Hola from Elder Jordan Price,

Another week full of crazy things happening. This week we Baptised but we ended up Baptizing 5. It was a long story and a lot of calling local Bishops and Stake Presidents and our Mission President. But we got everything worked out and we got them all in the water and they all got Confirmed. How Blessed we are to have such a great gift in the world that a Father in Heaven has given us.

It was crazy. The 4 baptisms showed up on time for their baptism but the other one that had a few problems with her baptism last week with a Bishop postponing her baptism, she did not show up until after we did the ordination for the other baptisms. So what we did, we had another baptism service for this other baptism. It was really crazy and a lot of problems with our ward mission leader and others but somehow we got it all done and everything worked out. And that was our week. A lot of running around trying to get everything ready and trying to help local Bishops with what keys they have and don't have. Sometimes you get real disanimaed when they don't know what they are doing and make more problems then try and send all the problems to other wards and then it ends up the missionarys have to work out all the problems, Because everyone likes to be a problem maker not a problem solver. That is a great thing I have learned being a zone leader, is we need more problem solvers in the world.

Other great news today is transfers. I'm staying here in Zapala. I'm going to have a lot of time here. It's great we have some great investigators getting ready for their own Baptisms. There is a lot of changes in the zone but change is great.

This week we have to travel to Neuquen for Zone leader Council. It's going to be great. We have to show our plans for this transfer and review what happened this last transfer. As a zone we did amazing 16 Baptisms. Now we just have to pick it up and work harder. This is the last transfer for my comp so we are going to be working like crazy. With the start of a new transfer that means our tour of the zone is going to start again, so a lot more traveling is yet to come.

Full of traveling, planing, and a lot of work. How sweet it was this week in our zone. In our zone we got two new rookie missionarys being zone leaders. I wanted them to feel welcomed in the zone so we gave them a call. The first one I called was in my first area in Cutral co. I talked to the Elder there then I started to talk to the new missionary. He gets on the phone his says Elder Price is it you, haha! I was like ya. He was like, I was told to find you. I was in the same district as Elder Clarke (Jordan's cousin from Riverton) I was like, no way, all these new missionarys were in the same district as Kevin. It was great to talk to him about his time in the MTC and his time with Kevin. His name is Elder Bendell. He said that when Kevin was in the MTC he got a note from me about when I drank the water and threw it all up. haha! I laughted and told him in was in his area, where he is at, that I drank the water, haha! He was like I'm never going to drink the water here, haha! He also told me about how Elder Staples came in and talk about the mission and I was like, no way that is one of my comps. Elder staples is teaching in the MTC right now. He said that he showed them a picture of our baptism in Comodoro and He said, Kevin was like, thats my cousin, haha!

What a great week it was. To here all that great news. I was way animated. I was also way animated last night to here that one of our baptisms, Veronica, here sister will be getting baptized in May. I was way happy, wow.

Everything is going great down here in Zapala. So other great times that happened here. It was a lot of traveling this week but it was great to get to the Zone Council and have the most Baptisms in the mission. We did it because the Lord helped us, now it's time to pick it up and do it again.

I forgot to tell you a crazy story that happened two weeks ago when we were coming home from Junin. Alright here it goes. After our days work in the mountains we got on the Double Decker bus to go home. Alright, half way home, with the 3 hour bus drive, I feel my Stomach Drop. I was like no way. I felt like I was going to crap my pants. I take a dash for the bathroom. I run down the aisle run down the stairs trying to get to the bathroom in time. I get to the door and tied to open in it... It didn't open I was like nooooooo!!! But then the lady right next to the bathroom said Mas Fuerza or pull harder, haha! I get in. I look at the toilet, throw down the toilet seat and sit down. I'm seating there having a Volcano Explode. But you don't know what it's like trying to do your business while you are driving through Canyon Roads... I felt like I was back in Lagoon riding the craziest roller coster. I wasn't riding the Toy Cars anymore. And then I look around, THERE IS NOT PAPER, haha! I started to think of something I can do. I am looking around there is nothing. I looked in my shirt pocket to see if i have paper, nothing. I checked my pants pocket and I found hope, I found my Daily Planner I started ripping out papers, good thing it was end of the transfer, haha! That was my crazy story coming home from Junin de los Andes.

