Flying over some of the area he will serve in.

A beautiful Sunset!

 These are the keys to his apartment.

His favorite juice. He said its better then home 

 Doing service work!

 Overlooking the main city of Mendoza

 Elder Christensen's Birthday 

Elder Hone and his gangster companion!

Hi Family!! 

      How is everyone doing? It sounds like you are having a lot of fun at home and a lot of crazy things going on! It sounds like you had a good weekend too! That's great! How is Brindlee's Track Team? I wish I could've had some deep fried shrimp, chinese food, and chicken that sounds tastey!! I will miss chinese food! That would be really fun for you all to go top flaming gorge! I am going to miss camping and fishing a lot! Elder Christensen and I were talking about fishing and camping the other day because he loves camping also! 

       Anyway everything here is going great!! The Spanish is coming along good, the people are still hard to understand sometimes but I am learning more and more everyday! It is hard but a lot of fun! (haha the cyber that we email in is playing Led Zeplin on the radio, it's funny they listen to english music a lot and they cant understand anything!) The old guy Asencio is doing great! He came to church again and he just loves it!! He is getting baptized this saturday on the 11th! He is really excited for it! Yesterday he told us he had been thinking about us and how excited he was to come to church and listen to the songs! He loves the hymns! When we start singing he doesn't sing because he can't read the small letters but he listens and he always starts leading the music from his seat and he waves his hands around and just smiles and at the end he says "oh how beautiful!"! He is so great!! Elder Christensen is doing good!! He should be my companion for another 9 weeks when I finish training, but it has a possibility of changing in 3. But I should be in this area for another 15 weeks! It is really unlikely that I will leave before then. We actually dont do a lot of tracting here. we work a lot with families of the ward and try to get refferals and then we have the members introduce us to the referral (or their friend) and we teach them and we find a lot of peiople that way. So the track team is doing good!! 

    I have not figured out the total difference between Pesos and American dollars, but the other day I took out 300 pesos so whatever it says I took out on my bank account is the same value as 319 pesos (it costs 19 pesos to take money out of any atm here). As of right now I don't need anymore money I am fine, i haven't used any of my own money yet I just have the pesos I took out for an emergency or if i want to buy a shirt or something. The mission debit card works great! It has my name on it just like any other card but we get 900 pesos a month on it and we use it for food and all of our other needs here so it works great! 

   We do laundry in our pension, we have a washer that we just have to dump 2 buckets of water in with our clothes and soap and turn it on then it has a hose hooked onto it and we put the hose in out sink and it drains the water into the sink. Then we put our clothes into "dryer" which just spins really fast and forces most of the water out of the clothes and dumps the water out of the side so we have the "dryer" sitting on a bucket so it can catch the water that it puches out. then we just hand our clothes to dry. On P-day we do laundry, come here to the cyber, (its like a internet cafe where you just pay 4 pesos an hour to use the computer) then we go to this store called cafe america and do our shopping (its kind of like a costco or sams club but you dont need a membership and everything is super cheap its awesome!!) Then after that we are free to do whatever until 6! Next week we are going to go to Centro San Juan and do some shopping for some shirts and stuff so I might buy a pair of other shoes or a shirt or something there next week. It is so awesome here!! Elder Christensen and I were talking yesterday about if we couldn't speak any spanish how lost we would be!! Imagine being in a random city  with signs and people every where but everything is in spanish and not being able to understand anything! It is so cool being here learning so much! Being on a mission is awesome!!! 

   Oh with my package I also have to pay some money to pick it up but I don't think it is very much so just try to keep it average size, like the flat rate medium size box that is like 4 inches thick and like 18 inches long or something like that. nothing too big, and remember not to write exactly what is inside just write missionary supplies and a value of like 10$. But there are a few special things I would like in it: Warhead candies, Hi Chews, Natural Vines Licorice, those listerine mint strip-melt-on-your-tongue things, and some tabasco sauce.  Hopefully Soon I can find out how to mail you all a package and I will mail you some Alfajores and some other cool goodies!! 

    I can't believe school starts so soon for the girls again it is crazy!! Can you believe on your Anniversary I turned 4 months old on the Mission??  I can't believe Brindlee is a freshman and Kynsie starts 7th grade in junior high! It's weird!

       Well family I gotta go!!! I Love you all and I am so thankful that you pray for me and to help me find the people that the Lord is truly preparing!! It is a huge help in the missionary work that poeple all over the world pray for us all every day!! I am sorry I dont have any pictures to mail home today! I haven't been taking many because we aren't really supposed to take our camera around with us because it can get stolen! I love you guys! I hope you have a fantastic week!! I am now going to buy an alfajor and walk to the store to buy some food! Love ya!!

           -Élder Talon Hone 

       PS Tell Brindlee this is what I am going to mail her -