Monday, March 10, 2025 8:54pm
WOAH what's up yall, what a absolutely wild, weird, and wonderful week it's been!!
Alright alright, let's start with Tuesday. I was able to do exchange with my MTC comp-turned-DL Elder Noall, and we were able to make some pretty cool contacts with a handful of good people, which I'm sure are being taken great care of or have already blocked the missionaries, whatever works.
Wednesday was Elder Larsen's último día in Balcarce, and we spent most of it inside packing, because that's when the office decided to send an hermano to our pension to fix more things, like a door that was falling off it's hinges, some glass that (not so) mysteriously had a hole in it, and of course, the everything that was leaking in the bathroom. Lovely, so glad the Hermanas will be able to live comfortably. We did some last visits before the night fell, the bus passed by the church, and my dear compa was sent to his new area.
Thursday, we were a trio; Me, Elder Noall, and Elder Rivera. I really enjoyed seeing how those two worked together, I'm always really impressed with how well people can handle themselves after just a transfer of training, and Elder Rivera was no exception. We had to move all their things to the new pension they got because they had been missing a lot of necessary thing until literally a few days before, and Hermanas were going to be in the old house that night, so a moving we went. And then my time came, the bus once again passed by the church, and me fui. I really loved my time in Balcarce, as short as it was; I hope the Hermanas there have as much fun as I did and hopefully can work even harder haha.
So I get to Mar del Plata Friday morning at 2am, meet Elder Roque, my new comp, in the church, and off we go to the pension. It's a good pension, not gonna lie, it's a bit far out of our area, but that's chill, just means we get a get more exercise than everyone else. We didn't really get to go out that day though, because that day the skies decided to open. Ladies and Gentlemen, the rains really came down and the floods truly came up, especially in poor Bahía Blanca.
On a bit more serious note, Bahía is actually in a really bad state, the storm we had on Friday was massive and flooded almost all of Bahía. There are a ton of people that have lost personal possessions, cars, houses, and a few their lives. We're lucky enough that all the missionaries there are safe and accounted for, but everyone please, keep the city in your prayers, it'll be going through a very tough time for the next while. Miracles did happen though, the unfinished temple there was somehow untouched by the raging flood water, even though the entire area around it was utterly wasted at the storms coming. Pretty cool, no?
The rain did give us a chance to do some service Saturday morning, because it somehow uncovered this massive, and I mean massive, like five meter deep and two meter diameter hole in the front yard of a recent convert of ours in San Martin. So we teamed up with the Elder's quorum to try our best and fill the thing up with dust, dirt, and debris so that if someone were to fall in, they would just be seriously injured instead of dead. We did a pretty good job, but sheesh, my shoulders are still tired from carrying so many buckets of stuff around.
I got to meet the other half of the wars on Sunday, and I think I'm gonna like San Martin a lot. The members here are super friendly, willing to talk, and are excited and already working in la obra misional. Even though this area is kinda...crazy, as in I have to leave my phone at home and work with notepad and pen, I am absolutely psyched to start the work here.
And this email has gotten long, just like the week, this next one might not be as exciting (I hope), but thanks for bring here and reading my...splurge of words anyways.
Read the New Testament. It's good.
-Elder Montgomery
Running it back with Elder Noall
