Hey family! this week was awesome. We had a baptism on Saturday and I confirmed Jorge on Sunday. First time doing that. It was awesome, I was really helped in the what to say, as well as the how to say it. It was kinda funny to, because I was about to finish and then Elder Fackrell whispered, ´´Por la autoridad del Sacerdocia Melquisidec.´´ I added that and said amen haha. It was pretty good timing.

Anyways, Jorge is great. He has been converted for a long time, but only decided to take the plunge about 3 weeks ago. there was some things that kept us from baptizing him every weekend since then, but we finally got it done. When it ´´clicked´´ for him was really interesting. We assigned him Alma 7 to read (that chapter is used a lot....) and he forgot which chapter it was, so he read Alma 5 which just like drops some hardcore Cain on people and he told us the next day, ´´uh... Well. I think i need to get baptized.´´ We were like... uhh.. YEA!!! hello!!!! But it was awesome that he decided to finally baptize after he read a chapter that we didn´t assign. The Spirit plays such an amazing role! He is definitely the best out of the three in our companionship.

The other pictures are just kinda random. Today we went to this park with the branch president of Urbana, one of the branches in Tupungato (almost a ward--way exciting) and had an asado. I never have been in the forest here, but it was beautiful. They just had every type of tree there. It was like a rainforest, but not humid or so tropical, just a ton of different types of trees and plants. All the fruit is starting to grow here too, and should be ready to pluck off and eat about the time that I get transferred haha.

Speaking of transfers, Elder Fackrell is peacin out to San Juan where it is hotter than... a hot place... and so its finally coming to an end. He´s a great guy and has been my good friend these past 12 weeks. I cannot wait to train someone. Elder Tilleman (the guy you all asked me about) must be a super stud who already is like fluent in spanish because he only has one more transfer than me and is training already. what a capo. I met him in the MTC and he seemed really cool. Anyway, Elder Espino is my new comp and he is a latin so my spanish is gonna be nice and good and my english is gonna have a sweet accent when I talk to you guys at Christmas. This is going to be a way sweet transfer. I love cordon.

I thought Cordon del Plata meant shoelace of silver, so I finally asked someone the other day and they told me it was actually string, like the string of mountains, or in other words, chain of mountains.... so Mountain range of silver. Its prettier I think. AND it makes sense. Way to go Argentina!

The elections finished up here last week and Cristina is the Presidenta again! I guess shes too liberal even for Obama´s tastes becuase he came to South America once and went everywhere but here haha. Thats just what I have heard though. Anyway....

This last transfer has been a mix of blessings and burdens. It has helped me grow a lot in ways that I didn´t know I could. I feel humbled because of the language, blessed because of the people, and a deeper love and urgency for the work. I am excited for things to come.

I am doing really well and I included that picture of the sunset because I am pretty sure that is going to be a small fraction of what man might see during the second coming.

I watched the Mountain of the Lord this week and at the end, you know how it talks about how the Lord´s house will be established in the top of the mountains? Like that gives you chills about the Salt Lake Temple right? Tell you what, those pioneers never saw mountains like the ones here. Mendoza has a goal of having the next temple in Argentina. Its the next biggest city and so I hope that that announcement comes while I am here. That would be so exciting and be such a blessing to the people here. They have to either pay a ton of money to get a passport to go to Santiago Chile, or take a 2 day (por lo menos) bus trip to Buenos Aires (also super expensive) to go to the temple. I think that is why I loved the new fund that President Monson announced at conference in October, helping members go for their first time. Such an exciting time to be a member of the church.

Anyway, I love ya and am doing well. I love reading the scriptures in spanish because it brings a new meaning to some of them. Like you know how we are told to watch for the second coming? well in Spanish, its Velar, which means to watch over. Like watch over your stewerdship until He comes. Just a little sidenote, but I think that things like that are awesome.

Love ya! Elder Daybell

The cat is just a cat. She loves me. Kind of a weird cat.. When ever we go to this house (Jorge) I knock on the door and it jumps and climbs up my back, to my shoulders (from behind, totally a surprise). She is always there when they answer the door so... now they´re like, where is Mishi, when we go and she doesn´t attack me...

also highlight of P-day : we played monopoly today and it started out with 4 of us and I didn´t even want to play because I ALWAYS feel way contentious when we play that game... But they got me to play and guess who won after almost 4 hours? I did. Yep. I ended up with 28445 pesos, and killed Elder Fackrell. It was great. I wrote my score on the cover of the box so the generations to come can stand in awe and fear my name! hahaha...