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Week 9 – Villa Espana (Week 26)

Hey Mommy!

Man How sweet that you met that guy from here! Im sure I will see him if he is coming to Quilmes cuz that is where I am right now! it looks like you guys had a pretty great week! Tyler looks like he enjoyed himself which is good! I was praying that he could find some good kids to go to homecoming with. Im excited to listen to the recordings! I cant wait to send you some pictures with me in white haha. Oh well, the time will come hahaha. Im really enjoying myself now. Spanish is like my native language now lol. Well I still need to learn a ton more, but still it is super nice! I saw that you guys sent Jess her recorder! Im super happy to be able to listen to her voice haha. IDK if it is like against any rules, but I don’t think it would be haha. Man I love you all sooooo much! I hope that you have a great week! Love you tons!!!!!!!!
¡Con amor como siempre!
Elder LeBaron

Week 8 – Villa Espana (Week 25)

Hey Mommy!

Man how crazy news?! Im super glad to hear all the good news.Im sure everything will work out really well for Tyler. I love to see the pictures of the boys all playing together! It makes me wish I could be playing with them still, but oh well, 17 months and I’ll play with them all the time hahaha, but yeah this week was pretty good. It was kinda a normal week, like nothing really happened, but oh well I will talk more about it in my recording. We are making things happen around here, we just need some more patience haha. I love being here in Quilmes, well in Berazategui haha, I wish that the branch was a little more established, but I guess that is why we are here haha. The weather is still pretty chilly, but it is getting a little warmer. By the end of the transfer it is going to be super hot here haha. This week is when the warmth is going to start coming. Well I will talk more about how my week went in the recording, but I hope you have a great week and that everything goes well for you this week! Love you all tons!!!
¡Con amor siempre!
Elder LeBaron

Week 7 – Villa Espana (Week 24)

Man looks like you had quite the birthday?! I miss the mountains so much haha. I am so glad to see that you and dad still can handle each other lol. Im so glad for the example you guys are to me and my brothers. I know that it hasn’t been very easy at times, but Im very glad that you guys are such a great team haha. SO how was your birthday?! I hope it was super great! This week went by crazy fast, and I have a new comp now which is crazy! He is a mini missionary from Lanús here in the mission. He just left his house to be a “Missionary” for 6 weeks. He isn’t set apart or anything, but it is a really good thing to do for practice haha. Im excited to be here another transfer cuz we are going to see some awesome miracles this transfer. Other than that not too much happened this week. I will talk more about it in the recording so you can listen to that haha. I am glad to hear that everything is going so well with you guys. I hope I can talk to Jess for a bit today cuz she said she will be on in like a few hours. If not oh well haha. Well I hope everything is going well and I love you all a ton!!!! Until next week! Thanks for the recipes hahaha!

¡Con mucho amor como siempre!
Elder LeBaron

Week 6 – Villa Espana (Week 23)

Hey mommy!

So this week was a really good one!!! We had a bunch of great things happen here. Im super glad that I’m starting to see the blessings of the hard work we have been doing. The recording will talk more about all that. It is getting cold again here! Im seriously so ready for summer hahaha. I mean I need some tan by now lol. Im glad to see that you guys went out to Colorado and had a good time with grandma and grandpa! I wish I could have seen the new temple! I seriously miss the temple sooooo bad! I cant wait to come back and go to all of them with you and dad and Jess haha. Man I cant wait to go to three margaritas with you guys when I get back and talk in Spanish to them all hahaha, or at least la paisa grill haha. Spanish is the best! I seriously love having a comp that only speaks Spanish. I have learned soooo much it is crazy! So yeah HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON SATURDAY!!! Or at least I think it is Saturday… 🙊 hahaha. I hope you do something super fun! Only one more birthday without me home! 🙂 hahaha I didn’t hear anything about Tyler’s birthday, but Im sure i will in the recording when you can send it. I don’t really have anything to tell you all other than what I am going to say in the recording, entonces have a great week and I cant wait to see more pictures and recordings next week! Love you all sooo much!
¡Con amor siempre!
Elder LeBaron

Week 5 – Villa Espana (Week 22)

Hey mommy!

