Maldonado Week 1

Hey fam! (you are probably getting old of that salutation! lol)

Glad to hear everybody is alive. I have been a little sick here too... I have some cold goo and have had a pretty nasty sinus headache for a few days. 800mg of ibuprofen didn't fix it - thanks for the extra little bottle. Turns out they do have ibuprofen here too, and it is pretty stinkin cheap. So I'm good on pain meds. I think Elder Montgomery passed

it to me. Oh yeah - Elder Montgomery is in my house - he's one of the ones that came down with me on the same plane. The big one from Cedar City. Attaching photo of us four - Elder Polera and I, and Elder Villafuerte (Peru) and Montgomery. Huzzah.

Maldonado is a cool place, as far as places are concerned. They had a lot of success last change, but I got here and it looks like we really only have one investigator (but they haven't visited him for a couple of weeks). So we have a lot of work to do... back to the part-families list. But I am really excited to work here. We have a really special

ward and some members who are really willing to help us out. I have been put in charge of setting up lunches, which was supposed to be easy. But after all was said and done Sunday, we only had 7 lunches scheduled. So I get to run up the phone bill (yes, we get it here) to figure out lunches. Ugh. I might have to change some stuffaround because it was a 2 elder area, but now there are four in the ward, and some of the old stuff isn't going to work - like assigned lunch days. We'll figure it out though.

I wish I had some more to report... this is a huge area! Look up Maldonado on Google Maps... our area goes from downtown Maldonado all the way to Punta Ballena. Where Lussich starts until past Punta Ballena. We aren't exactly sure how far the ward actually extends... Nobody knows. Just huge.

Well I'll have news for you next week. Love you all!

MOM NOTE: This is more from Elder Polera's mom. Evidently, he had more to say than Steven! LOL!

I don't know if your son wrote to you about this incident but I thought it was so funny that you might like to read it. Cody wrote from his perspective:

Other funny story, we were out doing contacts when all of a sudden my nose started bleeding. So im on the side of the road trying to stop my nose from leaking out my brain, and im trying to find some tissue that i forgot in my other pair of pants. All i could find was the extra cloth for repairs in the back pocket. So i had to roll it up and jam it in my nose to stop the blood. Than we had to do a contact so i could get some tissue. Talk about the most awkward contact ever. Elder Thorderson starts the contact by saying "my comp´s brain exploded, do you have toilet paper?" So funny, except i was bleeding like crazy. Ends up the guy and his family had gone to church and stuff before and we might go back out to teach them. Funny how that works out. If we get a baptism out of this, it would be quite the story.

I thought your son first words to their contact was hilarious. I laughed out loud.