My Missionary Adventures in Argentina Elder Nate Pendleton: General Conference,worn out shoes and crazy buses here in Argentina...

Yeah, so things here are good, it is still way hot here! E. didn’t come to church this week. She is still interested, but things were complicated this weekend with church. I was told this week that they had cancelled the paperwork for Elder Smith, from last week, so yesterday morning I had to leave and go to Formosa, and Elder Smith had to go to Tucuman again to do his paperwork. We had to miss church to take a bus to get there, but that was the only way for them to be able to get the paperwork done. Our investigators are all doing well, and we are still working hard to prepare them for baptism. It was so weird to miss church on Sunday. Haha! I am serving here in Formosa, in the area, Italia Sur, until Thursday.

The multizona was good. We were asked to work a lot more with the members. I talked with my friend Elder Potts who is serving here in Argentina and he said that he goes home from the mission this week. His cousin, and one of my very good friends, Coleton Jaffa also gets home from his mission this week, too!

So, this transfer, ends on Monday, right after General Conference. I am not sure if I will be moved from Clorinda, or not. We will see, there is a chance that I could.

This week I finished reading the New Testament. It was really good and I learned a lot from it! I am ready to go back to reading the Book of Mormon now, though. I am really excited for General Conference! I can`t wait for it!

So just a few more things, I have been serving with Elder Kersey this week. He is from Santa Rosa, California. So I thought that was cool since that was an area that you guys lived close to before I was born.

I also had a funny thing happen on the bus on the way down here. So first off, peeing on the bus is hard! The bathroom door wouldn`t stay shut very well, so during all of the accelerating and braking of the bus and me flying from wall to wall trying to pee, the door swung wide open and fortunately, I wasn`t exposed or anything, but all of the people were all just sitting there staring at me. It was pretty funny, Haha.

I am that glad you are all doing well. The beautiful fall trees look great in your pictures! I am glad that you got to go out and see them. I have had a realy good week, we will see what the mission has in store for me this transfer.

Oh yeah, on the way to the Multizona, it was raining really hard and every time the bus we were riding in, hit a puddle we would hydroplane! Haha. I said a quick prayer in my heart that we’d get there safe, but it was also kinda fun to drive in the rain like that. I talked with Elder Brown about cars the whole way there!

So we found this cool place here that sells these hand made things made by the Indian tribes here in Formosa. I bought something cool from here. Also, the other day my shoe broke completely and I had to walk around like Shaggy, from Scooby Doo, to keep it from getting caught on everything Haha. It was pretty funny. Good old mission, just destroying all articles of clothing, like always! Haha.

I love you and miss you all!

Chau

Elder Nate Pendleton

Some empanadas that I made...