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