Chou Con Mucho amor,

Elder Price

Hola Familia,

My first Transfers as Zone leader. My comp got transfer out of here it was really sad for him. We are just making things happen here in the zone and now he has to leave. Right now in the zone we have 25 people getting ready for baptisms. Our companionship has 7 of the 25 getting ready. The Lord is really blessing us here. Half of the missionarys in our zone got transfered out. It will be a great change. We will just have to keep the success that we are left with and build on it. Everyone is working really hard. Every companionship has an investigartor with a baptism date.

A little about our investigator Veranica she is doing amazing. She is going to get baptized in two weeks. Her dad is in the hospital right now in vary bad shape, so they are in Neuquen right now but we have missionarys passing by teaching them. She is progressing a lot. They are preparing right now to go to the Temple in a year. It will be amazing. My comp was really sad, but it's alright he will see them get sealed in Buenos Aires.

At the start of this week there was a lot of rain. I will send you a video I took of the rain, it was amazing. It never rains here but there was so much on Tuesday.

My new comp is from Peru. So I get some more time to parctice my Spanish with a Latin 24/7. I love the mission there is nothing greater than the mission. I'm so glad I'm here. But now it is time to start another transfer, so more divisions more traveling and a lot of baptisms this transfer. It's going to be a great time.

Go BYU RUGBY! That's great they won. That's to bad that Mike couldn't play. It's alright, maybe next year we will be playing together. That's sweet for Leka going to good old England. When does he leave? You will have to get me his email or his address or something so I can talk to him. We have a Elder in my zone that is going to train so maybe he will train Chase Pack. That would be sweet. We will have to see if he comes this transfer or next.

Hope everything is going great back at home. You sound great. The Book of Mormon is great! I wish I read it more before my mission but I didn't understand anything before my mission. Now we have a desire and show our faith and act, we will receive the direction and guidance we need and we really will learn a lot.

Chou Con Mucho amor,

Elder Price

Hola from Elder Jordan Price,

DID I HEAR ABÖUT THE EARTHQUAKE! I was in the earthquake! Here is the story. So about 3:45 in the morning I hear this metal thing crash to the floor, I woke up. I then hear the door making this sound like someone was trying to get in. I couldn't see a thing. I turn to my comp and he is sleeping. I'm sitting in my bed ready to fight someone, becuase our pench has been robbed before. I got there I was ready to fight. I wake up my comp then I feel it!!! The world was moving. I was like what the crap is going on. I yelled to Elder Feresin, "can you feel the ground moving!" He was like "No." Then two seconds later he was like wait I can feel it. We were like, what is going on the doors are swinging, we found the metal thing that fell. Then everything stopped, we still didn't know what just happened. Then we lay back in bed then we get a phone call from the sisters in our zone that live in the same city, there were freaking out, haha! We then had to call all the elders and sisters in our zone to get ready for an after shock. It was a crazy night. We didn't get much sleep. But it sure was a great experience. Nothing bad happened here. Just shaking and everyone freaking out. Then the next day we had all the evangelicos out riding their bikes screaming and singing songs. It is sad about what happened in Chile. It almost stopped our stake from going to the temple because the Argentina temple is closed they have to go to Chile and they had to leave Sunday. But it's alright they are all going still.

My new area is called Zapala it has a lot of dirt roads, green hills, a lot of trees and Gouchos or Cowboys everywhere. The best part, that I love most, is you always find horses on the side of the road just taking a break eating grass and drinking some water. I'm really living on the country road.

Some other good news here in the Patagonia. WE are going to baptized. We have 3 people getting ready for baptism. Yesterday we had a great lesson with the investigator, her name is Veranica. Her husband is a member but has been less active but now he is coming back to the chruch. Yesterday was the first time that Veranica came to church and after she was asking her husband what she has to do to get baptized. So we went and visited her. She had a lot of questions. We taught them the plan of salvation, then we had a list of the gospel principles of Jesus Christ, were we need to have Faith, Repent and Be Baptized then endure until the end. We told her to read the list and she didn't even look and she yells baptism, haha! We were like no, it says faith, haha! Then she looked at the list and read. It was great! We are excited. This family is going to get to the temple in a year, I know it.

