We´re having dinner with members on Christmas (we´re having asado, which will be my first time having it) and we´re going to skype after. I will be calling at 8 pm... give or take a little. You know how it goes down here. I´ll try my best to call as close as possible to that. I think we´re 4 hours ahead so that we´ll be 4 for you. I think. I also think we´ll only have 1 hour to do it. Also, I think I´ll still be emailing next monday, so I might be able to tell you more then. But if not, just plan for 8 pm my time.
The address to our pension is I think Albarracin 632. Not entirely sure about the 32, but I know we live on the 6th quadra of Albarracin. There´s three pensions that are all in the same building, and we´re in the middle one. Also the church is right around the corner on Homero. On the corner of Albarracin and Homero is a fruteria called Juaquin that we walk past every day and where we buy our fruit.
Click here to see this area in Google Maps
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| Nate's "pension" is the middle one (click for bigger) |
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| Church building is just around the corner |
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| Fruit stand on the corner |
Also, I keep forgetting to send you this:
Elder Nathan Shelton
La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días
Misíon Argentina Buenos Aires Oeste
C.C. 92
1702 Ciudadela
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Maybe you already have this, but it´s the best address to use to send me letters. Speaking of letters, could you send me an envelope that has a bunch of US postage stamps inside it? We use pouch mail to send letters and I need US stamps if I want to send one.
Alright, now to talk a little bit about my week. I´ll get the most disappointing out of the way first. Our baptism didn´t end up happening. Everything seemed like it would work out. The dad got off work, and we had everything planned for the service. So saturday morning we went to the capilla to clean the font and then fill it up. Now let me tell you, that was not a very fun experience. There was still about half an inch of water left in there from whenever the last baptism was, so when we first opened the door we got attacked my a swarm of about a million mosquitos. We quickly shut the door and ran back to our pension to get the Raid spray. We burst back into the font guns blazing and massacred all the mosquitos. I think I forgot to mention that it was really dirty and nasty in there, and I think it was about 300% humidity tambien. So next, we had to get all the water out. We soaked up the water with a towel and squized it out into a bucket. We completely filled the bucket and the water was so dirty it was pretty much black haha. Then we cleaned out all the other nastiness that was in there, including a cockroach, and then we called it good and started to fill it up. It took about 3 hours or so to fill it completely, so it was a long day sitting in the church. Well long story short, we got a call from the family saying that we would have to do the baptism next week, they couldn´t make it today. They wouldn´t really tell us why. We were obviously pretty disappointed, but luckily the other elders in our pensh had a baptism that day too, so we didn´t fill the font for nothing. We´re definitely going to be passing by the family a lot this week to see qué pasó and to make sure they can actually make it this next saturday.
Also, transfers are tomorrow. Crazy to think I´ve already completed my first transfer in the field. Elder Pietz is staying with me in Mariano Acosta to finish my training. In fact 3 out of the 4 elders in our pensh are staying, Elder Chamberlain is moving over to Mereno.
I should probably explain that pension means apartment, and we always call it the ¨pensh¨ so that´s why I´ve been saying that.
I think that´s basically all I got. Hopefully this baptism can happen this saturday. I guess the next time we talk it will be Christmas, still have a hard time believing that haha.
-Elder Shelton
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Here´s some pictures.
- The one picture is of my first cup of real mate. I actually really like it and I drink it pretty much every day now.
- The two girls are the little sisters of Gabriela who we are baptizing. Se llaman Abigail y Martina
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