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36 Hours!

See y'all in 36 hours!  Just got done visiting Carlos Paz, tonight we are in a hotel, and tomorrow is all travel, all day long.  9 hour layover in BSAS, it'll be fun.  My flight from here in Cordoba leaves at 10:30AM.  Love y’all!!

The Penultimate Week

Hey fam,

The penultimate week is in the books!  It was another good one, I was able to do a handful of baptismal interviews throughout the week in the zone, and we had another baptism here in the area, Valeria. I also had a meeting with the Stake President and our Mission President to talk about opening up a new branch here in the stake.  It will be Salsipuedes, which is part of Rio Ceballos (several of my baptisms were in that town).  The plan is to open it up within the next 6 months.  Missionaries will start working there next week, 4 days a week.  We are pretty excited, it was something I had really been pushing for ever since they sent me back to the stake. Sunday night I went to Rio Ceballos and had a meeting with the Bishop there to talk about the logistics of how we were going to start working there.  I also went to Hermana Martinelli's and had pancakes and syrup, just like the old times!

Yesterday was our last mission conference with President Alliaud.  It was by far the best one.  He and the Hermana told us the story of how they met and got married, which was hilarious.  There was a big emphasis on changes, and how changes help us grow.  But we have to be constant in our work, because we are baptizing more than we have in a decade in the mission, and we still have a lot of untapped potential, both in the mission and as individual persons.  

This week I have to do papers and run around the embassies so they can let me out of the country legally.  I will also have my last interview with President, Wednesday and Monday I go to the temple.  Monday I will go to Carlos Paz.  Thursday or Friday I will go work in Rio Ceballos for the last time.  And if all goes well, we should have a baptism or two this last week!  

Love yall!  See you in a week! 

Elder Mangum

San Francisco

Hey fam,

Missionary life is good.  It has been a pretty hectic week, which is why I am writing 

on a Wednesday!  We baptized again, 4 weeks in a row with the font full!  Not too 

shabby, it was the nephew of our ward mission leader, Leo se llama el chico.  We 

worked a lot with our investigators, had a zone meeting, and I did my intercambio 

with Elder Ramirez. A pretty fun week.  

Monday I went with Elder Troncos, who is in charge of the pensions in the mission, to 

San Francisco.  Not the one in California, the one in Argentina.  Its about a 3 hour 

drive. We drove up, there was a terrible fog, we could only see about 10 yards ahead 

of us as we drove.  And on top of that, it was a 2 way highway, where there is no 

barrier between the cars and they come at you 150 KM an hour.  It was an exciting 

trip up there!  We got up there and dropped off the bikes, microwaves, and blenders 

we had brought. One of my old comps, Elder Castro, is one of the zone elders up

there so we had a big Argentine BBQ before we started the drive back.  We got back,

visited a few people in Troncos's area, and then got a call from President inviting us 

to ANOTHER BBQ, because one of the elders from my group had to go home 2 weeks 

early for health issues, and it was his last night.  So we went to this fancy restaurant 

and all ate together.  It was a pretty good day!

Yesterday I went to drop of Elder Nelson at the airport (my buddy who had to go 

home early).  That was a weird experience, seeing as that will be me in 2 weeks...

not something I enjoy thinking about!  Last night we had our mensual meeting with 

the Stake and Mission President.  We talked about opening up 2 new branches in the 

stake, and realigning the limits to make a new ward as well.  We are trying to hasten 

the work here in Estaca Sierras!

Church was interesting on Sunday.  The Elders Quorum President started off his 

lesson saying that women have the priesthood, so it got interesting pretty fast.  

One of the members here is an ex-mission president and is currently in the temple 

presidency here in Córdoba, so he corrected him.  

Love yall!

Elder Mangum