Week #14 -The Krusty Krab

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¡Hello!

The week started with some Zonda. There are a few weeks out of every year where extremely powerful, dry, hot wind that travels over the Andes mountains into Mendoza. Zonda is a regional term for that wind. It can be very dangerous, it can take down powerlines, trees, and many other things. It feels really good, but it's super dangerous. That was cool.

Another cool thing that happened is that someone asked me to baptize them this Saturday. I will take lots of pictures.  Sometimes you feel like nothing is going your way, but we are promised about 100 times in the Book of Mormon that ``If we keep the commandments, we will prosper in the land.´´ I learned that 2 things happen when you are obedient, 1) you will have a clean conscience and know that you are on the Lord´s side, 2) and you will also receive many blessings, like the ability to baptize someone this Saturday.

 

I spent a good part of my week in Cordón del Plata, a small, quickly expanding branch of my area, Tupungato. I did companion exchanges down there on Tuesday. We did a service project. It wasn't like your average American service project. There were no doughnuts after it was over, and we didn't paint the United States map on a playground of a local elementary school. We went to the local vineyard and swung machetes at wood and gathered it in 6 large piles. My arms got scraped up super bad and it was very physically demanding, but it was also super cool.

We also had an open house for the church building in Cordón on Saturday. That was really fun, a ton of people from the town showed up to the church and investigated a little.

Cordón has a restaurant/shack called the Krustáceo Kascarudo, which is the Krusty Krab in Spanish. For those who don't know, the Krusty Krab is the legendary restaurant of Mr. Krabs in Spongebob. Here, they sell burgers and fries for 40 pesos (a little over 2 dollars) and it's supposedly very good. It only opens for the weekend, so I was super excited to go. It was closed. There are like no copyright rules here, every restaurant has a Simpson's character or something on the sign and nobody does anything about it.

Well, that's all for this week folks!

-Ëldër Mürphÿ