I need more sleep - 09 June

Dear family,
Well it sounds like you guys had a full week this week. For Me I am
just doing a bunch of street contacts and just trying to find more
investigators. We have this family of five girls that we set baptismal
dates with three of them for July 12th. The first time we met this
family was because a member brought her our first Sunday in
libertador. We have also watched the testaments with the oldest one.
Our ward needs a lot of help though. We have a lot of inactive people,
but the bishop and everyone seem excited to have us here.
Oh one cool thing we did this week was the four elders in our
apartment went to a evangelical church called the Madaen. The church
is inside this huge dome type thing surrounded by a bunch of smaller
offices and a soccer field. It was so funny there were people just
dancing around like idiots. It was more like going to a rock concert
than a church. The whole reason we went is because one of our
investigators is a dj for the radio station. The radio host actually
interviewed my companion. It was just who we were and what we were
doing in Argentina. But ya we got thrown out because one of the elders
was video taping stuff. The two Utah boys that we share a pension with
were all like they are possed by evil spirits and stuff. I just
thought it was hilarious.
Our apartment is a really tight fit in the mornings. A lot of times we
will start studying early then just progressively get ready through
out the morning. Also all of us have been having crapy sleep since we
got here.
The farmers are still on strike and we saw a long line of tracketers
heading in to centro last week. Like a line of 50 of them.
My Spanish is progressing so much. Everyone say that I am speaking
better, which is a good sign.
Man I almost have 7 months in the mission it just flys by. It is a
little cooler down here but still pretty nice.

The question about the guitar is it is allowed. So I am probably going
to go to centro next week and Buy one.
Hey when dose the new Narnia movie come out because they are already
selling bootleg copies down here? It looks pretty sweet.
Well That all I can think of right now so,
Tu amo,
Ross

Mom and Dad,
Well it sounds like you guys are having a crazy busy first part of
summer. I have not gotten any other packages yet but I will probably
get something this Friday. It feels so weird that Seth was visiting me
a year ago. Man how a year flys by. Sorry if my letter are not longer
but I am writing in my journal so after the mission you guys can get
more details.

Zach,
Si, manda me carta con Jack Johnson y yo traduciré para usted. Usted
es muy anamiable por al terminar de School. Okay I tried to write more
Spanish than usual. Man you are going to be an elder that is going to
be de diez.

Justine
Only a couple more weeks and then its end of school, can I see your happy dance?
Have you got your drivers yet?

Madison,
How was your party? Did you finish your movie for your friend? What
movie did you guys watch? Send me pictures of your wallet. Tracy is so
much fun.

Electric Avenue - 02 June

Dear Family,

Well living in cordoba is diffrent than my last area by the fact that
we have a bunch of other Elders close by. Also we have bigger stores
to shop at which is k-po. My area is in the Villa (Slums) but it is
not really that scary.
Elder Fusté my compaion is a great guy. Him and I are just working up
a storm. The lord is really blessing us in this area. The memebers are
way excitied to have us as they have been sharing missionarys with
another ward. Our ward attendence is not so great right now like 50 or
so. So we got to help them with that. But our good memebers have a
bunch of people that they want us to meet.
On Sunady a memeber brought a friend to church and this lady is so
chosen. She is 21 years old, she has 6 people in her family. We are
going to teach her this week so that should be good.
I also live in a pension of four missionarys now so that is cool. It
is neat to have more than one person to talk to. One of the guys only
has a transfer in the mission. He is still geting used to not being in
the states. So he is sometimes a jerk to my compaion. The other gringo
and me are trying to get him acosutmened to latins. Our appartment is
pretty small with the four of us cramed in there. It would be perfect
with two but four is a strech.
Oh my compaion from the MTC finally made it out here this transfer. He
sounds way excitied from this email.
Two memeber have shown me how to make empanadas now so I think I have
it down. So i will show you guys once I get home.
Because it is my birthday this month I think I am going to by myself a
guitar. It should only cost me about 30 or 60 dollars with the
conversion. My compaion said he will teach me.
The spanish is going way good with a latin comapion now.
Well Love you all,
Elder Ross Blaszczyk

PS Mom and Dad,
I have not recived anymore packages but Hopefully this week. So Jason is
finally geting married. Oh isn´t that just exciting. Are they geting
married in the temple or no? Well I´m excitied to hear from Grandpa
about the whole stock thing.

PS Zach,
Well it was good to hear you had a good time at grad Zach. Okay you
need to tell me about this whole stock thing next letter if grandpa
dose not send me any info. Hey can you send me some jack johnson
guitar tabs? ¿Como esta estudindo por sus probras?

PS Madison,
How is your film going? Dad says you have been working on it for
awhile. You little creative person you.

PS Justine,
What are you listening to right now justine? Sorry to here your first
dance sucked. Did you dance with any boys? If not why? Well Le amo
todos de ustedes

Happy Birthday Mom - 28 May

Dear Family,

Well transfers are here and I have left Villa Maria and I am serving
in Cordoba. The neighborhoods is Levatdor. My new compaions name is
Elder Fuste, he is a latino from Neo ken a province here in argentina.
He has about 18 months in the mission, I have heard from others he is
a problem with disobedence but he seem to be a pretty cool guy. He
should really help my spanish to improve.
I am in a four man pension, with two other gringos. One elder has a
year and the other has 3 months. So a wide varity of experince.

So last week was pretty much more of the same. But we had so cool
experince though.
Elder Neeley and I found this lady while contacting. She said she
belived more in sicence than god, but she said we could pass by. When
we Passed by she explained that it was not that she did not belive in
god but all the other churchs did not give good answers or were
corrupt. So we had a K-po lesson with her just answering her
questions.
Then we had a cool little dinner cita with another investigator
family. The Father is this way less active memeber but the wife is not
a memeber and they have a cute little 8 month old daughter.
Saying goodbye to people sucks. So you can all know. Sayong goodbye to
the gyspies and one other memeber was the hardest. They are all such
good people.
Well i think it is offically winter here and that it is here to stay.
Right now it is rain and it is the coldest it has been since I got
here. But still not as cold as Canada.
I can not think of anything else that exciting to talk about
So I love,
Elder Blaszczyk

PS Mom and Dad,

Oh Happy Birthday Mom!! Sorry Dad that your plans to treat Mom did
not go over to well. Just try again next year. I did get the pictures
but just not have printed them.
I am in mosiah 8 right now in the book of mormon. How are you guys
doing? Stay strong during the summer months.

PS Madsion,
Thats to bad to hear that this Brooke program got shut down.
Remeber though that you have 4 weeks left then you are free from
elementry school forever. So enjoy it, enjoy recess.

PS justine,
How is studying going for you? Are you excitied for summer and are you
going to get a little summer job or is baby sitting going pretty well
for you?

PS Zach,
Freaking Francis, at least you guys did some damage. So grad sounded
like it was fun. So what about this stock tip from grandpa, what is
it? Write me before Monday about it I told dad yes, so do what ever
you feel is right.