Hola! Family and Friends,

I am proud to announce that I know more spanish now than I ever have in my entire life. It took me a while to get going but I am feeling more comfortable in the spanish language.

Exciting random things from the past week

1. Bottle of shampoo fell on our toilet and cracked the toilet seat cover.

2. My blankets fall off my top bunk bed almost every single night so I wake up cold.

3. Going through the temple in spanish is very strange

4. My district is the best and all the elders have this strange obsession with this shack they can see through our window. Apparently it is a grill but the elders swear they catch dogs and cook them up.

5. My new roommates desperately want to teach me spanish but it is a little frustrating when they repeat the same word that I do not know over and over again. I still don't know what it means even after the 10th time. It is better now, we had a little talk.

6. We now have 6 girls to one bathroom so if you want in you have to be fast and a little stubborn.

7. The strangest elder here has a little crush on me and it is a little weird.

8. We have really good talks, devotions and firesides. They are all pretty much the same thing but they call them different things.

9.On sunday we have a movie every night, it is usually something like Joseph Smith prophet of the restoration or a talk or something. We really like it because it is a movie and it is in english!!

10. The elders got in a little trouble because they were wrestling at night and one elder in my district got a concussion. Another elder in my district two days ago got his finger kind of pulled off, super gross. He had to go to the hospital. It was kind of exciting for the rest of us.

11. During Actividad fisica hma Nielson and I were throwing a football back and forth. She doesnt like as she calls it "american football" but I convinced her to practice. I threw so hard with such strength that when she tried to catch it her finger got jammed.

12. We have 2 teachers Hmo. De Oliviera and Hmo. Krasnoselsky. One in the morning and one in the afternoon/evening

So this week. On the saturday after I wrote last week we went proselyting on the mean streets of Buenos Aires. It wasn't my favorite thing but I think every week we will get better. I wish I had had a companion that was older and knew what to do and could speak the language. Here we are with about 2 weeks of language study our by ourselves trying to get people to talk to us. We had one kind of funny experience. We had this lunch that the ccm had given us and so we were looking for a place to sit and eat. There was no park or any tables so we sat on these steps next to the sidewalk. Little did we know that it was a bus stop, so people started hanging out next to us. This guy sat down near us and asked us how we were or something. So we are trying to communicate but it is not working very well. You get used to how your teachers talk and I am sure they talk slow for us so I really had little idea of what he was saying. I asked him if he believed in Jesucristo and pointed to a cross tattoo he had on his hand/arm. He proceeded to pull up his shirt and nodded emphatically pointing to a lovely mural of Jesus Christ on his chest. I was so happy that we understood each other that I was like si si si Jesucristo. We gave him a pamphlet but he had to get on the bus so we didn't get to talk to him much. That day we handed out 4 pamphlets and knocked on almost every single door in our area. The people are mostly nice but most of them did not want to talk to us unfortunately. There were so many dogs....I really don't even know. Luckily all the ones that are wild running in the street are good and don't pay us any attention. The ones behind fences though are are kind of scary. When we got on the bus the elders that were there had not had any luck and so I felt a little better until we got to the next stop to pick up some elders and some of them had taugh 3 lessons and placed 4 book of mormons. I was also tired, really tired. I am not super excited to go out again but I am resolved to talk to more people that walk past me.

I am sick with a sore throat and a bit of a cough. Hermana Openshaw is never around!! We are supposed to talk to her when we are sick but she is always so busy.

I love you all and I do have a testimony that Jesus Christ's gospel is on this earth. It was restored to Joseph Smith Jr so that we could have all the blessings of living by God's commands. The Book of Mormon is a testament of Jesus Christ and His visit to His people in America. He loves all His children and wants them all to "Come unto Him".

Love you all,

Krista Beatie