Rivadavia

Hey Family,

I think in my last email I spelled Rivadavia wrong, but here you have the updated and corrected version: Rivadavia.

Rivadavia is a city to the south-east of Mendoza central by about 1 hour ( kind of like provo to Salt lake). In the city there are about 23,000 I heard, I don't know if that is true, but it is a fairly large city. We aren´t living in Rivadavia, though, the old pench (apartment) fell through, and the elders have been living in San Martin, about a 45 minute bus ride. That makes it a little inconvenient, especially today on Pday when we are supposed to work from 6:30 to 9:30. We'd only have about an hour of work, so I think we'll just work here in San Martin with the San Martin Elders. I think we have a pench that we'll use, but it won't be available until the first of next month, so until then, we'll have to grin and bear it.

Oh yes, mail. Yes I have been getting the snail-mail and the dearelder.com letters, and there is a difference in speed. The last time I got the mail I got Dear Elder letters from march 8th or 13th, alongside an envalopes of valentines from February 14ish. By the Way, a big Thank you to all of you, and all the extended family for the valentines. So I think there is about a three-four week differece. I've heard it's sometimes faster, sometimes not.

I don't know, but now that I'm farther away from the offices I might be getting mail less frequently.

Oh, in spanish, they don't have the word "to get", and I've been thinking of how much we use it: get up, I went to get something from the store, I got the flu, I'll get you... and so on. Apreciate the multi-purpose word get, because when you learn Spanish you won't be able to use it.

The work in Rivadavia has gotten off to a rough start. With travelling and finding a pench our numbers were horrific this week. But I'm expecting that this week things will get a little better. Elder Ortiz is a good missionary, he's obedient, wants to work, and is a suppurb teacher. He's very good at using analogies and applying the gospel to what the people are doing right then. I want to learn to be more like that.

This week we're going to be trying to talk to a lot of people and teach 16 new investigator lessons, and we'll need help to do that.

Thank you so much for your emails! I love hearing from you. I'll keep you all in my prayers, let me know if there is anything special I should pray for.

Sincerely,

Elder Reynolds

P.S. Did you know how dificult the name Reynolds is to Latin Americans?