They call me...MISTAH PIG!!!

Actually, its a girl! A Misses pig :)  Casilda be her name.  I didn't name her, the family that's caring for her did.  I figured I better not get too attached...

So some of you may have heard that I had a crazy idea. (I know, completely out of character for me right?)  Actually my dear Ate Stace helped plant the idea of us getting a pig!  Why? So we could participate in the recycling cycle! The piggy would eat all our desperdicios - pig-edible food throwaways.  So the hunt began mid-December.  I searched far and wide, up and down for a piggy.  For some reason, pigs were oddly expensive at that time, more than $50 for a small 2 month pig.  I told everyone I knew that I wanted a pig and they went asking around looking for prices.  The price was never right, so I almost started to give up...

But then!!!  We were preaching in one of our rural territories on our Rural Wednesday.  While my partner was preaching, I was being distracted by this horrible squealing.  I tried to be a good partner and follow along, but my ears and eyes were trying to find the source of this sound.  About three houses down, I saw a burly man holding a piggy by its ears!!!  No wonder it was screaming so bad :(  After we finished preaching to the young girl (it was an excellent call by the way.  The girl used to get magazines from a Witnesses classmate in high school.  She said she loved the magazines, asked for all the latest copies we had, ripped them out of the sisters hands, and clutched them :) I asked the sister if we could go see the pigs...

The man was from a town about 10 miles away.  He had a cart with about 10 pigs of all different sizes and colors.  He even had RICE SACKS tied to the card with PIGS INSIDE.  Poor things.  The family he was visiting was going to buy a couple pigs from him.  Apparently they have bought pigs from this same guy for many years so that was a good sign.  I was all ready to buy a piggy and just walk it home.  The price was right but,  no $$$ haha.  So I asked the guy when he would be back in our area.  He said next Sunday he would be in a rural spot closer to my home.  Which was perfect because it was the same neighborhood were I would be keeping the pig.  So I made arrangements with him to meet me at the sister's house.

THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY - Feb 10, 2013 - P-Day

The Choncho Cart - yes there are pigs in those bags :(

I told the sister that the pig man aka Chonchero was coming and asked her to call me when he arrived.  When he got there, he again was loaded to the nines with piggies!  Big, small, cute, boars, and pigs in bags. 













Who knew choosing a pig could be so hard!  It took me about an hour to examine the piglets.  They were so cute!  But of course I had to keep objective in mind.  This was project pig, not pet pig ;)

I narrowed it down to these two: the white and the brown.  The white was good sized and healthy looking.  The brown because it was so cute! And reminds me of my Rhodesian Ridgeback Nala.  See the resemblance?

But I decided the white pig would better serve the purpose of this project.  Her objective is one of two: 1) sell and use the profits to pay for our congregations bus to our district assembly in October, or 2) congregation luau :)  Everyone seems pretty keen on option two.  So if you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat...come for a visit in August :)

More Casilda footage:  Here