Sunday, September 14, 2014

ELDER PICKLE HAS A RELEASE DATE!!!

This is the email I received from the Mission Office:

Brother and Sister Pickle,

My name is Elder Frasier and I am the secretary for President Franco here in La Gran Misión Argentina Resistencia. We recently finalized all plans for the missionaries going home in the December group with your son, and we have scheduled all flights for this group to leave the 17th of December from Resistencia. The church will book these flights and send you the itineraries as soon as they are finalized, though we anticipate that your son will be back home in Utah the 18th. If any concerns remain, please do not hesitate to email us.

Very Respectfully,
Elder Frasier
Secretary to the President

La Gran Misión Argentina Resistencia











ELDER PICKLE'S FLIGHT ARRIVES DECEMBER 18th AT 10:30 A.M. YEAH!! HOME IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS!

My son and my grandson are in my district :)

Well... nothing really happened with transfers, haha me and my comp are both still here in Avellaneda. Well nothing happened to us at least because there were 150 changes and the most that I have ever heard of before was 80+/-. 

Elder Muñoz who lived next door left to Formosa and took the spot of Delgado who then in return came here! I was super excited to hear about that. It is cool to have him here living next door! Also Elder Parsons who was our zone leader left and Elder Mossman is now our zone leader :P It is nuts! I have mi hijo as my zone leader, haha also I have one of my other sons and my grandson in my district as well (elder Clemons and Conway).

It is still being considered to make a group in our area where we would meet here in Avellaneda three times a week and then once a week we would have to meet in Reconquista and also have baptisms there, but that is no problem, I hope that we get to do that.

We still make our own food. We only have like two active families in our area.. or like one, haha That makes it have to be able to eat with people when there are none. but we did recently get the MLS and so we will be getting to know all of the less actives (or really non actives) that are in our area.

We have to wash all our clothes by hand again so i am really glad that I didn`t leave my clothes plunger in my last area like I had considered doing. I was thinking that I hadn`t used it since the beginning of my mission and so I thought that I would just leave it but decided that it was probably only one more area to bring it to anyway. 

For this week we haven`t found any new investigators. Well sort of. The first half we were starting to but then during the second half of the week I got sick and we had to stay in and it was really boring. I just have wanted to go out and work but my comp wanted us to stay until I was entirely better. I am pretty sure that we are going to leave today only my voice is bad with some cough. It was a really weird sickness. I just had a head ache, cough, and general ache, and fatigue. I don`t think that I have had anything like that before. I just woke up Thursday and felt like crap it was stupid.

We had to do this crazy survey thing this week because a general authority might be coming to our mission, we are hoping that an Apostle will since there hasn`t been one for almost two years now... we will see.

It is crazy that general conference is starting to come up. This will be the last one here in the mish.

The pizza oven looks sweet! I can`t wait to use it!


There isn`t a lot to tell from this week...

Love you and can't wait to hear from you next week!

Sunday, September 7, 2014

God really answers our prayers!

Rob Ryan emailed me the info about his converts while he was on his mission here in Santa Fe and I am trying to find out more about them. I have to check the other branch`s MLS because I didn`t find it in ours. Hopefully soon.
I have been wearing my hair a little longer. I thought that I would try it out since I never have before. We will see how it goes with the calic and all.
They are considering starting a branch here. Really it sounds like it is more likely that we could have what they call a group here in Avellaneda. If I understand right that is where all of the weeks but one (I am assuming fast Sunday) that we will have church in Avellaneda and then the one week we have to go to Reconquista. It would really help out a ton for all of the members and investigators here. They are all pretty humble and often times it is very difficult for them to find eight pesos a person to go to church each week. If they only had to once a month like that it would make everything so much easier.
My companion and I both have meetings that are in Reconquista and then on top of that we have to go there to do interviews for the people that are in our district. That is what throws it over the top with  us traveling to Reconquista.
This week we had a multi zone conference with Sans Peña and that is 6 hours of travel from here... needless to say it was a long and all day adventure. We had a colectivo that was rented for the zone and it was fun. The problem was that it was just about impossible to sleep. If you are on a bus of 21 missionaries at 3:30 in the morning you will find out. Even on the way home I think I only slept about a half hour, needless to say I was very tired for the rest of the week. We did get to sleep today though.
At the conference we pretty much just reviewed everything that we learned during zone conference. It was the exact same teachings but this time we got them straight from President and Hermana Franco.
This Sunday we had a 70 come to our branch named Elder Romero. After church we had a mini branch council and he taught the leaders what they should do during branch council meeting, which is review our progress reports that we give them. He said that each one should be reviewed and that there in the meeting that the leaders should be given their tasks and have to report on them in the following meeting. He was a boss and started to smash their petty problems that they always come up with, it was funny. If this actually gets applied then I think that we will have a lot more success here in the branch. 
We had a pretty bad Saturday. It was really windy and the day was killed because we had to go do interviews for the zone leaders and go to the baptism that night so we had about three hours of working on the most important day. Then when we were out there it was super-hot and windy and we were really thirsty and no one was answering their doors. Of course it was the ciesta so there weren`t any stores open either. So we sat down and prayed and it really was a cool experience. I was really kind of angry and just worn out and wanted to not do anything at all. After the prayer I had an entire change I was ready to go and everything just seemed so much better. We found a kiosco that was open and bought a drink and it was a lot better. Then we went to a member’s house and they had a friend there and we taught a lesson. It was a really awesome experience and I know that God really answers our prayers, we just need to talk to him and ask him for help when we need it. . 

I love you guys and can`t wait to hear from you next week!