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Hey how is everyone doing back home? Everything is going great here in Uruguay. That is awesome that Taylor and Jess got their hunter safety. Dad will really enjoy that. But tell Taylor that he better practice a lot because i`ll still out shoot him when i get home. Yes we have normal chapels here. There are 4 buildings in Tacuarembò and all of them have their own baptismal font they are just like the ones in the USA. The stake center here in T-bo is probably the nicest building around. There is a taxi system here but we usually don`t us it. We walk everywhere but it isn`t bad. It makes me feel lazy when i think that i would drive to church or even down to Elyse`s house. But my shoes are great and i haven`t had any blisters. We ate Mondongo. That is the cow stomach. It wasn`t to bad. It was really chewy. I didn`t get sick from it. I haven`t gotten sick at all so far. We have a really good investigator. It was a part member family the whole family is members but the dad isn`t. He was an alcoholic and they were about to separate. But he told us that he would stop drinking and be baptized and he hasn`t had a drink since then. It was really cool because we saved a marriage and he is going to be baptized. We didn`t have a baptism this last week but we have two planned por el sabado que viene. Josè y Fabio. I love speaking Spanish it is so much fun. We have an hour to an hour and a half to do email. I hope that Aaron does well in his interviews. That is crazy to think that he is almost done with school. I hope everything is going great back home. I think of you all and pray for you all. Les amo muchisimo. Me encanta ser misionero. Estoy tan agradecido por la oportunidad estar aquì en Uruguay y servir la gente aquì. Tambièn estoy muy agradecido por ustedes por sus apoya para mi. Tengan una buena semana. Choa Elder Tate

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Hey, How is everyone doing this week? This week was amazing we had our sector conference and the zones of Artigas and Rivera came down to Tacuarembó. A member of the area presidecy was there, his name is Elder Aidukaitis. It was so good. He talked about what we need to do to double our baptisms what President Hinkley said like 10 years ago. It was awesome when he bore is testimony at the end the spirit was so strong it was unreal. Then that night we went out to work at like 4:30 and in 4 and a half hours we found 13 people. He said that we should have a baptism every weekend and we have 1 planed for this coming Saturday or Sunday and then we will have 3 the week after that. We are working really hard and we are having a lot of fun. Yesterday we had the baptism of Irma Diaz it went really well. My spanish is getting a lot better. I can understand all of it if the people speak clearly. It is really cool to speak another language. Yes I got 2 packages last Thursday one from Elyse and the other from Aaron and Jodi. They were great it was like christmas. Montevideo is like 5 and a half hours away. The weather here is really crazy. We have had some rain but not a ton. The weather changes daily yesterday was great sunny and warm and today is cloudy and cold i never know what it is going to be like. The parents of my companion are leaving like the 2nd of October but make sure you get whatever you are sending down to them before the 30th of September. The only thing that i think i need is the cords for my camera so i can send you pictures. The homecoming of my companion is on the 19th of October. I don´t know what time his church starts at but that is the date. Everything is going great down here. We eat really good the members take really good care of us they are amazing. I´m glad everything is going great back home i´ll write you next week. Hey i forgot to tell you that i milked a cow for one of the members in the ward it was really fun. If you had to do that everyday your forearms would be so strong. Chao. Elder Tate

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Hola, How is everyone doing this week? Last week went by so fast. I went on divisions with the zone leader and the district leader in one week it was really fun. When I was with Elder Heilpern we thought we were going to get attacked by a dog but then it hit the end of the chain. I was so scared my heart was pounding so fast. Afterwards I looked at him and said we were about to have a race not between us and the dog but between me and you. It was really funny I’m pretty sure that I could have out run him. This last week has had all different temperatures. Tuesday was really hot and humid, Wednesday was a little bit colder but not bad same thing on Thursday, but Friday was the coldest day in Uruguay out of all the winter. It was so cold. I had my thermal garments and a sweater and my big coat and it was still pretty cold. I love my sleeping bag it is amazing. That is cool that Utah is dong so good in football and that Dad’s golf team is doing so good. This week we had 7 investigators in church but that family we are teaching didn’t come. We are going to have a baptism on the 20th of September. We have our first sector conference this week and one of the members of the area presidency is coming it will be a lot of fun. We have a busy week coming up this week it will be a lot of fun. My shoes are great I haven’t gotten any blisters yet. I hope everything with your neighbors works out alright. If not have Taylor calls his friends and they could try to relive the glory days. Tell Taylor congratulations on getting his hunters safety that is just 7 more duck dad and I will get to kill in 2 years. I hope everything goes great this week and you all have a lot of fun. I’m doing great down here in Tacuarembó it is a lot of fun. Thanks for all the love and support from everyone. Chao Elder Tate

September 1st 2008

Hey hope everything went good this last week i`m doing great here in Uruguay. We had an awesome week this week it was so much fun. We found 23 new investigators this week it was amazing everyone would listen to us and they wanted us to come back. The food is really good we have eaten milanesa ( chicken fried steak) it was good. Canalones, they were so good probably my favorite thing. They are tortillas with meat and some other stuff in them covered in a sauce they are really good. On Thursday it rained so hard. But that didn`t stop us we went out and worked all day and by the end of the day i was soaked. I could have walked through a river 2 or 3 feet deep and i wouldn`t have gotten any more wet. It was so much fun. I wore my boots and at the end of the day i dumped the water out of them it was really funny i have some pictures. I hope dad had a good birthday 50 years old WOW! That is sad about Grandpa Kirk i hope he isn`t in to much pain i feel really bad. GO UTES! Do they look good this year? The language is coming along really well when we have a lesson planned out i teach like 40 percent of it. We walk so much here it really is amazing i wish i had one of those things that counts your steps it would be an unreal number for one day. My shoes on the other hand are great and i haven`t had any problems with them. The roof on our house is made of the same stuff that we had on the wood shed before we put up the wood, that tin stuff. So when it rains at night we hear it and it poured the other night i couldn`t believe how loud it was. I`m doing really good here and i have adapted great i just wish i was fluent in Spanish. I love the mission it is really fun. Thanks for all the love and support from everyone back home. Tell everyone i love them and i`m doing great. Elder Tate ( TawTay) Chao