Pictures!!!!!! We LOVE pictures!

Look at this awesome young missionary! Here is Elder Merrill in his area of Carmen de Patagones with the business city of Viedma behind him, across the river.

Hey everyone, how are you doing?  Thanks for the money....I still feel a little bad, but I´ll still brush my teeth and I´ll cut off sweets, at least, I´ll stop buying them. I´ll admit it, sometimes I have a bit of a sweet tooth. No no, trust me I need a bit of dental work done. He tells me that there´s a cavity in my tooth that he needs to patch up and I have a tooth that needs a crown. Don´t worry, I´m certain that this guy is on the up and up. My tooth does hurt a little bit too. But only a little and not all the time. He says that the hole is about to reach the nerve in my tooth.  I´ll go see him on Wednesday, so that should be good. I can´t wait, I have a bunch to do, so with this out of the way, I should be able to do what I need to, and not have to worry about the dental stuff.

   Last week was fun, we had a bunch to do, but we are running low on investigators that are actually doing the things they need to, so we have to do a bit of finding more this week. Weird how it´s the last week and all of March already. But the work is the same even if you get transferred.  (Is Elder Merrill hinting at something???? Most likely just that it’s the end of another 6 week period and transfers could be happening.)

     I had a pretty crazy P-day.  The branch president took us to the beach, and I took a bunch of photos. I fell in the sea by accident, and I was wet for the next 3 hours or so. I haven´t had a more fun P-day though! There was just us on the beach and it seemed to stretch on for miles! I was looking at the Atlantic ocean I suppose. But there wasn´t another soul for miles! This beach also houses the largest colony of parrots in the world. I took a picture of the sign. 

         Well, there was a party of a sorts yesterday, but I don´t know why that was. Maybe it was St. Patrick’s day like you said. And you´re right, some people will take any excuse to have a party and drink beer. That’s funny about Kyle having to take a real DMV test. The one we took, they gave us all the answers to a written test, and then we just had to drive for a total of 6 hours. I wonder what Kyle´ll have to do.  I´m doing pretty good here. Aside from the dentist, I don´t have any needs. I was even looking at my shoes the other day and thinking, ¨I bet both will last until the end of my mission.¨ Thanks for all that you guys do for me. I love you guys lots!

                   -Elder Ethan Merrill