How is everybody? How were your parties for the new year and everything. I hope you had some fun. It has been a little bit of a long weekend for me. Not too bad, but just we couldn´t really leave after like six on saturday until today.
We went to church yesterday but other than that we were stuck in the house. That makes the time last forever. Especially because it is so boiling hot right now. It is to like 40 degrees celcius, which is over one hundred farenheit. So ya it is somewhat miserable in the heat. We have some fans in the place, but they just blow the hot air around and it doesn´t help anything. So that is rough. As I write I am baking to death haha. But hey I only get to experience this once in my life right so I gotta make it last.
We had some fun for new years because we knew we weren´t going to be able to leave. We went and bought some stuff to do a bbq. Alright so my bud from costa rica has some of that mccormick seasoning stuff for steaks and stuff. So I tried to duplicate my seasonings from home. But obviously they don´t have anything like mountain dew down here. So I went with sprite. Ooh ya it was pretty dang good. I mean as good as you can get without anything good to use for seasoning. We didn´t season it all like that because the other kids weren´t sure that they would like it. So Elder Solano and I marinated our pieces in it. And ya they were a lot better than everyone elses. So after they all tried it, we had to share our good stuff and eat there crappy stuff. haha. Just kidding but seriously. I knew it would turn out like that, but no one believed me. So those are some seasonings that I would like. Also taco seasoning in the little envelopes that you use mom. Oh ya I don´t have any cookie recipes and I have forgotten how to do any of them. So I am going to need those.
A little list that I have been thinking of, for recipes:
-Bread
-Cookies, chocolate chip, no bake, oatmeal raisen, or just any others that you can think of. sugar cookies.
-brownies
-pizza dough
-pasta sauces
-uncle dan´s ranch packets. Or any ranch packets.
-taco seasoning
-mccormik steak seasoning, or any of those ones.
-Garlic Salt
That is all I can think of right now. So if you can those are the kinds of things that I can´t get here.
Anyway the bbq was really good, and we had some fun together. Because as I said there are six of us living in the same place. Which also means that if you buy something or get anything, you have to share it with ten other hands.
By the way I did not get my packages yet other than the one I already had when I talked with you. The zone leaders are headed to mendoza this week so they are going to look for me. But they weren´t there when we went on wednesday for the party.
Which reminds me of a very good story. We are just going to title this story Home Alone 1. You might be guessing about now what happened but not quite. So there were the six of us and four other elders that came to sleep in our place, because it is the closest to the bus terminal. And this was tuesday night. Keep in mind the bus leaves the terminal at 5:30 in the morning. So there were two that had to leave a 4:30 because all the tickets on our bus were sold out. So the night before there were six people that said they set their alarms. Ya you might be able to guess now. The two that were leaving first were supposed to wake us all up before they left. Ya they got up silently and took off. Leaving the door and the gate to the house wide open. And they stopped the alarms because they were set for them first, but they were supposed to set it again and wake us up. Nope they did neither. So 5:20 roles around and we get a call from the other missionaries in the zone asking where the zone leaders are, because they have everybodies tickets for the bus. So everyone jumped up and threw as many clothes on as the could before running out the door. We were all in our suits and had backpacks. Well we all had the parts of our suits. I got the job of being last out to lock everything up. So we did all of that as fast as we could, and the others were already a quarter of a mile down the road sprinting. So we took off running. We caught up in not too much time, because lets be honest it´s not to hard when they are half your size. So we were all running to get to the bus. And normally if you aren´t there on time they just leave. Because that is the business. They somehow let the other missionaries on and were waiting for us at the gate of the terminal. The drivers were obviously mad because we made them late. So they were yelling at us and everything but hey we made all made it on the bus. Excuse me we almost all made it on the bus. As the bus pulled away we saw two elders running down the road. Ya we may have left two behind. Not only did it look like home alone in the house when we were all running around trying to get ready, but yes we left some behind.
Then after getting on the bus, it was so hot. The air conditioning did not work. So we were all dead and trying to get air. Luckily I can sleep anywhere at anytime, so I just went to sleep. But anyway the two that got left were able to get on another bus of the same company. So we all made it, but it was just the spittin image of home alone. And now I know that I will never be leaving it up to someone else to set the alarm for me. I will be doing it myself.
We went and played some sports and ate some really cold nasty meat. Ya I tried cow tongue. It was disgusting. You could still see the taste buds on it. Then we did a white elephant exchange. And I got that huge balloon with the Argentine version of laffy taffy´s inside it. That is what I am holding in the picture with Elder Obaldia. It was quite the experience, one I will never forget that´s for sure.
But anyway back to new years we had that bbq that was good. Then we bought sparkling cider. We bought six bottles, one for each of us.
I went with elder solano to buy all of the stuff. And got to carry a box of cider with six bottles back to the house. The attendant that rang us up was very surprised that all of it was alcohol free. She was so confused that we wanted six bottles of alcohol free stuff. She kept asking you know this doesn´t have alcohol right. Ya lady we did that for a reason haha. And then because there are two elders from central america, they always make a dummy and burn it for the new year. So we made that dummy that is in the picture with all of us. And at midnight went out and burned it. It was a good night.
But I am glad all of the holiday stuff is over, because now we aren´t going to get stuck in the house for days at a time. We can go out and actually work without having to worry about all the drunks. So ya it was a great week. I hope you all enjoyed the stories. I am doing great and I hope you all are as well. But that´s all for today folks. I love you all so much and am so thankful to have each and everyone of you in my life.
Love,
Elder Wheeler
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