Man this week went buy nice and fast haha. It wasn’t a week with too much success, but oh well we were still trying hard to find the contacts that we have done in the past. We have a bunch more citas set up for this week, so Im excited to see what will happen next week. All of our dates fell through with investigators, but we had a noche de hogar, or family home evening with the rama and it ended up being a success! We are going to do it once every two weeks. It is going to help the members bring their friends to the church, or at least we hope so! Im 100% with health, so that is really nice! Im just getting fat, so I need to start doing better exercises in the morning lol. I wont be able to send a recording this week cuz our activity today went pretty long, but I have it in the pension, so I will send two next week haha. Luckily not too much happened in the week, so I will send pictures and say what they were from. I cant even believe that Ty is turning 17 and you 40?! HAPPY STINKING BIRTHDAY YOU OLD PEOPLE!!!! 😉 I hope that you guys have great birthdays, given I will talk to you next week before your birthday, so that is good haha. I GOT MY PACKAGE!!!!!! You are the best! I love you sooooo much! I cant wait to eat all the good candies and peanut butter and everything haha! Im glad that I will have some time before school starts when I get home as well. I may even start in the winter semester after, but oh well haha I have a ton of time before all that stuff. Ill probably need you to register me, but oh well we still have a year before that happeness. OOOO Moab! You guys should go!!! Haha jk it is kinda a long trip, but then again it is only like a 3 hour drive! Crazy that everyone is in school again?! It feels like yesterday that they started last year haha. Dad is so funny with his toys, at least he picked a good one! Jeeps are the coolest hahaha. I cant wait to see what you guys end up doing with them! Im glad you like the Spanish hahahaha. I am practicing all day every day, and I have the gift of tongues, so that helps me a ton hahaha. Spanish came pretty easy for me, so that is a blessing! Papi and Grandpa are helping me out! That is for sure! SO I learned how to make tortillas and empanadas, so when I get back we will have to go crazy one day and make a bunch of Argentine style empanadas! I miss you all tons, but there is no where else Id rather be! I love you tons and I will talk more with ya’ll next week!!! Love ya
¡Con amor como siempre!
Elder LeBaron
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Week 4 – Villa Espana (Week 21)

Hey Mommy!!!

Looks like you all had a great week! I’m glad to see that you spent the last little bit with the family! It always makes me so happy to see your smiling faces haha. I could totally see Tyler serving in a place like that! I just hope that he is more prepared than I was. He needs to read preach my gospel. that makes a huge difference. I think he needs to stop spending so much time with Korin as well. I would just be careful hahaha. I know they are both good kids haha. How crazy that all those guys are home?! The only one left is Dallas?! How crazy is that? I haven’t heard from Dallas in a while, but Im sure he is doing great! It was Bryson that came over a bunch. How crazy that we may be studding together haha. He is a total stud. I cant wait to see how they have changed haha. Given I still have a good 18 months till then lol. It is interesting that you say that about my friends, I’ve met people here that Im sure will be part of that and Im sure there are only more people that I will still meet haha. Braden is doing really good! He is in paradise hahaha. He baptizes like at least one person a week it seems like haha. He is a stud. I’m glad that you went to the conference because what is the promise in the scriptures? If you do what the Lord asks first, you will be blessed haha. This week was really great for me! I will talk about it more in the recording, but it just goes to show that if you work hard and have faith, the Lord will bless you with what you need. Im so glad for the understanding that we have of the Gospel, without it we would be nothing. I have seen so many broken families and problems that come from not living the gospel in the home. I really hope you are reading the scriptures with the boys, and reading to really understand and apply what you read. That is what is important. I love you soooo much and I hope that you all have a great week!!!!
¡Con amor siempre!
Elder LeBaron

Week 3 – Villa Espana (Week 20)

