ELDER SKOUSON'S MISSION TO RESISTENCIA, ARGENTINA: Our friends really are a very important part of who we become

So, we are now in Mercedes Corrientes we have the south half of the city as our area and we live in the only high rise building here. we live on the 8th floor so we get a pretty good view. we are all living there together the 4 missionaries that are in the city and probably the best news is that we have a washing machine. It was also kinda surprising that the other elders left the first day we were here with their bags on. We feel very safe here compared to where we were at.

The area is good. It reminds me a little of campo largo but it is bigger. the people here have an interesting accent it's been a little harder to get used to. they also have a lot more money than the people in the last area and the branch is a lot smaller. there are about 15 active members.

There is a man named Arturo who has been investigating for a while and we are working with him to try to help him get to be baptized he needs to get divorced and remarried as well and we are going to try really hard to help get him there.

We also met a man named Sebastian and his wife named Atina. Sebastian is in the military and he thought it was way way cool that Dad is too. So far he hasn't made too much progress with what we have left him to do but his wife had a ton of really good questions. she was asking about marriage and about all sorts of stuff the church does. It is always fun to get the question: do you guys have to marry someone in the church? Well no but there are blessings you miss out on. to marry in the church it is for all of time and eternity and not just this life. that is quite a powerful thing that the priesthood can link 2 people and their family together like that.

We also had a district conference where they talked about getting married quite a bit and how important it is. It was good.

We have been working hard at finding and we are having some success in doing it. We have had hard days and easier days but we are getting to know our area well. My companion is a good missionary and I think we work well together we are going to keep on working hard and we are going to find someone to baptize.

Also if we focus on it and do what we can the Lord will guide us to know what we need to. I had a feeling I should study Helaman 6 because it was next in line in my reading and that day we found a guy who asked if my girlfriend does bad things should I stay with her. I thought of how bad it went for the Nephites when they upheld the gadianton robbers and we gave him a book of mormon to answer his question with that part marked. If we focus even during study time it can really help us with the time we use in the street. In the district meeting we also heard a story from the mission counselor about a girl who stayed with her friends that were doing bad things and ended up dropping out of the church and also dropping out of school. Our friends really are a very important part of who we become.

Keep working hard. The spirit can guide us in all we do. and remember to always lift where you stand.

Love,

Elder Dallin Skouson

also some other interesting things we saw in our last area. we saw some kids race a horse and a motorcycle across a soccer field. the motorcycle won but I think the horse took off faster. Also we saw 4 horses and 2 dogs eating out of the same dumpster at once. That might be a new world record for most farm animals eating out of a dumpster in a neighborhood at once.

..lunch after the district conference

..a very dark picture of everyone that lived in our last apparment together at about 6 in the morning before we left.