Mom, I got your letter thingy with the hymn book, thanks! I also got a few letters from all of you, it´s always fun to see a couple of hard letters every once in awhile. ...I know you said you would like to have some letters from Argentina. I´m working on it. The only reason I don´t send tons of letters by mail is that it costs $2 dollars for one sheet of paper. Not the cheapest thing on the block. BUT, I definitely need to send something to you guys by mail.
This Sunday, I gave my first talk in the area. It was about service. It´s crazy, I can now give a 12 minute talk, with only a few bullet points, and in Spanish. I couldn´t even do that in English before the mission!
To answer some of your questions...
My companion Elder Bustillos, is from Utah. He´s been out 15 months...the same amount of time as my last companion. And yes, we get along.
My areas? I´ve not been in a area with a branch bigger than 35, if that´s what you are asking. My first area was small, as in the town was small. My last and current areas have been a bit bigger. Like my last area, this area is the outskirts of a big city. There really are a lot of members here. I think we have at least 200 or 300 on the records. We work regularly with members that are less active. Often times, they help us out a lot.
The water? Well, in the MTC they gave us water bottles with filters. The only problem with my water bottle is that I haven´t seen it in over 3 months. I pulled a Nathan and left it in my first area. I´m still waiting for Elder Gillette (the elder in San Vicente) to send it to me... But, the water isn´t anything to write home about. I´ve been drinking from the tap for quite a while, now. I think I´m getting used to it. I´ve only had diarrhea like 4 times from it, so I think I´m doing pretty good by mission standards. I´ll have to send a picture of our water from my last area: it was yellow the day we finally had a random dude clean our tank -- that´s how everyone has their water here, in a huge tank above the house. Your water pressure is a little thing we call gravity.
I´ve been really lucky by apartment standards. My current humble home is a two story, house. Counting the kitchen, bedrooms, etc. we have 4 rooms. High living, I tell ya. We live extremely close to a bunch of people, though. Privacy is a little hard to come by. At the same time, it´s a lot of fun having like 10 kids, around the age of 7 to 11 yelling, ¨Elder!¨ Yep, we´re pretty tight with the little kids. (Especially when you have Dulces {sweets} from the US...)
Today, we went to the cemetery, here in Goya. I´ve come to realize that most cities have one BIG cemetery. I think I might make it a tradition to go visit each of the cemeteries in my areas.
Well... I did it. I finished the Book of Mormon. I love the final chapters from Moroni. He´s very direct and leaves no room to doubt that the Book of Mormon is true. It´s simple -- all we have to do is read it, ponder it, and pray to know it´s true. That´s it. And what am I going to do now? Read it Again!
Love you!
Elder McMurray
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