My mother told me - 19 May 2008

Dear Family

Wow I got emails from all of you this week that is impressive.
I got to work with jordan again this week on monday. A Couple areas in
our zones got together to
to play so Basketball. it was pretty intense. Ate some choriso
(Argentianan sausage) and bread, and you know just goof around. But
After P day Jordan and I got put together to work.
So we just went contacting since it was not either off our areas. So
we just had fun talking to random people.

Oh important news I got the Miamaids package. Thank them for the
toothpaste and deodrent. You were right justine it was kind
of wierd but the gum is good. Sorry geting days out of order.

Tuesday Basically can be summed up into everyone figed us on our citas
so that always sucks. But one point of interest is that we had our ward
mission meeting.
And they told us we had to have an activity planned for this up coming
week. Elder Neeley and I were both like what! It does not help that our
members do not do anything church related
of their own incitaive. Enough of my ranting

Wednesday we found some cool people while tracting. We had a pretty cool
lesson with one of our progressing investigators.
This lady name is Mareila, she is about 30 something with a kid but no
husband. Her brother is a member though. So we taught about
tithing and the brother shared a bunch of cool stories about how
paying tithing has blessedd his life. We also watched the lamb of god
video with her
Which was pretty sweet. On friday we also watched the testaments with
her. She was really touched by the spirit of the movie.

Thursday got my hair cut. Pretty much normal day. We were over at the
Rosales familys, the gypsies, place last thing. Pepe , the dad, had
received a thing from his exwife
saying she wanted Pedro,their son, to be with her in Buenos Aries.
Pedro wants to stay with this dad and keep going to church. If he went
with his mom he would not be able to.
So we gave pedro a blessing. He is such a great kid. Any ways He does
get to stay with his dad. Jesus ,the nephew of Pepe, is one of the
gypises we are teaching. Basically we had Pepe and
Pedro teach him. They did a way better job than we could have.

Friday we had district meeting. I was in charge of the game. So we did
this activity involving object lessons. The most crazy one was baptism
and relating it to siccors.
So that was pretty entertaining. That Afternoon We went back to couple
of street contacts and had a cool experince.
So week knock on this house and the person we had contacted was this
lady who´s name is Doli. But a guy comes out and just starts reading
our name tags and asking how much time we
have in the mission. The guy was this way inactive memeber who married this nonmemeber. But both of them are way k-po. So we are going
to visit them this week.

Saturday went and did contacting in the morning no really cool stuff
happened there. had a nice little dinner with the Gyispies. freaking
Indiana Jones and the temeple of doom was on
the Tv. it was so funny to here it in spanish though.

Sunday was kind of a let down. We only had two investigators in
church. I could not feel the spirit in sacrament meeting. It was crazy
all the kids were runing around. and this was not todlers or anything
this is like 6
and 8 year olds. The parents did not do anything. So that is always frustrating.
Weather wise though this week has been really nice. Around 25 degrees all week.

Language is steady as she goes. Today I am with a latin compaion
because Elder Neeley is a district leader so him and another district
leader had to go into cordoba toady for a meeting so lots of
Fun. I am in mosiah 4 right now in my scripture reading and that is in spanish.
Next week is transfers so I will write you on wensday next week.

Oh and what is with the Boehmers moving?

Well that all for this week loved ones
Love
Elder Ross Blaszczyk

PS Mom and Dad,
It is good to hear that you guys are enjoying your callings. So will i
even recongizes the house when I get home?
It is so weird sometimes because Homesicking is kind of like a roll
acoaster in that it goes up and down. I was really missing you guess
yesterday during church. What can i say about those stories. I am just
good at not geting caught.
I can not think of anything just send more candy Love You
PS Zach
What are you doing for after grad? and be safe. You need to send me
some pictures of you in your grad suit.
How did the tests go? Tell me about indiana Jone movie that is coming
out this next week dude?
Con vaya a Dios mi Hermano

PS Justine
Please tell me you got pictures of this anime convention. If you do
please send them.
Castle in the sky is a pretty cool movie. Only a month left are you
not excited? Grad 9 next year the
Big kids on the block.
Love Been

PS Madsion
I do NOT have your Urim and Thumin Madie. Throwing random music lyrics
in throws me completely off.
But ya I love you too. Cool options thoguh they sound like a lot of
fun. Keep rocking in the free world.

