Anthony - February 25, 2015

Not-so- Weekly report of don't have a lot of time

I am really sorry but have absolutely no time this week I am not dead and things are going great. Love you all and hope that your week is awesome. I will try to fill you all in later.

Love E' Whetten

(He did mention something to me about moving - so I guess we'll see what he's up to when he emails next week)

Jesse - February 23, 2015

New Comp

so this week was another fast and great one with my brazilian companion, but now hes at home and enjoying brazilian stuff. most of the week was spent with elder doddema from montana. not really much to say this week, we have to move our baptismal date again:P but we are sure that he is still going to get baptized so we arent worried. my new companion is Elder brush haha im not sure if anyone remember him but we were in the same apartment back in parque baron! so when i heard that he was going to be my companion i didnt believe anyone. he might just be the one to get me doing exercises again jaja ive gotten lazy with those for about...17 months :D something funny, me and my companion elder venancio always scare the animals that we find in the streets. this week it was night time and our next victim was a cat. we had this all planned out to the point where we thought we had the cat surrounded i was on one side and he was on the other, as my companion went to jump at the cat his foot found an unexpected pothole and he ate dirt in front of a family we hadn't previously seen. i of course started laughing as my companion quickly stood up and started running. the worst part is that the cat got away but lets look at the good things in life hes okay and we had something to laugh about for 3 days. its a little short this week but thats life:P i love you all! have a great week!

Elder Whetten

Jesse - February 18, 2015

so i apologize for not letting you all know ahead of time but we weren't able to write on monday because it was a holiday. i cant remember if its the same in English but we had carnival here in argentina. nothing too big just another reason to stay home and drink some mate:P this was also the last full week that i would be with elder venancio, and we worked hard this week. at the beginning of the transfer we put a goal to have 30 lessons in at least one of the 6 weeks we had together, this week we met that goal. we had a total of 34! it was just a good feeling to help my companion finish his mission really strong! and even better than the numbers was that the lessons really helped and strengthened not only the investigators and less actives but it also helped us! one of the crazy things that happened this week was that we both got attacked by a pitbull, the stupid dog was mad because she was pregnant and just really protective i guess... but luckily we managed to get away from the dog and get some rocks in our hands. today we did get to eat at a all you can eat restaurant! there were some advantages to this place that we ate at! one it had sushi, asado, fish, salads and man it just made me a little home sick seeing so much food in one place for a low price! we were there for literally 2 hours. its raining right now like crazy so we will see if we get to play futbol. we have one baptismal date that we have set up for the 28 of this month i will let you know how that goes! other than that everything seems to be great! tomorrow i get to see who my new companion is going to be  so im stoked about that, another transfer down and only 3 more to go. 

Elder Whetten!!!

