Training a Gringo from UTAH

Bueno, well here is what happened! We were at the house of Barbara and we got the call... We went in the other room and answered... They told us that Elder Fiabane... was going to be leaving. He went to Corrientes Capital. Then they told me that I would be.... what do you think? Leaving or staying? Well it turns out that I stayed. Also they said that I will be training another time. I had to get up early the next morning to go to Resistencia and look for my new hijo. Once there it was a long wait as always were they train all the trainers how to be trainers even if you have been a trainer five times already. That part is very boring and we all just want to find out who will be our new hijos. Then we went into the room where they all are and they started announcing who the hermanas were going to be with. Then after that they started announcing all the elders. Almost at the end they finally said Elder Pickle is going to be with Elder Mossman in Circunvalacion II.

   And that is the story of how I ended up where I was but with a new hijo. He is a gringo from Utah... well he more looks like a chino but that is because his mom was Japanese and his dad is Hawaiian. He grew up in Hawaii and at twelve moved to Utah and has lived in Sandy and went to Hillcrest High school. I had never met him before and we don`t know any of the same people but he lives really close.

   As for exciting things happening this week we have had a revolution in the barrio. jaja well kind of jaja. We got to church this week and the Relief Society President called us aside to talk to us. She took us to the Relief Society room and started yelling at us saying, ``Look at this mess you guys made! Why did you take out these ping pong tables and leave all the air conditioners running and the kitchen a disaster. You have to clean up after your baptisms!`` So first of all we didn`t have a baptism it was the Hermanas. Second of all the mess had nothing to do with missionaries it was the young men. Third of all she has no reason to be yelling at us for whatever reason. I calmly explained to her that it was not the missionaries and that when we got there to help the sisters with their baptism it was already a disaster and that we cleaned up the kitchen. And we had nothing to do with the air conditioning or Relief Society room. She then threatened to call the mission president and stormed off.

   That was one of the fun parts of the ward starting to hate us for no reason. Then in Sunday school the Elders Quorum President asked us if we wanted to leave our area who should we call? We replied the mission president. He then went off about how we are new missionaries that don`t know anything because we should call our zone leaders who would call president (that isn`t how it works, you call president EVERY time you want to leave your area and inform your zone leaders if he gives you permission). We also have been trying to set up ward council with the bishop for over a month and he won`t do it for this reason or that. We ended up talking to our zone leaders and they said try to set it for a date that coming week and if he won`t do it talk to president. So we tried and he wouldn`t so we called president. He told us that we were just going to have to try to work with the ward and serve them and try to make things happen like that.

   On the up side we found some really cool investigators that all went to church this week! They are three kids who went before with missionaries but for some reason the missionaries stopped passing. They already have a lot of assistance and we will teach them the lessons again to be sure because we can`t find a registro for them. They will probably be getting baptized here in the next coming week! They were so cool that not only did they go to church but they left to go before we got there and we met them on the way. They also stayed for all three hours of church! We are really excited for them!

   That is awesome that Nathan went a 28 on his 50! Tell him he has to break my record and make it to state this year! He has to beat 24 sec. I know he can do it! Emily also has to go I remember that she was super close and once her arm gets better her time will drop. It is very hard to do sports with broken arms, specifically swimming (trust me I know) :P.

   It is too bad there were no calls on ride alongs but that is cool that you can go again and so it doesn`t matter if there weren`t any that night you can go for more, right?

   Kaulin is 16? I fear for the world... It may no longer be safe to go outdoors... jaja jk kind of. It doesn`t seem possible that he is 16.

   That is cool that Dad likes his new partner and captain hopefully he will stay. And I am sure that he will make a great captain whenever they call him.

   As far as a car would go I think that probably a more efficient car would be better. I really liked the White Tiger but I am also a poor college student who can`t afford his classes so I think that it would be better to spend less on a car. Like my Saturn was a great car that did everything that I needed. 
   This will be a crazy week for us trying to bring everyone to General Conference. It will be held in the stake center so we will have to find a solution how to get everyone there. I am not quite sure how it will work out. We have a goal of having 8 people there. We will see how that goes and do our best to meet it.

   I love you all soo very much and I can`t wait to hear from you next week!