Its getting cold here in La Rioja all of a sudden. “Frescito” they say. I don’t know if its just a big cold front or if it’s the seasons changing, but it feels great. I have one week left of training … then I’m on my own 
I don’t feel like I’m ready to be done training, but I'm sure I’ll keep learning as it goes a long. We have transfers on the 27th, elder carrion from Chile will probably go and my comp elder packer could also, but we never know. If he leaves I will have had 4 companions in 4 transfers which is really weird.
This last week was kind of quiet. Last pday, (I think I wrote a little about it last week) we went up in the mountains to this place SanAugusta, to go hiking and play futbol. We thought there was gonna be food there so we didn’t bring any food or water or anything. And we got there and there was no food or water or anything that we could buy so we weren’t able to eat or drink all day. By the time we got back we were all weak and burnt and my companion felt sick, so we kinda rested a lot the next day.
We’ve been teaching Hermana rivadera a lot still this week. She is basically ready, she understands everything, she just needs to come to church before she can be baptized. And she wants to go, but she needs a ride. We had one set up for her yesterday but she wasn’t there. The sister who was supposed to bring her was acting all guilty and avoiding us and then left early so we never got to talk to her and we have no idea what happened. Something good happened at one of our lessons with her this week. We were just talking outside and one of her friends showed up. The friend is a member of the evangelical church, and she told us that she had been out doing some preaching of her own when she felt like she should come visit her friend, Hermana Rivedera. And of course we were there, and she listened to the lesson and we gave her a book of mormon and she wants to read it.
We spend a lot of time with the rivaderas. On Saturday we were there all morning doing a service, which was to help make a bunch of empanadas. It was kinda cool to learn how to make them, I’d never done it before but its pretty easy. We were hoping to get lunch out of the service, but failed because they made them all to sell. Empanadas are sooo good. I bet if someone started an empanada delivery service in satellite beach it would take off. She told us that she applied for a job that would make her work Sundays. We were like nooo. She asked us to pray for her and we said we would. But maybe not the prayer she was expecting haha.
The guy who stole his moms car and went to Chile finally made it home, minus the wrecked car. He brought us some juice packets from Chile which he said he bought for 1 peso each, but I sold them to a Chilean elder for 30 pesos each hahah.
Poor elder pace got bit by a dog yesterday and was all bloody on his leg. He’s the same one who crashed his bike and had to go to the hospital. He has the worst luck.
Something interesting that me and my companion were talking about this week was how the organization of the church is a strong testimony of its truthfulness. Lots of people we teach didn’t know that Jesus organized a church while he was on the earth. Lots of people think he just taught and performed miracles, but really he also organized a church, with the 12 apostles and 70s and everything. Isn’t it weird that none of the other Christian churches, not even Catholics, have a quorum of 12 apostles? God didn’t allow any of the churches during the apostasy to have a quorum of 12 apostles nor to take the name of “the church of Jesus Christ”. Doesn’t it make sense that The true church of Christ would have his name and the same organization that existed when he organized his church? For me that’s a testimony builder.
That’s about all that happened this week. One of our investigators had her quinceñera* (no idea how to spell that) so didn’t come to church. We played a little tennis this morning. I hope you guys all enjoy spring break!
Love, Elder Christensen
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You guys asked about the food. Well, in Cordoba I had milanezas like 3/4 times a week, but out here in la rioja I've only had it once. They are way good, but the ones you cooked were more juicy than these normally. In la rioja we eat a ton of this stuff called choripan. The meat is intestines...it tastes mostly like regular beef though. And they just slice open a big piece of good bread and stuff the meat in the middle of it along with whatever toppings, like a hotdog. I like picante with mine. I don't have any pictures of the food, but I'll try to get them. We also eat a lot of tostados. They are these big foot long sandwiches that are toasted and they have egg on them and meat and they come with fries...we get that for about 1.50 US. We drink a lot of juice, as in sugar packets that people dump in water. They don't believe in plain water here. Also mate! People drink mate 24/7 here. I've only had it 3 times but its pretty good. The mission president allows it.
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