Wow! Estos dos primeros días fueron locos! Argentina es muy diferente a los Estados Unidos. Estoy muy emocionada de estar aquí, pero no es fácil. Mi compañero es muy bueno. él es de Uruguay. él no puede hablar en ingles tampoco...entonces toda dia estamos hablando solemente en español.

I love being here. IT is super different and way hard, but I feel like I am learning a lot already. The first place I went when I got here was this place called the "Fuerte" which means the strong. IT is super ghetto but super awesome! There are more people in that small area than the entire town of moab. IT is just a bunch of Giant buildings that look like they would all fall down if someone looked at them the wrong way...but it is awesome!

MY companion is Elder Ticino from URUGUAY. HE is super great, hard working, and doesn´t know anything in english except for "I am walker texas ranger" and "Girl you´re amazing, just the way you are" because of the movie and because that is his favorite song! haha We are learning a lot from eachother. I am teaching him a little bit of english, and he is teaching me a lot of spanish (we figured it is more important that I know spanish right now than him knowing english).

Our Area is HUGE and we walk...so the first day I was here I figured it was about 23 miles of walking because we are new to the area and are just finding and contacting people right now.

Our apartment is the nicest one in the whole mission I think? but it still runs out of hot water each time someone showers and it is very very cold! There are 6 of us in the same room because we have a little prtable heater that we plug in and it keeps us warm!

Empanadas.

Enough said. Empanadas are the greatest thing ever created. At least here in Argentina. The food is a little bit bland (lacks flavor of any type) and there isn´t a lot of variety. Therefore empanadas are the best things ever. but they are only on special occasions because they are expensive.

I would love to write more, but I am running our of time and it cost money to e-mail. It is WAY different here than Salt Lake, in Every way! But I Love it!

Love you all, miss you, and if you want to send me something then make it something that includes american food. (Ranch powder, a giant bottle of tapatio hot sauce, garlic salt, etc...) haha I think I am good for now, but in the future if you want to send something! My Birthday ;) ;) haha but money works well also because we definitely drew the short end of the stick on the areas when it comes to food. We are in the richer area...so the food is waaaayyy more expensive, yet we get the same amount, so I am living off of Pasta. haha anyway, gotta go! Chow Chow.

Elder Hazlett

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