¡Empanadas!

I am officially Argentine. I learned how to make empenadas and I must just go ahead and brag that they were AMAZING!! We spent Saturday morning at this Hermana´s house and she taught me step by step. They take a long time but it was well worth it. They are SO yummy. We took some home and ate them for dinner, too. This past week we taught our first workshop. I was nervous and made some pretty funny mistakes while teaching 20 people. Like once I was teaching them about the helmets that knights used to wear and but said horses instead of knights. The words are very similar in Spanish. I wasn´t corrected until after. There are a few little things like that that I keep doing, but they end up being funny. We will be traveling this week to Saenz Peña to teach our next workshop, so I´ll keep you posted.

Our New Home.... RESISTENCIA!!!!!

We made it through our 12 hour overnight bus ride to our new land! We loved our time in Cordoba but we LOVE Resistencia! A member from the church picked us up and took us to our apartment. I thought that we were coming down here to dirty South America and would have to live in a hut and bathe in a wooden tub in the middle of Town Square with the chickens. But it turns out that is NOT the case. They are treating us so well here. We walked into our apartment and I was shocked! It is just the opposite of what I expected. We are the only ones living in the whole building right now because the place is brand new. We have to go through like 50 locked doors before we get in, so don’t worry about us being safe. This town, much like a lot of Argentina, is very European. We arrived Friday morning and have spent a lot of time exploring the town and walking through the little plazas. There are some funny things that I have noticed about it here, for instance there aren’t any stop signs. I am not sure how it works but somehow it does. It is fascinating to watch. They also still use horses to pull their carts full of stuff. There are lots of fruit and vegetable stands that I LOVE. The fruit here is really cheep. Like for two-dozen tangerines it is $1.70 or so. The meat here is really cheap too, and Jason is really excited about that. We don’t have a stove yet to cook on, but once we do I am sure we will cook a lot of meat. We have tasted some of the famous Argentine food like lomitos and empanadas and we agree that it is great. We went to church today and everyone was so happy to have us there. They are SO nice and I am starting to understand a little bit more every day. Let’s just hope that I keep going at this pace! Jason helps me out a lot. It is fun to be here together. We’ll never have time like this again, so we are living it up the best that we can. We will start teaching the workshop starting tomorrow. I’ll keep you posted on how that is going. We love you all!!!

First days in Cordoba

I keep thinking that I don't want to write until I have pictures to put on here. I think that is my excuse because I am tired. I don't even know if people will read this.

We left straight from church on Sunday to get to the LAX airport on time. Luckily everything went smoothly and we got right on to the longest flight of my life!! Not really; I believe getting to Europe took longer, but this felt like forever!! It was an 11 hour red eye flight and I can't sleep on planes. That's probably why it felt like seventeen days. We had a layover in Chile, which we planned to take advantage of and go see the city for a couple of hours, but it turns out that they are retaliating and charging us what we charge them to get into their country. So for us to leave the airport would have been $130 each. We opted to attempt sleeping on the weird bench in the airport instead. We landed in Cordoba where we were greeted by Guido, the manager over the program for Argentina. He took us straight to his home where his wife had made some lunch. When we got there we were greeted by two Elders also.... one of which was my little brother, Elder Hill!! It was SO incredible to see him and see where he is serving. His Spanish is great and he literally glows. I cried when I saw him, which is a sign that I was way over tired. But really was incredible to spend a few hours with him. It was his P day, so we got quite awhile with him. Guido took us to our hotel after that, which is SUPER nice, especially for this part of the world. This city has a strong European influence. It's kind of like Italy and Mexico mixed together. The people pretty much look American. Everyone just assumes that we are from here. We'll see what it is like once we get to Resistencia. We are only here for a few days, then on Thursday night we have a 12 hour red eye bus ride to our apartment.

Today we went to the workshop that we'll be teaching and participated like we were one of the students. UUUUUHHHH....... I can't understand a word these people are saying! I am in for it!! They speak so differently here that I don't know how I'll ever learn! I am glad I have Jason who can translate for me. I swear they are speaking gibberish. After the training Guido took us on a tour to this beautiful old city in the mountains, which I would tell you the name of but I couldn't understand him. He told us many interesting stories and all of the great history of the place, which I would love to tell you also, but again I couldn't understand anything he said. Eventually I started to make it up in my head and let me tell ya, that place has an incredible account!! Yeah! Lots of great battles were fought there, etc. It sounded good to me. I fought to keep myself awake on the way back but it was impossible! I am SO tired and better take advantage of these few hours that I have. So there you have my first couple days here. Pictures soon!