Feliz Cumple Papa!!!

Dear Family,

Feliz cumple papá!!!! :) Sos un viejo loco pero te quiero muchísimo! Espero que hayas disfrutado de tu tiempo con tus padres y hermana en washington. Nunce te olvides de que sos mi heroe. Te amo!

It was a really fast week. Each week it just gets faster and I just want it to keep slowing down . . . I can't belive it's Mother's Day next week. I will be skyping again. I will have to skype a lot later this time, though, because our church timing is different in this area. I think I will be calling around 3:30 Arizona time, maybe four. Depends because my companion is going to talk first then me. I'm ok if we talk about the end of the mission and the plans for BYU and whatnot. I don't like accepting it, but I know my mission is coming to an end. As of right now, I have 10 weeks left. . . I can count that with my fingers now!! That's wrong! I don't want it to end now. . . I have been stressing about going home a lot lately. I had several dreams this past week and the week before about old memories from before the mission and it's really ironic based on what I've heard from home this week. I dreamed about a lot of my old companions, one about Bri Decker (crazy that she's engaged. I saw a picture of her and the guy. I'm happy for them! Cute couple.), with Carly, Kevy, RJ, Taylor, and Zach Burton! (who wrote me today :)) It was just super odd. It's weird to think that life keeps going on back home while I'm on the mission.

This week was kind of hard because I had meetings Monday through Wednesday and didn't get to work any of those days. Then Thursday I was super excited to work and it rained like crazy!!! There was so much mud and we were so wet and couldn't even walk anymore, that we had to get on the rail road tracks and walk back to our pench dodging trains . . .Then it was weekly planning and we only got to work the afternoon on Friday. Saturday we did a service project all morning until about three o clock. . . So I barely worked at all this past week and I was going nuts! I hate not being able to work and the area suffers big time for it. 

We weren't able to teach many lessons this week so we lost contact with a lot of investigators and lots of people's baptismal goals fell through because they didn't come to church. But it's alright. We did have one highlight of the week, though! Her name is Clara. She's an elderly lady that we contacted the other day and she is super prepared!!! I love finding prepared people! And the best news of all is that she has money to go to church and lives right next to a bus stop! I'm super excited to keep teaching her! She has a strong testimony of Jesus Christ and doesn't go to any church. She listens to the radio and reads a lot of the Bible so we gave her a pamphlet and a Book of Mormon to read and to think about Jesus while she reads. She accepted to be baptized on the 25th and asked where the church is and really wants to come! She said that she couldn't go yesterday because she went out of town, but really wants to come this next week. Just pray it stops raining! The rain here stops everything! It's terrible. But it's pretty! I always tell people here about Arizona and how it barely rains and how dry it is and the people can't even imagine it! Buenos Aires is a wet place. I just hope it isn't raining and muddy when you come to pick me up. That'd be a bummer.

Well, I don't have much to say this week. We didn't have many experiences this week because it was all in meetings and inside the pench. I'm very excited for this week, though! It should be a good one. Till next week!

Love,

Elder Blake W. Cowan