Hello,
Happy Birthday Michael!!!! Everyone make him have an awesome time for me! South America misses you!
Anyways, just for a quick perspective check.... I am in the area of Parque Leloir in the Zone of Castelar. This is my second transfer here and this is the first week of the six-week transfer. I´m training Elder Petersen who arrived in B.A. one week ago. He´s from Pleasant Grove Utah and is an excellent guy and will be the next assistant. (He kind of reminds me of Quince). Parque Leloir is my third area and Elder Petersen is my 8th companion in the mission. (Elder´s Decker, Rutter, Foster, Bracken, Zamora, Gavilan, Pollock, and Petersen). Let me know if you want to know more.
The area is excellent and Elder Petersen´s first week was too. We are working very hard still with the youth of the ward and they are great! We have some baptismal dates and some soon to come. Elder P understands alot and is already speaking very well even though he wont tell you so. We are going to be working even harder this next week to keep up the excitement and have a great transfer. I'm running low on time so I have to cut this email short, but know that I love you all and I hope you have a great week!!
Brad... cuales son sus planes ahorra? Se va a estudiar? Lo que puede hacer Ud. es escribirme noticias en los comentarios en Español en mi "blog" porque yo puedo leer este "blog". Bueno, mucho amor y que descanse de sus labores =)
Elder Steven Kelly!
Monday, January 28, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
January 21, 2008
Hola!
That´s it for another transfer. Last Sunday was a crazy one, for many reasons most of which aren´t really worthy of note.
We have been working a ton with our youth and have been doing divisions twice a week. They are a great group of youth and they will make great missionaries. We also are teaching some of the youth english on saturday´s.
Well I still cannot keep a companion. Elder Pollock is leaving the area to Merlo. I will be training a brand new Elder. I don´t know his name yet, tomorrow I will meet him. Right now he is in an airplane somwhere over Central America I´d imagine. Or on the other hand he might be sitting in the Buenos Aires MTC. Either way tomorrow we will meet.
We are looking forward to an excellent transfer and I am excited to work very hard to have success. We are still teaching a ton--it´s just the progression that gets us. I hope you all have great weeks and enjoy your trip to San Antonio.
Congratulations Brad!! Child of Light!! Seriously what an incredible accomplishment, I'm way proud of you and your accomplishments and thanks for your great example. Seriously, good form. Escuchá un poquito de EWyF por mi, y nos vemos en un año y pico. Te Amo hermanito.... y bueno no hay que casarse antés que yo llego. Todavía tenemos que relajar en una pileta en Provo gritando a los estudiantes.
I will talk to you all soon, much love to you all!
Elder Steven KELLY
That´s it for another transfer. Last Sunday was a crazy one, for many reasons most of which aren´t really worthy of note.
We have been working a ton with our youth and have been doing divisions twice a week. They are a great group of youth and they will make great missionaries. We also are teaching some of the youth english on saturday´s.
Well I still cannot keep a companion. Elder Pollock is leaving the area to Merlo. I will be training a brand new Elder. I don´t know his name yet, tomorrow I will meet him. Right now he is in an airplane somwhere over Central America I´d imagine. Or on the other hand he might be sitting in the Buenos Aires MTC. Either way tomorrow we will meet.
We are looking forward to an excellent transfer and I am excited to work very hard to have success. We are still teaching a ton--it´s just the progression that gets us. I hope you all have great weeks and enjoy your trip to San Antonio.
Congratulations Brad!! Child of Light!! Seriously what an incredible accomplishment, I'm way proud of you and your accomplishments and thanks for your great example. Seriously, good form. Escuchá un poquito de EWyF por mi, y nos vemos en un año y pico. Te Amo hermanito.... y bueno no hay que casarse antés que yo llego. Todavía tenemos que relajar en una pileta en Provo gritando a los estudiantes.
I will talk to you all soon, much love to you all!
Elder Steven KELLY
Monday, January 14, 2008
January 14, 2008
Hello!
Good week! The work is going well, we are still finding lots of people to teach the trouble is finding them a second time and getting them to church, but still things are going well.
This might be the last week of Elder Pollock and I. The transfer ends this week so we will find out next Monday.
This week we havent been able to find the family that had a baptismal date. We made two more baptismal dates this week and we are very excited for them. They are both in the month of February.
This last week we went to the temple as a zone. It was most excellent. I had forgotten how much I love the temple and the spirit felt therein. The day after I had sort of temple withdrawls, but it was a great experience.
There was a missionary there who had just finished his mission in Bahía Blanca and was there with his Mom and family who didn't speak Spanish. It was pretty humorous to watch them get by.
Yesterday we had lunch with the Bishop and it was excellent! Not only did it taste excellent but Bishop´s family is great! It was the first time since the states I could talk music with someone! The bishop´s wife is the choir director for the stake and she loves MoTab as does the Bishop! They also know who the King Singer´s are! We talked for 30 minutes on the subject and then they put in a video of the MoTab singing for the 200 Anniversary of Joseph Smith Devotional and the Bishop did what Dad does, He turned up the volume of the Sound system till your ears hurt. It was Phenomenal. We are going to watch some more MoTab later on.
