Spencer's Take 2, Semana 75 - Tucuman!

Monday, October 12, 2015

This last week was strange. We had very little time to actually work in our area.

Last Monday at the butt crack of dawn, as my mom Jana banana would say, we arrived in Tucuman at about 5 and had to be up at 7 to eat breakfast. The hotel we stayed at was super nice and it had a nice continental breakfast. I have really come to appreciate a continental breakfast here in Argentina. Of course, it was no continental breakfast at a Marriott or Days Inn but it was tasty.

Monday was the more eventful of the 2 days that we were in Tucuman. After not actually achieving what we went there to do in the morning, we ended up writing letters and then going to lunch. At lunch there was a sister who was the first convert from the province of Cordoba and the missionary who baptized her was Richard G. Scott, which was cool. After lunch we had the rest of the day to explore so we went and bought some cool trinkets from the hippies in their little hippie plaza. It was funny because some of them remembered me from the many times that I passed through before! They are so cool.

Here in Argentina the hippies are just like traveling salesmen that stop along their unbeaten trail and sell their artisanal crafts and goodies. You bet your bottom dollar that I have bought a bunch of stuff from them!

In the afternoon we went to visit some of my converts in my previous area in Tucuman! It was soooo nice to see them! I love them all soo much! It’s such an intense love that I have for them all! I HAVE to come back one day to visit them all again! I can’t wait till the spirit world! I thought I was going to have more time to see them and the others on Tuesday but we ended up doing all of our document papers early so we left to go back to Frias sooner than expected.

General Conference was awesome! I learned a lot and received a lot of personal revelation that was well needed! Our investigator Jose also had a lot of good experiences at the conference. He went to 4 of the 5 sessions and loved it. I hope he has a change of heart and that his faith will grow so that he gets married finally! He and his family need to get dunked before I go!

I love you all.  Take care!

#3weeks.

Elder Spencer McKee