This week has been busy! I've been updating all of our visa information, sending out many many letters, etc, etc! It's hard to think of what's happened this week!
We had nine people in church this week, and almost all of them were found this week. We're hoping for similar attendance this week. I wrangled with cell phone issues all week (throughout the mission), and I got my Argentine driver's license. The only requirement was my Canadian passport, $75 pesos, and a quick vision test (I got a perfect score). I have driven the (manual) mission van once so far.
Today we took a group of missionaries downtown to renew their visas. Unfortunately, we ran out of money as we were there, so we had to jump in a taxi, and rush through the city for almost an hour to be resolve the situation. It was an adventure!
I wanted to ask also if you could put together some photos and send them to me—I usually show people the family photo that we took before I left (I put it on the back inner cover of my scriptures), but often (members especially) people want to see more photos, and little plastic photo albums are very common here. Thus, I wanted to ask if you could compile some photos (from my photo library, from old family albums (scanned), etc) of our family. I made a little list of some suggestions:
- Something from Mexico (e.g. the family photo with all of us in front of a pyramid)
- Photo of me swing dancing (my favourite is in my iPhoto library under the folder 'Tulip Festival'), and in a play, and maybe doing my research project on beetles (or some other interesting activity)
- Photos of my brothers (e.g. one of each doing something interesting that doesn't really exist in Argentina, e.g. snowboarding, playing the Super Nintendo, sleeping on the hammock, fighting with swords, etc--maybe they could make some good photos as an activity for this week!)
- A few of the extended family (especially in interesting locations, or cute, small cousins, or grandparents)
The goal is that it would be something interesting with which I can talk about our family! I'd print it out here in a photo developing place, and put it into a little album. In technical matters, I'd scan photos at about two or three hundred DPI as eighty percent-ish quality JPGs (or something like that), and send digital photos in full size. My MyLDSMail email account now has 25 GB of storage, so don't be concerned about sending them large!
I love you all a lot, and I know that Jesus Christ established this church!
Love,
Elder Schlachter
P.S. I think that emails get to me almost instantly upon sending, so if someone didn't write on Sunday night, ¡que me mande la carta lunes por la mañana!
P.S.S. I sent some photos through Picasa too.
