...excited to see you on Christmas Eve

Hey Mom

Sorry must of just got off when you sent that last message...Well first off oh so I talked to a family in my ward and they said I can use their computer to sky or Google hangout with the family on Christmas eve!!! So I don’t know what to do before Christmas Eve you or tanner needs to set up a Skype account and make one for me and then Monday before Christmas email the information. I was thinking of doing it in the afternoon here so that would be the morning there I think since you are 5 hours behind me. So ya that will be awesome and when I figure out a time for sure I will let you know and hopefully we have power on Christmas because right now they are working on tons of power lines so we lose power and water a lot. Also the water the government limits when its summer so ya that’s new to me ha-ha.

I think that would be super cool for Emma and her friends to do, you should try and see if there are sister missionaries in the south stake. oh I have an idea that I’m doing with our families for home evening we watch Mormon messages they are super powerful and super awesome. They are simple but they are the prophets and apostles. For the girl I would just start off with love build the trust in you and build the trust she has with her heavenly father. Other than that once you figure out her needs its easier and you can go from there.

That’s crazy about Chase being 17 what is going to do for his birthday and how is he doing with basketball? Is he going to get any time in varsity? And what is BTS cake? Oh ya once Emma emails it to you should email that to me and I can download it to my pen-drive. wow Casey didn’t like Wittworth? man that will be Motley Crew in Utah stake Tanner, Jessica, Devan, Monty, and Hudson. Ya I think Taylor might be getting married soon cuz when I left he was with a girl and it look like they might get married.

Well when I came here in total it was around 200 pesos and the rate right now is one dollar is equal to 10 pesos so it’s not too much compared to dollars but when we only get 800 a month to live its hard like right now I’m wait to get that money back because I don’t have money today. Well a bus is around 3 or 5 pesos so overall it’s the best but they only come one every hour so you have to time it perfect. I have a bus schedule so that helps alot.in my area I use a bus every once in a while cuz some of our areas are really far. But they are driving our area again so it will be smaller which will be nice.

I think there is one Wal-Mart but I can’t go there cuz it’s a different zone. if it was in my zone I could. but we have a jumbo it’s a huge mall that is super cool!!! it has everything there we might go there today to hang out and eat a little. Well I think dad sent me pair that we have had forever so I should be fine for now with everything. And ya we have milk since Argentina is metric it’s in liters and in a bag it’s a little weird. Milk is around 7 or 8 pesos. Everything is in sizes smaller compared to the United States but it’s all pretty much the same. Your box from November no but I think it’s here today because I heard from the sisters there is a box in our bag. Ya I got Julies and for now I think I’m good maybe when I have a year I can throw a party.

Its crazy tomorrow is my five month day!!! And by the end or the start of next transfer I will have 6 months. I really like that world I will keep it in mind and I miss the family but excited to see you on Christmas Eve

Love

Elder Ashworth.

BRRRRrrrr!!!

Wow !! That is really cold even for Nampa... ya here its around 86 degrees its a little warm in church clothes and the members keep saying its gonna get a lot warm in January. We have that to look forward to. Our pres has ordered us to carry a water bottle every day all day and we have to fill it up and drink two or three times so that will help. Wow that's crazy about coach P, I thought he would stay in Boise for awhile since he loved Boise so much and was having so much success but money speaks a lot and hopefully he has a good time in Washington. That will be hard for the die-hards to let go of him.

So is Chase still living with dad or you ? That's funny about the dead fish ha-ha I wonder what sparked that new hobby of his. I wonder why Emma is dragging right now before she loved school and now no.....? I wonder if something happened and now this is why she doesn't want to go. Wow that's awesome that Tanner maintained that GPA.  Its really hard I heard to maintain your freshman year. Utah State has the Halloween Howl which is a huge party and other big parties so at times its hard for kids to focus i know elders that were there before the mission.

Maybe you could be a mission nurse our mission has sort of one but ya a lot of missions have doctors or nurses that missionaries call when they are sick. That would be super cool. well I'm not supposed to talk about it but right now Argentina is a little dangerous... right now a lot of the policemen are on strike so ya people are robbing like crazy. In my area our big mall called the Jumbo got robbed last night and Wal-Mart and other stores so ya its a little crazy. So ya for the past days we haven't been able to leave our pensions unless it was church or we had a date with someone with a member. Its fun sitting in a apartment all day with no AC but today we should be able to work normal but we need to be careful and be smart we will go home when its dark and not carry a lot of money. I'm not worried my area is fields so I'm safe and good. Oh is brother Conn and well all is well I'm excited to work and progress the church here.

