My new companion likes cars like I do! I am super busy, but so far so good!

Hey, Everyone,

     This week has been a little crazy, but anyway so my new companion is Elder Ashby, He is from Riverton Utah. He speaks Spanish way better than I did when I got to Argentina and he is way more relaxed. I have had a million things to do this week. I have to teach other missionaries and I gave a talk in church. It has been nice to teach Elder Ashby what I know because it helps me see how much I have learned since I have been here. I have been able to understand the people this week way better too. Things are going well so far. I have a Training as a District Leader this week in Resistencia.

     I also have found out that Elder Ashby loves cars a ton, so we get along pretty well. He was known in the MTC as the Elder who wouldn´t stop talking about cars! Haha! Anyway, I am super busy but so far so good.

      Yeah, we really made an impact on A. She shares her testimony and conversion story with everyone now! She isn´t even baptized yet! She is so awesome! We tried to go to M’s house but he wasn´t there and he lives super far away so we can´t go all the time and M is actually doing better. He has been taking fewer drugs and he doesn´t look super high anymore. He told us he feels a lot better.  

     The hail and the monkeys were cool though. Haha. I can´t believe Kai is getting back from his mission already! That is awesome! One day it will be my turn, Haha!

     So some more things that happened this week were; one day we tried to get lessons and we ended up going to every person we could possibly think of from one end of our area to the other and got one lesson the whole day. We got rejected like mad! Haha! We got rained on as soon as we got to M’s house. So we just walked back and we didn´t have umbrellas so that was fun but then this nice guy picked us up and took us to our pension.

     I am still a little more of a quiet person and Elder Ashby is more out spoken so he will probably learn faster than I did. So that is pretty much what happened this week.   

Love you all!

Chau,

Elder Nate Pendleton

New Companion- Elder Ashby, A and her daughter...

Elder Afane, a friend from the mission...

Some random pictures of my area here in Formosa...

Picture shared with me from Elder Afane from his area...

Transfers, Staying in Formosa, New Companion, New Assignment...

Hey, Everyone,

The song we have been practicing to sing is going well.  I will post a video of us practicing it.

This last time, we opened all of our emails together so we could see where everyone is going. I am staying here in Formosa, but I am going to get to train a new missionary!!! And I am also a District Leader!!!! I am super excited, but pretty nervous at the same time because these are the two hardest jobs in the mission. We are going to see how that goes! I go to pick up my new companion, a new elder to the mission, tomorrow. I am with Elder Fernandez right now waiting to go down to Resistencia, so that is exciting. Elder Hopkins was definitely the best companion I have had on the mission. He is such a good worker and he is so nice. He is going to go be a Zone Leader in Resistencia.

This week has been really good. Unfortunately, A, wasn’t able to come to church on Sunday because the rain was crazy and because there was a lot of mud. A, is really gaining a testimony. (A, contacted my mom through Facebook messenger. A, lost her 18-year-old son in a motorcycle accident in March and my mom who has experienced loss at the death of 2 of her sisters and also her mother and father, were able to talk to each other about grief and loss and also about the Plan of Salvation.) Mom, the day after you talked to her she was like telling us that she read anti-Mormon stuff online but she

didn´t believe what it said and she told us that her life has improved like crazy since we started teaching her. Keep talking to her! She loves to hear from you. A, is such an amazing person. She absolutely loves us! Haha! She told us we were two little angels that came to find her. I told her that right before we found her we said a prayer in the street and then we found her right away after that prayer, it was awesome! I was feeling really down that day and I was sick and I didn´t want to be out contacting, but we found our best investigator that way.

M, the guy who had the stroke is doing good and the other M (the guy who was trying to get off drugs) keeps texting us and saying that we can´t come by because he is not going to be there, so we just need to pass by and “surprise” him! I hope he is okay. C, I don´t know, we need to figure things out with him.

 A, had us over for lunch this week and fed us some awesome empanadas, after that though, a big storm rolled in and it started hailing! Those hail stones were huge! They had all these spikes coming off of them!

