The Week of Rocks and Glass!

Well, where to start? This week was kind of slow other than the fact that Patricia is getting baptized! The end of the story is kind of anti climactic though because her mom still wasn´t giving permission but then our mission president said we only technically need the permission of her dad which we already had. But we we´re excited anyway and she´s is too, she´ll get baptized the 31st of july and i kind of hope she´ll pick me to baptize her. maybe i shouldn´t think like that but i can´t help it really. In other news, argentina passed gay marriage here, the first country from latin america to do so. The whole country is fired up about it and everyone is talking about it.

I told kaleb in his email that I have an awesome story to tell and i´m getting excited just writing about it so I guess i won´t wait any longer. So we were knocking doors in Palazzo, one of our cities in the area, and we weren´t getting a lot of people home. After about an hour, we contacted a guy in the street who said we could go by his house sometime and that he lived at the top of this gigantic hill about 100 yards off. He also said a lot of people lived up there that might by interested. Well i think he was messing with us because we decided to knock up there and, after trecking up the huge, steep hill (i´m so thankful I have my boots here, it´s muddy everywhere) we saw only one house up there. we realized he was lying to us but we decided to knock the house anyway because we were already up there. So we knock it and this guy comes out and starts yelling at us saying how we´re all evil and he didn´t want us there. I´m not sure if he meant mormons were evil or just all religions, but we were kind of stunned and didn´t knock what to do. While he was yelling, he was drawing like a cross in the air with his hand, implying of course that we were demons and I guess he thought he could banish us to hell or scare us off with the cross. When we didn´t move, he got more mad and I tried to ask him "did something happen that makes you hate us so much?" but all i got out was "did something hap--" at which point he let out a scream of rage, and, bending down, he picked up a log with nailes sticking out of it and hurled it at us. We were outside his fence, and the log didn´t really get close. I heard it hit the fence and turning to my comp, we just started walking away. Apparently walking wasn´t enough though, because he picked up another plank of wood, this one with a sharp pointy end and chucked it like a spear at us. It got kind of close but we weren´t scared because who can´t dodge a piece of wood. We were still kind of in shock that he was freaking out so much and then we came out of his house more and picked up a couple rocks and a glass bottle. At this point, elder whitaker said "oh shoot, run, go go!" So we booked it down this steep hill and it was a miracle in itself that we didn´t fall down it. While we ran, rocks hit around us and bottles were shattering right by us. I haven´t had a good adrenaline rush like that in a while and when we got to the bottom of the hill, he was up at the top, still throwing rocks and stuff and swearing at us. My comp just waved at him and we kind of watched as he threw his tantrum. He stood on the hill and yelled "this is Palazzo!" over and over. I happened to have my camera with me and I wish i had had the presence of mind to take a picture of the guy at the top of the hill but as it was, i only managed to get a picture of the hill where he was. Neither of us got hurt so the story was funny. If we had been hit, we both would have been really mad, but as it was, we could just laugh at the guy from the street until he gave up and went back to his house. He´s been the subject of our jokes for the last week though.

Other than that, not much more happened. We´re getting close with some people and might be setting some more baptismal dates soon. I´ll be sure to tell you about them when they come. I told you last week how it has been raining a ton and that weather lasted through thursday but was followed by three days of the best weather i´ve had on the mission. We went out in just white shirts and ties those days because it was so hot. It was excellent.

But anyway, anything else happening at home? is the mazda still running and did you find out what was wrong with the pathfinder? I haven´t gotten any package yet but they should arrive next week. We didn´t want to go to centro where the bolsa is today because it wastes two hours of our day and we´re both way tired. I think i´ll write some letters today to my friends like nick and brady and everyone so you can tell them to expect those in a few weeks. I´m sure kyle is so ready to go to japan. I´ll try to print off some pictures this week or next and send them in a letter home. It takes too long to upload them to the computer and the connections here aren´t that fast. This week was a long week but only because we didn´t have very many lessons. Next week should be better, but it´s way hard to get member lessons now that Kevin is gone. We saw him off at the airport and he was crying and stuff. I´m so glad I didn´t have to leave like that with my whole family at the airport. Calling was better haha. Anyway, i think that´s it. I love all the emails you´re sending and everything! Keep me updated on anything that happens! I love you all
love, elder newey