Eric with Elder Godoy 
A picture of another dead rodent, sure to delight any mother of a missionaryHey everyone!! I hope everyone's doing great!! I'm excited to hear about the progress of the house and the family!
First of all, tell Holly and Scott congratulations on being ward missionaries! They'll be awesome!! I would love to have ward missionaries like them! Here in Ramallo, our current ward mission leader is 80 years old and has many health problems which prohibit him from walking much or really doing anything. He's a great guy and would help us more if he could because he likes the missionary work, but he just can't do much due to his condition. So that's great that Holly and Scott get to be the ward missionaries. They'll see the joy of teaching people!!!
Regarding my comp, he's doing great! He's really enjoying the mission and is learning so much. I understand more every day why he went to a special school, the biggest reason being that it's hard for him to learn things, even things that never change and that he does repeatedly. Nevertheless, he's learning a lot, and thankfully I've learned in my mission how to teach the doctrines of the church very simply so that a child can understand. I definitely could do it a lot better and will continue to work towards being a simpler and more effective teacher, but it's all going good. I've helped my comp understand some of the basic lessons of the church. We're going to keep working on lesson one, so he understands well the importance of everything. He's improving amazingly fast at reading. He already reads twice as fast as he used to, so that's really cool! He's a very teachable person, which helps and he has a big desire to serve and work hard.
He's great too, because he gets up daily at 6:30 without problems and does all the other hard things perfectly. He's a good elder and has a good heart. The church sent me some money so he can have food, travel, etc. so we'll be good! He came here with pretty much just the clothes on his back, and his only shoes are the woven type you'd expect to see an Indian wearing. (I think by Indian he is referring to the indigenous people of Argentina who were there before the Italians, Spaniards and Germans came.) They look respectable though, because here in Argentina they can be used as dress shoes, too. He'll be able to go to the dentist after the mission, the 28th for him, and get his teeth fixed since it's free for him.
Alejandro (the child with tuberculosis) is doing good and they caught it early so they'll be able to treat it well. He's doing a treatment for 6 months and I'll have to ask again now that they might know about what it's called, but I feel good about the treatment because it's a specialist from Buenos Aires that's handling this, instead of just the local Ramallo doctor. So he'll be just fine! I just hope the pills don't cost a lot because I know how poor that family is!
As far as where I'll be ending my mission, it's true that staying another transfer would be a long time in this area, but it definitely has happened before with other missionaries. My comp is a mini and can't stay, so if I go for sure it'll be a whitewash, which happens all the time here, but I don't think they'd put me in a new area for one transfer. It could happen, but it's more likely that I stay here and finish in Ramallo. Whatever happens, I don't care, I'll take whatever thing they throw at me! We're working super good here in Ramallo, so I haven't gotten sick of this area at all.
Yesterday we found a super elect lady that's already read and prayed about the Book of Mormon and knows it's true. She has a testimony stronger than many members! Anyway, we found lots of people but she's the coolest one, but of course she's juntado and isn't married but said she wants to and will talk to her husband. (That'll be the hard part.)
We had stake conference this past weekend and it was amazing. We also enjoyed hearing the talk of President Giuliani and his wife, who came to talk. Anyway, they were super good and we also heard the testimony of two young men who were about to leave on their missions. One's going to Brazil and the other to Chile. It was a good conference and we all enjoyed it a lot. The church also rented a bus to take everyone which was cool, although we missed it in the morning because apparently it left super early so the kids could prepare for their musical number! We made it just fine though, because we took the city bus, it's sad we had to pay though. It was a good stake conference, and everyone enjoyed it.
To answer your questions, yes, many people have chickens as pets. All kinds of animals serve as pets here, and sometimes food for the family. Basically in Argentina, it doesn't require ANYTHING special to start your own: fruit shop, kiosko, clothing store, anything store, farm, etc. You just decide to do it so you do it. So many people just start things whenever they feel like it.