I have another story that will make you throw up, haha! So we had to travel to Cutral Co to have a baptism interview with one of the investigators. What ends up happening was I drank the water, and that wasn't a good story. We are walking around doing contacts and I don't feel to great. We stopped by members to use the bathroom, that didn't go to well. I destroyed the bathroom. Then we are sitting there, I still didn't feel to good but we had to leave. We had to walk across the whole city to get to the church to have the interview. We almost get there. We are a block away and we meet up with the other elders in the street then booommmmm I expolded! I'm leaning on a tree throwing up lunch and just my luck it was spaghetti. It was all over my shoes and pants. Then best part is when we got to the church I got to blow my nose and I have noodles coming out of my nose haha! My first time throwing up on the mission...

I think every week I say wow, what a week. But it's true! Everyday in the mission is a wow what a day. This week has been great, with the chance to go work in my old area. In the full day and 3 hours I worked there I found 17 new investitgators. 10 from my old area. And the best part was they were all people I had never meet before when I was working in the area. It just shows how we have to be willing to work on the Lords time. We have to find them when the Lord has prepared them.

Chou Con Amor,

Elder Price

Hola from Elder Price,
Long Trips and Sunny days. This week was a great week All I have to say, San Martin reminded me a lot like our cabin mixed with Park City. It was amazing. I didn't take a lot of pictures, but I have a few.

Here is what happened, the bus that we had to catch to get to San Martin left Zapala at 2:00 in the morning. So after about 2 hours of sleep we had to wake up take showers and make sure we got everything. We then made it down to the bus terminal. We got on the big double decker bus, I don't know if I told you but the buses here are double deckers. They have these big sofa chairs for the seats or little sofa chairs if you don't want to pay a lot of money. But anyway, we got to San Martin at about 6:30 in the morning just in time to start the day. What a crazy night it was. So we got there and our plan was to stay there all day and work and have a district meeting during the siesta. The plans then got all changed up. So what ended up happening, we were going to have the district meeting in the morning. Then we were going to take a bus back to Zapala at 1:00. So we call the other missionarys in the district, the thing is they live in a city an hour away called Junin de los andes. So we got pizzas for lunch to cook up and waited for them in the church. We waited and waited and the other missionarys didn't show up. We had to get going. So us and the district leader and his comp made up the pizzas and talked about the things he needs to do with his district and if he didn't need anything from us, we had to rush to the terminal to catch our bus. So up to that point everything was kind of not going how we wanted it to, but we got on the bus. Not even 10 mins. on the road or even out of the city, about 7 blocks from the terminal the bus breaks down. The motor stops working. We pull over to the side. I tell my comp if they are having problems now we are going to have more problems later. I WAS RIGHT. They got it to working. We get out of the city, we are on the way to the next stop which is Junin. THE WHOLE TIME THERE, WAS NO AC. It was so hot I felt like I was on pioneer trek again, so hot. We get to the city and they kick everyone off the bus. They say there are going to bring in another bus. About 3 hours later the bus shows up. What should have been a two to two and ahalf hour bus ride ended up being 6 hours. Haha, but I love the mission. Never will you have a day exactly how you wanted it to be. That was just a little bit of what happened on my San Martin de los Andes trip.

The week was great we have an invesitigator named Alan, his mom is a memeber but not active. We are working hard to get the whole family back to church. His mom doesn't have a husband and they all want to progress, but the thing that his holding them back is their mom. She was in the church but she doesn't always do what she says she will do. We are trying our hardiest. Pray for him and his family, that we can get them back to church and get him baptized. He is 9 years old.

In the mail I got some sweet letters from the primary, from our ward it was sweet, just a lot of little kids drawings, tell them thank you, if you see the president of the primary. Tell them I wish we had leaders like them in my ward here. People want the title but don't want the work that comes with it. We have a sweet ward mission leader, the best I have ever had in the mission, he is amazing! He is going to help a lot to turn things around.

You asked me who is my comp, his names is Elder Feresin, he is from Buenas Aires. Kevin might serve in his home ward.

Well i sent some pictures the first one is Zapala the next two are from San Martin the next one is Junin. Now I get to go to Cutral Co. We are leaving later today. I get to see me old area. I love you guys have a great week talk to you soon.

Chou Con Amor,
Elder Price

Hola Familia,
A lot of good and bad news this week. Start out with some bad news. Today Pday we went to print off some pictures before coming to the ciber to write, and I left my camara in the store. Here in Argentinia they have the sweet siesta were everything closes so everyone can go home and takes a nap. So now I can't get it and I'm leaving Comodoro. I sure hope it is there and I have to trust in my comp to get it. All of my Photos are in the camara case. It will be really sad if I lost it and can't get it back. It will be a big heart breaker.

