March 7 2011

It was good to talk to ya the other day. I´m glad President let me! He says hi and hopes your all doing well and said that we´re going to ´party´ when you get here. We have weather stations here on our computers and mine is set to Ogden and Mendoza weather so I always know what the weather is here and at home and there is a heavy snow warning its showing right now at home. I thought ´´ I guess I´ll take the heat´´ haha.

The vendimia celebration was amazing. Such a cool cultural experience. I´ll definately never forget it. The queens all loved us and threw all the fruit to us. They we´re all blowing us kisses and whatnot. We just felt super awkward haha. Especially having the mission president there with us, but I think he was enjoying it more than us. A float of Arabian belly dancers came down the street and we all turned around and acted like there was something in the trees trying to avoid looking. President got a good kick out of it. It definately would have made a good picture. The overall activity was just amazing. The floats were unbelievable, and they all just had boxes and boxes and boxes of fresh fruit they were throwing out. I´d definately come back down to Mendoza someday to see the entire week of activities. It´s supposed to be one of the coolest events in the world. The littler part we got to see was really cool though.
Church was really good yesterday. We are going to have a baptism on the 19th. Should be really neat. The ward members love us and we´ve already made a lot of friends. Today we´re all together as zone leaders for leadership training that takes place tomorrow. We´ve got a really cool training set up. The Mission Mendoza is dedicating all of our baptisms this month to a really special kid named Josh Pack. He is Nick Sorensens best friend, and went to Weber High with him. Just after we graduated Josh suffered a freak accident up at Pine View. Standing waist deep in the water he did a swimmers dive to start swimming and hit his head on the way down on the lake bottom. He shattered two disks in his neck, and bruised his spinal cord and was diagnosed with severe paralysis. He has since been able to gain the strength to move his arms but almost 3 years later has yet to take another step. President has kept in good contact with Josh since hearing his story from Elder Sorensen. And this month we´re dedicating our baptisms to him. My companion Elder Frost put together a video of Josh, and we´re showing it tomorrow then during 10 minutes of the training Josh is going to be live on Skype giving us a talk. It should be amazing.
I hope you have a great week

Zone Leaders giving their love to Josh

A new record: 124 Baptisms for February

Out-Going Assistants and In-Coming Assistants

Elders Hopkin, Sorensen, Frischknecht, President, Elders Leal, Campbell

New Zone Leaders for March- Elders Barra, White, Frost, Williams, Morinico, Hyer, Campbell, Hopkin (returning again as ZL after serving as AP).