Caleta Olivia

I think you might have looked up Neuquén´s weather because it is definitely not temperate down here. It was hot for like 4 days down here and everyone was saying how weird is was. this is like my first area just further south, i´m actually an hour away from Comodoro, my first area. I´m glad to be a zone leader, because if you aren´t, you´re in the middle of no where in the rest of the zone. The zone is small to begin with, with only 10 missionaries, and it´s super spread out so at least i am in a rather big city. The wind is just like in my first area, but i´ll get over it.

My new companion is really cool he´s a lot like elder whitaker and he´s a lot more obedient to the rules than i´ve been lately which is probably why i was put with him, to learn some obedience haha. we work way hard though and it´s satisfying the success we have.

i´m emailing on tuesday because we had a visit from elder Aidukaitis from the area seventy. It was way awesome but i can´t do a very good job of explaining what he said. He just opened up our eyes to the importance of goals and planning well and just basically kicked our butts in a good way. he told us how we should be baptizing EVERY WEEK and if we aren´t, it´s because we don´t have faith, which i realized is true. it was super awesome to hear him and i learned so much. we´re going to have a ton of success and he changed a lot of old traditions we had that we didn´t even realize we had. like usually, we just do contacts to find new investigators, but he opened our eyes to how much time we waste doing contacts. he said how if we keep doing the same thing, but expect different results, we´re idiots. Haha that´s something i´ve been saying my whole mission but no one thought the same as me so i could never try to really change things. I think that´s why i loved my last area so much because i was doing things in a different way. my last week, we received 7 real references and we only did 87 contacts because we were trying something different. My zone leader in bariloche got mad at me because we didn´t do a lot of contacts so i tried to show him that we found double what we would have found if we had just done contacts all day. Hopefully elder aidukaitis can open everyone´s eyes down here and we can start having a lot more success.

that´s about it for the week, i've got to be finishing. I love you all

elder newey

A Sad Transfer!

*Kind of hard for a Mom to read that her missionary is sad! I think Hayden may need a few extra prayers this week. -Gretchen

hey sorry I don´t have much time, President threw a curve ball at us and I´m leaving for the south again, called Coleta Olivia to be a zone leader...but yeah I leave in the afternoon today and I´m super sad to be leaving. I only got one transfer in this area and I just had enough time to get really close to the members and now I have to leave. We worked so hard too this area is going to have like 8 baptisms next transfer and I won´t be a part of them which is really depressing. I´m trying to look on the bright side but yesterday, I was just so sad. I was literally bawling in the house of a member who I feel is part of my family and it´s so hard. I´ll adjust though.

I also got to talk to elder whitaker just barely. He´s having his interview with president today and he got to call me and we had a good chat. He sounds really good and it made me feel really good to be able to talk to him again. say hi to him for me when you go hear his homecoming talk.

anyway, my new area is literally the bottom of the earth, even further south than Comodoro, my first area so I´ll be back to wind and dirth without a green thing in sight. It´s hard to leave Bariloche because I love it so much but I´ll be ok. I hear my new comp is a stud so that should be fun. I´ll try to email you when I get to my new area. I get to comodoro tomorrow at 5 in the morning and I have to wait until 8 for another bus that takes me to coleta and i´ll finally arrive at around 10. so that´s the schedule. that´s all I have time to write. Love you! wish me luck as zone leader!!!

elder newey