Yeah the multizona this week
was fun. We had to go to Formosa Capital for the multizona it was fun. I
enjoyed it! The guy who drove us down there was listening to Daft Punk and
Dubstep, Haha, that was fun. We had a good time! It was a party! The other elder
in that photo of us, is Elder Johnstun. Elder Ashby likes to pull funny faces
like that a lot. Haha. I got to see a lot of people I knew there, at it. I am
still the District Leader. President talked about what will happen with the
Christmas activity we will be having in December for a little bit, and then he
talked about how we need to have a more positive attitude towards our
missionary work. It was good!
Dad that was crazy that you
were over 60 miles from the town in Venezuela that you were serving in when
your companion got sick at night! Those kinds of extreme experiences are my favorite!
You never forget them. It is cool that Riacho Negro the little town we went to
last week looks a little like it did in Venezuela!
It is stressful to teach English
because the class is a government program that is free for these kids and it
has to be somewhat official, so that the parents are happy. It is getting to be
more relaxed, though. We just teach the children random stuff in English. It’s mostly just to teach a
few new things to the kids. It is stressful though, because I don`t like
teaching English, It wasn’t one of my favorite subjects in school, Haha!
Well, this week we worked
hard, there was one day that we actually taught 8 lessons, found 5 new people
and we set 7 baptismal dates!!!! We have really good investigators, but the
only one that came out to church on Sunday was a 19 year old kid that has had
problems with drugs a little bit, but he wants to change his life, he really
liked church! We were teaching his mom and she said; “My sons will never listen
to you, all they do is fight and I try to read them the scriptures but they
don`t listen.” When we were teaching her, her son came out and he was going to go out
to sit with all his friends that were drinking and doing drugs, but then when
he asked us where we were from, he got more interested in our message and
decided to stay and sit and listen. Anyone can change, now he is reading the
Book of Mormon and went to church! It has been a cool experience. E.’s sister will eventually
get baptized, but it will require a little bit of time. On Halloween, here,
they don`t do anything to celebrate it, but we saw a group of kids that were
dressed up so we bought some candy from a Kiosko (store) nearby and we gave it
to them and took a picture with them. We even got acquainted with one of their
moms who said we could come by and teach her.
Yeah, I am glad we have
temples close by in Salt Lake I am excited to go back to one and keep learning
and feeling the spirit. Well, I know I leave the mission field, officially on
January 1st, but I have no Idea if I get home on the 1st or the 2nd
of January. I know that in this mission they usually send something out to the
parents to let them know, but probably not until my last transfer starts, which
is in 2 weeks! President told me I would probably be staying here in Clorinda
with Elder Smith right up to end of my mission. I got to thinking about it and
I am glad that I will finish here!
To be honest, not many stories
to tell this week. We got to eat an asado (barbeque) on the roof of a building,
today, it was great! It rained like crazy on Saturday, again. This week I also
sent my shoes in to get fixed and he fixed them really well! They work
wonderfully again! He sewed the black ones up, and my leather boots, which had
the worst sole on them, were just getting destroyed, so he just changed out the
sole on those and now they are so much better. They almost look like race
Chau!
Love,
Elder Nate Pendleton
Multizone...
Elder Johnstun, Myself and Elder Ashby pulling a funny face, haha!
My shoes got fixed, good as new!!!
My leather boots also got a new sole...
Handed out candy for Halloween, not sure if they really celebrated it here, but we were able to meet their mom and teach her a discussion...
My zone, eating our asado, on the roof of our zone leaders pension...
My companion in the hot Argentine sun...
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