Oh mother dearest…

I’m totally good with the whole health thing!!! You guys crack me up! If i needed help i would get it. If anyone would know I would. I was thinking a bit about bronchitis, but I never have had a fever and it is cleared up pretty much 100%. I already called the nurse, so don’t worry. I love you so much for taking such good care of me hahaha. I hope that you haven’t sent the drops cuz you and I both know that i wont take them lol. There isn’t anything that I really need, just don’t waste space and weight on drops please! hahaha. If i sound weird on the recording its cuz it was late and I was SUPER tired from walking all day all week haha. Im glad to hear that the boys have finished their eagles pretty much! How exciting is that?! There are only 2 left?! I cant even believe that I have almost had 6 months here?! Time is flying by sooo fast! The work is progressing here slowly but surely. I will explain more in the recording. The Lord is just testing me a lot this transfer, but I am just staying strong lol. Im trying to do the best that I can haha, so i hope that my brothers can look up to me and serve hard on their missions. I love being here soooo much! Every day I am learning something new about life and the person I need to become! I love you all soooooo much! I hope that you have an amazing week!!! Till next time!
¡Con mucho amor!
Elder LeBaron

Week 2 – Villa Espana (Week 19)

Hey Mommy!

Man this week went by crazy fast huh?! Well not too much crazy stuff happened here, but oh well. I have a few good stores o tell that I shared in my recording, but other than those Ive just been working super hard cuz we dont have a single investigator, well i guess we do now, but yeah good stuff. Im still a little sick, but oh well il live haha. I am getting better though, so that is good. Man I love this area though. Not the same as Tolosa at all. It is really chill and pretty dang safe for Argentina. Im not too worried about getting robbed or anything. The members seem pretty great, but there is a lot of drama with the menos activos, but oh well. Spanish is coming super easy now. I can pretty much communicate without a problem, so that is really nice! Man I miss reading those magazines! I hope someone is enjoying 5them! Haha. Im not really that smart I can just study and think about things a lot haha. I hear just about everything from Jess. She is the best haha. I love reading her emails! She cracks me up! So about things that i want…. I don’t really need too much. If you could find a replacement head for my electric razor that would be great! Mine now broke! 🙁 hahaha, but don’t worry cuz i have a normal razor haha. Other than that idk… Whatever you feel like sending hahaha, but don’t send me too much stuff. I’ll just buy myself alfajores ice cream and facturas haha. I’m super blessed to be here right now, and i have absolutely nothing to complain about, so don’t worry about me hahaha. I love you sooooo much! Send the love to my brothers for me! I love them soo much!
¡Nos vemos pronto!
Elder LeBaron

Week 1 – Villa Espana (Week 18)

Mommy!

Man I cant even believe that the summer is almost over, or winter here i guess haha. Crazy how fast the time flies by!!! So I got transferred to an area with no investigators again… YEAH BABY!!! We are gonna make some stuff happen around here. Im with Elder Zelaya from cordoba Argentina. He is a stud, or at least seems like it in the little time we have had together lol. He is 25 so that is pretty cool. He has the same time as me here, so yeah baby vamos! I still haven’t gotten to know the barrio yet, so I don’t know how the members are, But Im super excited!! I am super glad to hear that the HARC was a success! I love seeing fotos of everyone enjoying their summer. I hope that you all don’t wish time away too fast though. You all need to enjoy it while you have it! Im sorry, but the recording this week is super short, but I didn’t have a lot of time with transfers and all that. Ill send more next week for sure!!! Im glad to see you all are going to the BYU games! I miss that! It was super fun going to those as a family, but oh well we have the rest of our lives to go again haha. So in Tolosa not much happened, so thats also why the recording wasn’t too long. We met some pretty awesome future investigators, but other than that not much happened. Im super excited to see this part of the mission and I cant wait to send some good news haha. I hope you all have an awesome week!!!! Love you!!!
¡Con amor!
Elder LeBaron

New Area: Villa Espana

New Companion: Elder Zelaya

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