Some good news now. We BAPTIZED, it was a great Baptism. Florencia entered into the waters of baptism. José didn't make it this week he has been working a whole lot more and was never home. We tried to set up about 3 interviews but he didn't make it to one, after he told us he would. It was a real bummer. Some other good news I'm Leaving. Quess where I'm going? I'm going to my old zone Zapala, right next to Cutral Co. But guess what, I'm going up to be a Zone Leader. How sweet is that I'm so excited but really Humillado. I leave today at 4 with one of my room mates who is going to Neuquén. I get to visit my old area and I also get to visit one of the most beautiful places in Argentina, San Martin de los Andes. I'm really excited. My next comp is from Argentina so I'm excited to get my Spanish better. It's always sad to say good bye and even worst that I have to say good bye with out my camera, hopping that it's in the store and my comp will pick it up. But I can't let that take over my mind.

O ya the comp that I'm leaving with that is going to Neuquen was just a zone leader 3 transfers ago in Zapala. He was my zone leader when I was in Cutral Co, then he came down here and now I'm going up there to be a zone leader. I love what God does for us to make us grow. He really does love us.

Well I don't have much more to say just pray for the people here in Comodoro and that I can have the strength to become the misisonary God wants me to become. I love you guys have a great week. Talk to you soon all about what happeneds this week. I have to travel to Neuquen this Friday to have a meeting with all the zone leaders to talk about the mission it will be great. I love you guys! now off to another state here in Argentina from Chubut to Neuquen.

Chou Con Amor,
Elder Price

Hola from Elder Jordan Price

Todo Bien here in Argentina! Transfers just ended and I still have another transfer here in Comodoro. I'm going to be here for 7 and a half months along time but is alright, I know I'm here for a reason. And we are just going to work even harder.

Here in Comodoro the sun is out and I'm looking more and more like a Latin. The work is moving forward our Ward here is picking up the work. We are in the front lines of the Kingdom of God but its strengthing. Yesterday we got an investigator in Church, it was great! His name is Felix, he is from Perú. It was great for him to hear the testimonys of the members. The church is still young here they haven´t caught the vision yet, but it takes a long time to turn a battleship, and a 100 mile race start one step at a time. Here in Argentina I have learned the respect for work. Nothing is going to get done without work, the Church of Jesus Christ is about service. You learn and grow when your serve when your not serving your not growing that's why we have callings that's why we have home teachers that's why we have quorums. You just have to work!!

Argentina is Great the food is amazing the people are good people and it's a great time to be here in the South. The Lords work will move forward no one can stop it. We have found some great investigators this week, now we just have to do all we can then the Lord will do the rest.

In Argentina they have Dia de La virgen. (Day of the Virgin). Speaking of holidays down here, Christmas seems a lot different but everyone still has Christmas tree lights and Santa Claus. The only thing different is they have a lot of fireworks and it is really really hot. There actually is a lot of differences but it is still an amazing time. It's different to walk around and sing Christmas songs when it feels like we should be singing the Stars Spangle Banner because it feels like it's the 4th of July. But anyway, Dia de La Virgen.- We were walking like everyday and we came knocking on this house. These ladys are working on curtains for their house. They Invite us in. We sit down and we had one of the best lessons I have been in. We taught about the Restoration, and they also had a lot of questions. It was great. We then invited them to church. We went by with a member to help us teach. On Sunday two of them came we just have to get the other 5 of them to church . They were an amazing family. The Woman that came to church was Roxana, here sister Evalin was great but didn't come to church because here husband doesn't really believe much in God. But she liked the lesson and wants to come to church, we just have to work on her husband. With prayer and faith Evalin and here husband will come to church. The mother is named Magdalina. She said she was coming to church but she didn't make it. So we will see what we can do to get their daughters out and get them to receive the blessings that God has for all of them. A funny Story that happened while we were teaching them was one of the kids that has 3 years old was looking out the window and started yelling Santa Claus Santa Claus. It ended up being a group of people walking up the street with a statue of Mother Mary. Haha! It was a crazy event but it's just the Argentina people. At one moment we saw a crowd of about 200 people walking up the street following a statue of the Mother Mary. It's sad what the Apostacia has done.

Just some little things, I ate Dog and Cat at a Chinese restaurant. Today we got to go on a Coast Guard boat and look around because the captain is a member here. It was sweet. One Sunday we had an investigator family that had problems with there baby come to church so we are muy feliz.

