First Week in the Field!

Hey everyone!! 

This week has been crazy. Time passes the same as the MTC. the days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days. but i am doing good. got off the plane and as we were coming down the escalator it was seriously just like a movie. it was awesome. our President and his wife was standing there. so we got loaded up... all Thirty of us new arrivals... crazy. and went to the mission home. it is sooo humid here. like i feel like im working hard just to breath. but we ate and i got to sleep at the Assistants house. it was reeeally nice. but I was asleep at about 850. ha i was sleepy. got up had some trainings, got our new companions. and headed out. it is me and Elder Briggs. He is from Mendosa California, he just turned 24 on tuesday

 and oh haha the first thing he said when we got into our house was "Oh, by the way... I snore" hahaha first thing i thought was you gotta be kidding. and true to his word he sure does:) haha but we got some earplugs and now i am sleeping like a baby..... i wake up every two hours and cry:) ha but apparently about three weeks before i got here they lost every single one of their investigators. so that has been hard. so we are doing a lot of less active work and trying to find referrals. OHH!!! yeah im speaking spanish. haha forgot to tell you all that. it is sort of dumb though. if we find someone, but they dont speak spanish, we cant teach em or anything. we have to just give the referral to the english elders. like our neighbor. she likes us, but we cant teach her cause she is white. stupid rule. 

But we found one family, they are the only lesson i have taught that i count, we taught one but this one demon kid kept running around and the lady wasnt really listening. haha anyway. we brought Brother Garcia, who is gold, that guy is so good, but we went in and started talking and then taught about the priesthood and what it can do for us and... honestly i dont really know much of what they talked about haha she is from Honduras and talked REALLY fast, so i lost her. but she had a ton of questions and stuff. all i did was bear my testimony but it made her cry:) so that was cool haha but we set an appointment to go back the next day and they werent there:/ so we are going to check back tomorrow(Tuesday) and see what we can do. 

i have so many funny stories already. one of them was i was writing in my journal and i had my knife with me, so i finished and had to get something from our office, well i stood up and my knife cut my foot. hahaha it wasnt bad or anything, dont worry mom, but it sure bled a ton, but we got it fixed up and were good now;) 

The other one happened yesterday. So it was my first sunday, and they called a new convert to go up and give a talk, so he gave a good talk, which i understood most of, about service. well then he started talking about a member that has cancer that has eaten literally half his nose off. like the left nostril, that skin on the side is gone. we visited him yesterday. anyway. Ubaldo, the recent Convert said we needed to say a prayer from him, well then he says "ok now repeat after me" hahahahahaha he said a full prayer in his talk, thank heavens like two people started to and then stopped, and he had his eyes open and oh my gosh, it was sooo funny. there are just too many dumb things that happen everyday to tell em all or even remember. but the field is good, its not what i thought it was going to be, thats for sure, but we are working on it. we have two more referrals we are going to go visit tomorrow or tonight if we have time. so hopefully that goes well. oh and i said the closing prayer in spanish my first sunday. haha i was kinda nervous and dont know what i said but everyone said i did good. 

i am enjoying it out here. I cant wait to get my Visa and get down to Argentina though. 

sorry for the massive letter

Love all of you so much!!!

Elder Whitaker

or Woodpecker 

haha they cant say our last name for some reason. 

Woodpecker has been common, because thats what they say it sounds like. 

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