Not Much Luck in Finding New People

Dear Family,

Well, I'm emailing a few people back and forth right now as I'm writing this email! I love hearing a little bit of news from people back home like this sometimes. Well, my biggest shock of the week was when I woke up Tuesday morning to my comp saying, Feliz San Valentín! . . . I then realized that I had completely forgotten Trevor's birthday the day before! SOO SORRRRRY! Ja ja! So, there's the shout out of the day. Happy birthday Trev! Good luck in that engineering program!

Anyway, this week flew by again. I can't believe I've been out here for almost 7 months! Elder Porter has been in Argentina for two months now! It's ridiculous how fast this goes by. So, I am having a hard time remembering everything this week.

First, Ramona couldn't go to church yesterday so we have to put off the baptism for another week. The darn rain here prevents EVERYTHING! The mud gets so bad that it's almost impossible to do the work sometimes. I think I might try to buy some big mud boots to put on top of my shoes so I can walk. Well, Ramona is making some really good progress! She was really bummed that she couldn't go to church and keeps wanting to learn more. She's not getting as mad anymore and she's been helping out around the house a lot more. She really wants to get baptized too!

Virginia has been gone the past few days. She's house hopping right now between her brother and her ex. She's now living at the ex's house till Tuesday I think. She's been having a tough time lately. Anyway, without parents, Alan is feeling pretty rebellious too. The whole family is just going crazy! I want them to just get back into the normal life again! Rici is annoying and is trying to make jokes out of everything lately. He always wants to pray and in his prayers he prays for Daddy Yankee, Shakira, and the Watchiturros, music artists. It was really funny the first time, but now he's taken it too far. So the lessons over there are kind of frustrating.

So Mari can't be baptized. Apparently, some lady is doing something to her that is impeding her from being baptized. She can't tell us what or who is doing what, but she reads the Book of Mormon to try and find an answer to her problem alone. It's frustrating because I could so easily show her where to read if she'd just tell us!

Anyway, we dumped Guillermo, Ricardo, Elsa, and Daria this week. They aren't progressing anymore. . . For example, Guillermo just wants everyone to pray for him so he doesn't lose his other leg. But he doesn't want to go to church or do anything to help himself. Ricardo and Elsa were honest with us and told us that they aren't ever going to go to church and never going to get baptized neither. Daria is too old to get to church and still doesn't understand our messages. So, they're all dumped. Along with some others a while back ago.

So time for some funny stories! Bishop always has dreams about the elders before transfer time. The end of this transfer is the 12th of March. He told me that he had a dream about me. He hesitated to tell me what the dream was, but he finally did. He dreamt that I'm not going to marry Carly! Ja ja! I have to ask him what the dream was. That's all he told me! Anyway, we'll see someday, I guess! So another story was at lunch yesterday! We were eating with the members across the street from us. The daughter is 13 and is WAY tall. But, her name is Dulce. She didn't want to eat and her mom kept telling her to. SO, I finally picked up her fork with a bit of rice on it and said, Here comes the train!!! ja ja! So, she laughed and I pushed the fork in her mouth! Then I did it with a horse and a plane too! It was great! She laughed and so did everyone else. Elder Porter was crying from laughing so hard. Then Dulce Facebook stalked me and Carly. Then she showed us her collection of more than 450 Justin Bieber pictures! She went and changed to put on her JB shirt too. . . Holy cow. . . it's such an obsession. She just about killed me when I tried to erase them all!

Well, unfortunately, we didn't find a bunch of people that we wanted to. We found one kid who lives next door to Rici because we went and played soccer with him on Saturday. We'll see if he wants to learn more now! His name is Andres. He's a stud!

Now, I'm out of things to say. I hope this week will be a lot more exciting and that we can find some new people! I love you all and am really grateful for each one of you. Thanks for all your support and love!

Love,
Elder Blake William Cowan