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Thursday, December 26, 2013

P-DAY NAVIDENO....12/24/2013



MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL 
AND 
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR
WITH ALL MY LOVE
 ELDER WADE DRAPER BAW
 

Monday, December 16, 2013

CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE...HAPPINESS AND CHEER...SANTAS BAKERY..12/16/2013

Well Hello Hello,

Elder Draper here with a shout out from Ramos, where I am  rehearsing Christmas Carols for the one and only Buenos Aires West Christmas program! 

Wow I can hardly believe we are in that time of year again... CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!, but first lets talk a little bit about how my week went!

Well still trying our best to gain some confidence with the members! There is a family here that I really get along with well, named the Family Breppe! The husband just recently got baptised in August and they are really great! They have 4 kids, 3 sons and a daughter and I get along really well with both the sons Nico and Seba, so I am super excited to get to know the family more! I told the Hermana that I love to cook and so she told me she is going to take me up on that offer!
 
We are going to have a baptism this Saturday, 10 year-old girl Morena, she is the grand daughter of a recent convert. She is super smart and super excited for her baptism and has just made a ton of progression!
 
Also right now we are working with a family from Paraguay, and they are equally as great... they just need to gain a testimony.  The dad used to go to the Church, but now he doesn´t seem to interested and always leaves or finds something to do during the lessons, so we are gonna try and focus in on that with him and find his need. We are also working with a young couple, Ismael and Daniella, they are living together. They want to get married so they can get baptized... but the government here is so difficult and when they went to the government place to get a date they told them they have to go in April to get a date for May... so we are looking for a lawyer to help us pull some strings, so we can get them married and baptized.  Right now they are the investigators that are progressing very nicely and have a strong desire. Ismael´s mother is an active member.
 
Not sure if all has heard by now but there was a rather larger tornado here in Marcos Paz so the clean up is on tap for me this Pday as soon as I am finished but hey were all OK right, however it is very very hot hear like nauseating HOT!
 
My feet continue to heal nicely and I am thankful for answered prayers and vinegar! LOL 
 
Well Christmas time is right around the corner and our kitchen has turned into Santa's bakery! One of the Elders that lives with me, Elder Cardozo from Misiones Argentina, and I have just been baking up a storm for the members and getting things ready.  We are planning on doing some Christmas Family home evenings these next couple of days and delivering our goodies, I think that will help me gain some confidence with the members! =D
 
I was asked to give a talk yesterday in Church, my theme was Endure to the End.  It really  was such a wonderful experience to study up on the topic. I learned allot in the study and how it applies to Missions ! There were 3 things that I rung home on Enduring to the end.
 
1. Do good works (boy scout day)
2. Serve Others
3. And follow the example of the Savior
 
It really was a complete blessing to learn more about these things and how we can really endure to the end and endure well.
 
I will not be emailing next week because I will be skyping my family YEA so I hope all of your reading  has a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
 
LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!
BE GOOD, STAY ON SANTAS NICE LIST! =)
LOVE YA´LL!
 
Love,
Elder Wade Draper

MERRY CHRISTMAS ELDER DRAPER...12/15/2013


DECEMBER 2013 TRANSFERS...12/4/2013


Monday, December 09, 2013

I LEFT MY HEART IN HURLINGHAM... 12/9/2013

Wow is all I can say today, this has probably been the hardest week I have had in my Mission. Not not like Mission work wise but transferring this time was really hard, I love my families here in Hurlingham and feel their love for me as well.

On Monday and Tuesday, not sure what was going to occur but feeling something, I was saying goodbye to people just in case that transfer was intended for Elder Draper. Monday, the Hermana Iputcha made me lunch and then Tuesday we had a snack with Santi and his family.... literally those 2 days were just an absolute blur... but then the thumper came, we got the transfer calls..

My district was the last district and my area was the first to and there it was... "Elder Hernandez stays... Elder Draper leaving..." I felt just sick to my stomach with a void like never before.

When I returned to Hermana Iputcha who was cooking dinner for us, I walked into her house with just the saddest face... I could literally feel my emotions painted on my face and as hard as I tried I could not create a new canvas. One look at me and she knew, and began saying "No... No puedo creerlo" tranlastion "I don´t believe it" so we sat in her kitchen eating milanesa and mashed potatoes crying.

