6-21-16

Hello hello,

Hope everyone is doing good and staying cool.

Tuesday was a normal day we taught Horacio and he is set to get baptized next Saturday the 25. Then lunch and studies and the afternoon was long and we didn’t really find anyone

Wednesday we went and did service and I climbed up in a tree and climbed high then had to take out my handy dandy saw and saw off all the branches at the top because they were growing and making shade and the lady couldn’t grow her tomato plants because the branches of this tree weren’t allowing for enough shade. It was sweet and really cool service to do sawing branches from inside the tree I enjoyed it. Then we left and had lunch and studied and then planned for the next week and then went to correlation at night and that was good. Our missionary leader was in Mar del Plata because his wife is having a baby girl. So the mission assistant guy came to do correlation and he brought facturas for us. 

Thursday woke up and paid rent which was dumb and then went to Horacio finalized things for next Saturday. Then lunch and we had the zone meeting this afternoon and it was good we all brought snacks cookies cakes brownies a pastry of some sort it was great played games but also focused on the Spirit. And then we took this picture but I kinda am short. Then we left and went with a member to go teach a lesson and it was a great lesson and the member was really good this was the first member lesson we have had in a while now. 

Friday we walked around in the morning found no one went to Guemes and had lunch there which was rice and milanesas really good. Then we stayed there and worked in the area of the leaders of the zone so a mini reinforcements. And we worked and found them some good less active families to visit and we went looking for old investigators and it was nice to work and help out the leaders. But their area is sooo muddy and my shoes and my suit pants got so muddy and trashed I had to clean them really good on Sunday morning before church. 

Saturday we went and cleaned the church in the morning because it was our turn of the rotation for the branch. And then came back for lunch and was making some really good mac and cheese and then the call comes from the leaders saying Elder Worth is staying and his companion is Elder Lee another elder from our MTC group that we both know. And then for me I got transferred to Carmen de Patagones in the zone of Viedma. So I packed some stuff and then had lunch then we left to work and we had to visit a few people and we are walking around in the afternoon and all of a sudden I have to go to the bathroom so we are kinda far and we had to run back to the main road the 59 go to a gas station the only stores and places here in Argentina that have bathrooms. Then after that we went back and met with some people less actives and people and the rest of the night was good. Returned to the house and I finished packing. 

Sunday went to church no one knew I was leaving. And then after church we had lunch Sloppy Joes I rearranged some stuff in my suitcases then we left for the terminal and then got on the bus and headed to Bahia Blanca. On the bus there was 6 of us going to Bahia. one American who was leaving for home or dying one Argentine who was transferred to the Pampa one Hermana from Brazil that was also dying another Hermana also from Brazil that was also going to Viedma and another elder from Brazil that was going to be our zone leader in Viedma and then me. So on the bus I’m talking with the elder in English and then with the argentines talking on the bus and the three brasillanos are talking in Portuguese and my brain started to hurt like ouch gift of tongues. But I could understand the Brazilians really well Portuguese isn’t super different from Spanish. Then we got to Bahia at like 10. Then our bus for Viedma left at 4 in the morning so we waited in the terminal and I just talked with other elders and people that I knew. And it was fun to see people come and go from the terminal then we left for Viedma in a super rich bus and they gave us breakfast and we got here at 8 in the morning.

Monday then I met my companion Elder Blazzard from Idaho he has like 9 more months than me he will die in like 5 months. And we live in the house with Elder Evanson from Canada he is super cool like my best friend and I have only been here 1 day and his son who he is training is Elder Avula from Mexico. And then the other two guys in our district are Elder Sotterfield from Kansas also really cool guy and he is training his son Elder Gallardo from Chile. Yesterday I unpacked had lunch went out to work a little contacted around came home then we had dinner and we talked the whole night and now today is P day and here we are writing. So that is about it for this week pretty exciting week new companion new zone new area everything. Hope you are all doing good and having fun enjoy yourselves and take it easy. Miss and Love you all!!!

Love,

Elder Frampton

2-11-16 (Week 2)

2-11-16 (Week 2)

This week was good.

