Argentina tiene Morcilla!
Dear family and friends,
Well I´m finally here! It´s been overwhelming and we have even less time here to email so I´ll have to be quick.
Monday we went from Atlanta straight to Buenos Aires. We got there Tuesday morning and then got on a bus after 2 hours of standing around to Rosario. That bus ride took 5 hours and so we didn´t get to the mission home until late afternoon. We ate there and had interviews and slept there that night. The next morning we had a training and then met our companions. My companion´s name is Hermana Gomez. I don´t know how old she is and I don´t really want to ask but I´m gonna guess she´s in her late 30´s. She´s really nice though and we´ve been working well together. She understands that I¨ve already been trained, so she goes easy with the things that she has to train me on. Then we ate lunch, took pictures and left at 6:30 for Paraná. Oh my goodness I love Paraná! We got here at 10 that night and the zone leaders helped us bring up our bags and then we slept.
Thursday we walked a ton. I met some investigators and recent converts. One of the houses was so small that there were two beds and a fridge and that was all it had room for. The other house had a cockroach sitting on the table, which distracted me so I didn´t really pay attention to anything else. Really, we walk a ton in this mission. I´ve never walked so much in my life and I´m a hiker! I also lived in Spain with Pachi! It´s incredible. Sometimes we have to walk an hour to get to a house and then an hour back. So basically, we do less missionary work than I´m used to, but we also get to talk to more people.
Friday we tracted a bunch and that was basically the same as Saturday.
Sunday I met the ward and it´s super cute. There´s four sisters serving in this ward, but the other sisters don´t live with us. After church we went to their apartment and ate together. It was so much fun that now we´re going to make it a tradition every Sunday. I need recipes for brownies, scones, and anything else you think I´d need! Thanks!
Differences: We don´t see any other missionaries around! It´s almost like our leaders don´t exist. Also, traffic here is crazy. There are a ton of scooters and I even saw a couple of wagons driving around. Argentina is a little bit of everything. It´s a lot poorer and dirtier than I was expecting, but it´s been good. We wash clothes in a bucket and then pray that they will dry. It´s super humid in Paraná and hilly. Our apartment has hot water, but that´s about all it has. It´s nice though, I just wish it had heat! I´m freezing half the time and sometimes I do my studies in bed so that I can think. As for the food, we don´t really eat with members so I´ve just been eating whatever, nothing new yet. But my companion told me that Argentina has morcilla! I´m super excited. All the food looks like Spain!
So that´s me. It´s been a little bit of a struggle adapting and I miss Utah like crazy and all the missionaries there, but I´m loving it. It can only get better.
I love you all! And I´m so sad I missed the 4th this year!
Hermana Borup
P. S. If you want to send me a package I would really love more peanut butter, anti itch cream and some face medicine. Thanks! But send it and put the value at less than 25 dollars or Í´ll have to pay to pick it up.
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