Week 3!!!!

Hola Family!

k crazy week! I have to first start out by telling you about proselyting! holy cow the mtc is a bubble compared to the city! on saturday they took us all out on buses and gave us a map and dropped us off on the side of the road to be picked up in 5 hours where they had dropped us off, and buenos aires is like nothing ive ever seen! it is so dirty, and there are sooo many dogs everywhere! it doesnt smell too good because they dont have anywhere to put trash so they burn it in the street and theres apartment buildings everywhere and they look like there are half built but people live in every single one of them! k it is the most intimidating thing ive ever experienced to walk up to a complete stranger and just try and get them to talk to you, being a missionary, you say hi! people see your tags and they look the other way and pretend your not even there! but dont worry we found a couple people that wanted to talk to us and it was a miracle! first we talked to this grandma and she didnt have any teeth, at all! haha but we gave her a pamphlet about the gospel of jesus christ and asked if we could meet with her again and she gave us her number and her sisters number who lives in paraguay! haha she just kept talking and telling us all about her family! then it was a miracle! i was so nervous, and it had been awhile since anyone had talked to us and i just said a prayer in my head that we would find someone who would want to talk to us and before i even finished my prayer we came around the corner and there was a lady hanging up her laudnry that was probably in her 20s and we stopped and talked to her, her name is carolina and she had never heard of the church before but she was so excited to hear about it! she wanted us to come back again but she doesnt have a phone so we told her we would try and come visit again next saturday! and to some it up we gave away 2 book of mormons, got 3 referals and about 15 contacts where we gave them pamphlets about the gospel!
oh my goodness i wish i could have taken pictures for you! there are honestly horsecarts in the street and on the freeway too! there are people playing soccer in the streets everywhere and its not like anything ive ever seen before. we arent aloud to take cameras proselyting though and we totally learned our lesson about being obedient too because some other elders went out of their zone to eat lunch at a park and one was taking pictures and some guys came up and took all their watches and wallets, but all together they only had about 8 pesos, but there are rules for a reason! its crazy! they were pretty shaken up after that happened. but dont worry im safe!
okay other amazing story is! last p day we were coming out of the temple and our mission presidents were there!!!! they had a 2 hour layover here on their way back to paraguay and so they decided to stop at the temple! so they told us all about what we´re going to be doing once we get there and about the mission! we have such a young mission! over half of the missionaries have only been out 4 months! and its sounds like we´ll most liekly have latino comps because they beg to have a norte americano comp to learn english! and thats okay! that means we learn spanish from them!
okay some little sidenotes are that a sister came up to me thats from peru and she told me that Meese means Cat in kechua, you know the language of the incan people? how cool is that! now they call me hermana gatito (little cat) haha
we had a super good lesson from president eckels on sunday and he told us that how well we work and serve on our mission is going to be a direct reflection of how successful the rest of our life will be, dont worry im working really hard! i also had to speak in sacrament on sunday and gave a talk in spanish and our district had the musical number so i got to sing too. haha fun day!
also the other day during our physical activity, hermana olsen, shes from st. george! we were talking about thriller, happy halloween by the way! anyways we both have danced our whole lives and so during activity we went and danced in the middle of the grass field on the west side of the temple haha we legit were dancing full out and she was teaching me some of her choreography and its been so long since i danced and it felt so good!
oh and we got new roommates! from guatemala, spain, peru, and argentina, they are all so sweet! we get to take pictures on sunday so i´ll send some more next week! the one from guatemala is like a total hipster and our one from spain is obessesed with star wars! haha she has a yoda stuffed doll on her bed!
okay love you guys! i read all your emails but sorry if i havent replied back! its hard to fit it all into 1 hour but i get to print them off so i have time to read them!
talk to you next week!

love hermana meese