Transfers have been crazy this
time. I was transferred out of Alberdi and I got transferred to.... Avellaneda
II in Santa Fe! It is super crazy because I didn`t think that I would go to
Santa Fe because there is only one zone in the mission that is in Santa Fe the
rest is in the Rosario mission. You will have to ask Rob what part of
Reconquista he was in and what the two convert’s last names are of Walter and
Gustavo. He wrote their first names but there are far too many people to find
them by just their first names. Also if he knows about where they live would
help find them too. It is a really nice place here. The overall area is a lot
cleaner than in Chaco or Formosa. It is a nice change, but I heard that it is
only here in Avellaneda that it is clean like it is here. Avellaneda is a side
city of Reconquista, kind of like Fontana to Resistencia. The only down side is
that everything here is a lot more expensive. We have been finding a few places
that are closer to the prices that I was paying before but we still haven`t
found any good fruit stands for fruits and vegetables at a good price or
carnicerias for better prices on meat.
Elder Heaton stayed with a new comp Elder Webster. Also the two peruvians next door stayed there in Alberdi. Elder Soltelo will die there and then Elder Medina will `probably stay a transfer or two more to be greenie busted.
I should be getting my trunky
papers this transfer. I am not 100% sure though because I am trying to change
my departure date so they might come a little late. Elder Soltelo tried to
change his so he got his trunky papers late. President Franco said that he is
just waiting for the missionary board to tell him if it is ok if I change my
date. Elder Callister also is trying to change his for school as well so we are
waiting for the same thing.
Of the
Hermana’s in my district only one went to my mission and she is from Kentucky
or something like that. The other sisters that left at the same time as me
there was one that went to Carlsbad Hna Sheffield that is from Provo. The other
was from Oregon. And I don`t remember where Hna Tomas is from.... Hna Jones was
from Nevada or something like that. Hna Rich was from somewhere in the east I
think, ha-ha the only one that I remember was close was Hna Sheffield in Provo
who went to the Carlsbad mission. I know that a lot of them were going to go to
BYU after the mission. Sorry not much help. But if you want I can find some
missionaries that will be going home to Utah in the next few transfers to Utah
and find out where their homecomings will be.
So
this has been a pretty crazy first week here in Avellaneda. We whitewashed in
and when we got here we found out that the last elders hardly left any teaching
records and the few they did make have no directions and are therefore useless.
So we got here and haven`t had anything, ha-ha Thursday the day after transfers
we had interviews here with president and Hermana Franco. It was cool because
me and my comp got two interviews with them since we already had interviews in
Resistencia. My comp is Elder Galindo. He is from Honduras. He has been in the
mission a little over a year. He is the district leader so we did divisions
after the interviews and the following day with the other companionship from
Avellaneda so that the elder who knew the members in our area could show him
where they lived.
The
craziest part of the week was on Sunday. Here in Avellaneda we have to take
this bus that drives us 30min to Reconquista to the church. We were in divisions
that day as well so that the other elders could help us learn where the stops
where so that we don`t miss the bus because on Sundays it only passes once
every hour and if you don`t catch it you won`t make it for sacrament meeting.
So I went with the other elder to get their investigators while my comp when
with the other elder. Me and the elder left really early because we have to
catch the bus and we knocked a bunch of houses to wake people up to go to
church. After we had gathered the group that was going to go with us to church
we headed to the bus stop. There we found that it had already left.... we were
in trouble. So what we did was walked to the main road that is right there and
decided to start walking. As we were walked a horse pulling a trailer passed
by. We asked them if they would take us with them and they agreed! It was super
cool we all jumped on and started riding it toward Reconquista. They were only
going a part of the way then were going to stop. The other elder that was with
me made a deal to give them the watch that he had on that he found in the pensh
the day before to take us to the route. They agreed and took us a little
farther to the route. There we still had a long ways to go and church was two
minutes from starting. So we started throwing up our thumb to try to hitchhike
to Resistencia in the back of a truck. We lucked out and a truck passed by that
agreed to take us to the hospital (which is right by the church). So we all
hopped in the back and he took us into Reconquista. There we ran the last three
blocks to the church and made it just in time to enter before the sacrament
started. This was definitely the craziest attempt to get to church on time in
my whole life. But we brought three investigators to the church and a bunch of
recent converts. The other elder has pictures and I will try to upload them but
the computer is being funny so I might have to upload pictures next week.
Today
we had a lot of fun because we got together as a zone and played ping pong and
ultimate Frisbee. We got there a little late so the big game of Ultimate had
already ended but we played ping pong and then afterward we played a small game
of ultimate with six of us. It was a lot of fun. I haven`t played ultimate
since California.
Well
it is time for me to go so I will write you guys next week. I love you all very
much!
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