Anthony - February 18, 2015

Not-so-weekly report of the resident Hyena

This week was a good one, and since the month of February is almost over things are getting back to normal. Whatever normal is in the mission field. The problem with February is that everyone and their dog goes on a month long vacation so we can never catch anyone at home. We want to go on dibbs (dibbs are divisions, where you go with the members) but we can't, it pretty much sucks. Anyways we got back in contact with one of our investigators her name is Tatiana and we are actually going to go and have a lección with her in a little bit. She is super cool, I think I have talked about her before, we found her while contacting, but for a long time we haven't been able to teach her anything because her husband is a jerk and won't let us in. But we had a baptism in our ward and like good little missionaries we invited everyone we could to go. We invited her and she said she would try to get there but wasn't sure because of her husband. We walked to the chapel and the whole time we were praying like crazy people. When we got the people had just started going in, so we sat down and prayed some more. I found the other missionaries that were the and asked them to pray to. Then we got a phone call, it was from her. E' Bejarano answered the phone, we thought she was calling to tell us that she couldn't make it, but it wasn't. She couldn't find it, it turns out that she was on the wrong street. So we directed her to go to one spot and we would meet her there. That worked, and, after many apologies, we arrived at the chapel right as the first talk was starting. It was really cool. She had a great time, talking to the members and getting to know the ward a little better. Later on in the week (Like one day later) we went to lunch at this lady's house. Really nice lady and really geeky so I fall wall with her. Anyways we were sitting at the table and she brings us out this lump of stuff. I was not sure what it was. We started to eat it and I hear one of the other elders say under his breath: I can't stand tuna. I realized that that was the reason the food tasted fishy, because it was tuna and potatoes, but really nastily mixed together. All of us at the table had a hard time eating that stuff. We had one elder that was gagging it was so bad. Anyways I had finished mine, and was feeling kinda weird, and the three Elders that were sitting in front of me were just dying. And so I lost it. I started laughing, a laugh that just kept coming. Soon the whole table was laughing, and we had no idea why. We laughed and laughed and laughed. I was the worst one. I literally couldn't stop laughing. It just kept pouring out of me, gales of laughter, and tears streaming down my face. The only thing that kept everyone else laughing was the fact that I was laughing. One elder was laughing so hard he almost barfed and so he ran outside, and so did I, I needed some fresh air I couldn't stop. It was almost painful. But it was a good laugh reminded me of old times with dad and his terrible jokes. Other then that our week was pretty slow. Love you all, and hope your week is superb.

Love E' Whetten 

Oh and one more thing...

This week was my SIX MONTH ANNIVERSARY!!!! I completed six moths in the mission!!
Also HAPPY SINGLES AWARENESS DAY EVERYBODY!!! Kiss her if she yours, if not, enjoy your loneliness.  

Anthony - February 11, 2015

Not-So-Weekly report of the kid upstairs.

Well, another week has passed and not much happened. Our work is going good but the people just won't listen. We are working hard though so we should be some success pretty soon. One of the families in our ward got sealed on Saturday and that was super cool. I didn't understand some of what the sealer said but I caught the just of it. One thing really cool that happened was they technically had not been married for a whole year and the rule is is that you have to wait a year. Well as missionaries we were not aware of the fact they had not been married a year so when the temple prez came in we knew something was up. He came in and explained the problem to us and said that he could do anything about it, which truthfully he can't. Anyways, you could almost see the sadness wash over everyone as the new reached their ears. And many of us bowed our heads in pray and as soon as I bowed my head some one opened the door and call the prez into the hallway. when he came back in he was beaming. The first presidency had given them permission to do the sealing. It was literally a miracle because most of this took only a couple of seconds. It was super cool. So yeah thats the biggest thing that happened this week.
To fill you in on what happened last week and the reason for the name may take a while. The apartment directly beneath ours caught fire. Nothing bad happened, but it was kinda scary. My comp had a thought to g back and as we showed up we saw like five Fire engines, he almost had a heart attack. Anyways that the big story. Love you all and hope for your success in whatever you are doing.
Love, E'Whetten

Argentina Fotos

temple pictures!

we were bread/donut makers this morning at around 6am

yeah we got knives

and this is a picture of the real breadmaker jaja

Jesse - February 9, 2015

this week we had so many things to do and so many tings happened!!

the highlight of the week was definitely the temple, but we also did some intercambios and some breadmaking:)

like i said though, the temple was incredible, and for several reasons. one i could understand everything that was going on, and two i just felt so much more prepared this time around. the last time i went in i was kinda a newby and still didnt know anything and i didnt even really have a testimony of what i was teaching. its amazing what one year can do to somebody!! i received answers to some things in my life that i need to get resolved and the peace was unreal! i can now say that i have a testimony of temples and the power that we can receive by going to them! i cant wait till i can go regularly!! 

we have worked really hard this week and we are learning to just love everybody that we come in contact with!! one day we did divisions and put in 10 lessons in one day!! its not bragging though! its kinda like how ammon felt when him and his brothers finished there 14 year long mission from teaching the lamanites, its that kinda happiness. i know i didnt write a lot this time but i love you all and just know that i have a strong testimony of this church and all it does for someone who is willing to give his or her life over to the lord. have a great week!!!

Elder WHetten!!