helps us all to be better and erase our mistakes and i´m super grateful for the chance that i have to teach that to the cute little city of Concordia in Argentina. God´s plan I so divine that i came here to this exact city to meet the exact people i did because it really could not have been any other way. I´m grateful for that plan. I´m grateful for your support and i´m grateful because i´m an Emett!!! Odoyle Rules! gracias. amen. 

Still has a sense of humor!

Mum,

          Healthy, happy, doing good.

                                 Love, Elder Emett

Naaaaaaaa! i´m just kidding. Sorry that all the letters have been short, but sometimes it´s just like that. 

         This last week we had a crazy experience. A man named Ramon came to church 2 weeks ago just totally drugged and out of it. He lives in the street and really just has nothing going in his life. People go to the church very often to ask for money or food or things like that because the whole world here understands we´re good people, but when he came into the church he didn´t ask for food or money or a place to stay. He simply told a branch president here that he needed to change so he showed up at the church. 

           The branch president came and got my companion and i out of sacrament meeting and we met Ramon. I don´t know if you know the look in the eye of someone who is so drugged they can hardly think.. well, his eyes were like that. Usually people like that just yell at us asking for money and say a whole lot of stuff they don´t mean to say. He was composing himself super well, but we said either way he wouldn´t understand anything right then. We said, ´´Ramon, you come here at five thirty tonight and we´ll help you, but you can´t touch drugs or alcohol today or we won´t be able to help you.´´ So he left and at five thirty my companion and i were in the church doubtfully waiting. I looked out the window and i thought i saw him sitting on a wall on the other side of the street so i went outside to see if it was really him and he had left. so i ran down the street to see if he had turned the corner and it was him! i called him and we taught him. He just kept saying with eyes full of tears, ´´until when? until when?´´ as in he was absolutely sick of being that way. He hadn´t used drugs or alcohol all day and he really understood what we said. We told him to come back tuesday at five and he came! But that look in his eyes was way better, when he came walking down the street he had a big smile and was just as happy as can be and looked like a regular person. We didn´t have a lot of chances to teach him this week, but he went to church yesterday and made comments and asked questions in the classes and all the members treated him great!!!

        Also, yesterday we had the most people in church i have ever had in this area (in over 6 months) There were 53 and the coolest part is that a ton of them were new. We are having a ton of success in this area. My companion (Elder Taylor) and i have been together like 4 months and we are just having a ton of fun. He is from Payson so we´re totally going to hang out after the mission. We are just like best friends and the coolest part is that he is just the bossest missionary ever. He fixes everything.... spiritually and like mechanically. 

       You already knew that stephen Montague got home from his mission, right? well right now he is working as a valet in Las Vegas and last week he went to our house to visit the Emett family... but nobody was there!!!! So he went in and took a picture equally. haha gosh i miss that guy.

        Right now we are doing super good here in the zone Entre Rios. There is an email they send us every preparation day that shows how many baptisms each zone has and, for my entire mission, Entre Rios has been the zone that never baptizes. Last week in the weekly email it showed that we are leading the whole mission in baptisms right now!! 

          I hope that was a little longer! l love you all! i´ll keep jason in my prayers cuz that´s way scary, i hate head problems!!!!!!  much love!

Elder Emett