For Christmas we get to stay up tell 12:30 because at 12 here, they light off a bunch of fire works for 30 minutes. My comp and I watched Joy to the World with everyone we could. It's a great up-lifting movie that teaches the first lessons about how God loves us and calls prophets and we can know through the Book of Mormon. I love this work!

On Saturday after Christmas we go over to an investigators house and they give us pig, then they wanted to give us desert so they gave us fruit salad. We ask if there was anything in it, they told us that they didn't put anything in it. then we finished eating it. I then asked how they made it, they then told us they put Sidra which is like sparkling cider. My comp and I looked at each other- we just drank alcohol. I was kind of disappointed they didn't tell us until after. But we just have to laugh about it now and never eat fruit salad again. haha!

I can't believe I have been in the mission for a year.

Chou Con Amor,
Elder Price

Everything is going great here in the great city of Comodoro. A lot of experiences everyday! A great one that happpened this week was this; I was sitting studing about King Benjaman in Mosiah when out of the corner of my eye I see something move. I hurry and look and I saw something run across the floor, it ran right into our washing room. I yell to the other elders "WE GOT A RAT IN THE HOUSE!" Then it began.... The rat hunt! We knew it went into the room and there was no way it could excape our grips. We ended up moving things trying to find this rat. We move a stack of tiles and it bolts Elder Staples has a dustpan and catches it and throws it across the room, then it lands and bolts out the room we started chasing it and you know me, this whole time I'm filming it, trying to catch the action. It ends up runing into Elder Staples shoe, now we have to move more things, and Elder Rozier is ready with a bucket and Elder Staples with a broom and I got the camera. We moved a little filing cabinet and it bolts again we are yelling thinking we can intimidate it with our yells and swift movements of the broom, that is in Elder Staples hand, he ends up make a nice high stick slap shot like a professional hockey player and Elder Rozier is right there ready to make the catch with the bucket. It was a job well done by the rat control squad!!! haha!

Other crazy experiences that happened this week; we are teaching this lady. let me tell you about here. She is a big lady that dresses like a gipsy and believes in this crazy African religion started by this African group, because they couldn't believe in the Catholics so they took everything and changed the names of God and Jesus Christ and all the saints. It was pretty crazy! We walked into here house and on the wall are these crazy African pictures of her Gods that she prays too, it was crazy. But we didn't care we where there to teach here about the true church of Jesus Christ. So we taught here and left here with a Book of Mormon, the book that changes lives. We ended up coming back this week and she read 21 chapters, then we taught here about the plan of salvation. We then left here with about 10 more chapters to read, and she read them!! The great part about this story, she told us our last lesson that she has been having bad dreams, like people dieing and killing just really bad. She said when we came over and taught her the first time and had her read the book of mormon she hasn't had these bad dreams. Its true the Book of Mormon is powerful. It was a sweet crazy experence.

Other things that are happening; we found this man named Jacinto. We found him on Saturday he is from Buenos Aires. He is here in comodoro to work. We found him and he was amazing. He wanted to read the Book of Mormon and pray. We found him on Saturday and the next day he said he wanted to come to church and he DID!! It's amazing. When we are ready to receive the prepared, the Lord will trust us and He will put them in our path.

We also found this other guy and taught him outside. He is about 80 and he can't see really well. He is from Peru. We taught him outside on a nice hot day and it felt like I was in Peru. They live in the poor part of town where houses made out of scrap metal and wood. They had there crap stream right next to us flowing down the the street and they had chickens running around. The MIssion is Great!!!!
So many experiences! It was amazing!

Sounds like you guys are having great experences over there. I CANT BELIEVE DREW IS GETTING MARRIED!!! He needs to wait for me to get home! That man, haha! O well I will forgive him. Mom if you could ask the sister that works in the MTC If she could get me a tall book from the MTC that is for the Spanish speakers learning English that would be amazing. if she could do that :) And I was wondering if I get a free suit if mine is all ruined, becuase my green suit is all riped up in the inside?? Did Mike like my cd that I sent to him?? Well that is a little of what is happening in my life down here a million miles away. Thanks for the love and support! Get better mom! Dad, keep up the great work! Mike find a wife! Eric, Jenn and the girls, thanks for everything. And grandparents thanks for teaching my parents how to be great people. Everyone else I love you guys....

Chou con amor
Elder Price