I haven't posted an update on Nate for a few months, so I think it's time! Besides, I found some recent pictures of Nate on his mission president's Facebook page (thank goodness that he shares pictures of Nate since Nate is so disinclined to!!! ;), and I want to pass them along.
At the end of June, Nate was transferred from Las Delicias (near Rosario), to Carcaraña, a small town of approximately 16,000 people, located about 30 miles west of Rosario. He has been serving as the district leader there. Carcaraña is surrounded by fields and a train runs through the center of town. Here is what Nate wrote to us after his first week there:
i love the vibe of the town and i think its just a special place. we live right next to the train tracks that run though the middle of town and the house trembles when it comes passing by. and the horn is very loud in the middle of the night, but i like trains.
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| Satellite photo showing Carcaraña on the left and Rosario on the right |
On July 16, Nate shared this about the church and members in Carcaraña:
we do have a real church and it is nice. they have had robbery problems here, but in the last 2 weeks i think im about the only one that has tripped
the alarm. (and they keep changing the code and dont tell me) i think there
are 500 people baptized here but 4 or 5 families come to church regularly.
30-40 people in total.
The following week (July 25), Nate added:
we dont have youth here. in las delicias we doubled the young mens
group in my time, but here there is one 18 year old that is with the elders of
40 years old. we baptized an 11 year old, and 9 year old this week, and they are about
the closest thing we have to a future youth program.
About a month later, Peter asked Nate how the missionary work was going in Carcaraña, and Nate sent this reply on August 20th:
i contact every day and we do teach a lot, but
the lessons we have set often fall though. i feel like there are lots of people
progressing but its hard to get them to church, but that isnt anything new.
there will be baptisms this next month for sure.
On September 10th, Nate reported that the weather in Argentina was heating up (they are moving into their summer months). He also told us a little about Argentina's current economic struggles:
something you should google is the value of the argentine peso. they
are falling into an economic crisis and it causes a lot of havoc here. in the
last 15 years it has gone from 3 to 1, and now is 38 to 1. when i got here
it was 17 to 1.
On Tuesday, September 18th, Nate went to the mission home in Rosario to pick up a new
companion--Elder Maco from Peru.
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| President Allred, Nate, Elder Maco, Sister Allred |
The following Saturday they held a baptism for a young man and a 10-year-old girl (photo below). Nate has been training Elder Maco for about two weeks now and says he is a good elder who will have a great mission.
These last 3 pictures are from a zone conference held about a week ago.
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| Zone Conference (Nate is on far left side) |
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| Nate and Elder Maco are on the right. I don't know what they are holding in their hands. |
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| This photo was taken September 29th during an open house. Nate is 5th from the left.
Thank you all for you prayers and love for Nate!
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