Oh my goodness, where to begin...
So we flew here this week (i have no sense of days....). There was 3 of us from America. After the forever long flight we arrived in the morning in Buenos aires. >We made it through customs, answering all the questions right i guess! >(in the us we barely made it on our flight...haha....we thought we had plenty of time, and then the lady wouldn´t let us on the plane until we payed 160 reciprocity fee, come to find out in Argentina we weren´t supposed to pay>! So we were just hoping someone would be there to pick us up....when 2 guys in white shirts came up speaking spanish, asked for our passports, and took the suitcases. We followed, cause what else would we do, and they had some sign that said church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. I felt like I was in some movie....we didn´t know what was going on.(we soon figured they weren´t members, as they took a smoke...) Then they put us in a bus with all our stuff, and there was 5 other missionaries from the MTC here. Then we drove 3 more hours to Rosario to the mission home. Then we were at the mission home that day, had pizza, interviews, a bunch of other stuff, slept in the house, the next morning was training and then we left for our areas.
The mission home is huge and beautiful, the office is on the same property. The pres and his wife are sweet, both from Rosario but live in Provo.
There are 8 of us, me and 2 girls and the rest elders, most of them are from Chile. A ton come from Chile because they don´t need visas.
>>Everything else is going to be scattered, as there are a million things to say.
>My trainer is from >Utah, she has 3 months left. We are whitewashing the area, so basically we arrived knowing nothing. >It is quite the challenge....and we have a ton of work to do. The city is actually pretty big, and our branch is mostly middle class people. The branch pres and his wife are the best!! They are younger and so excited, we met with them like the second day here. And the best news is that there is a family from idaho!!!!! Oh my goodness it´s so nice to have Americans, and they are a cute young family, and love american missionaries, and mom she is going to call you today!!
The food! cause i´m sure you were wondering about that. Portions are huge! In the mission home we had pizza, and facturas (the yummmiest pastries i have ever had...only in argentina!), They love dulce de leche! Lunch is the big meal here, so we have that with members. (Everywhere closes at like 12 or 1pm, and doesn´t upon until 5. They need their sleep here. so in afternoon the streets are dead). But just like any other country, their is lots of different food....their milk is in bags, they eat a lot of pasta, and have the best juice that´s thick and tastes like a squished up peach. I am already planning to bring home a suitcase full of oreo alfajors, it´s like oreo cookie things stacked up and filled with fudge.
My comp is great! I was happy to get a north American, but she does usually speak in Spanish to me which is good. So she has been sick....one day the other hermanas, who are latinas, came and made us lunch. The Latina Hermanas are great, they sure know how to be hospitable! haha. They just come in and take over. There are some awesome members in the ward, a lady does our laundry and feeds us once a week.
There´s just a lot to adjust to, of course everything is different, and we don´t really know anyone here. And we don´t have any investigators. It has been frustrating. We have a lot of finding to do. It´s definitely better when we stay busy and are doing things. It´´s frustrating not knowing the people or language. We need some miracles here. But...ask me in a while and i am sure i will love Argentina!
So far we have gone to church, (yep, i played the piano! haha), walked around a lot, and have been trying to contact people to find to teach. We organized everything, made maps, etc. Oh, and we have hot water for showers!
It sounds like you have all had quite a week.... Crazy to think the semester is over! I have a totally different sense of time being here. And it´s almost summer for you!
Sorry for all the rambling and everything, but thank you for your letters! It´s so good to hear from home!
love and miss you all!
love, hermana andrews
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