 Also, this week Elder Afane and Elder Pedernera came to stay with us in our pension for a day and so we got to go on splits with them and it was super fun. They are two of my favorite Elders to work with here in the mission.

We also saw the monkeys up in the tree again and I was able to get a good picture of one this time. I am also sending a picture of the Acosta Family, he works with metal and we like to talk about cars and stuff. They are awesome!

We had a super fun district meeting this week. It was great because they had food and ice cream there this time! We also cleaned our pension up even more and it looks way better! We threw away so much stuff that wasn´t needed. It is sooo much better!

I had to say goodbye to a great companion, Elder Hopkins, but I will be going to get my new companion tomorrow!

Thank you all for being awesome!

Chau,

Elder Nate Pendleton

(* The initials of his investigators are used instead of their full names to hopefully keep their names private on social media.)

Video of us singing...  sorry it's not great quality because of download speeds in Argentina...

At practice...

Lunch at A's...

Crazy Hailstones....

Splits with Elder Pedernera... 

Monkey in a tree...

Acosta Family...

District Meeting fun!

Ice Cream!!!

Elder Hopkins, Elder Sheehan and I...

Ammon is just the coolest!!!!

 Hey, Everyone!

             Sorry, I haven´t written in a while but I am still alive! Haha. Anyway, things are good here and we have a lot of investigators to teach right now so that is always good. A, didn’t come to church this Sunday, but C did! He is located out of our teaching area but we have been given special permission to go and teach him. He still wants to be baptized!

            So excited for A, she is a wonderful investigator and is planning to get baptized at the end of the month.

            We also found this awesome dude to teach named M. He had a stroke a few years back so his eyes face in opposite directions and he doesn't remember a ton but he wants to be baptized and he is progressing a lot! He lives about as far out as you can go in our area. It is so far away, but he is awesome, and he always wears this super beat up Carpincho hat! Haha!

He didn't come to church this week because someone was coming to fix his truck so maybe he will come next week.

             Also, we started teaching that guy that offered us Marijuana because he said he wants out of the drug life. He also can´t be with his kids anymore because of his addiction. We found out that his dad and uncle, who he lives with, are members but they drink and don´t come to church anymore. We had an insane lesson with them the other day. His dad had been drinking and was drunk, he kept talking down his son M. M was crying and he was also super high on marijuana too. He was (is) absolutely being torn apart by his addiction. He tried to kill himself a few days ago, so we are doing everything we can to help him. It was pretty crazy!

          We will also be singing in the Formosa Stake choir, the choir is composed of members and missionaries! We are singing, “The Spirit of God” and it should be pretty good. I don´t know when we will be performing it. It is fun though and it gives me a nice break on Sunday nights.

         Also, the last thing is that we get so many people that give us compliments on our eyes and there are so many girls that just sit there and stare and giggle at us! Haha. They are always like “Woah, Chicos Lindos!” (Woah, Beautiful Boys!) Haha! It is pretty funny, Haha!

            As far as transfers go we have to wait until Sunday to find out who stays and who goes. Elder Hopkins is awesome and I will miss him as my companion. I am pretty sure he will be leaving next week. This week I have read a lot in the Book of Mormon and that is really the best book ever written. I don´t like to read, but I do love reading the Book of Mormon. I just finished Alma 27. I loved the last couple of chapters, it was Ammon just celebrating in all the success that they had on their missions. Ammon is just the coolest!

            I hope all is well back home. I would love to hear from all of you!!! If you write me, I will make it a priority to write you back! Anyway, so the language is going well. We walk a ton down here! Haha. I miss driving and my feet are killing me, but it will just make it that much better when I get to drive when I get back home. Anyway, That is pretty much it. Thanks for the support that you all give me!

 Chau Chau! 

 Elder Nate Pendleton

 Pic of me by a mysterious gate out in the middle of nowhere...

Picture of Me and C…

A panorama pic of wild Formosa...

Elders and Sisters singing in the Formosa Stake Choir…

A cool license plate a guy down here gave to me...