I called a bunch of people letting them know I was leaving and you could feel the tears being shed on both ends of the phone. The hardest came as I dialed Santi as he didn´t believe me, I had to pass the phone to the Hermana Iputcha because he literally did not believe me. I am not sure if he did not believe me or did not want to believe me and in that moment I did not want to believe what I had been told just hors earlier.  He came to our house and he just cried and hugged me for a good 20 minutes.... it felt quite tragic however we stayed up talking for a good hour and thirty minutes and then alas we had to part.  Elder Smith, one of my dearest friends who was in my District and just finished his Mission last week called me to make sure that I was ok, knowing how close Santi and I have become. I know he will be a fine Missionary and I am thankful I could be a part of preparing him for this wonderful calling!  

So yet another transfer has come and gone and my feet are now planted in Loma Grande and I need to get a grip and focus although I am yet soooo sad.  Speaking of feet ,the fungus is healing after days of warm vinegar soaks and topical cream  I purchased as instructed by the doc here so don't worry Mom it's healing and is not as painful to walk on as a few weeks back.
 
On the bright side Loma Grande is is super close to my first area Altos de Merlo 2, so maybe just maybe I will see Romina one day! Now I just have to gain the confidence of the people here because they just loved the Missionary that I replaced... I mean the kid was here for 9 months I am sure it was super difficult for them as well however I have had a warm welcome and the people here are nice! 
 
I met a couple families already that are super nice and my Companion, Elder Reyna  is a really good kid from Peru! He is 19 years old and has 10 months in the mission!  I am super excited to continue to work with him in this new area as I know there is a lot to be done here before I return home so we shall see what the week brings! Hope everyone there has a good week! 
 
Stay classy and stay sweet kids!
 
Love,
Elder Wade Draper =)

BREAKFAST ANYONE...12/2/2013

APOLOGIES FOR THIS LATE ENTRY THIS IS LAST WEEKS EMAIL FROM ELDER DRAPER

Well Howdy Ya´ll,

Hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving mine was just so Argentine! haha.  Thanksgiving consisted of a weekly planning session, and a dozen of empanadas! I never was one for allot of Thanksgiving food... but I enjoyed it.



It has been quite the week.  Monday night we did a family home evening with Santi´s family! They wanted to try an American Breakfast, and so I let them have it! I made french toast, hashbrowns, and scrambled eggs! They don´t have syrup here so... we used Dulce de Leche! They absolutely loved it and so did I it was a nice change!  
 
Tuesday morning my companion got a phone call from the offices saying that he had to go to Rosario, a different provincia! (which is like a state) to do paper work for his visa so that was just a fun little surprise, but I will get to that story a little bit later.
 
I had the wonderful opportunity to do divisions in my district on Tuesday. I went to Loma Hermosa with Elder Banegas, who is quite the character. He is a very... closed person, and doesn´t like to talk... and always looks angry but I did the unthinkable and cracked him! We had a great time! We talked allot about patience because it is something he has trouble with and the division went really well.
 
Thursday rolls around and we had lunch with one of my absolutely favorite Hermanas in the ward, the Hermana Guzzón.  She had an ant infestation on her roof, so I offered to spray to kill them.  I went up to the window sprayed the spray... and they were flying ants!!!!! They flew after us chasing us around the house! The Hermana was dying of laughter! haha it was quite the experience.
 
That night my comp was whisked away to Rosario, and I was put on a division in my area with Elder Ticino, my old comp from Ciudadela, and although we didn´t see eye to eye back in the day the Division went really well! It was allot of fun being with him again, we both apologized for being bad companions, so that was great to get that all settled although honestly I was past it before I had even left there!
 
Our investigators are doing really  well! Ignacio our baptism for the 14th moved down the street from his house so Saturday morning we went and helped them move! Thank the Lord it was DOWN the street because they had a ton of stuff!!!! He was super grateful for the help that we gave him and his grand-daughter who works at McDonalds gave us free meal coupons! JACKPOT! ;)
 
But wow... This week we have transfers! I really hope that I stay here... Also everyone in the ward does too! ;) But just in case yesterday I shared my testimony and had the ward in tears ;) It´s what I do ) make others cry and try and hide emotions at the same time.
 
