Well I just saw Elder Chamberlain pack his bags in a car and leave Álvarez forever, which was a weird experience.
So you´re probably wondering about transfers. To put it simply, this will be my first time being comp mayor, first time training, and my first time being district leader. It´s going to be interesting. I´ll find out who my refuerzo is tomorrow. I´m hoping it´s a latino because training a shanki is pretty hard.
On tuesday we had divisions with the zone leaders and I was with Elder Pontón from Colombia. I had an embarrassing moment on the way to lunch. We had to ride through a lot of mud streets to get there, and my front mud guard filled up with mud so it was almost impossible to pedal (peddle?). I was standing up to put as much force as I could but unfortunately I put too much force and the bike slipped out from under me and I landed in straight mud. My left side was completely covered in mud from head to foot. Luckily the lady we ate lunch with was super capa and helped me out. I changed into some of her son´s clothes (which were pretty small for me haha) while she washed my shirt and pants by hand. By the time we´d eaten lunch my clothes looked cleaner than they had been in weeks. I was very grateful.
I ate way too much this week. Saturday and Sunday I had like 3 dinners each day because everyone wanted to say goodbye to Elder Chamberlain. I thought I was going to die from eating so much. Saturday night was interesting. Somehow my back tire got bent and couldn´t spin anymore. So we had to carry it 15 blocks to our investigators house. We had a lesson with them, and after they tried to fix it, but they couldn´t. So then we carried it to our other investigators house who we were having dinner with. We had some really good Peruvian food and I got stuffed. Well we didn´t finish eating until 9 and we were really far from home. The next train didn´t come till like 9:40 so we had to leave our bikes at their house and we sprinted about a mile to the train station to take a bus back to Álvarez. Then we got off and sprinted the last 3 blocks to the house. We arrived at 9:29. Just in time.
Well you might be wondering about the title. So they are selling these little stickers of all the players from the world cup. They come in little packs of 5. This whole transfer we´ve all been trying to get Messi, but it turned out to be pretty hard. (It´s like a 1/650 chance). Well thursday night on the way back to the pensh Elder Chamberlain bought 10 packs because he was determined to get Messi. I bought 2 packs right after him. We went home and opened them and the last card in my second pack was Messi. We all went nuts. Elder Chamberlain was so mad haha.
There´s like a thousand more things that happened this week but I think I´ll leave it at that. Hopefully everything is going good back home. When I heard about Andrew´s video it made me laugh. That is definitely something he would do.
Less than two weeks till la Copa Mundial!
¡Vamos Argentina!
-Elder Shelton
"comp mayor" = senior companion
"refuerzo" = greenie
shanki = yankee = american
capa = "awesome" (female) (must be slang)
saqué = "I got"
Copa Mundial = World Cup
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