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THE WORLD CUP!

 December 5, 2022

What is up, my people? I hope life and stuff are going well for you! Anyways, before I get started on this week I thought I would let you all know that if you want to send me a message, it might be better on Facebook Messenger because that way I can record my voice and then explain everything in a lot shorter time. I'm not a speedy emailer, but if you prefer email, I'm cool with that too.

On to my week . . . On Monday after p-day, we had a lesson with one of our friends named Mario, and it went really well! He's trying to stop smoking and loves coming to church, sooo I think he's doing pretty good! After that, I called my family and talked to them for a while so that was super fun!

The next couple of days we hit as many points as we could and tried to find progressing people. On Wednesday, it was raining soo much and we were outside the whole time, so we were drenched, but we didn't care because we were having tons of fun! Also, the World Cup is going on, so while we were in the street, people told us USA won their game to make it to elimination, so I was excited!! After that, we kind of just went home and made some banger dinner.

Ohh ya, the World Cup here in Argentina is freaking wack ahaha, but so fun. When a game's on, no store is open, and no one is in the street. Literally, everyone is glued to the game and if Argentina scores the whole country goes crazy and shoots off fireworks and guns. It stinks that we can't watch the game, but we can pretty much tell what's going on based on the noise.

Anyways, the rest of the week was chill. We played pick-up basketball with kids in the street, so that was fun, but also kind of scary but, haha, who cares?

Ooh, Sunday we had an awesome experience that all started with my comp needing to pee. We booked it to our church building, so my comp could use the facilities. While he was busy, I looked up FB messenger to see what my buddies texted me. When we walked out of the church, we went the wrong way. We walked by this guy in tears with a beer in his hand. Usually, this is a bad sign, but as a missionary, you try to talk to everyone you see, soo we go talk to this guy. It turns out that he wants us to teach him and that he needs another answer to life because beer isn't the answer. That was super cool, and we will see what happens because he was also super drunk, but, hey, I mean, he gave us his address and wants us to talk when he's sober, soo I guess we'll go, haha. 

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a blessing and it's something we need to share because a lot of people don't know where to find that light. If we share, we can see the gospel change lives! I know that to be true because I see it every day.

I hope y'all have a wonderful week, and know I'm thinking of y'all! 

Love,

Elder Mergenthaler



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