Pictures from DeWitt

the Peruvian restaurant.  That is real cerviche.  That is raw fish that has been soaked in lemons

The wine I won.  and just some of the things in the parade

Family,

This week has been a crazy week!  So basically I feel like I have a desk job, I don´t really feel like a missionary.  I mean I do paper work and legal work all day, then I file it all I have to make reports on each trámite, then I make a monthly report of all of the work that I did and send it to Buenos Aires, as well as Pres has asked me to make up a plan of how I will get all of the missionaries legal before the new President comes in July.  It is an odd feeling for sure!  But we have been doing work with some of these visas!  President has told me that he wants all of the missionaries legal before the new president comes.  Up until a few weeks ago that was literally impossible.  All the missionaries are coming in on tourist visas, but the problem is because they have had to visa wait or just the time they have spent in the MTC their United States back round check expires.  So I have to go through a process to obtain those and then after waiting, in some cases months, I am able to start their Argentine background checks and proof of residence and things like that.  But we have recently been receiving the American Backround checks and we have been making a lot of progress.  This Friday was a really crazy day.  We brought 7 missionaries in at one time to do trámite work.  In the morning we left at a round 6:50 and went to do their proof of residence.  We bought them something small to eat for breakfast.  Then at about 9:30 I took one group to migraciones to finish up all of their paper work, and Elder Freeman, another elder in the offices who is training and consequently doesn´t have anything to do, to do Argentine background checks.  We then took them all to the bus station and sent them back to San Juan.  It is just like a huge game of chess, like it is all in the planning and then preparing.  Then there are always a lot of things that kind of go crazy.  But it has been going good.  

Also today all of us in the offices were able to go to Vendimia.  It is a really big celebration for the harvest season.  In every city there is a queen, a lot like Miss Arizona or something of that nature, and they come here to try to be the queen of vendimia.  This morning there was a huge parade.  Each queen had a float and then there was just tons and tons of other really cool floats. Because they are celebrating the harvest season they always throw fruits and vegetables, mostly grapes being as that is what Mendoza is famous for, off of the floats.  But it is not just grapes and apples and peaches, they throw big fruits.  One of the other Elders caught a melon.  It was way fun catching all of the fruits though.  We were all gringos and stood several inches taller then the rest and we were in missionary cloths so basically the float people threw stuff to us every time and being as we were all taller we caught it almost every time!  haha all the people around us were kind of bugged.  hahah I caught several apples way too many grapes and I actually got a bottle of wine!  That is kind of crazy, one float was handing out bottles of wine and so I made my way to the front and put my hand up as well and like the lady wasn´t going to give it to me she was trying to give it to one of the other people but I just reached over and took it from her before the other person could reach it! hahahaha It was like rebounding a basketball!  We even got the whole thing on video so, that is awesome!  hahah  After all of the craziness and princesses and confetti and finished we went to a Peruvian restaurant and had real Serviche and had some really good arozechafa like fried rice with vegetables and chicken!  It was super good, and a way fun Pday!  Well I love you all and hope everything is going well!