Well, we're doing good here, thanks for everything. I'm going to continue helping my comp email (it's his first time using a computer.)
Love,
Eric
First of all, tell Holly and Scott congratulations on being ward missionaries! They'll be awesome!! I would love to have ward missionaries like them! Here in Ramallo, our current ward mission leader is 80 years old and has many health problems which prohibit him from walking much or really doing anything. He's a great guy and would help us more if he could because he likes the missionary work, but he just can't do much due to his condition. So that's great that Holly and Scott get to be the ward missionaries. They'll see the joy of teaching people!!!
Regarding my comp, he's doing great! He's really enjoying the mission and is learning so much. I understand more every day why he went to a special school, the biggest reason being that it's hard for him to learn things, even things that never change and that he does repeatedly. Nevertheless, he's learning a lot, and thankfully I've learned in my mission how to teach the doctrines of the church very simply so that a child can understand. I definitely could do it a lot better and will continue to work towards being a simpler and more effective teacher, but it's all going good. I've helped my comp understand some of the basic lessons of the church. We're going to keep working on lesson one, so he understands well the importance of everything. He's improving amazingly fast at reading. He already reads twice as fast as he used to, so that's really cool! He's a very teachable person, which helps and he has a big desire to serve and work hard.
He's great too, because he gets up daily at 6:30 without problems and does all the other hard things perfectly. He's a good elder and has a good heart. The church sent me some money so he can have food, travel, etc. so we'll be good! He came here with pretty much just the clothes on his back, and his only shoes are the woven type you'd expect to see an Indian wearing. (I think by Indian he is referring to the indigenous people of Argentina who were there before the Italians, Spaniards and Germans came.) They look respectable though, because here in Argentina they can be used as dress shoes, too. He'll be able to go to the dentist after the mission, the 28th for him, and get his teeth fixed since it's free for him.
Alejandro (the child with tuberculosis) is doing good and they caught it early so they'll be able to treat it well. He's doing a treatment for 6 months and I'll have to ask again now that they might know about what it's called, but I feel good about the treatment because it's a specialist from Buenos Aires that's handling this, instead of just the local Ramallo doctor. So he'll be just fine! I just hope the pills don't cost a lot because I know how poor that family is!
As far as where I'll be ending my mission, it's true that staying another transfer would be a long time in this area, but it definitely has happened before with other missionaries. My comp is a mini and can't stay, so if I go for sure it'll be a whitewash, which happens all the time here, but I don't think they'd put me in a new area for one transfer. It could happen, but it's more likely that I stay here and finish in Ramallo. Whatever happens, I don't care, I'll take whatever thing they throw at me! We're working super good here in Ramallo, so I haven't gotten sick of this area at all.
Yesterday we found a super elect lady that's already read and prayed about the Book of Mormon and knows it's true. She has a testimony stronger than many members! Anyway, we found lots of people but she's the coolest one, but of course she's juntado and isn't married but said she wants to and will talk to her husband. (That'll be the hard part.)
We had stake conference this past weekend and it was amazing. We also enjoyed hearing the talk of President Giuliani and his wife, who came to talk. Anyway, they were super good and we also heard the testimony of two young men who were about to leave on their missions. One's going to Brazil and the other to Chile. It was a good conference and we all enjoyed it a lot. The church also rented a bus to take everyone which was cool, although we missed it in the morning because apparently it left super early so the kids could prepare for their musical number! We made it just fine though, because we took the city bus, it's sad we had to pay though. It was a good stake conference, and everyone enjoyed it.
To answer your questions, yes, many people have chickens as pets. All kinds of animals serve as pets here, and sometimes food for the family. Basically in Argentina, it doesn't require ANYTHING special to start your own: fruit shop, kiosko, clothing store, anything store, farm, etc. You just decide to do it so you do it. So many people just start things whenever they feel like it.
Well, we're doing good here, thanks for everything. I'm going to continue helping my comp email (it's his first time using a computer.)
Love,
Eric
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