hey family!

this week was better. Our numbers were higher, and it went by way fast. I think Elder Fackrell is a little burned out from this area just because its a more difficult place....but we are working hard and making progress. We had two baptisms scheduled for the 17th and one of them just kinda flaked out and the other kid can´t read, so in addition to reteaching the lessons, we are teaching how to read from the BoM. Our English class is pretty successful. we teach it every Sunday at 4, in our chapple/barn and a lot of the kids come, especially around testing time. Its awesome because i can´t speak the language perfectly yet, but i can teach english to them. its way cool. I LOVE the alphabet and the sounds it makes in spanish. it just makes so much more sense! English has so many stupid rules that only work sometimes. like i before e except after c and sometimes before y and certain holidays and pretty much whenever you feel like it... but in Spanish there are very few irregulars and the rules really are rules. In English, they´re actually more like guidelines. Ah...

anyway. Yesterday was the 10 year mark. that is crazy. some people here are evil. they say the most messed up stuff like, ´´i´m glad that all those Americans died´´ and ´´ i hope the terrorists win´´ etc... its way stupid. i just dont say anything about being a soldier, but its hard... and they give us a lot of crap for being in Iraq and Afghanistan and its like... Hey.... remember the Malvinas Islands? why are you there? besides the british totally rocked you in that war... idk... its stupid. anyways.... The spirit of contention is of the devil...

We had some funny stuff happen this week. We went to an appointment way out there and we were talking to Brian, this 11 year old kid and his dad came up to us holding little baby bunny. He was like ´´can you guys give it a blessing?´´ and Elder Fackrell and I kinda looked at each other and I guess we both consented haha.... So he just held it in his hands and said a short prayer (don´t worry, no sacrilege was done....) and after, the dad took it back, and went outside and i´m pretty sure he killed it because the kids came back bawling and screaming haha....(he had run over the mom with his tractor and the baby was still... nursing and so it was probably the right thing to do...) but they are a really poor family so i think they might have made some soup that night.... but that was kinda interesting and funny i thought.

also had a pretty big miracle happen this week. At the same house, we were teaching Brian and around 12:30 we decided to go because we had to catch the 1:00 bus to Tupungato for some silly internet thing that the whole mission had to do. And neither of us ate that morning and our lunch canceled on us so... we wouldn't have eaten until late at night like 9-ish. But anyway we go back into the kitchen to say goodbye to the Hermana and shes like, you aren´t staying for lunch? (they are way poor, remember) and we said we didn´t want to be a bother, but she just said no, i am offering it to you! and so we stayed and ate, and the bus was late so we made that too!

Scripture fulfilled. i don´t know the words exactly but its something like don´t worry about food, or clothing or transportation, just go and preach. everything will be taken care of. Super awesome. The tender mercies of the Lord are definitely observed and much appreciated every day in Cordón.

well i hope everything is well! i love you guys like crazy!

Elder Daybell