20 questions with Elder Pickle (Well at least 12)

1.      Was that a picture in dropbox of a spider bite on your hand? Is it doing better now? I don´t know if it was a spider bite or a mosquito.. haha but it is gone now. 

2.      Have you been able to get money off of your debit card? If you have had a problem let me know and I will contact the bank here and let them know you are in Argentina so not to freeze the card because those are expected charges.I tried to withdraw money today and it said that the transaction wasn´t possible at that time, I don´t know why... so there will be like a 2 peso charge or like 40cents but it didn´t work

3.  What is it that you were pretending to drink as you came in your apartment?

I wasn´t pretending, that was some sort of alcoholic bottle with apple flavored tang, haha but there are a ton of flavors of tang naranja, manzana, ananá, mango (orange, apple, pineapple, mango)

4.  Also the picture of the brownie with the note that said I enjoyed last night now you enjoy this. What? You have some explaining to do ha ha?

The brownie was Elder Santoro, haha he just left the brownie and note, it was funny so I took a picture of it. 

5.      Were you able to get the pictures to your investigators so you can stop avoiding them?

Yes, we finally got the investigators there pictures, but no we can´t stop avoiding them,,, jaja they want us now to eat a pig´s head with them (the brain more than anything) and we really don´t want to... jaja and they still want us to buy stuff from them...

6.      Do you have a quote from the week? The funniest conversation or thing someone said to you?

Dang, there are, but I can´t think what! I need to start writing them down so I can remember! That is a good idea! I can remember laughing about different things but not explicitly what, but  one funny thing is Barbara´s son Pachon has a phone that elder Santoro has called a couple times and talks to him as the ´´other´´ elder Santoro, jaja and the whole conversation takes place with them in the same room and the other elder santoro tells pachon to ask the elder santoro that is in the room with him questions and he does, jaja

7.      Tell us more about who you are teaching? How many people are you teaching, how are they progressing? Do you have any favorites?

Right now we are teaching several people, but our focus for this coming week is Diego, Gisel, y Gisela. Diego hopefully will be getting baptized this week if we can convince him that he doesn´t need to learn more because he is ready. But he wants to watch a video about Christ so we will show him that and then hopefully he will say he is ready. But we has a surprise baptism!!! We didn´t think that Carlos was going to get baptized and we technically killed him last week but we stopped by to invite Ema his friend to go to the ward baptism and asked him if he wanted to go. He said oh, I still need to get baptized huh? So we said yeah! So he said is it the LAST baptism? And we told him yes so he said ok. Then he went to change to and get shoes. We were waiting and couldn´t believe he had said he was going to go but then became worried because he wasn´t coming still. After a little time he showed up and we had to go to our pension to get baptismal clothes and bon bons (we promised him bon bons if he got baptized). Then took a remis to the church because the other baptism was already starting. We got there just in time to have him try on the clothes find the right one and get baptized. Then He said the next day he would come to church for the confirmation. So of course that would have been far too easy and he didn´t want to go up in front of the congregation and get confirmed so he wouldn´t even leave his house. So we got permission from the bishop to confirm him in his house. At this point we came up with our plan to confirm him which involved 4 bon bons for bait. We spent our first bon bon by giving it to Brenda because elder santoro had promised her one, so that one wasn{t very effective but oh well. Then we told Ema he could have one if he brought us Carlos so he ran off as our attack dog. We told Cati (Carlos’s sister) the same. Ema came back with no Carlos but said that he was coming. We told him no bon bon until Carlos was there. So we waited for a while and miraculously he showed up! Then we gave ema his bon bon and told Carlos he could have his once he was confirmed. We then brought him inside and confirmed him and gave him his bon bon. Since Cati had disappeared we gave the fourth to Ema and Brenda´s younger sister. And that is the story of our crazy baptism, jaja

8.      It seems like you are getting along with your companion well. Tell us more about him and the things you do together? Yeah, my comp is really cool! He is also studying computer science engineering and so we talk a lot about that! He has taught me a lot about it and I now have a whole list of programs and things that I will need when I get home! He has also taught me stuff you guys will like! Imagine this... Unlimited HD movies and TV series the day they come out... sometimes sooner! All for free! I couldn´t believe it but it will be so cool! We also have talked a lot about harry potter, jaja and I forgot a lot about it and how good it is but I want to read it again now, jaja I think we have basically talked about the whole plot and other books and some games and movies and tons of stuff, jaja But he is cool comp!

9.      When are transfers? Are you for sure staying in the Resistencia mission?

Transfers are next week and I will most likely be staying here in Circ 2 with my comp because I´m technically training. The only way that I will be in the other mission is if I get transferred to Misiones this transfer but that is very unlikely. 

10.  Try and give us an idea what Formosa is like

Formosa, jaja is like if you were in the short buildings of downtown salt lake and you beat them up. Then add bars to all the windows and fences to all the lots. And changed all the streets to mud. And put sanjas on either side of the road (Above ground sewage). There are dogs everywhere. The most common mode of transportation is motorcycle. There is an area called pasillos that is the most dangerous part of our area, but that is where most of our investigators are right now, jaja a fair amount of drunk and high people you have to avoid. Mud, mud, and more mud, jaja While listing that out doesn´t sound to pleasant, it really isn´t bad, jaja I like it here and it is weird but the days pass a lot faster here than they did in Cali. A lot less door knocking which is really nice. And we baptize!! I will think of the best way to describe Formosa and write it next time because this kind of sounds depressing, jaja

11.  Have you had to speak in church yet?

I gave one talk one week when the bishop´s wife didn´t show up because she was sick, but it was really easy, only como 20 min on faith in Christ and I just found a few scriptures and it was easy. I also almost had to teach one Principios del Evangelio class but we watched a movie instead. 

12.  Have you seen the new training video yet? If so what does that mean for you?

I don´t know, what training video, jaja there are a lot :P

 The armadillo that is there was caught by Hermano Flytes (owns the house we live in). We ate it in some empanadas last Sunday. It was really good!

 It has been raining a ton here and we have been in mud for the whole week and it is supposed to keep raining until Thursday and the mud will last beyond that. The biggest problem is we can´t dry our clothes in the rain, haha

I love you guys and I can´t wait to hear from you next week! Love you so much!