But I hope everyone has an outstanding week! AS all always Stay cool and classy kids!
 
LOVE YA´LL!
 
Love,
Elder Wade Draper! =)

Monday, November 25, 2013

ELDER SOARES OF 70...PRESIDENT GONZALEZ...ELDER HOLLAND AND WIFE...INSPIRATIONAL WEEK...11/25/2103

Hello Everyone,

Yet another a crazy week  here in Argentina, like literally sooo crazy,  so many good things happened!

Last monday for Pday we had an Asado for our District Activity, everything turned out really well!  Each Companionship had an assignment and everything was absolutely delicious! The Hermana Iputcha let us use the parilla in her house to cook in so that was just so nice of her! Elder Smith, who just loves to cook did the cooking and he is really like a pro Asado maker! So we did some "good eatin´"as you would say in Alabama.
 
 
The week continued and we had interviews with President,  I just absolutely love President Carter with all of my heart, he is one of the most funny and inspired men that I know! My interview went really well.  We talked  about how my District is doing and things that are going to happen in the future, I asked him if I could end my mission in Hurlingham,  so pray for me that I do! After our interviews I got to do divisions with Elder Fernandez my Zone Leader! He is from Chile and he is just is funny as well as so many others here have been or maybe I m just that jolly who knows? He is like a really good Missionary and he really knows how to keep people happy and connect with people so well, almost better than I do ;) (a funny side story he was looking through my pictures and came across a picture of Brelynn and he thinks she is the most beautiful girl in the world haha and obviously she is just stunning but he was just in awe! haha)
 
My love for the Ward still grows... and there love for me grows as well.  The family Hornos bought me Toms which was just sooo nice of them right? So I go around in our little apartment in Toms which are just so comfortable on PDays and before and after my long days trekking!
 
In other exciting news, we had a special conference with Elder Holland and it was absolutely amazing! The 3 Buenos Aires Missions got together! We heard from Elder Soares of the 70 and his wife, then from President Gonzalez our area President, and then from Sister Holland and Elder Holland! It was probably one of the best reunions of my life! Like seriously wow! Sister Holland gave an amazing talk, she is just an absolutel doll! She had a translator, and she used her hands allot when she talked and she was just sooo great! She talked about how we as Missionaries have a glow about us, and that we have the light of Christ and that we always need to be worthy to have that light and help it shine so that the people can see the light. She was followed by her spouse Elder Holland who also gave an amazing talk! He talked about how we as Missionaries are basically the symbol of the Church and that we are preaching "HIS" Gospel the entire day was so inspiring!!!
 
BUT IN OTHER BIG NEWS! MY QUERIDO SANTI GOT HIS MISSION CALL!!!!!!!
He is going to BRAZIL!!!!!!!!! I dont remember which Mission it is called but it is between Bolivia and Peru! I do know that it is like all jungle haha, he is just so excited,  and I am beyond excited for him!!!!
 
But that was basically my week in a nutshell!  I hope everyone is doing good and that life is fun!
I love yall so much and please kids stay classy! =)  Have a Happy Turkey day nothing going on here but the gospel no plans as of today so we shall see?!?!?
 
LOVE YALL!
 
Love,
Elder Wade Draper =)

Friday, November 22, 2013

ELDER ZARATE HEADING TO BRAZIL...11/18/13

Hi All,

Not alot of time left today to write just finished a lengthy email with Mission President so I will have to send my long email next week so I will repent now!  First off, thanks Mom for getting those scriptures out so soon, he will really appreciate them! 

Riley is going to Texas March 19th.  Try and get with Bishop to see if I can give my  Homecoming talk like on March 9th I am assuming she will give her Farewell the following Sunday March 16th since that Wednesday she will leave for the MTC.  I am so very excited for her that will make Brelynn equally as happy, who by the way is doing very well there in Australia.


