October 16, 2017

Assassin

Well today is the day of transfers. I killed Elder Bareiro (means I sent him home to his house if you're not familiar with missionary terminology) and received my new companion. His name is Elder Gagnon and I'm super excited to be comps with him. He's from Tennessee and here’s the fun part- I'm going to kill him too, meaning he will finish his mission with me in 6 weeks. To have a trainee kill both of their trainers is almost unheard of, so we will see how it goes!

The language is coming along a lot better. I think I made a lot of progress with it this week but I'm not sure how having an American companion is going to affect all that now. As hard as it was to have a Latino comp at the very beginning, it forced me to use Spanish a ton and as a result I improved a lot faster so I'm going to have to be really disciplined this transfer to keep up the same rate of progress!

Honestly not much happened this week. I guess the most noteworthy thing would be because everyone knew Elder Bareiro was going home, they all wanted to feed us so we ate like kings this week. We had an asado (expensive argentine bbq) almost every day this last week. To give you some perspective, most missionaries have 1 or 2 asados per transfer and I think I had close to 8 or 9. So yeah to say I've put on some weight this transfer would be a fair statement. 

I'm not sure what more to put. I had more blood sausage this week. The first time I tried it, it was raw and not that bad, but this time it was cooked and as a result bled everywhere and my plate and definitely was not my favorite thing, but I choked it down to avoid offending anyone. So yeah that stunk. 

Dang all I can think to write about today is food and it’s probably cuz I'm starving so I'm gonna go find food. Love you all!!!!

Con amor,

Elder Nixon

HURRAH FOR ISRAEL BABY!!!

pics of me and Elder Bareiro leaving our pension, me with an asado y our last district meeting!!