Well, The work continues I hope you are all doing very well, and enjoying yourselves. You are all so busy it sounds like. Take time to be holy...
With Love,
Elder Kelly
Happy Birthday!.... and Elder Duerden two christmas eve birthdays in the same zone...
Monday, January 7, 2008
January 7, 2008
Hello!
Happy New Years and Happy Birthday Mom and Darryl!
A great week here in Parque Leloir. We have been working very hard on getting people to come to church. It seems to be our main difficulty here but we plan to see improvement this next week.
The family who was going to be baptised moved away and we cant find them so we are praying that they will come back so we can know what happened to them.
We did divisions with two young men from the ward and it was enjoyable. This week we will be going to the temple and we are very excited. My third trip in Buenos Aires.
Me and Elder Pollock just finished a round of Golf!!! In Argentina!! It was excellent! It was on a military facility so we had to go ask the army personnel if we could play. They said yes but I had to give them my passport photocopy. Then they gave me an access badge. We played nine holes of Argentine golf... No fringe, greens like fringe, fairways like rough, rough like mountain meadows, and angry Argentine birds that attack you when you approach them. For the golfers, I shot a 48. It was a great little bit of P-day fun. I'll send pictures next week.
I hope you all have a very enjoyable week and love you all!
Elder Kelly
Happy New Years and Happy Birthday Mom and Darryl!
A great week here in Parque Leloir. We have been working very hard on getting people to come to church. It seems to be our main difficulty here but we plan to see improvement this next week.
The family who was going to be baptised moved away and we cant find them so we are praying that they will come back so we can know what happened to them.
We did divisions with two young men from the ward and it was enjoyable. This week we will be going to the temple and we are very excited. My third trip in Buenos Aires.
Me and Elder Pollock just finished a round of Golf!!! In Argentina!! It was excellent! It was on a military facility so we had to go ask the army personnel if we could play. They said yes but I had to give them my passport photocopy. Then they gave me an access badge. We played nine holes of Argentine golf... No fringe, greens like fringe, fairways like rough, rough like mountain meadows, and angry Argentine birds that attack you when you approach them. For the golfers, I shot a 48. It was a great little bit of P-day fun. I'll send pictures next week.
I hope you all have a very enjoyable week and love you all!
Elder Kelly
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
December 31, 2007
Hello Family!
Well Christmas has come and gone (por fin). And what a christmas it was. Christmas Eve Night we ate with a family a huge feast and this was after the lunch feast we had earlier in the day with our zone. It was excellent. That night we fell asleep a bit late and couldn't sleep because of the constant fireworks that were blowing up. Then we woke of Christmas morning and went to Ramos Mejiah to paint the fence of a hospital with our zone. Then I called home (which flew by!), and then we tried to go out and work but it was rather unsuccessful.
After Christmas I got a bit sick with migraines and fevers and had to stay in parts of Thursday and Friday and all of Saturday but by Sunday I was better. I attribute it to the powerful Sun and humidity and my stupidity in not taking care of myself with proper protection and water, I just wanted to be latin. But 12 advil and a couple lortabs later another lesson had been learned.. the hard way. I´ve decided thats the way I always learn, and i need to stop doing that.
Elder Faust said in a conference talk that learning comes much quicker and easier when you learn from the mistakes and advice of others... They started up daylight savings time again down here so now the sun is out until 9 ish. I heard it has something to do with conerving power. I'm fine with it. The mission might change the schedule up a little bit, well see.
With that I wish you all my best and a very Happy New Year for 2008! Talk to you soon!
Elder Kelly
[In the picture, he's in the front left sitting on the floor]
Well Christmas has come and gone (por fin). And what a christmas it was. Christmas Eve Night we ate with a family a huge feast and this was after the lunch feast we had earlier in the day with our zone. It was excellent. That night we fell asleep a bit late and couldn't sleep because of the constant fireworks that were blowing up. Then we woke of Christmas morning and went to Ramos Mejiah to paint the fence of a hospital with our zone. Then I called home (which flew by!), and then we tried to go out and work but it was rather unsuccessful.
After Christmas I got a bit sick with migraines and fevers and had to stay in parts of Thursday and Friday and all of Saturday but by Sunday I was better. I attribute it to the powerful Sun and humidity and my stupidity in not taking care of myself with proper protection and water, I just wanted to be latin. But 12 advil and a couple lortabs later another lesson had been learned.. the hard way. I´ve decided thats the way I always learn, and i need to stop doing that.
Elder Faust said in a conference talk that learning comes much quicker and easier when you learn from the mistakes and advice of others... They started up daylight savings time again down here so now the sun is out until 9 ish. I heard it has something to do with conerving power. I'm fine with it. The mission might change the schedule up a little bit, well see.
With that I wish you all my best and a very Happy New Year for 2008! Talk to you soon!
Elder Kelly
[In the picture, he's in the front left sitting on the floor]
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