Well... it was a pretty interesting week.
On thursday (P-Day), we ended up going bowling with the other elders from Castillo, and the hermanas from San Justo and Atalaya. It was kinda weird because the bowling balls were super small, like just a bit bigger than a softball, and they didn´t have holes. But it was pretty fun. Then that afternoon when we left to go proselyte, things got kinda interesting. We were near the bishop´s house, which is the most hood part of our area. We were just walking when we saw a ton of black smoke coming from the next street. As we got closer we noticed two huge fires in the middle of the street, with people throwing stuff into them. At first I didn´t really think much of it. (It´s not uncommon to see people burn their trash on the side of the streets). So I was like, ya, just another day here in Argentina. But then I noticed that the fires were a lot bigger than normal, and they weren't burning trash. It wasn't until we got to the street corner where the fires were, and turned onto the next street, that we noticed that there were people everywhere. Everybody was outside of their houses and on the street. That's when we realized that something was going on. We just walked casually on through, then after about a block we asked a lady on the side of the street what was going on. She told us that the day before, 5 chorros (chorros are people that steal) broke into a house, which happened to be a house of a policeman. The policeman ended up shooting at them, two of them died, one got injured, and the other two ran away. Well apparently the people weren't very happy with the policman, so they were protesting outside his house by burning a bunch of stuff in the street.
Then we went to our citas that we had, and at about 9 when we were heading back to the pensh, we passed by the same place and all the people were gone, but there were about 20 cop cars and a squad of police in full body amor and riot shields. I guess we missed the part where things got interesting.
So on Friday we had divisions with the zone leaders. I was with Elder Sparks from Canada. It was a really good time, Elder Sparks is really funny. I hadn´t talked so much english for months. Anyway, in the middle of the day, our bishop called me and asked us where we were. I told him we were in San Justo for the entire day. He was like, good, just make sure you don´t come anyway near my house today. There´s a civil war going on. I was like ¿que? He said that huge mobs of people tried to burn down the house of the policeman, and the whole police force came in to intervene. He said he heard a bunch of gunshots and that the people were throwing a bunch of rocks and bricks at the police and their cars and trucks. So basically, friday was a good day to be in San Justo. On saturday, they still had the entire block blocked off where the policeman lives. We noticed that there were bricks everywhere on the road and the police vehicols had broken windshields. But things seemed to have calmed down.
We also had a pretty crazy experience with the elders from Castillo 1 on saturday, but I don´t have time to write it out.
Anyway, hopefully this week is pretty chill and we can focus on getting some people baptized.
Oh yeah, and I did buy some new shoes with the money I pulled out. They´re pretty ¨cheto mal¨, o sea, they´re pretty dope.
Que tengan una semana maravillosa,
-Elder Shelton
o sea = "in other words"
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