Well I just wanted to let you all know that I am still alive after a long week of zone conferences. We started early Monday morning and didn´t stop until midnight of last night. Tuesday morning we woke up at 4 to make our long journey over to Villa Mercedes where we began the travelling. It was a great wake up call, but before the conference even started I was already tired. My body clock didn´t like that very much but after the zone conference we made our way back into San Luis to prepare for the zone conference with them on Wednesday. I found out that Zulema is still way active and she is preparing to go to the temple in May! There is another family of converts that are still active, but they still have a few more obstacles to jump before they can make it to the temple. On Wednesday we had the zone conference in San Luis and at about 8 at night we started another long travel down to San Rafael. When we got there, it was way late and there was only ONE motel room in the entire city so to make a long story short, President, Elder Menocal and I all slept in the same, tiny motel room. Elder Menocal slept on a mattress thrown on the floor, President got a decent bed, and I slept on the foam pad placed on a bed frame. I didn´t have a pillow or sheets, but it was still a night for the records. We woke up early, excited to be up for the next day, and had the zone conference with San Rafael and then returned to the same motel for the night. This time they had switched up our rooms and we finally had decent living conditions, but the three of us were still in the same room. Yesterday we finished up the long week in Alvear and then coming back we ran into another mess. Just as we got on the highway, the famous Alvear hail storms hit us hard. We had to pull off to the side of the road in order to escape the falling rocks and spare the windshield and man was that a journey. We were all super tired, ready to be home, and now waiting on mother nature to do her thing. After about 15 mintues of waiting we finally got on the road again. Heading back to Mendoza we saw a sign indicating us to make a left turn off the the highway... Note to self: DO NOT TRUST THE STREET SIGNS IN ARGENTINA. After about 30 minutes of travelling down this po dunk road it all of a sudden turned into dirt... Yeah it wasn´t the right road. Not even close. SO we turned around and turned on the GPS and tried digging ourselves out of the predicament we were in. As we went following the GPS we noticed that it told us to make another random right hand turn. We doubted, but then decided to follow the 21 century liahona. This time we were on a paved road for a while and, not to our surprise, it suddenly turned into dirt... again. Luckily at this point there was a house so we decided to ask them where in the world we were. They gave us two options: Or turn around and backtrack about another half hour, or cross the river... Well it had been raining and hailing for the past hour and a half, but we decided to cross the river. You know that picture of the Martin Handcart Company crossing the Mississippi River? Yeah picture something like that... Alright, not quite, but the river was still pretty impressive but what did we do? We plunged right into it! It was great. President´s Four Runner deal of an SUV handled great and we made it through! After another 5 minutes of dirt road, we finally intersected the highway and started on out way home. After one more stop for a hail delay we finally made it back at around midnight! I was SO happy to be back. Now we have this afternoon and tomorrow to work in our area and on Monday morning we head on up to San Juan to finish off the two more zone conferences that we have pending. President is thinking of having us stay up there for the rest of the week to work with the zone leaders in Chimbas, but we will see what happens. He was to organize transfers and will surely be calling on us to help him, but to make a long story short, this week was great and I had a blast. It is such a blessing to be able to know all of the missionaries at such a personal level. It is something that I never thought was possible, but I feel like some of my very best friends are out here with me serving the Lord. At times I feel like Alma and the Sons of Mosiah... Our hearts are all dedicated on the task we have at hand, which task is to declare this amazing gospel to everyone, baptizing them by the Holy Priesthood. What a blessing it is! I absolutely love it! I love you all and hope the rendezvous to hawaii ended happily!
Elder Burr
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