Chango Más

Another week has come and passed. I´m currently in my new area, Goya, Corrientes. (In the Belgrano Branch)  If you´ve pulled out  your handy dandy, Argentine roadmap, you will see that I crossed the entire province of Corrientes.  Paso de los Libres is on the eastern border, and Goya is on the western.  My companion is Elder Bustillos, and he hails from Utah.  It was a big of enough jump that I can tell that people and things are a little different then they are in Pasos.  It´s fun though, because I get to learn a slightly different vocabulary.

 

Exciting things this week...

 

I had a member remove my stitches from my finger the other night.  Talk about a real Trust Game after only knowing the person for 15 minutes! (Aunt Heather, yes, I was a little anxious of my trip to the hospital.  Luckily, they hit me with it so fast that I didn´t even have time cry...much.)  

 

There´s a member here that catches and sells birds from his house.  I´m seriously considering it for a future profession now.  This brother has to ducks in his backyard.  So what did we do? -- We cornered one with the three of us.  I´ll have to send you a picture sometime of me holding that crazy duck.  It was pretty intense stuff, I tell ya.  

 

But, the most exciting thing of the week is going to have to go to Chango Más.  Chango Más is a partner of Walmart.  Yes, that´s right, Walmart in my area.  I never knew how exciting going to Walmart could be!  Just looking at everything was more than a treat for me.  It´s about 11.5 times bigger than any other building I´ve been in, here in Argentina.  I ate Pringles today. Real, original Pringles.  I must be livin´ right.  We are on the outskirts of Goya, meaning that we don´t really have anything in our area. But, we got lucky, because they built Chango Más on our side of the street.  It opened only a month or so ago.  Can you say perfect timing?

 

In other news, I was called to be the branch secretary on Sunday.  For those of you that are interested...it´s that Tithing Settlement time of year.  What a time to be called as the secretary!  Not only do I get to learn how to do everything, but I get to learn how to do it in Spanish.  What a privilege!  My companion is Second Counselor in the Presidency.  Crazy, right?!

 

Got Faith?  Ether 12 does.  Read it: it basically has every story on faith from the Book of Mormon, crammed pack all into one chapter.  It´s hard to beat.

 

I love you all very very much.  Thanks for writing me,

 

Elder McMurray