Castillo - 3 septiembre 2018
Well my first week here in Castillo was a great one. I´ve learned that although it´s hard to leave an area, there´s always amazing people to meet in the new area, and Castillo is no different. I was kinda worried when I heard that I was going to the zone of Ramos Mejía, because I was afraid that my area would be cheto. But luckily when I got here I saw that it was the ghetto, which is what I like to see. My comp is Elder Aparicio, he´s from Perú. He´s my first Latino comp, and it took me a few days to get used to the fact that I can´t speak english when we´re alone haha. Like sometimes when we´re sitting in our pensh I´ll ask him something and he´ll look at me really confused, and then I realize that I just spoke to him in english. We also live with the elders from Castillo 1, Elder Ramirez from Chile and Elder Rojas from Guatemala, so I am the only shanki. It´s definitely a new experience to never hear english, but it will be good. My spanish is definitely going to improve this transfer.
Also, apparently I am the first gringo in this area in like 3 years. The first thing we did after I unpacked was go meet the bishop. And he was like yeah, you´re the first gringo we´ve had here in a long time, you´re going to be recieving a lot of attention. Well, he was definitely right. When we walk down the street I can feel everyone staring at me like I´m an alien or something haha. We have been taking advantage of it though. We got 6 new people in church yesterday, and they all have fechas for the 15th. We set a goal to baptize 8 people this month, and we´re going to make it happen.
So I don´t know if you´ve been following the news of Argentina very much, but the economy is kinda in shambles right now. The inflation is real. This week it went from 31 pesos to a dollar, to 42 to a dollar. When I got to Argentina, it was only 16 to a dollar. So basically nobody has money to buy anything. People in the street always ask me if I have any dollars haha. Hopefully things can stable out a bit.
Anyway, that´s about all I got. I already love my new area and my comp is a capo, so it´s going to be a great transfer.
Disfruten Labor Day!
-Elder Shelton
"cheto" = snobby, conceited
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