Pictures - 12 May 2008

Just some pictures of the past week. My comp is the guy with the blond
hair. it was his birthday this week. So we had a party I will put more
in it in my letter

Mothers day - 12 May 2008

Dear family,
Well it was fun to talk to you guys yesterday. So about this past
week with more detail.

Well I lost another missionary´s football over fence and a dog ate it
so that was cool. That day was also a zone activity so there was lots
of us at the chapel just goofing off and eating. We got a pretty good
game of soccer going for a while until Jordan lost the football over
the other fence. We got the ball back but most of us were unfocused by
then. But then we did a splash in our area. I got put with Jordan, it
was pretty fun. We just did street contacting and we just talked about
the family and stuff. He is a really funny guy.

On Tuesday We had this really cool experience. We were at a lunch
appointment with some members. Their name is Villareal it is an older
couple with a grown up son. The food is also really good. But their
phone rings and they hand it to my companion and it is another member
saying we have an investigator for you meet us at the church at 5:00
pm. So we show up at five and this lady is way cool. Her name is Rosa
and she has been having a rough time with her boyfriend. So we just
talked to her and gave her a priesthood blessing. It was cool just to
see the change in her at that moment. She has also come to church and
we had another cool lesson with her on Thursday. She also has two cute
little kids one is 2 years old the other is like a year old.

On Wednesday we had interviewes with the president. Mine was about five
minutes long. So that was nice. Then we had a party with the gypsies.
They made this awesome chiken thing. In argentina they tug on your
year instead of giving you bumps. They also invinted a less active
family over.

Thursday nothing really cool happened except that lesson we had with
Rosa. Friday we had a good district meeting. Saturday we got a hold of
some cool member refrences. Hopefully they will become new
investigators.

Language is going well just got to work on congiations.
Ya it was really fun to talk to you guy yesterday.

I love you all
Elder Blaszczyk

PS Zach,
I hope you get that job at the tailsmen center. The next time I get
to call is Christmas, so I will try to send a video on dvd or
something sometime soon. Well that exciting to hear that you are
enjoying Rugby this year. You got to tell me about iron man.
Well love you bro
Quiden Se

Fwd: Pig skin - 5 May 2008

Dear family,
Okay For the phone call on Sunday. I am going to get a phone card. I
will phone around one. That is the easiest way for me to do it I
think. My companion is going to show me what phone card is the best.
Some cool experience I had this week was with this recent convert and
we had taught about the temple and prayed about her list of people .
Then she was I can not believe it. The name that came to her was her
son in law. She was like it was on a big sign. So that was a cool
experience. We have been trying to work with this guy for a while so
hopefully he will see the blessing for his family.
My companion and I are doing really good. We place two baptismal dates
this week with this lady and her son. This lady's brother is a member
so thta is really k-po. The only thing is that I will probably not be
here when it happens because of transfers.
Okay one gross Argentina food experience this week. Its this thing
called locro. It is this stew with pig skin and fat. The only thing
too is that there was pig hair in it! So both of us is this is
disgusting. My companion had a nipple in his. So ya that my gross
experience for the week.
The language is really improving. My companion really encourages me to
speak. So that is really good. Everyone say that my language is really
improving.
That All i can think of right now.
Love you all,
Elder Blaszczyk

PS Mom and Dad,
It sounds like the house is coming a long nicely. So Dad did you guys
win or lose your game. The secret with the young teams is just to
injure them all. Okay that might not be a good plan.
How is nursery treating you mom? Could you please send me some family
pictures in the next package our letter you send? They really are
helpful and I do not want to wreck the calender by carrying it
around.

PS Zach,
How is rugby going? How is all the grad stuff coming?

PS Justine and Madsion,
How are my two sister doing? Are you guys excited for summer vacaton?
IT is finally starting to get a little chilly here. So that is nice.
Well I love you.