Plan Piloto

Yesterday, around 7pm, we get an email at the office from the Secretary of the Area Presidency: "All meetings with Elder Evans this weekend have been cancelled. Because of a greater calling he was needed back in the States immediately. Sorry for any inconveniences and have a great weekend!"

But that's ok cuz two weeks ago we saw Elder Nelson :) But Pdte was able to tell us that the Plan Piloto (a.k.a. "El Rescate" in our mission) has been approved for all of South America. That's awesome!! (from Mom: by this, I think he means a program to work with all the inactive members that they rolled out in Chile a little while back)

And to calm everyone's curiosity, yes, we did get the van open without having to call any professionals :D (from Mom: Last week Daylon sent us a video of him and another Elder trying to get into their car when the keys were locked inside)

Questions:

1. Are you warm now? What is the average day time temperature? We finally just this week got a bit of night time chill in the air, but its still 71 or so during the day.

It's a comfortable 70-80 degrees during the day, maybe dipping down to the upper 60s at night. Come the end of December it should be a good temp for me, but two weeks later I'll be suffering in the cold again :P

2. If the Bertagnas have a good oven in their apt, I suggest you try making your famous pretzels for the office one time before you leave. Cement your legacy, you know?  Your thoughts?

Mine is better (or at least it's bigger). The only hard part is I'm not sure if all the ingredients are available here in Chile and I'm scared to "estimate" the oven temp based on the flame (the thermometer you sent me last year got lost in my move :/)

3. Do you drive a stick or automatic right now?  So much for your 'walking' mission!

The van was automatic and it's been in the shop for about two months because there's dirt and water in the pistons in the engine. The truck (our only car right now) is stick, but I don't drive it too often. Although (and feel free to tell this to Tricia) I haven't stalled it since my first day driving it way back when I first got to the office :D

4. What will you be doing for Thanksgiving this week? We will be doing our usual dual-feast interspersed with some Balluff football and the annual foot race. Tony has been running 5ks in preparation for schooling Trevin!

On Thursday we're going up to Pdte's house from 3 to about 9 :D And that's about it haha. In the morning we have to be in the office because they're coming to clean the carpets, but other than that Pdte wants us to take the day off. The day after, however, we need to get back to work haha.

And that's about it. I don't want to say it was a boring week just in case we end up having to go to the Hospital again :P

- Elder Daylon Crider