Hello!!! I have 15 minutes now to write you. On Martes (or tuesday), we flew to Uruguay. It was a very short flight of 45 minutes. We went to the mission home in Montevideo, which was very pleasant. President and Sister Cook are wonderful. The missionaries here are amazing and full of energy and good attitudes. We had the opportunity to go proselyting with an experienced missionary that first day. Elder Quezada accompanied me -- he is one of the secretaries. It was an amazing experience -- he knows exactly what he is doing!
We then received our trainers and arrived in our areas. I am so lucky!! My trainer is Elder Aviña, of Mexico City. He is fantastic. He has been a district leader and was just a zone leader. I am his second trainee. Here, new missionaries are called oros, or goldens, instead of greenies. How nice! We already get along well. He is very nice, patient with me, and a great teacher. We arrived in Florida yesterday, our city. It is beautiful. We arrived at about 7pm, and we were teaching at an appointment at 8! The ward mission leader also called us and we met him. E. Aviña said that this never happens and that our area is amazing and already full of miracles. That night, a man tossed us a bag of pastries up to our window from the street below. Apparently, he brings treats every night to the missionaries in that house! Wow. Also, we eat lunch with members every day here -- crazy! Today, we have been working on cleaning the filthy house . . . the shower curtain was frightfully moldy, so we replaced that. Everything is much cleaner now. We already had lunch today.
So much to say, but no time. I am so excited to be here! I love it! I am working on understanding more spanish, but I feel pretty okay right now. I can usually understand my companion quite well, and he is patient with me. He also knows some english.
Chau!!!
Much love,
--Elder Olivier
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