So it's more or less transfer week. No, it is transfer week people.
and I have transfers. However they are a little sad, or even very sad transfers.
la Favorita is getting washed, and they are sending me to Maipu (almost
like a part of Mendoza city but sort of separate? like it has it's own mayor,
but it's not technically a city) and Elder Paz to San Rafael (in the south of Mendoza province).
Those transfers are sad because a lot, if not all of the effort that we
have put towards developing a good relationship with the members, so that we can
work in unity with them, is sort of down the drain, and the new elders will have
to work from scratch. The members are also not too pleased and I can imagine why
since this is the fourth time in a year that this area has been washed... That's
hard, since right now, and any time an area gets washed, the investigators sort
of get lost since there is no one that knows them, and it takes time to gain
confidence again with active and less-active members, and especially with recent
converts. I'm going to do all I can so that the elders who arrive are
well-oriented, with maps and the such, but beyond that there is not much that I
can do. Ah well.
This week we actually found five new investigators.. what irony! right when
we start to have a lot more success finding people to teach, we have to leave
all of them behind. Such is the mission.
Well, so that this email is not so boring, I will include some pictures
form last p-day, when we went to cerro de la gloria,a monument that is
here in Mendoza that appears on the back of the Argentine 5 peso bill.
oh yeah, and also a picture of all the elders that came with us, and a
final picture of some escaped goats in the zoo licking a broken water tank to
drink.
Well, have a good week everyone.
Elder Backstrom out-
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