¡BAMORRIBA!!!!!!!!

Really the phrase is Vamos Arriba, buuuuuut we're in Uruguay!:D haha this is a phrase I hear pretty much every day that pretty much just means "Hey. your cool. guess what. Im cool too. Lets go up:D" yah, I think first today Im just going to make a list of things here in uruguay that make me smile.

1)First off, theres a difference between agua and agua agua. If you ask for agua, 90% of the time you will recive some fruity flavor of tang. However if you ask for agua agua you get water:D  (or agua con gas.............. (carbonated water. I dont know why, but everyone here loves it))

 

2)If youre at a lunch and the member of menos activo youre eating with asks you if you want more food, it is polite to take more. This shows that you like it. however you need to specify how much you really want. There have been many occasions where either my comp r i have been bloated, asked only for a little bit more, and received 9/10s of what we originally had. Now dont get me wrong, Im extremely grate full for these lunches we receive, but they lead to some funny stories for us walking home.Dont worry mom, I am well fed in this area;)

 

3) Okay, this one made me die laughing. I was talking with a menos activo family the other day about the states (MERICA!!!!!!!), when I discovered that they knew quite a bit about Louisiana. As such I had to ask if they had seen Duck Dynasty. OHHHHH yah they had. Even better though was directly after this discovery when they petitioned me as to if they have weird accents in english too. Bwahahahahahhaha apparently in the dubbed spanish version of the show they still speak in southern accents.

 

4)The weather brings interesting stories. Upon leaving a charla this past week, we found ourselves looking to the sky as a solid wall of black slowly creeped towards us. Man I wish i had my camera for that. It was literally a wall of night and day. I looked at my companion and we took of running for the house. Upon arrival, we grabbed all the laundry that was drying out side and  closed all the windows, Immediately after doing so one heck of a rain storm commenced. Thank you mom and dad for the rain jacket:D

 

5)MATE!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYONE here drinks and loves it. It can be triple digits (farenheit) here and people will be outside with their thermoses drinking away.

 

6) Crazy drivers. Im getting really good at a life size version of the game leapfrog:D

OK thats all I want to put in that list:) the only other thing I want to share is how excited I am for Sonia cavete (different sonia than the amazing member). This sonia is the menos activo grandmother of Gabriela (the girl we baptised two saturdays ago). We actually found Gabriela by working through her. Anyways, slowly but surely she is reactivating.This is the coolest thing to watch and be a part of. She has assisted church the past two weeks with her granddaughter, Is talking with the missionary that baptised her 20 years ago on facebook (that was a really cool experience finding him again. especially because his cover picture on his timeline is a picture at the baptism of his youngest son. We had just baptised Gabriela two days before), Is reading and praying again, and (as we discovered from a member yesterday) by herself set up a temple recommend interview with the bishop for this tuesday. That last part was the best of all.

 

Thanks guys for everything. If you can,go to the temple this week. It will bless you in ways you cant imagine.

La Iglasia es verdadero,

 

Elder Eliason

man I wish you could see the other side of that cloud.

Thank you mom and dad for the jacket!!!!!

 

In my last interview with president, I learned that as long as I dont pass around the bombisha (the straw thing) I can drink mate. WHOOO HOOOOO!!!! I am determined to learn to like this stuff

man I wish you could see the other side of that cloud.

Thank you mom and dad for the jacket!!!!!

This is how Elder Cervantes and I help each other learn each others language (Pictionary)