Another week in Rodeo del Medio!

Hello everybody!!

     Great week here in Argentina! Sounds like the reunion was beyond amazing. It would have been to experience it, but I wouldnt trade being here in Argentina for anything. And what!! Nobody told me tara is pregnant!!!!! Thanks for leaving me out of the loop. Derek is 6000 miles away, so he doesnt need to know! Haha just kidding, Im messing with you. But that is so exciting! How far along? Dallin good luck today with your first day of therapy, you will do great!! Jordy-Poo, happy birthday! You are 16, that is crazy. But you need to tell all of those boys that they need to just wait until I get home to take you on date, and even then they will have to have an interview with me to make sure they are worthy to go out with my little sis haha!! And what the!? You are now going all the way to Nevada for softball? You are just touring all of the US arent you haha. Where is next? Devin and Teddi, that sure sounded like an adventure with the two baby lambs. But the long walk was definatly part of the gift. Way to go!! So this week was way good. Wednesday we traveled to Mendoza to the offices where our zone had a meeting with President Avila. So awesome!! Afterwords he gave us all some money and sent us to mcdonals to eat. Real american food haha. And mcdonalds is super expensive here. We are talking about 70 pesos for just a regular sized meal. That would be about $14 in the states haha! But they are super busy here too. And they have security guards in them haha. Its pretty funny to see them standing there in their unfiorms.

     Well this week the work went pretty well. We found a family. And they have 5 children. They are super interested too. We are just way excited to teach them. Excpet when we knocked on their door we were covered in mud haha. On our way there a motor cycle came zooming by us and drove right through a huge mud puddle and just splashed us. covering us in the mud. We were probably quite the sight to see haha!! But they are solid, and are going back tomorrow. So there is a recent convert here in the Barrio named Said. He was baptized a week before I got here. But we have been trying to teach his little sisterm but they live so far away. It is an hour and a half bus ride, and then another hour of walking to get there. They are totally in the middle of the desert. But we found out yesterday. But she comes to church with said every sunday, so we atleast try to teach her then. But we found out yesterdat that she has been taught all of lesson. But not from us missionaries, but from her brother Said. Every night he sits her down before going to bed and they go over one of the folletas (pamphlets) and he answers any of her questions. So we should be baptizing her pretty soon after we meet with her a little more often and make sure she understands everything. But it is so awesome to see something like this happening and to have that kind of help! And Wilson, Matias, and luis are slowly coming along. The marriage papers here are super long are pretty expensive. This is why there are so many people here who live together and have a family, but arent married. It gets pretty frustrating haha. How is everything else going for everybody!! Dad, how is the clinic going? Pretty busy? and what about your new car? you still liken it!! How is good ol festus doing haha? and what about my boy Chico! I miss the dog! But I get reminded about him all the time when people here call us Chicos all the time haha! Well I hope everyone has a great week! I love you all and thank you for everything!

Elder Wengert-W9

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Elder Whal. He happnes to be from St Johns and is good friends with Zach!!

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I wasn´t able to get a picture with Valentina at the baptism, but atleast got this one!

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Hello everybody!!!

     Dallin, you are home!!!!!!! You are one crazy brother haha. Sounds like it was a great time being able to go back to the ward. Our ward really is amazing, and we have been blessed with the ability of having that great of a ward. Well great week this time. Even though Valentina didn´t count as a baptism for the mission, she asked me if I would baptize her, and it was such an amazing experience. I loved it!!! Well we have 3 investiagors named Luis, Matias, and Wilson. for all three of them their girlfriends are less active members. (they have children with eachother but arent married, and live with eacother. Huge problem here). But for passed few weeks that I have been here, they have literally been doing nothing. They wouldnt let us in or anything. So yesterday being fast sunday, Elder Johnson and I decided to fast for them. And yesterday, guess who comes walking in to church. Yes, all three of them and their wifes/girlfriends. And luis and his girlfriend live about 2 hours away from the church. We talked to them after and they want to get married. So what we are trying to get done is one big wedding for them all, and then the baptism for the husbands afterwards. So hopefully it all will work out! That would be so awesome!! Here is the down part of the week. We got fed last week on monday by an elderly couple in the ward. and it was pretty good, until that night. It was crazy, Elder Johnson and I wake up at about the same time. Like 2 in the morning, with terrible stomach pains. Yea, food poisoning haha. We took turns all night going to the bathroom and throwing up and that good stuff. Uh, the worst night of my life. We were like zombies walking around our area that night. Such a long day. But we woke up tuesday morning and were perfetly fine haha!! But yea, gotta love it haha! Well how is life at home?! The Wengert Reunion sounds like it is going to be way fun! Where is it being held at? I was so excited to hear about Paul!! How is he doing? Where is he living? Could I have his address, or at least an email for him.