Santiago opened up his Mission Call on Sunday and he is going to Brazil.  We were all shouting, laughing and crying.  I am on cloud nine for him and I truly have felt the fruits of my labor here!









We celebrated with Carni Asada,  again it's just so good,  and ...










                                 
                                      Elder Smith  did some fancy work with his knife LOL!


Well I gotta run good to hear all is going well!  Congratulate Dad on his promotion and  Mejor de las suertes (Best Of Luck) to Wyatt in basketball and with his baseball tryouts, man he stays busy!!!  As for Lyn's tell her it's weird to think she is old enough to have that first boyfriend thing going on, she has grown up a lot since I've been gone. Give Grams a squeeze for me and tell Binkz it wont be long that this elGato will be home!

Love You All Much,
Until next week...
Love,
Elder Wade Draper

Monday, November 11, 2013

THINGS LOOKING UP AGAIN...SANTI'S MISSION CALL...HOLLAND VISIT...11/11/2013

Hello Hello Family and Friends,

Wow what an amazing week, I had this past week. Like really, we worked soooo hard!! I have been getting back to the apartment late every night just so satisfied with my days work but very tired as well because of the work we are doing! We plan, then I do my nightly calls to my District, then I literally fall into bed!...ahhh the Mission life, how I will miss it!

Lately I have really been praying to find people who are going to progress, and who are willing to let the Gospel change their lives as you all know it has been a struggle these past few weeks.  It just so happens that this past week, we found so many people who are willing to change their lives.

First off a we encountered a young woman with 2 kids who recently seperated from her boyfriend, and that was followed by a young man who recently stopped drug use and has a 10 month year-old son, there were many others this week as well, but I wanted to specificly talk about 2 families that we found this past week.

First the family of Ivan, Ivan was a contact I made in the train station last Sunday.  We were a little short on contacts to finish our goals and we were waiting for the train and I saw this kid who is taller than me, so I thought I am gonna contact that kid. I did and he gave me his direction and we passed by in during the week. Apparently the Sister Missionaries had been teaching his family a year before, and one of them was none other than the fabulous Hermana Pasquale... Ivan is his name and he is a super great.  He really has a desire to be in the path of God and wants to know if the Church is true. I am really excited to watch him progress.

We also found a family yesterday, Ignacio and Nelly.  They are 2 grandparents who raised 3 of their grandchildren, and one of their granddaughters is the girlfriend of a member. The first thing that Ignacio asked us is how he could join the Church and feel the same peace that we have. Super great guy with allot of faith, he owns a dry cleaning place in Capital, and offered to dry clean our clothes for free, so that is just super awesome.

But this past week there were allot of difficulties in the ward.  First off Santi´s mom is in the hospital, she is allot better now, but it was pretty bad last week, she has  really bad anemia.  Also Carlos, my convert, well his brother passed away, but he is doing allot better this today.

This week my bestest friend, Santigo, should receive his Mission Call!! If you recall he was my mini Missionary awhile back and he is on fire!!!!  I am so excited this week to hear of his news, he is absolutely without a doubt going to be a Pillar of a Missionary!!!!  Mom would you mind sending a bible and the triple scriptures in Spanish embossed with Elder Santiago O. Zarate.  I would like to give them to him before he leaves on his Mission, that could be my Christmas present if you'd like!
 
Well I am looking forward to seeing  many more miracles this next week, and I am so pumped because.... this weekend we have a conference with ELDER HOLLAND... SO PUMPED!!!

Have a good week everyone!

LOVE YA´LL
Love,
Yours Truly,
Elder Draper

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

ROUGH WEEK STRONG TESTIMONY...MATT. 11:28-30...11/4/2013

Hello Family and Friends,
 
Hope that everyone had a splendid week! Mine was... long... very very long, haha but I got through it!
 
First off, we did the mutual 2 weeks ago, I don´t remember if I wrote about that but it was a successful mutual and we played volleyball afterwards and poor Elder Draper, going in for the kill  ripped my pants... soo embarrassing!
 
Well I wanted to talk a little bit more about last Monday because I didn´t really have a chance to do so in my last email! Well we had transfers and a big group of my favorite Missionaries went home!
 


