Mother's Day Weekend

Collin telephoned home on Mother's Day and we were able to talk with him for almost an hour. He is doing great and loves Argentina. He's now been in Argentina 6 weeks and participated in his first transfer meeting today. Mission transfers happen every 6 weeks. Some missionaries are transfered and get new companions and others are not. Collin will be remaining with his current companion / trainer for at least another 6 weeks.

Here's his latest email.....
So I am sitting in the mission offices right now, since my companion had to call his mom, and he wanted to do it for free. I have been here since 9 this morning, and it is now 3:40, he'll probably be here for another hour or so. so there is another pday gone at the offices. anyways, as of today, i have had my first transfer meeting. nothing much really happens in them. the president talks for about 30 minutes or so, and the mission presidents wife talks for 10 or 15. then they show us a lot of pictures from the transfer that has just completed, as well as the stats for all the zones and areas such as how many baptisms, how many lessons, contacts, etc. they also show us the trend from the past year, so we know if we did worse or better than previous transfers. this transfer was really bad apparently. the trend showed a huge drop in basically everything except for referrals from people. but that was also part of the trend, which was kind of interesting. every other transfer was good then bad, and so next transfer is hopefully going to be really good! then they had all the people that were leaving bear their testimonies and things. and then they showed us who would be the people that were actually doing transfers. that was easily the most exciting part. it was also the time when we all found out who was going to be training replacements and things. then after that, it was basically over. we got our mail today, since everybody was here. oh by the way, there were probably about 120 missionaries here.

so we just did something pretty interesting on our way back to our area. we had to take the train with 2 sisters, since they are not allowed to ride the train alone. anywho, they were a stop past ours, so we went with them, and then we took another train back to our area. well, when we got off, the train we needed to get on was just sitting there, not moving, but the doors were closed, and once theyre closed you cant really get them open. so we were a bit annoyed. well, we kept walking, and what do you know! we saw a busted out window. we thought .. hey, the train isnt moving, and its a big window! lets jump in... so we did. thats something i havent ever really done before haha, climb into a train through a window.

i ate the first thing this past week that i have not liked in argentina. it was liver. it was absolutely disgusting. i ate about 30% of it, and then i couldn´t eat anymore. yuck.

this past wednesday was also the first time that i have eaten a meal at a members house without them being there. they told us that they werent going to be there, and to just go in and take the food out of the fridge and eat it. so we did so. they ended up showing up about the last 15m, so we talked to them for 15m and then continued our day. that was interesting i guess.

we had pench inspections this past week as well. i dont know if i have said this before, but my companion is a clean freak. so it wasnt surprising that we had the cleanest pench in the entire mission. we got an award today for having the cleanest pench, we got some candy or something. and we beat out some sisters for it too, they got second place, hah.

anywho, yeah i know that this is a short letter, but i feel like i already told mom and dad everything last night. i don´t really have many other stories to put into this, because we didn´t really do much work. my companion seems to be shutting down for the last few months of his mission... so its difficult to actually do things. so hopefully i can get some work done this transfer...