3-3-09

Hello everyone!!!
Things are just chugging along here in the mission! I never imagined what came with being a missionary. It´s harder than I thought. You won´t believe it but I´ve learned to be mean with people who don´t keep their commitments. I like to use the method of breaking the down and then bringing the back up. It seems to work out really well. Also, I have acquired the nickname "Maquina Page" or in English "Page the Machine." Don´t ask me why they call me that because I haven´t figured it out yet. Either way the work is moving along. Right now we have 5 baptismal dates even though some of them have a lot of work to do. Things are going awesome though and Elder Lee and I are working as hard as ever. Seeing some success really gets me going. My area has really been turned around just from a little hard work and a lot of help from the Lord. I´ve seen miracles already. We found this lady, Maria, who was stuck in her Catholic traditions with her kids trying to convince her to be Evangelist. We taught her one day and she accepted everything we taught. She has a lot of doubts about the church because her kids tell her what the Mormons believe. We end up doing damage control after every lesson. It doesn´t matter because she´s changing. This is probably the first person here I´ve seen start to change their life and experience the TRUE conversion. It´s so awesome!!! But yeah we´ve really got a lot of good things going for us.
When I had interviews with the President he hinted to me that I would probably be leaving the area so we´ll find that out in a couple of weeks.
Well I don´t have any really crazy stories this week. After a while all the things you think are crazy just turn out to be normal here. The other day we contacted a drunk who had a stab wound in his chest. It was...well...Argentine. Anyway, that´s about everything here. It´s still hot but not as hot as it used to be. It´s starting to move little by little into the fall (which they don´t have here) and eventually into winter.
Good luck with everything and have a great week!
Elder Page