Hola people in North America,

I have a question…What happened to January! ¡Se fue! How can we be in February already, and February only has four weeks.  :-(    I need more time, I only have 18 months left to touch more doors and souls. I better get to work, eh?

We had a very interesting week. I’ll start with this amazing little event called “Cortar la Luz”.  In Córdoba, because it’s so hot everyday everyone is using air conditioners more and more and using up electricidad. Okay, that’s a little background action — entonces, since I’m in this wonderful country of Argentina, they “cut the lights” and power to different parts of the city during the day and night.

You need to realize before I go on, how hot it is — everyday it is in the 100 plus temperatures and there is not shade and there are no clouds. So, without power, there are no fans, no air conditioners or fridges and other such things that aid us in fighting the heat. Our wonderful power is cut at 9 am to 11 am, then again at 3 pm to 6 pm and that’s just the part of the city where our apartment is at, but then it happens at different parts of the city during the day. Imagine, at night laying in bed sweating without an escape. Horrible. And… you can imagine how the people — business owners and everyone — are feeling. So Argentina does what Argentina does when something sucks…they protest.

One night we were returning to our apartment and there was the beginning of a protest. I’ve come to the conclusion that protests work…sometimes. During the protest…we watched for a bit…people were banging things together. This one stupid lady was banging a lollipop on a pop bottle…yes, because that is going to make a ton of noise.    People clapping and yelling and blocking the streets. This one guy, I guess he was the leader, had a loud speaker and was yelling things trying to get the people to walk to the Governor’s house, Ya right! It’s like 13 blocks away, people aren’t going to walk that far, they aren’t Martin Luther King Jr! It would have been the perfect opportunity to cut the lights again, I would have laughed!  :-)  But it worked — they haven’t cut the lights since Saturday. I’m happy.

Some people have no clue. We were looking for this family and knocked on a door. We asked for Maria, and the man seemed kind of scared and timid and asked “Are you Interpol?” No we’re CIA, come on man! Do we look like Interpol material? That was a first. When kids ask us in the street if we are CIA, we say “Yes, and don’t tell anyone.” It’s fun to have fun with the little niños. Maybe someday we’ll need to borrow some sweats…   

We were again looking for a miembro and knocked on a door and this lady named Yessica opened and before we said anything, she told us to come in…okay. I remember contacting her in the street the past transfer with Elder Smith. So six weeks later she tells us to come in. She was there with her two tots and her husband was working. Instantly in our discussion, we headed right for the Plan of Salvation. It was amazing, so we set up a return appointment to teach her family together. It’s just one of the things that happens. That person that you talk to in the street that doesn’t seem interested and not ready right then — God will prepare them later, everyone has their time. So I’ll tell you later what goes down with her.

Our transfers are on the 14th, I’m so ready to leave, I don’t want to have touched this area for six months. I have to get this DNI card…its kind of like a license to be more legal in the country.  Nevertheless, an Elder from the office, Elder Reid, came and stayed in our pension and we got up at 5 am and walked to the place to get the license which is only three blocks away, then we stood in line for 4 hours. We went today, but when we got to the front, they told us to take out a turn, so I have to go back on the 4th.

We are going to be with Elder Reid everyday this week, because he’s in a trio, so he’s with us in the mornings for the week. We won’t work the morning, it’s a good thing he’s way capo “cool”. We had a fun time standing in line, we talked a lot and laughed the whole time. My abs still hurt a little. When we were talking and something really funny was said, he would whip out his planner and write it down so he wouldn’t forget it — like when a lady walked by carrying a bunch of Tupperware and I said ” It’s always good to carry Tupper around, you don’t know when you are going to need to store food…or beads.”

Well, now to begin a new month, pray for me, for you are always in mine. And if you are not praying, START NOW! Your Father is waiting to hear from you.

Encontrar, Enseñar, Bautizar

Les amo

Elder Glanzer

Chao