Hola!!! 4.25.11

A what´s up family? How is everything back home? down here is Rio Cuarto it is amazing. we have had a lot of success this week with everything i love it!.

So last night we had a family night with the gonzales family and Estefani who is a investigator. She is 14! but the family night was way fun! we played a game and then taught the first lesson to her! and set a date for her baptism on may 7.! she said she would prepare to be baptized.! it was such a cool experience. The gospel really is the light of the world. She was so happy and excited. She has some doubts but everyone has doubts about something! But we are going to prepare her and hopefully she will be ready for her goal on the 7th. Thank you for supporting me in this Family! it really is the best thing I could be doing in my life! I´ts a lot of work but it is also a lot of fun! you see a lot of things that just make you laugh. hahaha this week we almost got locked in our church and would of had to stay there until someone came back. we walked in to go to the bathroom and the relief society was saying a pray and didn´t know we walked in and when we left the church was empty and the doors were locked. we were locked in. we had to knock on the door and luckily this sister heard us! it was funny though! My castashono is getting better each day the more I use it! I found the best time is when I get to bare my testimony with people!    It´s such a warm feeling that i feel when I do so! We eat a lot of food from the members they are really nice and want to meet with us! haha it´s great they feed us pasta, chicken, empanads, bread, lots of soda. which i always have to burp. but I hold it in!  WE are hoping to get 8 baptisms in the month of may and we have lots to do but we can teach and prepare them.

love you all!

Elder Payton

HOLA! 4.18.11

Argentina is so fun! We got here and we went straight to downtown cordoba. Let me tell you it is absolutley insane down here. Ha i love it. They argentines are crazy drivers. They all drive scooters and honk like none other. My first Area is Rio Cuarto about 3 hours south of down town Cordoba. It is a pretty big city! lots of people. My Companion is Elder Nitta. Ha I don´t understand really anything anyone is saying down here. Every one calls me nuevita. Which means pretty much newbie. But ah the people down here are so nice and friendly. I really am loving it. Its sooooo hot. Guess what????? I had my first baptism on yesterday. Ah I was balling. Guess what the hermanas name was? Madaline. haha it made me so happy. she is 11 years old and you could see the glow in her eyes. She is so awesome. The Second Baptism was a hermano named Miquel. Who is an absolute stud. The Del Rio family is amazing. The Padre is awesome, he helps me with my spanish and knows a little bit of english as well and helps me with saying stuff. the lord has really blessed my companion and I in this area. The second night we went to visit the Gomez family. 4 kids. and a mom and dad who are waiting for there papers to get married. So my companion asked me to give a spirtitual thought so i was way nervous. But I shared alma 26:27. and bore my testimony about it. in Castagano. which is there spanish name. the esposa wife. started to cry. i didn´t know if i said something offensive so i was so scared. but she told me that she needed to hear that scripture she had been going through such a hard time and needed to hear it. I was pumped. I know it wasn´t me who did it, it was the spirit. I love teaching. even though my companion is doing most of it. I love bearing my testimony about it. But a little bit about Rio Cuarto. There are lots of amazing foods. empanadas. fratelas or something like that. lots of dirt roads and very poor people live here but i wouldn´t want to be any where else in the world. I just got done playing futbol I don´t think the latino missionaries like me that much. becuase they didnt know a gringo could play soccer. haha. Tell everyone Hi!!!!
love, elder payton

YOUR MISSIONARY HAS ARRIVED! 4.15.11

Dear Parents,

We are happy to inform you that your missionaries have arrived safely to the Mission Argentina, Córdoba. They are currently with their trainers and have already begun to serve the Lord! If you have any questions or concerns feel free to call us, or send an email. Have a nice day. 

-Elder Hebertson

Secretary to the President