Elder Wilson my first Zone Leader here in Argentina...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

MY PAPI... Elder Delgado
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
...and the fabulous Hermana Pasquale who became one of my dearest friends in the Mission
  
... there were also many many more. It is just so surreal to see people finish their Missions. It felt like "Wow I was with you when you completed a year or like wow you were my companion or we lived together forever ago"! I dread my day as it will come to soon as well....BUT it has to come someday right?
 
This this past week, was a struggler.. but I learned allot!  My new comp Elder Hernandez is super great, he is like a nerd... but I love it and his desires... he has so many qualities of a leader and and I know that he will be a leader in this Mission someday. My week was super difficult because, my District was not doing so good with our key indicators so I was super stressed about that, and we are not doing so hot with our baptismal fechas, but we are doing our best! To top off all the stress, Berta the storm hit Buenos Aires Thursday and lasted till about Friday-Saturday morningish. We were literally walking in water up to our knees as the streets were flooded! I wish I would of had my camera to snap some pics, it was something you actually see in pictures! UGH
 
 
 
 
Another crazy
thing that
happened this
week was...
HALLOWEEN!!
We enjoyed lunch
with Hermanna
eating
rabbit stew...
yes rabbit stew,
it is probably like
 my favorite meat
here,  super healthy
for you as well!
 
 
     
With everything that has going on, a tsunami of exhaustion hit me, and I have just thought to myself... I am so tired... I have 20 months in the Mission... and I am just phyiscally exhausted... so I have been kinda of bummed, not gonna lie, however I had one of the most spiritual experiences yesterday in testimony meeting. I was just tired.. dead tired the whole weekend and we went to Church only to see no investigators were there. During Sacrament I began praying just to feel good, just to remove the emptiness that I felt and take away the tiredness.  I was filled with something that I had never felt before as I felt His overwhelming love fill my soul so strong that it moved me to get up and share my Testimony about how my week had been going and what I just experienced at that moment. It was a miracle from our Heavenly Father to feel his love at just the time I needed it! I had many members after thank me for sharing my Testimony, because it was an answer to their prayers as well.
 
I just want to leave ya´ll with my Testimony that I know know know God and Jesus live and that they love us, and will always love us no matter what. Read Matt. 11:28-30 we can always rest in Christ =)
I still have so much to do in my time here... I have no time to be tired! =)
 
I LOVE YOU ALL SO DEARLY! 
 
Stay Classy Kids!!!!!
 
Love,
Elder Wade Draper! 
 
       PS (We also had some pretty dang good Carni Asda this past week by Chef's Draper and Hernandez
 
 


 

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

AWHOLE LOT OF CRAZINESS THS TRANSFER...10/28/2013










Hey Family and Friends,

Just so you know this email will be brief as I have very limited time today as transfers literally just ended what a ride!! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hope everyone had a good week this past week, mine was absolutely crazy. I mean really nuts!!!!
I started off the week going on divisions with Elder Smith an Elder in my district who served in Hurlingham before! He only has 1 transfer left before he leaves for home so he showed me some spots in the area that I had never been to before.  We  also visited a few members so that he could say goodbye to them. He is an absolute hoot! Elder Smith is from LA and is an aspiring film director and the kids just breathes art, I love it! We had a really cool experience when we went to visit a less active member and her family, the husband is not a member! It was a great visit and they just absolutely love the Missionaries!  Elder Smith has an amazing relationship with this family from his time serving here. so it was a very comfortable home to visit.  It sounded as though they are going through a super hard time! however.  Elder Smith  had a nice long talk with them all about repentance and  forgiveness and that  it is time to forgive, forget and repent!  Everyone was just bawling,  it was a super charged good lesson! So my divisions with Elder Smith were just absolutely wonderful, he is easily one of the funniest people that I know, and I am so happy and blessed that he is in my District. 
 
Well I got my training done with Elder Zamudio, I taught him basically everything that I know in the book. He was transferred because of all the refuerzos, aka newbies, got here this past week!  A total of 54 but the first wave there were 38 of them!!!!! So we had to babysit one of them over the weekend it was allot of fun but super stressful because of how little our apartment is, and the poor kid didn´t speak a lick of Spanish!  
 
