Pictures from DeWitt February 13, 2014 ONE YEAR!!!

Okay the first one is Pablo and Jackalina a few investigators from San Rafa, that is there house behind them one bed zero bath half a window and about 40 square foot

Second, this is one of my favorite restaurants in San Rafa centro this is a few people from the zone.  Next to me is E van Orman and in front of me is E diaz, my super great Colombian friend and Polly's future husband.

this is pictures of the cemetery in San Rafa!  the first two are two different casitas and it is what I am going to build for myself when I die, or for the family if dad would be willing to chip in with me!  It could work to because you just dig a hole and put stairs and you can fit as many people you want in there. 

Okay, so the first two are of me and my new comps, E Wells and E Freeman eating an asado on the third floor of the office pench, and the third is of me and some of the elders in my district right as I was leaving San Rafa.  Elder Van Orman, the states,Olaya,columbia, Pinedo, Peru.

Elder Van Ornman In San Rafael

This is in San Rafael

"okay I am only sending this to you because you asked for it, and only on the condition that its not used in a bragging way, that's the last thing I want to do with this or the position I'm in.  So you cant give it to grandma ´´I would be proud of you DeWitt, but pride is a sin!´´   (this is me, I told him that mama pride is not the bad
kind of pride, and so here it is on the blog!!)

this was Christmas 12 o´clock Christmas night everyone was giving their hugs and kisses
 ( and hand shakes ) Out side watching the fireworks

DeWitt Evans	Feb 8
to me

hey family,

Okay this week has been awesome haha and probably one of the hardest weeks physically in my mission.  I am going to start of this week by discribing my bathroom, you will understand why in about forty seconds.  Okay there are, in the office pench that I live in,  two bathrooms and then this tile room that was converted into a ghetto shower room for all the elders that come and stay the night at our pench.  The bathroom that I most comonly use is the downstairs bathroom.  It is about four foot by three foot and is a little nuck under the staircase.  The toilet and sink face eachother, and they are close enough that you can use them at the same time and then up and to the right is the shower head that is just sticking out of the wall.  So it is small enough where you can sit on the toilet and wash your hands and have the water squirting on you at the same time.  Not only that but the water in there is really jacked up and so the shower head and toilet take always have extra water dripping out so it is litteraly like a little swamp that we keep hidden under the stairs; oh and the light is broken.  Okay so now as I tell the story you can kind of picture for yourselfs where I was at.

The story starts out sunday.  Myself, my comps, and the two other missionaries that we share the ward with had lunch with an old single lady in the ward of about 88 years old.  She loves to feed the missionaires and always cooks good tasting food and a lot of it, but the problem is that she is 88.  She dosent want us to ever help her set the table but as she is sitting there with a fork in one hand and a knife in the other trying for over five minutes to figure out which of the two utensils the table is lacking we are about to die!  And then she gets side tracked on a story about her decisted husband, the blue eyed prince, who was an older argentine solder from England and couldn´t speak spanish.  What I am trying to explain is that she can be very forgetful.  We went over sunday afternoon and she had prepared for us an asado that she cooked in her oven.  She had cooked it half way the night before and the second half in the morning.  As we cut into it we realized that she might have not cooked it all the way.  Mine was still bleading and it was kind of cold.  So we ate and everything was good, it tasted really good, we left and then we went out worked and everthing was normal.  That morning at about 3:30 I woke up with terible stomack pains, not like a sick feeling but like a feeling like my muscles were cramping up so I got out of bed really fast the run to the bathroon closest to me (the upstairs bathroom).  I open the door and my comp is there, Elder Wells, without cloths just throwing up and going to the bathroom moaning that he is dieing.  At the same moment that I ran out my other comp, Elder Freeman ran out and open the bathroom door and got the same responce.  Then the two of us ran down to the downstairs bathroom, being as there is only one it was kind of a race.  I got there first and he was just sitting out there kind of like mumbling and telling me to hurry.  Then I was just sitting in that tiny little swamp of a bathroom getting dripped on and just bad things were happening if you understand what I mean! hahaha.  Then as I finished I walked outside of the bathroom and Elder Freeman was standing in the tile room with the two showers.  what had happened being as there was only one two bathrooms and three of us and this wasnt something that we could really control he ended up making a big ol mess in a cardboard box in the shower room.  If you havent guessed it by now, we all got a hardy case of food poisoning!  The rest of the night was a really rough experience haha.  There was one time that after I had gone to the bathroom I went back to my bed and I laid down, before I could close my eyes I was running back down the stairs to my little swamp under the stairs!  Before lunch that day I had gone to the bathroom a total of eight times!  But it was like a weird feeling, like we didnt feel sick we would just all the souden get this terrible urge and have to run to the bathroom.  So that was pretty crazy!  then the next night I got an infection in my left ear haha and I had no form of medication so that night was spent in the kitchen trying to stop the throbing in my ear.  Then two days after that I got an infection in my right ear.  So this week I have had food poisoning and a double ear infection making me pretty much deaf for a period of time. haha so it was a real fun week!  But it did find some really good drugs in the farmacie!  I really dont want this to sound negative because it wasnt a bad week, it has actually been a really good week, and we have been getting a lot of good work done and have also been finding some really good people in our area when we have been able to get out!  But, like right now I am feeling fine, the food poisoning was only for a day, and I got some powerful ear drops and my ears have been getting a lot better!

