Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Electric Fence???

This week was pretty crazy and a lot of things happened. Yesterday (p-day) Jaydan's district and the district above him had to got to Montevideo to sign papers to become official Uruguayos. So Jaydan is officially now an American Uruguayo. (Jaydan said it's all good!)

The Elder Jaydan was with, Elder Alberthsen, who is also in Jaydan's zone was in charge of some crutches that they needed to take to a Sister missionary who is having foot problems. Well, Elder Alberthsen lost them during the day and they spent all day looking for then. Then everything was going wrong for them in getting tickets so that they could come back from Montevideo...but things worked out and they barely got back. That took up there p-day and so Jaydan quickly went in today and wrote a little. He was headed right back out to work since that is the important thing to be doing.

He ate at the only Burger King in Uruguay yesterday in Deo and actually liked it. He didn't really care for Burger King at home but after eating cow stomach, and cow insides, and even cow utters (which are not the best things to eat in Jaydan's opinion) he thought it was pretty good.

There is now an electric fence up across the roofs by Jaydan's house. He thinks it to keep the missionaries from roaming across the roofs and also from sleeping on them. Then Jaydan said: "do they really think an electric fence will stop Americans? It only works on Mexicans and really doesn't even stop them." hahaha

Jaydan's comp fell off the roof one day and hit his butt. Then one morning after sleeping on the roof Jaydan was coming down the rope that the Elders had built and he started slipping because it was a little wet and he had a lot of weight on his back. He decided to jump out from the wall but since he had his sandals on and the floor was wet he slipped and smacked his head on the brick wall. He said he hurt really bad but he didn't bleed. He has had so many injuries to his head in his life what is one more.

Jaydan will be speaking in Sacrament Meeting for the first time this Sunday. (we should pray for him) He is nervous since he is still so new to it all but knows that is will be good practice and that the Lord will be on his side. He has to talk about not being lazy as members since the ward needs to hear it. He said he will do it in a loving way but they really do need it.

Jaydan has another baptism this next week and two if the dad of the boys that he baptized will quit smoking. Jaydan prefers to work with people that want to take the Gospel seriously in their lives and who want to be sealed for eternity. He would much rather have less baptisms of people who are serious than more baptisms just for numbers. He doesn't like seeing people fall away after they have been baptized. ("Quality is a bunch more important in my book than Quantity")

Love you all and I'm glad that things are going good at home!

Love....THEE Elder Ropelato

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