I have a new companion, Elder Hernandez from Maine! So new transfer, new comp, new adventures!
 
Oops,  I literally just ran out of time... sorry this email is so short will do a better update next week! We only had an hour to write today and as you know I had to divide with Mission President and check in on my District so boo hoo ! booooo
 
Like Icona Pop said... I LOVE IT!
 
Stay Sweet Kids I will catch you up next week and Lyns' what about your new crush wanna here all about that one!! LOL  
  
Love,
Elder Wade Draper

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

THIS IS HALLOWEEN...MOTHER'S DAY ...VISIT FROM AREA OF SEVENTY WHAT A WEEK...10/21/2013



Hello Dear Family and Friends!
 
Wow what a week I have had! A lot of GREAT experiences mixed with a whole lot of fun!!
 
First off my little hijito, Elder Zamudio is so neat!!... I didn't have much time to talk about him last week in my email, but he is a 19 and from Ensenada Mexico close to Tijuana! My papi, Elder Delgado, my first Companion in Aldo Bonzi, was super stoked when he arrived, as that is where he is from.  Elder Z is such a great Missionary, he is taking everything that I am teaching him and applying it to his teachings of the gospel! I only have 1 more week with him because he will be leaving me and training elsewhere..bummer..but most likely I will be training again and I am most grateful for the time we have had together!  We get along great Elder Zamudio and I... he is like a little nerd and is just so funny! He loves video games and hard rock. He is definitely getting the Elder Draper supercharged experience filled with laughs and hard work. I am teaching him how to lift weights in the morning during our exercises, it's actually pretty funny to watch him, HA HA,  and we have a blast together! 
 
So this week the weather has been really nice but so hot and humid.  The only thing good about the hot weather is the nice little tan that I get,  yes I will have "that tan" by the end of this summer to bring back home to Utah. 

We had a great experience this week!  One of the more spiritual things that happened to me this week, was like one of those “WOW MSSIONARY MOMENTS”!  We found a list of contacts in our area book and so we have been passing by these homes in hopes of findings someone with that might be interested in the gospel. It was so hot  this day and just nobody on this list was welcoming us or our message. I was bummed however remained positive for my excited Companion.  As I was walking I thought to myself just one more house and I know this will be the one! So we clapped and a lady that looked super familiar to me came out and she looked so happy!  She greeted me like an old friend and asked me how I was doing and all that.  Then she went on to explain how she was thinking about Ilda, and how odd it was that we showed up at her door at that very moment... then it all clicked in my mind, Ilda was a less active member that passed away last month.  We were teaching her grandson at her time of passing.  When she passed away we went to visit her family and this lady is a friend of Ildas daughter and I had met her the day after Ilda passed away. She went on to explain to us how she is going through some super rough times right now, how she does not have work and does not have the means to provide for her family. She was super emotional because she was thinking about Ilda and had been praying for help and guidance in her life. Like wow... the Lord works in the most wonderful ways!  I am happy to say today she and her daughter have baptismal dates and are super excited to progress and learn more about the Church!

 




Party time so…so if you remember also I have been planning a little Halloween activity for the Ward and it went down last Friday!  It was AMAZING everyone loved it! The majority of the people came to the activity in costume!  Elder Zamudio was a mariachi player
















Santi gave me his rugby jersey and socks so I was an Argentine rugby player in turn I lent Santi my Alabama Jersey and he was an American Football Player! HAHA It was a super fun time with members








The Hermana Iputcha (the member who lives in front of us) was a zombie and her costume was absolutely hilarious!  She was walking around saying she had got hit by a car on the way to the party and making like really cheesey dead jokes... like "I need to sit down because I am DEAD tired" HAHA 






















We did a trick or treat for the kids, find the candy in the flour game, musical chairs, bobbing for apples, and a dance...unfortunately we cannot dance but...
 








... I was one of the DJs with Agustina  with my super rad friend in the ward with pink in her hair!!  We were just dropp’n some fast beats! It was super fun!











