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| Dallin cooking an asada with his companeros in Puerto Madryn. He and Elder Leon were in charge of cooking and the other two Missionaries were incharge of the place, I guess, see letter below. |
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| Elder Evans and Elder Leon and the other two Elders mentioned in the letter below. Enjoying a New Years Eve asda. |
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| Dallin, Elder Leon and the other mentioned Elder. They are waiting on the roof of the other companionship for the New Years Eve fireworks. |
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| One shot of the fireworks. Dallin said that it looked like a war zone, individuals do their own fireworks, so it's a huge display, especially if your somewhat on a hill like they were. |
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| Dallin playing the angel Gabriel in the ward Christmas play. |
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Jan 2 , 2012
Familia
Oh what a story it is I have to tell you fine people. Although I am going to try to keep it short so I can send some pictures. Well my family this is what happened. For the New years President Peterson gave us another p-day for saturday afternoon starting at 5 and then sunday for the first of January. I almost said july; I keep thinking that because it is summer here, but the months are different. It was wonderful. We went over to the pensión of the other Elders in Puerto Madryn and we made our own asado. I don´t know why they wanted to I am so sick of meat, but it was fun to do one ourselves. I really enjoyed it. E. Leon and I were in charge of the Argentine grill while they did all of the preparation type things. It turned out really well and now I will be able to take it home and show you what an asado is. Then that night before it turned midnight we went on to their roof to watch the fire-works. This is important, the idea of fire-works in Argentina are not the same concept as North American fire-works. There the city puts on a fire-work display and everyone goes to one spot to watch the fire-works. Here its not like that. Everyone has their own collection of huge fire-works and right at 12:00 it starts to grow and grow, throughout the city, the sound of bombs. Booming colors slowly grew throughout the city, but not just in front of us or behind us, but in all sides. Even some that came really close to our heads as the neighbors shot off their fire-works and we were on top of a two story building. It felt like a mixture of Mary Popins looking over the roofs and chimnies of London and London in World War II as the bombing lights exploded in all sides of us. The colors lit the sky. The most amazing part was that it lasted for hours. We left at 12:30 because that is when the President said that we had to go to bed, but it continued for hours as we tried to sleep. We spent that night in the pensión of the other Elders Marriot and Taylor ambos de Utah. Then the next day we woke up early, which was really hard, and went back to our part of town to go to church early. There were very few people in the sacrament meeting, but a mirical investigator, and two menos activos that we have been working with came. Then we spent that day resting a little and then over to the Family Guglioti. Who in the words of E. Leon, "son Divinos" their divine. We ate lunch with them, went to a hospital to see a sick member from the other ward, and then went back to there house to eat the left overs for dinner. It was a great new years p-day and now I am so excited to be starting 2012.
Well that is all that I have time for. I love you all so much. Have a wonderful 2012. Oh and it was great to talk to you people. I don´t know if I told you that last time.
Love E. Dallin Evans
Dear President Petterson
I am so greatful for this opportunity that I have to write to you each week, especially today as the second day of the year. This is going to be a great year and I am so excited for it. This morning for my personal study I made a list of goals that will turn into actions this year. I really am excited for the things that I have planned to do this year. I can still distinctly remember the first day of last year, and it feels like it was last week. I know how fast time goes by, how much faster it goes the furth into time we get, and the more we are doing, thus I set down a guide of goals that I want to acomplish this year inorder to improve my effectiveness as a missionary. I will share a little with you. It started with studying and all of the things that I wanted to finnsh this year; also all of the ways that I want to improve my study sessions in the morning. There were several ideas that I really liked that I came up with this morning and am excited to put into action this year. One is rotating study matirials for the language study session throughout the week, cosas así. There were also goals that I set about how I want to improve my obedience efforts and the importance of this goal. Also how I want to improve Christ like characteristics. As well as other things all of this so that I can plan how I can use the little time that is aloted to me to help as many people the most effectivly as I can. Elder Bednar said something that has been driving me to be continually strive to be a better missionary. He said, "a mission is good for every missionary, but a missionary is not nessisarily good for every mission." That statement suprised me into the reality of the commitment that I have made and it was haunted me into persevering to become the best I can, because I will not be content if I can only bless myself as a missionary.
Christmas and New years p-days were great little breaks that reguvinated me and gave me new needed energy for this coming year. I really am excited for all that is possible for this year. It is going to be my only full year in the mission. We did not have a baptism this week, but we have spent this week finding new investigators and fortaleciendo los investigadores que tenemos especialmente los que están cerca de ser bautizados. Tenemos algunos que están muy cerca y vamos estar trabajando muy cerca con ellos. Me encanta la oportunidad a estar con E. Leon. Es un gran privilegio y me siento muy bendecido para estar con él. Por es le agradezco.
Les amo Presidente y hermana Peterson
Elder Evans
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