That would be great! Sounds like the girls are having fun with all of their softball tournaments. Man jordan went all the way to Denver for softball! I think I may have gone farther than phoenix like once for high school sports haha! Sounds like the 4th was fun! Ours was pretty fun. We had an asado at the Gutierrez´s of course haha! But it was also their daughters birthday. So they had lots of family over. But they had us sing the national anthem for them, and I even got my first kiss in Argentina from a cute little old lady (the kisses on the cheeks when you greet someone. Most people dont do them to americans and especailly missionaries. but I dont know, not this time haha). Hey Jess, my Zone leader is named Elder Stetson Biggs from Gilbert. He said he knows you from EAC. I dont think real well but just a little bit!! And Jess, how is Derek doing tambien? Hey Jess, also ask everyone for refferals. It really works. This week we wanted to recieve and contact 15 refferals. And that is what we did. And because of that we have 12 new investigators from this week!! But of course everyone here is more than willing to let us in for the first lesson and become an investigator. The tough part is turn them into progressing.  But sounds like you are doing great!! Well sounds like you are doing well. I love you all so much and can´t thank you enough for everything. Have a great week!

Elder Wengert-W9

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Im not really sure. We were walking on the rail road tracks one night on our way back from an appoitment and started playing around haha!

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This is one of the road side Catholic saint worshipping cites. This saint is named Goucho Hill. He was an Argentine cowboy, and is Argentinas form of Robin Hood. So everybody loved him. Even to the point where after he died, they still believe he can help them. So they made him a saint and pray and worhip him. Yea, pretty crazy haha! 

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Hello everybody,

     I am so sorry about my letter last week. I´m not sure what happened. But it has been a good but long week. We were supposed to have a baptism last saturday for a little girl named Valentina who was 9 years old. Whe have her baptismal interview and she comes out with our ZL after like 2 minutes. Come to know that is she actually 8 years old and is the responsibility of the bishop now. So dissapointing. We just came home and pigged out on ice cream to cheer us back up haha. But its ok, as long as she is baptized. The work here is pretty difficult because of how so many people here are catholic and worship so many saints. Mostly because they are pretty lazy and worshiping saints is super easy. You pray to them and thats it. no action involved. It gets pretty redicilous. And it gets pretty hard because of the ciesta they have here. it usually goes from about 1-6. They are all sleeping after they eat lunch and some people get very upset if you bother them. But its ok, we are able to meet with some people during this time. There is a part member family we meet with called familia Gutierrez. The mom and 2 of the kids are members, but the dad and the other 2 kids aren´t. So we are really working with them. But they love us. They feed us at least twice a week, but they fed us 3 times last week. But Sunday Hermana Gutierrez comes us to us and hands us each a bag and is like, I know you two have been pretty cold lately, so I got you these. And in the bag is a scarf and a pair of gloves. And she is working on knitting us beanies. She is the sweetest lady ever. And she has the coolest conversion story. They have a daughter who is 19, and a few years ago she got really sick. She finally got better, but the sickness left her not all in the head, and she still kind of acts like a little girl. But for 2 years she never left the house and didnt say one work. Not even one. And then the missionaries came over and starting teaching the family and commited them to going to church. But Hermana Gutierrez was sick that morning. But her daughter comes into the room and for the first time in 2 years talks to her mom saying Mom, you told the missionaries you would go to church, we need to go! And so they went and were baptized a few weeks later!! They are the greatest family, and so close to getting the rest of them baptized here. Friday we had lunch, which is a huge meal here in Argentina, with a member family. But it is a long walk to get there. We walk out of the city about a mile into the desert, and all of a sudden a little village pops out of nowhere haha. But we get to the house and the food still wont be ready for about another 30 minutes. So their 7 year old daughter Angie brings barbies out to us so we can play with her until the food was ready. So Elder Johnson (who has a super deep voice) and I are there talking with our girlie voices playing barbies haha. It was fun haha. Excpet the whole time I could here Devin´s voice saying ´´There goes a corner of your man card haha´´. But the family was happy and we even got recieved 2 references from here. So worth it for sure haha. Jordy-poo, don´t you just love it out there in the ditch haha. So much fun. I know it isn´t easy, but let me tell you, you have a great rewarding feeling when you are done! So don´t give up on it. Finish it for me!! How is everyone else doing? How did the girls do in their basketball  tournament? Tanno, whats going on?! I will have to cook you up a real Argentine asado when I get home alright!! Best ever! Sounds like Dallin is doing so good!!! And he gets to leave the hospital soon! That is so amazing, and such a huge blessing! The Lord has sure helped you through this trial. Just keep working hard for me alright! And we will have another basketball game on the little hoop when I get home. But don´t think im going to go easy on you because of this haha! Oh, mail doesnt get devivered to our individual pench, so just mail stuff to the mission office mom. And packages will take at least a month if not like 3 months, so don´t worry about a birthday package mom. Letters will be perfect! I am doing great!! Well I hope all of you have an amazing week. Thank you for everything. Love you!!

Elder Wengert-W9

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