Yesterday it was Mothers day here in Argentina so... I made Mother’s day cards for some of my mamas here in the ward! They loved them so much! One Hermana started crying and they all almost gave me the beso (kiss).


Elder Viñas of the Seventy came and talked to our ward yesterday which was a really cool experience, he gave a really good talk about Ward unity. I also got to shake his hand and greet him! =D

Sunday ended with a bunch of laughter as we ended our day by going to eat with the Hermana Iputcha and her family.    While we were eating she was said “Elders did you know that I did Tai Quan Do when I was a little girl? I was like you are such a liar laughing.  She stood up and said watch as she told her friend to grab her by the shoulders.... then she did this like flip and threw her elbow in the direction of the face of her friend and did this karate scream! I FELL ON THE FLOOR DYING OF LAUGHTER.... like I have not laughed like that in awhile... it was just soooo unexcpected her little karate move! HAHAHAHA I just love the Hermana Iputcha soooo much

But that was basically my week in a nutshell!  I cannot wait to see what adventures the week brings this week! =D

So until next week you know the drill!  Stay classy kids and I Love ya'll,

Love,
Elder Wade Draper =D 
 
 

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

FOREVER 21.....10/14/2103




HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM PRESIDENT CARTER

 
 
 
Hello Family and Friends,
 
If you are receiving this by email from my darling mother... well I have come to a point in my Mission, where I realize I just need to give all my time left here focusing on the work and the  Lord, so this is how ya’ll will be hearing from me for a few months.  Going forward I am 100% committed to finish strong with Him.! =)  With that said I want you to know that I love you all so much and I am so excited to see everyone in 5 months.
 
Well the big 21 came and went and it was just absolutely wonderful!
 
Last Monday before we went to bed, Hermana Iputcha called me and told me she had a surprise for me and asked if I could come to the house real quick so we went up and she had bought a delicious cake from Capital! (CAKE 1) It was like the best chocolate, dulce de leche, the best everything in Argentina !!!! It was sooo good!
 
 
She did not have 21 candles so she took all the candles that she had and added them up so that the sum was 21... haha I was dying! She apologized for the late call but was so excited she said “I couldn’t wait tell tomorrow, Tuesday being my actual birthday! I just love birthdays! So Monday ended GREAT!

 
 
 

I was awakened earlier Tuesday morning teralier hen the norm by a text from Santiago... wishing me a HAPPY HAPPY BIRHTDAY, so, that was super nice of him!
 
 
We had district meeting as well that day so I bought everyone facturas and juice and we had a little celebration, The Hermanas from my district got me brownies as well!  



 
 
We were invited back to Hermana Iputcha's and she makes the best pasta and chicken ever, she continued to celebrate my birthday LOL!!!   I shared rice krispy treats from my package mom sent with her and she thought it was delicious!  Simple treat, good but deliciously best ever as she stated, funny!
 
 
 
 
Afterwards full, we went and worked hard until dinner time, the Zarate’s, (my dear morning alarm clock Santigo’s)  family invited us to eat with them. They made us pizzas and the Hermana made me WHAT…a cake as well! So nice of them! (Cake 2).







The next day we were invited to a lunch by a less active member family... and the Hermana is a professional cake maker so she surprised me with yet another cake! It was equally as delicious and beautiful as well!   Needless to say this past week I just gained a bunch of weight!!!! HaHa

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

But the fun does not stop....here…Wednesday night I was doing my nightly calls and I got a call from the Assistant’s.  I  thought... oh what did I do now! LOL They informed, me they were having a flash, and Elder Escobar was leaving.  We were told to be in the in the offices the following morning. When we arrived to the offices I was informed that I would be training... YES a bebe  (LOL) had arrived from Mexico!!!!!!! His name is Elder Zamudio! He is 19 and he is just great! The sad thing is we only have 12 days left together because a ton of other missionaries are coming in before transfers! So there is a strong chance I will be blessed with another nino.  LOL, but we shall see! =)  So just some crazy things going down here in the good ‘ol Buenos Aires West!
Well I hope everyone has a splendid week, I love and miss you all! =)
Stay Strong,
Love,
Papa Elder Wade Draper