Ethans 36th letter - Loberia, Argentina Sept. 15, 2014

Dear Family,

This week was pretty good, I was in Exchanges the whole week with Elder Hansen, he is from California. The joy of being comps with a District Leader haha. Elder Hansen is an Awesome Elder, he has 8 Months in the mission but is one of the best Missionaries that i know! We had a great week, and he helped me A LOT!! There has got to be something about being with someone from your own country that can just help a lot more, I'm not sure how to explain it. He is the same age as me but he went to BYU first and then came on the mission, He walked on at BYU to play football, so that's cool. We taught a lot of people this week when we were together. 

  During the week we went by Oscars and he was way excited and all but by Thursday or Friday he had talked to a family member and changed his mind about being baptized and didn't show up at church this Sunday.... Please pray for Oscar that he can be baptized this weekend Sept. 20th. 

  Saturday Morning we got up at 4:30 Am so that we could take a bus and travel for an hour to Necochea for a District Service Project. So 4 of the 5 Branches in our District( like a stake but just smaller) came together and we went to a elementary school to Restore a lot of the things that they have, we painted a lot of things, and we pulled weeds, and carried a ton of sand to fill a sand box that they have. It was a good time. I have pictures of it, and then other pictures of when we were on our way to the service with the other missionaries and we had got lost.... hahaha

  After we had a New Convert take us hunting....hahaha its a little different then the type that we do in the States. The have these dogs that are used a lot for Dog Racing, that are super skinny, but super fast!!! We have the dogs on a rope, that we can quickly let the dogs of the rope when they need to run. So we walked in a field with 6 of theses dogs and had them held by the collars basically and when a rabbit took of running, these 6 dogs just take off!!!!!!!  They have to run and chase down the Rabbits,and Rabbits are SUPER FAST!! so it means that these dogs are super fast too. It was a interesting experience, also the guys son killed a pheasant. It was a great week.

I love you all so much!!!! 

Con Amor Elder Ethan C. Durocher!

 Wow!  The photos are correctly oriented!  Whooottt!