First Transfer

Hello!

Right now I'm hanging out with Elder Vidal and Elder Suiter while I wait for my new companion to show up on the bus.  Elder Pagoada got transferred to a new aria this morning and I'm here waiting around to find out who my new companion is and what he's like. I'm super nervous! This is my first transfer, I'm not going anywhere, but somehow that makes me feel all the more pressured because I'm the one who "knows" the investigators and the aria.  I'm gonna miss em', but it's good Elder Pagoada got a transfer because he's been in Buena Fe for over six months and I could tell that he's been wanting a change of scenery.

Over the last few weeks I've been eating french toast and Toni Yogurt in the mornings. I'm still trying to figure out how I'm gonna make pancakes...they have pancake mix here but we all know that it's nothing like dad's pancakes.  I've successfully translated all the ingredients into Spanish but my problem right now is that I don't know what people here use to measure ingredients and if it's not cups and Tablespoons, what is it and what's the conversion factor? Other than my breakfasts, I've been eating the usual, rice and soup and sometimes beans (if we're lucky).  also hard over cooked strips of meat that people seem to expect me to eat with a spoon.  Forks exist here, but if I were to be served a stake I'd be given a spoon to eat it with and
absolutely no knife.  I somehow manage to get the job done, but I often wonder how people here haven't figured the forks and knifes thing yet...

We're expecting a few baptisms in the future, I'm excited!  There is one investigator however that I'm not usually excited to teach, her name is Ginger and she has a date for baptism set because she's Sixteen and were're good looking.  Among missionaries, we call investigators like that Dollys: investigators that can be baptized if you flirt with them.  I'm not sure how I feel about it, but Elder Pagoada said we should keep teaching her. We'll see what my new companion thinks...  There are some missionaries who encourage Dollys,  I'm not continuously one of them.

There's so much that happens here and so little time to share it in...  I hope everyone is doing alright back home, I found my email box basically empty today so I assume you're all hard at work with having an awesome Summer.

I'll talk to you all next week!

Cameron

Here's a picture I took for the sake of pictures.

We had an Actividad Missional at the Church this last weekend.  It was lots of fun, the missionaries put on a skit about family home evening and we had hotdogs and a three legged race (As seen above)