Well I love you and tell Emma, Chase and Tanner that I love them and miss them too.

Elder Ashworth.

We get to sleep in for Christmas

Ya I understand how Kaden feels right now....  I'm sort of in the same situation because our pension wasn't ready to move into so we were living in a pension with two other elders. It wasn't crowed but it was really far from our area so we couldn't really work to much there.

 

We also had a special mission conference this week. It was crazy 175 missionaries in one chapel it was awesome. I got to see my district from the MTC again and we got to hear from a member of the 70 Brother Romero. He was very good and powerful so that was awesome to hear from him and his wife and also President Lovell and Sister Lovell.

 

But today we move apartments finally and wow its a really nice apartment brand new but its in a really dangerous part of the city so ya I need to watch out. I think I might ask for a bike because our area is really big and it would be safer and quicker if we had a bike to use. Overall time here is moving super quick I got the list of stuff for Christmas and it should be fun we are going to have a mission conference again and have dinner together and have a white elephant gift exchange so that should be fun. The best part is ha-ha we get to sleep in for Christmas not much only till 8 but that's better than 6.

 

So ya Christmas should be good. Oh along with garments you should send the thing that cuts our hair cuz its expense to buy one here and its expensive to get hair cuts and I could cut my own hair with our buzzer. Ya I bet grandpa isn't a super great patient but not the worse cuz he knows a lot about medicine.

 

Well it sounds like you had a good Thanksgiving I'm glad we had a chicken ha-ha and bread it was good well all is good here.

 

Love

Elder Ashworth.

I can say now that I have built a house with my own bare hands

I know its crazy Christmas is already here time and flown by... Well here I think its around 80 during the day, yesterday we helped a family build their house so ya that was cool.  I can say now that I have built a house with my own bare hands. 

 

I need to get the pictures from the members cuz it was really fun and a great service activity. ya my Thanksgiving was that I forgot it was Thanksgiving and we had chicken and bread for Thanksgiving so it was good. No football but it was a good day.

 

Well things are moving along here we are finally in our pension which is huge we have a room that we dont need so we are going to make suff to lift and that will be our gym haha or movie theater haha jk. But ya its good I love this area its really calm and pretty its very green and different than my last area. Its sort of sketchy but I love it the members are super cool. We have alot of members that know English so thats fun to help them and they can help me learn more every day.

Well I think I will get your box today. Well I hope all is
well with the family. All is well here warm and awesome

 

Love

Elder Ashworth

No paved roads or anything like that.

Well my new area is called Barrio America b it was an area before but now we split it and made it two different areas. The city I live in is called Plottier it’s really pretty and really green, it’s like the country side super green and relaxed. My area is new construction but that means it’s a little different than American new construction. No paved roads or anything like that. In the city center of Plottier it’s really pretty. My area is also I guess dangerous cuz the members keep saying be careful and watch out.

 

Oh and they say don’t have appointments fare away from our house. So ya that’s good I’m not too worried we will be protected. But for now we are living in the city with other Elder’s cuz our pension isn’t ready for us we should be in our pension this week hopefully. We still need to finish our floors and get our beds and everything to live. But the ward is really small there were only 30 people in the church Sunday. The funny thing was we were the first people in the church the bishop was late so ya that gives a little hint to the ward.

 

So a big focus we are going to have this transfer is to get more members back active and help the active members stay active and help us get investigators. My area is huge we have a lot of little areas of house that are really spread out. So this transfer we will use a lot of buses when we can cuz some of the houses are 30 min away in the bus so ya it will be interesting. My new companion is a little frustrating to me he is from California and he has tons of money so ya he has his problems and I have mine. But the problem is he only talks in English to me so I’m super frustrated cuz I’m not progressing in the language. I told him I don’t want to talk in English but he doesn’t listen so I just try and only talk back in Spanish. Well will see if he can speak super well. He has around 7 months in the mission but only one month in Argentina. The rest of the time he was waiting in WV for his visa. Ya I write in my journal every day I’ve filled one up already and about to fill up another one its awesome it helps me a lot to write my thoughts about our investigators and problems.

 

That sucks about football I thought that this would be the year that they finally win state. Maybe next year and is chase mad about playing jv and wow Emma’s first stake dance I feel super old now. Did Emma have a good birthday? The pictures I don’t know how to send pictures I think I need to buy a different thing to upload pictures cuz the one I have I think is junk. I’m sorry to hear things are tough there in Idaho always remember that heavenly father prepares a way to pass through all challenges. Well that’s about everything new hope all is well.

 

Love

Elder Ashworth