Friday was a pretty normal day woke up went and worked in the morning visited a few people and then went to this one guys house Francisco and he gave us just some little bread and juice to have and we read a scripture and just talked - he is less active. Then went home studied and left in the afternoon and went to this family Ezekiel and just talked to the father. Then we played marbles with his son. 

Saturday had breakfast went and visited an 88 year old guy we visit like every Saturday and he is doing well has recovered his health a bit and then we went to another lady’s house afterwards. This lady we contacted like last Sunday and taught the Restoration and then passed by this day to talk with her and teach Plan of Salvation but we only got like a quarter way through it and had to stop on the Fall of Adam and Eve. She had her daughter or a grandson or someone coming over so we left her with the pamphlet and told her to read the rest. 

Then we left the house and the district leader called and said that transfer calls had arrived. He said Elder Riveros is going to stay and his companion will be another Paraguay, Elder Paredes. And then for myself I would be going to Zone Necochea and to the Guemes branch and my companion would be Elder Worth a missionary who was in the MTC the same time as me and we were on the plane ride over to Argentina so I already kind of remember and know him a little. So then we went back to the house had lunch and then I spent the rest of the day packing up my stuff. It was a pain to put all my stuff and try to fit them in the suitcase. 

Sunday was normal church I bore my testimony and also gave a little goodbye that I would be heading to Guemes. Testimony meeting was good. Then after church I took a few pictures with the members I will have to send those next week. Then we went home and I had lunch then took my stuff to the terminal and got on a bus to Santa Rosa. We left General Pico at about 6 got to Santa Rosa at 8. I was and had been traveling with the district leader the other US elder because he got transferred to Mar del Plata. Then there the zone leaders met us there and also another missionary Elder Simpson who is going home this past transfer. And they told us our bus from Santa Rosa to Bahia Blanca doesn’t leave until 3:45 in the morning. So we sat at the terminal from 8 to almost 4 in the morning. And it was interesting we talked the whole time and then we bought these really delicious hamburgers they have at the terminal that had like everything on it, it was sooo good. Like egg peppers chimchurri lettuce tomato onion salsa picante I loved it. Then at the tvs at the terminal they had on one tv a random soccer game but on the other tv they had the super bowl playing so we watched a little of that. Then finally got on the bus to Bahia.

Monday this is when we got on the bus 3:45 in the morning. I slept the whole time and woke up when we got there at about 8 that morning. We got off the bus and entered the terminal and like tons of other missionaries were there in Bahia because that is like the central place everyone goes for transfers so all missionaries being transferred we were all in Bahia terminal. We got our tickets and the bus from Bahia to Necochea leaves at 10:30 at night. So we had to wait in the terminal from 8 that morning until 10:30 that night. Well first we went for lunch at 12 and went to this place called Bamboo it is a buffet and it was soo delicious. I had meat shrimp salad of lettuce and tomato fruits like peaches grapefruit, apples, lots of bananas,  fries onion rings that had so much stuff I then I had some cake and dessert and then went for ice cream and got lemon flavor ice cream. Then we left the restaurant and went back to the terminal and then sat down and talked and just enjoyed all the missionaries being there together. Then one by one each group left one group going to the Pampa left at 6 then people going to Olivarria at like 8 then others left in between then we got on our bus at 10:30 and then last the people who were going to Mar del Plata were still there when we left because their bus didn’t leave until 11:30. Also I met in the terminal seeing all the other missionaries an Elder O´Rourke from Philadelphia Pennsylvania he is in the Philadelphia stake we talked a lot because we are the only 2 people in the whole mission from PA. 

Tuesday remember we got on our bus at 10:30 so then arrived in Necochea at 4 this morning in the morning. And got off and went to the apartment and we live with 4 other elders including the zone leaders. Elder Osorio from Utah and Elder Yeates from Washington State are the zone leaders then Elder Worth and I and then Elder Ortega from Uruguay and he is training a brand new missionary also from Uruguay. The six of us live together in this small little house with one bathroom. I will have to take a picture. Then we worked like all the day.

Wednesday we went for service in the morning and filled in potholes in the road then planned for the week and worked the afternoon. And that is it for this week. I will have to talk more next week we both still don’t know the area and we are new to Necochea and just getting to know the people.

Love, 

Elder Frampton