Don't Cry For Me Argentina: SE VIENE EL FRIO EH

¿ESTÁN BIEN? Nice. This week was pretty great. I'll start with a story! The best part of every week is having a story. This one's pretty short, but it's okay.

So, here we are, walking through the dirt streets of Paso del Rey, looking for a referral that a sweet elderly member gave us. We thought we had found the house, and were heading towards it when the car pulls up and every one jumps out really fast and starts heading inside. We go over and say, "Hey, does so-and-so live here?" The woman we asked says she is so-and-so but she really can't talk right now because she wants to go inside and be safe because around the corner there was a chorro (thief) with a gun who was trying to get in to a house but that the neighbours tackled him and took his gun and were waiting for the police. We say okay that's fine we'll come by another day and she says that would be great. All right. Let's be honest. I'm Elder Jacob McDonald. I hear that there's a scene like that, and does any one really expect me to turn around and walk the other way? Maybe my mom would. So we walk over and peek around the corner... what a great sight. Halfway down the street, there are three men stacked on top of another man who can't move and can only emit muffled yells of "Hey! Stop! STOP IT." So we rounded the corner a bit and gave the three men the classic thumbs up to see if they needed any help, and the man in front gave us the classic thumbs up back, meaning no, every thing's under control. We got this guy. So we headed off still listening to the chorro's muffled yells to get off of him.

There's our weekly event! Great, right? Two thumbs up for the great neighbours who attacked our gun-wielding antagonist.

I'm glad to be in Argentina. I really am. Every week that passes I just get more and more grateful for the wonderful journey that this is. And I'm even more glad that I'm here as a missionary of Christ's living church. Can any one think of a greater blessing? I'm in the Americas! And I'm a missionary! I know with out any sort of doubt that what we share is the absolute truth. Our loving Saviour Jesus Christ lives, and so does His Church! He restored it through the Prophet Joseph Smith, and it lives today and is guided by a prophet called of God, Thomas S. Monson. Our Heavenly Father's Priesthood authority is on the earth today, and through that authority my family and I have been blessed beyond understanding. Through that authority I am working to give those blessings to the beautiful families here, who need them! The world's a tough place! We need Jesus Christ here.

I LOVE YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

Elder McDonald