Hey family!
After this email, the next form of communication we will have will be by phone! Yeah! It rained here on Saturday and Sunday and it's looking like the cold is here to stay for the season. Yesterday was the coldest day of Elder Sypherd's mission. This is his first winter in the mission. Same with Watt and Bryce haha. Noobs.:) Elder Bryce and his comp just baptized a lady-María-that Bryce and I found together when Bryce was still really new. It was cool to hear that. Her nephew is a member-he's in his 40s-and he used to give us grief for talking with her because as he said 'she's never going to get baptized.' He'd tell us we were wasting our time. But we never gave up on her. Bryce said Carlos still didn't believe that she was going to get baptized until they called him to tell him that she passed the baptismal interview. Bryce said she has changed a ton and now she's super happy. When we found her she was kind of bitter and couldn't let go of some anger she had towards some other people. He said it has been amazing the change she has gone through.
Silvia, the woman Watt and I found when her son told us to go talk to her, is moving this week to Solano, the area right next to ours. When we told her that that would mean we wouldn't be able to visit her anymore she was bummed. She said she didn't want to visit with other chicos. She just wants to talk with us. She only wants to talk religion with us. I really like Silvia. She's a really good woman in a very difficult situation. Elder Watt didn't really like visiting her because he said she's weird, but I'm bummed she's moving too. I told her that the message we share is really important and that we really care about her. I told that I want her to know that the things are true for herself because I care and I want her to feel the happiness that comes with it. I told her that the other chicos are good guys too and that they will help her too. She said only if we go over to her new house so that we know where she lives and so that she can get to know the other Elders with us there. She told us that she never lets anybody into her house and never talks with people about her problems or cries but that there is something about us that puts her at ease and makes her feel better. She always calls me 'mi cielo' and 'mi angel' which mean my heaven and my angel. That's not as weird as it sounds because people talk different here in Argentina. I hope that she'll keep talking with the other elders because I know that the Book of Mormon and the Gospel of Jesus Christ will make all the difference in the world to her and will help her get her life back in order.
Last week when we were walking in the street a guy was walking close by us with 3 guitars so I started talking to him. I asked him if he's in a band and he said yeah. We started talking about music and he told us that he bought a Book of Mormon in a feria(flea market) for 3 pesos(75 cents). He asked how much we sold them for. I chuckled and told him we give them away for free. I told him we'd like to come to his house sometime and talk to him some more and to explain what the Book of Mormon is. We went back again on Saturday morning. He's a cool dude but I'm afraid he just wanted to talk to us to satisfy his curiosity and that's it. He had a ton of questions. I dunno we'll see. I hope he just reads because its hard to read it and not feel the power. His name is Guido(GEEDO).
I'm going to call you guys on Sunday at 4:20 MY TIME. That will be at 1:20 YOUR TIME. That gives you 20 minutes to get home from church. I'm looking forward to it. Then the homestretch. I love you guys! Talk to you in 6 days!
Love, Matt
