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