Week 5 - Argentina

OK this week has been full of......well stuff.

Starting on tue we had a sister from tupengato come by herself because her companion had to be at a training. We were doing exchages and the other sisters hna Keller nad Cox went to mendoza for a doctor apt. Well, they left and when it was time to go pick up the sister from the terminal(bus station) we couldnt get out of the house. Our keys didnt work! We looked around trying to figure out how to get out - We cant go through the windows because there are bars on all of them. We took the hinges off the door but we still couldnt open the door. We were stuck. So the sister was wating by herself at the terminal and we couldnt get out of the house. We called the missionay couple that helps us out a lot. The other sisters keys work but ours dont.  He was going to drive down the keys so we could get out but, one of the office elders said that was stupid to have him drive all the way down for that. He said to call a member and see if they could help with the lock.  We called the only member who can help us: Hno Molto.  None of us had enough money for a locksmith to come.  Its about a 1000 pasos i had about 200. Eventually we had 2 elders and a guy (who helps out when things go wrong at the houses) after they call and ask if we are sure that we are stuck in the house. We have a gate and middle door and then our door.  If it was the middle door we would have climbed on the roof and got out that way, we are not stupid.  Then they asked if there was a key stuck in the door, did we try to fiddle around with the key? We tried it inside outside and upsidedown. Any way they came from Mendoza didnt even ask the sisters who were in mendoza for their keys. They climbed on the roof looked at the small windows which have bars on them. Then they asked for our keys to get in. They couldnt open the door they tried all the keys and nothing. They cut the bars off the window by the door then climbed in and cut the lock off the door and put a  new lock on.  We have a video i'll try to send it wed.  Normally the weekly planning which took alll day. It felt like a normal friday. We had district meeting lunch wes a pick up so by the time we got lunch we ate it at our church. We didnt want to walk all the way home only to turnaround and go all the way back its about 15 blocks to the church from our house and another 10 to where we picked up lunch. Its been fun and we have all felt a bit sick this week.  Sat was my birthday - the sister we had lunch with made a huge cake for my birthday and gave us all of it to take home.  it is good.  Sunday we barely had 20 people at church, it was so sad.  The other branch had about 70 - that was great! Our president was so happy we started choir and a few came, but it was the first day. So hopefully we will get more next week thats my week. it sounds like everybody had a interesting and busy week.

love you all 

hna Smith

PS hope you all get a good laugh because i did