Dear family,

hey, you like the title of my email. haha. We just went to an all you can eat pizza and empenada place as a district. it was actually really good. the pizza here is weird, but it still tastes good. i still like pizza from the states more though...sorry argentina. haha. but, they do interesting things to their pizza, that is for sure. the typical pizza is tomato sauce and mozzarella chesse with tomato and one green olive on top. but another typical is papas fritas (or french fries...but usually for their hot dogs and pizza their fries are small little things...not normal sized) or fried egg. they actually put hard boiled eggs in practically everything they eat, pizza, salads, empenadas, etc. They think it is weird to eat eggs for breakfast...especially hard boiled eggs. haha they don´t have pepperoni for their pizza and it is sad. it was kind of hard for me at first, because i love my pepperoni.

anyway, enough about the food...haha. This week was interesting for sure. My first week leading someone around all the time, planning all of our visits, etc. I will admit, I learned a lot, made a lot of mistakes, and hopefully can do better this week. haha The good thing was that we never once got lost. oh yeah, and yesterday i completed 5 months in the mission. wow, that was fast. before you know it i´ll be home. and i´ll be sad.

It was crazy. I don´t even remember what happened because it was so crazy all the time. Let´s see. Oh, I know. no wait, i actually don´t. Oh wait, yes. jk I lied. So this week...I think it was Saturday we were walking down a street to our next visit. We stopped for a second and checked our planners to verify where we were going and such, and in the mean-time some kid (maybe 20 years old...haha I call him a kid) started talking to us. He gave us a pamphlet and told us that he was a missionary. We listened patiently because we know what it is like to have people disregard the importance of your message. He started off by saying they were Evangelists and inviting us to their church. Then his "companion", either his father or a friend, but he was the pastor of their church, started talking to us. He started bashing on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. I didn´t want to bible bash (or did I? haha) but i knew I shouldn´t either way, so I held my tounge. Then I thought, "the most powerful tool I have is my testimony" so i started to bear my testimony about how I know this is the Church of Jesus Christ because we have a prophet and apostles. Then he said that they do too. haha. of course. anyway, eventually we said that we could go on all day debating, and so we invited them to come to church. i told them if they came to our meetings in the morning we would go to theirs. then we closed with a prayer. first i prayed. then the pastor prayed...and I was scared. I´m serious. I felt so terrible inside. the 20 year old started shouting as the pastor prayed saying that he felt the holy spirit, and such. I wanted to cry because I was so sad that Satan had their souls so wrapped around his finger. It is really sad to see the confusion people have..but more than that, when their hearts are so closed, they refuse to listen to others. the difference between our prayer and theirs was night and day. I know this is the true church of Christ.

Oh yeah, and another great run in with some Jehovah´s witnesses. We were teaching a man named Eduardo in his garage because we can´t enter his house. Anyway, the Jehovah´s witness missionaries knocked on his door and arranged to come back another time. You could tell they felt really uncomfortable. I wanted to laugh because of the irony of the situation.

Anyway, those are my adventures of the week.

Love,
Sarah

p.s. Gene, hang in there. I love you, and I´m praying for you.