Thanksgiving!!

It seems like none of us had a traditional thanksgiving dinner since we made burritos and mexican food haha. Elder Barcenas, my district leader, is from the US but his parents are latin so he was able to make the tortillas from scratch and the salsa was really really spicy which i´m not used to. I was sweating so much but it was so good! i miss spicy food haha.

We had the baptism of vanesa yesterday and it was excellent. We had a miracle with filling up the baptismal font too. The whole weekend, there was no water in the church, and it´s kind of hard to have a baptism without water so we were there before the baptism trying to figure out what we could do to get water there when my comp said that he was going to try one more time to see if somehow there was water. I was so confident that there wasn´t any water that i was standing in the font as he turned the knob. A little trickle of water started out which was all i expected then suddenly, water began to blast into the font like it never has before. Needless to say, i was humbled haha and the font filled us way faster than usual and everything was ready for the baptism. it was incredible. I think i´ll call my comp Moses from now on since it´s like he smote the rock and water came out, only in this case, he smote the...i don´t know, the brick? and water came out haha. I got to baptize vanesa and the water was really cold but it was awesome.

So about my face, there is still some swelling but it´s going away i think. The swelling in my cheek is mostly gone but now i noticed swelling back in my jaw so i´m giong back in to medical on wednesday to see if the gland is still infected. Also, the rash that i thought i was getting fromt the other antibiotics, was actually being caused by the ibuprofen which has never happened before. Is it possible to suddenly have an allergy to ibuprofen? it´s weird because the rash only appears on the left side of my face where the swelling was so hopefully when all the swellilng goes away, i´ll be able to take ibuprofen again without any problems. but until then, could you send me some tylenol, since that´s what i have to take now if i have a headache? also if you can manage, could you send me some claritin non drowsy? my allergies are pretty bad now that it´s getting warmer. If you can´t send them, i´ll just try to get something here from the pharmacies to work it out.

I´m going to try to put some pictures on now of the baptism so i´m going to end. I hpe you had a great thanksgiving and now we´re making our way to christmas! yeah, i´ll still be in bariloche for christmas. transfers are the 27 of december so i´ll just make it. just it´s not sure i´m leaving this next transfer either. love you!

elder newey

Our Investigators

Hayden before he left Comodoro Rivadavio

Hayden with Elder Justice who is also from Utah

To answer your question, yes, I have a microwave in the pension. Speaking of the microwave, my comp tried to cook a whole raw egg in the microwave haha. Of course, it exploded all over the place. It was so hilarious, I was laughing for days about it. But yeah, we have one so feel free to send the stuff. What is everything you have for my package(s) now? Could you send me a list of the things in them next week?

My investigators are doing good though. We just put four baptismal dates (we call them fechas) so we´re coming off a really good week. We´re excited to be having some good success out here. We have one investigator who just lost her 18 year old daughter to cancer to she is really angry with God now, but maybe it can turn into a blessing if we can get her into the church because of it.

I just sent off a bunch of letters today. one to you, with a letter to Brady in it, one to kyle, and a few others to other missionaries. If you don´t feel good about having brady email me, then he probably shouldn´t. Think about it but don´t ignore the feelings you get. Sometimes I want to hear from friends so much that it overpowers my better judgement. Let me know what you think.

ryan is getting his call this week right? Oh i´m so excited. I´ll be looking forward to next monday with a lot of anxiety. Kessa told me also that you took pictures of Adam as a ghost so I´d love to see them haha.

I can´t believe fax is 40 already haha. He doesn´t seem like he should be 40. It´s weird how fast the time is going by. I just completed 7 months yesterday. crazy. Before I know it, I´ll have a year out here haha.

Hey, another elder from Utah who is here with me just told me that two chapels got burned to the ground this week. What´s that about? Are we seeing more signs of the times?

But anyway, I´m basically out of time. Thanks for everything, and for the great email. How is kyle doing in the mtc? I´m going to get off now so I can send some pictures. Love you!

hayden