Hey there Family!!! Thanks so much for writing me to me one more week. :) How's it going?
So we have had a crazy day, let's just say that I'm glad that it's basically over and that I was able to do something that I wanted to do. So let's just start off when we take the truck to go to capital to pass by the River Stadium and then onto the train station to go to a place to buy a ton of stuff. So we first stop by the bank to take out the monthly assignment money that we receive. So we all get out of the car and we come back and Elder Lopez had left the keys in the car on accident. We had no way of getting back in... ughh not again. Remember the day that I was entering the MTC....yeah one of those moments. So there's not an extra key for the truck, the area offices are closed because it's a Saturday
and so we had to call a locksmith. We were there from 10:30am to around 2pm 'ish when he finally arrived. For that time we had been trying to pry open the door to slip in a wire hanger, we accomplished to open it just a little bit, scraping the paint... but oh well, we couldn't open the door, so we were just standing there waiting for the locksmith guy, the first car they sent out got into a minor accident so they had to send another one. So to make a long story short, the guy finally came and charged us a lot of money just to open the door... We lost all those hours of my last pday. Then after getting a lecture from the older office elders, they reimbursed us and so then we were able to at least go to one place to find stuff to buy. I bought some gifts and other things. Now we are now back here in the offices quickly trying to squeeze in writing home :) So it's just a funny memory now haha, everything's fine, a good lesson learned. Anyways ill give you more details in a couple of days...
What, is it really happening? haha Wow, I can't believe that these two years have passed by so fast. I remember the first moments after being away from you guys and lots of moments in between. I've loved the mission and now that I've served my two years, it's time to move on with life and get
going with things haha. I'm excited to come home, though I will miss Argentina, though some days I swear that I won't, haha, but I really do love the culture and the people. The church is growing rapidly and is getting better and better everyday. One day it will be like Utah, o sea, how the church is in Utah except being in Argentina.
So I'm glad for everything that I have learned and all of the learning experiences that I have had. The good and the bad. I've had my share of both, but I mostly just remember the good parts. :)
My favorite part has been helping out my brothers and sisters return to God and to change their lives and to receive the true happiness that they have been seeking for a long long time. That feeling of
somebody accepting what we teach and what we represent as a church really is something that only missionaries experience. Also I'm glad that I have been able to learn another language to help
other people come to the church. A second language will also be of great practical use, haha, I'll have to find ways to still use it to keep it strong.
Yes, it's interesting to think of the things that have changed since I left and the things that have stayed the same. I can't wait to see all of the changes to the house, my siblings haha, Pepper, Lehi, Utah, America, everything, technology, music, sports. It will be a fun weekend. :)
Well, about what I want to eat when I get home... I'm not sure right now. Something Chinese-y, I don't know...haha, you can decide and I'll just enjoy it, though I've had a ton of noodles and Argentine pizza. I don't know...just something American-y. :) or Mexican-y.
Well it will be hard not to think of the house these last couple of days. But being busy in the office really does help.
So last Sunday I went with Elder Lopez to the sacrament meeting of San Fernando, we took the sacrament and then we had to take the car all the way out to Lima... Buenos Aires, like an hour away in car. We had to drop off a DNI card, her ID card, to a hermana that was going to vote and didn't have her card, So we got all the way out there and then we had to come back, it was because of a miscommunication. I've learned that miscommunications can be costly sometimes, that's why it's always important to communicate well.
Being in the office we don't have lots of time for teaching. We still do teach and we have been, but we have been loaded down with finding new pensions (apartments) for all the new missionaries coming in. Everyday we have to travel somewhere, to a real estate place to pick up a contract or to
drop one off. We have been all over Buenos Aires for that, once that this rush calms down the office should have lots more time to proselyte. We have been working with this one man named R-- and his
soon to be wife A--. They have been investigating for a long time and they only have to get married, we are helping them right now to have the desires to do that. So we will see what goes on.
Wow, so much has gone on this last week, I've traveled twice more out to the farthest away zone, Zarate, to drop off supplies and to meet with a real estate guy. Last Tuesday we had all of those newbies come in, 22 Americans and so we were busy with their documents and filing those away and preparing them to go and receive their DNI cards. They are on tourist visas so they still are waiting for their offical visa. We are happy to have them, we are receiving 28 more this Tuesday, so lots of
growth in a small amount of time.
So yesterday we had taco Friday in the offices, Hma Lowry made the whole office and AP´s and the training Sisters tacos, it was really good. The Lowrys finish 3 weeks after me, they are from Midway, UT, and they invited me to their homecoming. It will be fun.
Well, the number one BYU fan says that BYU's lucky charm is returning to the country for the game against Wisconsin and that we will win the rest of our games :) and that we will go BCS bowling :)
Also this last week I finished the Book of Mormon for the first time in Spanish, so that's a good accomplishment for me. :) I'll have to show it to you when I get home. I have lots of stuff to show to you when I get home. haha Hopefully I can take home everything that I want to take home.
The farewell is at 6pm, so like 2pm your time, right? We are a group of 13 missionaries leaving, two Latins and us 11 Americans. The only elder from my MTC district that finished in the other mission was Elder Barnwell. They actually ended two weeks early, it just happened that way. If I had been in the south when the change happened I would've been home for Halloween, crazy no?
So I'm also participating in a choir for the farewell, we are singing a medley of Praise to the Man and We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet. It sounds really cool and I feel the spirit as I sing it.
I've been taking lots of pics, trying to remember Argentina how I will always remember it, or how it really is.
Well, this is the last time that I'll be using this email, so it's been great, but I'm glad to return and to give everyone a big hug!! :) Take care and stay safe and don't arrive late to the airport. :) haha, or lock your keys in the car! haha. Love you!!
Love,
Elder Ryan Pittard
signing off
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