Hey! oh man. this week was Crazy. for real. Remember how Elder Aidukitus was coming to drop cain on us for the zone conference that we had last week? Well he came, he saw, and he did indeed drop cain. It was a way good conference though. He is just like Elder Holland in his zeal for the work. He is one of those guys that when he calls on you, you had better have everything in its place, and your planner has to be just chock full of plans and details and you just gotta be all ship-shape because he WILL publicly embarrass you.. So its just better if you have all the fundamental things going right, that way he has to dig a little bit to find the error haha. No but really he is way cool and I had just a way uplifting experience listening to him. I know that he is a 70 for a reason. He is the President or councelor in the Area Presidency of South America South.... Example: One elder didn´t bring his PMG, anything to take notes, or anything like that.. for the next 5 minutes Elder Aidukitus went on about how he must have told the Lord that he didn´t want to recieve any personal revelation that day, and that basically gauranteed him that he wouldn´t haha. Then a couple minutes later, he asked an elder to read something from PMG and he had one of those little PMGs that is the same thing, but just about a 1/4 of the size. Elder Aidukitus stopped him and suggested that he bring a bigger PMG to work in, and send the little tiny one home. Then he said that you probably want personal revelation, but only a tiny bit. Hahaha oh man. But his attitude and the tone of his voice is full of love and you know that he loves you and deeply cares for the work, so when he called all of these people out it was kinda funny, but not really at their expense. Or maybe it was haha, I didn´t get called out. I think its because he made all the newbies stand up at the beginning of the conference and took note of all the Elders he didn´t want to make cry hahaha. Oh but don´t get me wrong, he is an absolute stud and I know he is a servant of God. I partly know that because the Lord definitely helped me out with the gift of Tongues and allowed me to understand perfectly everything he said, and partly because of the powerful testimony he bore at the end.

Anyway, that was great. I got a sweet little package from Sophie with an awesome tie and letters from her brother, and her friends. It was WAY awesome! and the package had a little María on each side and so I got some way funny looks from people on the long trip back from Mendoza to Cordón haha. But the trick worked, and the package hadn´t been opened by Argentine Customs.....

Another little funny note.. Mom, remember how you were peeved that you got a letter from me and it was actually for Cameron Crawford? Well I sent you a letter to that was actually yours haha.... Well on saturday we made divisions and Elder Reininger (my zone leader) had to get his toe operated on and so we had to go to Mendoza (getting there was a whole notha story because the bus terminal there was like on lockdown because of a huge strike... stupid). While I was there, I talked to Elder Packer (Old USAF intel officer who apparently knows Lary Adkinson from Vietnam??? Wierd connection right?) and he gave me a little plastic bag that had a shredded up letter inside of it. The one that was for you haha... oh man. That was rich. It was a great little apology by the USPS and so I think that I am just going to send you the half-letter (as proof that I did write :) and the plastic bag.... I will send a picture next week. I forgot my camera this week....

This week was good because we planned for about 7 hours on thursday, after the conocimiento we recieved from Elder A. It made the rest of the week way better and we ended up having a pretty decent week. Next week for sure we are having at least two baptisms. Which I am excited about.

Well, Love ya! I am fine

and OH i got the batteries finally! they came a long time ago, and have been sitting in the mailroom for about a month! I guess when the package got here, some joker at customs thought it would be more effecient to take off all the labels (like the name of the person the package was addressed to....). But anyway, I have that now. Thanks!

Love ya

Elder Daybell

PS happy halloween. We eat lunch with the district president and he was shocked when elder Fackrell told him that he was a dinosaur one year.... he said ´´but elder, how did you keep all the dogs from biting your tail?´´ hahaha. they have strays EVERYWHERE here. and horses too.... I don´t really know how that works out but whatever. I love Argentina! Viva Cristina!