Also today I was able to go on a hike with two of the other office elders, Elder Petersen, the financiero and Stetsons old comp, and Elder Manrique the matieralista de columbia and like the nicest guy I think I have ever met!  But we went to cerro arco, it is on the outskirts of mendoza and so we had to take a couple of buses, but it is a really big hill like it was a good hike, but it is used for these big like satalite dishes and radio towers but it is really popular to go and hike it because it is good excerices as well as the people will use paracutes and glide off of the top.  The dont sky dive but they open the shoot and then jump off the side and just glide down to the bottom.  So the trail was really smooth because cars and horses even go up and down it, but it was long that there were several parts that were really steep.  But it was so much fun and it had a great few of mendoza!  I will send some pictures of it!  But that was my week and it has been great!  I hope all is well with you all and that you are all enjoying the good weather!  Sorry if my letter was a little too discriptive! haha 

lots of love,

DeWitt

 The little bathroom I was trapped in

my bedroom, my bed is the one on the far right on the bottom

the stairs leading up to the third floor crows nest thing

and the front room, kitchen to the left, stairs bathroom and shower room to the right

Some horses that were going up the trail too...

At the top looking over the edge

in a shack at the bottom with all the little recuerdos from hikers

at the beginning of the hike, we hiked to the top where the little radio towers are

DeWitt Evans	Feb 15 (9 days ago)
to me

hello family,

This week has been a good week.  Umm a lot of pretty normal stuff haha we have been doing a lot of visas this week and a lot of back round checks and things of that nature.  I did get my international driving permit this week, thank you mom, and that has been a lot of crazy fun!  Driving in Argentina is a crazy experience, there are seriously like no rules.  When there is an intersection all people do is slow down a little bit and honk and if they don't see anyone or they don't hear any honks they just fly through the intersection.  The city is comprised of a large majority of one way streets thus causing an unneeded confidence in the drivers.  They are aware that there is no on coming traffic and feel more comfortable passing any car that is not maintaining a solid pace above the speed limit.  Haha and it doesn't help that the cops ride bikes and mopeds; they are more a pun of a joke then a threat.  Haha but I love driving here, and I have gotten really good at weaving in and out of cars in two lane streets.  It also helps that the car that we drive is one of the nicer faster cars on the streets here.  

Also this week will be my last week with Elder Wells.  After this week he will be leaving the offices and I will be here solo.  I have been told that the second transfer, your first with out the trainer, is the most difficult and stressful.  I don't know I am a little nervous but I feel like I'll be okay.  Haha but I guess we will really see in a few weeks.  I think the part I am the most unsure about is the directions, it is kind of my fault for not paying as much attention while Elder Wells was driving, but now I'll learn a lot more.

This week was also my year mark!  Crazy, I don't know it just feels like it has all gone so fast especially this last six months, that has just flown by.  I feel like it was just a few days ago that I went into the MTC haha but at the same time it feels like a really long time ago.  So it was a pretty normal day I just woke up and took people around, just doing the normal thing.  Then that night a pulled out an old gross shirt that I have been saving since I was in san juan.  We went up to the third floor like crows nest thing at the pench and I put way too much rubbing alcohol on the shirt and then I burnt it.  I think it took a solid fifteen seconds to burn the shirt.  It was pretty crazy how fast it went up!  

Other than office work, our area has been doing a little better.  We have recently been able to find and teach a few menos activos.  We taught a lesson the other day and we walked out of that amazed that we could still speak about the gospel in Spanish and not just about visas and flights.  It was a good feeling feeling like a missionary again.  Most of the time I just feel like I have a desk job because that's really what I do.  haha but all is well thank you all for the love and support!