August 13, 2007

Hey All!!

First things first address for packages...

Elder Steven James Kelly
C.C. N` 92
1702 Ciudadela
Bs. As. Argentina

And seriously send it with crosses or pictures or stickers of religious parafonelia because everyone down here is getting stuff stolen from their packages.

Anyways... thanks for your letters (oma I'm talking to you ;)) Things down here are great!! It really is like living in Bolivia down here. There were some awesome Bolivian parties yeasterday as they were celebrating a virgin but I don't know which one. It was very cool! The Bolivians are such great people. So short too.

The work is doing very well!! We taught 20 lessons this week and had a good number of investigators in church!! We are finding inactive famillies and they are finding us too!! I feel like we are just being put in peoples paths!! At least four times this week people have come up to us and said they have been looking for the missionaries forever!! We have some very good progressing investigators so I'm very excited.

Stories... We asked some Bolivian ladies at a market if the peppers we were buying were hot and they said more or less so we cut them up and put them in our pasta. As we were simmering the peppers me and my comp starting coughing and our tounges were hurting and we were like... what is happening? Then we actually tasted the pepper. Ya.. more or less didn't really give the pepper justice... It felt more like a flame that somehow escaped the fires of hell and entered into that pepper. No more trusting Bolivians for spice ranges.

I gave a talk in sacrament meeting in spanish.. it went well I hope. And we found some kids skating and I asked if I could try.. I did a couple of kick flips and they flipped out and asked if I was related to Tony Hawk... now they wait every night a 8:30 for us so I can teach them how to do it.. Their names are Santiago and santiago... maybe we´ll be able to meet and teach the parents but if not... at least I get to skate a little bit!! I'll send pictures or video of it soon. Love you all thanks for your prayers... More to come soon stay safe!

Elder Kelly

ps my comp plays water polo for Utah State... I thought that was cool .