Letters from Argentina: Training = Done (por fin) & transfer news

Hola mis amigos y familia. This week was pretty crazy as we wrapped up another transfer. I´ll just come right out and say what happened. (drumroll please)

I am getting transferred to a new zone and area!!!! This zone is called San Martin. It is still in the city of Mendoza but not as close to centro as Cementista B was. My area is called Palmira. Elder Leytton served there a year and a half ago so he knows a lot about it. I think that San Martin is pretty much the same as far as how dangerous it is, but there are Hermanas (sisters) in our Zone so I think it´s a little safer than Mendoza (the zone) My companion is an Elder called Elder Lybbert. He was in my zone in Mendoza my first 6 weeks, so I know him a little. The thing that´s cool is that he entered the MTC the first week in June... So he has 6 weeks on me. (He was in the middle of his training when I arrived). He´s from Utah I think, and had a latino trainer so our spanish should be good. He´s been in Palmira for 6 weeks. I´m pretty excited to have some "greeny fire" as elder Leytton called it and "gringo charm" with Elder lybbert. So far I´ve only heard good things about him, but I´ll share more next week.

Transfers will take place tomorrow. We have a mission-wide devotional at the Mendoza stake center, so I´ve got to pack my bags today, and bring them to the stake center tomorrow morning, and then we will head to Palmira. The devotional is with elder Suarez (i think of the seventy). So ill be able to see my friends from the MTC there.

Things have been super crazy yesterday and today. Elder Lafleur and Leytton are together now because they head home tomorrow. They had to pack last night, and report to the offices this morning for some last minute stuff. We stayed at their pench last night after Leytton packed his stuff at ours, and called a taxi get to their pench. They left this morning, and Lafleur and Leytton did a super crappy job at packing, because they left a TON of stuff at the pench. Our phone died, and once it was charged again we had a ton of calls. Lafleur forgot his "going home letter" which is huge, his emergency money (he needs to give that back) and a bunch of other stuff. So me and Elder Healey (Lafleurs comp) have all his stuff in our backpacks and we´re gonna meet them at the stake center after I write this letter. Then we gotta head to my pench, pack my stuff, call a taxi, go to the other pench. Oh, and Elder Healey got transfered too, so he´s packing. Then tomorrow we´ll call another taxi in the morning to take us and our stuff to the stake center. So it´s been super crazy but exciting nonetheless. Whew.

This week was full of Elder Leytton and I visiting his conversos in various parts of Mendoza. We visited quite a bit. on saturday, we got a call from Elder Baesler (my mom on the mish). He was zone leader with elder leytton in guaymallen and got news that one of their investigators was finally getting baptized. So the baptism was supposed to start at 8 at night but we were super late, and they were actually waiting for us. When we got off the collectivo we RAN. Elder Leytton and Baesler ran like i have never seen. Elder Baesler´s comp, elder kreling, isn´t in very good shape so him and i had to stop every so often. We showed up and literally 2 minutes later she got baptized.

I also had another intercambio with Elder Conover, this time in Cementista. It was pretty good, and we worked hard.

I´m looking forward to working and getting some investigators this week. I get the feeling Elder Lybbert and I are gonna work hard. He´s gonna be the district leader I heard too, but i´ll let you know more about him next week.

Anyway yeah. Trainings done, I feel ready, and it´s time to go work!!!!! I gotta go give Elder Lafleur his stuff and then pack my bags and I´ll be off on another adventure, hopefully this one involves immersing people in water for the remision of sins!!!

Love, Elder Anderson