This first week start to the new transfer was one crazy and hard one! It didnt goes exactly as we had planned and a lot of challenges and opposition. But in the end, we came out strong! To start, we had planned the baptism of Irene and Mario for this past Saturday. Unfortunately, it didnt go through and things didnt work out:( Both had already recieve their interviews and were ready to go. So on Friday we passed by both of them to plan all the final touches and make sure everything was all ready to go. First we past by Irene and she wasnt there. We were a little confused, but decided to come back a little later. When we passed by this time, her exhusband came out(who by the way doesnt like us very much) and said she had left to Capital until Monday to her daughters house! Apparently, he was there taking care of the other kids. At first, we didnt believe him because he doesnt like the church so we thought he was lying to us. Because it was her baptism that she was going to miss! But it turned out as we tried again to pass on Saturday morning that everything was closed up still. We were so worried about her and didnt understand why she would leave. Then, on Saturday we were faced with another problem. There wasnt any gas in the chapel to heat up the water in the font! So we were running around pretty hecticly trying to fix everything. But in the end, Mario didnt want to get baptized in cold water as he had gotten a little sick. So our weekend was pretty crazy and nothing wanting to work out, but we are hopeful everything will work out in the future with their baptisms!
Scripture of the Week: 2 Nephi 2:11. So true there is opposition is everything, but its necessary and helps us learn, grow, and appreciate the good! We had a great experience of this with the baptisms haha.
New Investigators of the Week: So awhile back, my last comp and I, Elder McDonald had come across a woman from Peru that told us she got baptized in our church there when we was like 9 and went until she was 16 and then moved here to Argentina. We havent been able to teach her until now as we lost contact. She said she had always had the desires to return but had forgotten a lot about it. She is now 26 and living with a man and their two young kids. We are not teaching them both. Her name is Astril and his is Julio. She is obviously interesting in listening to us as she had pretty much forgotten everything about the church. She also expressed to her husband her desire to return. He was pretty chill about it and said he would support her! And now he is actually pretty interested! He had a ton of weird questions and has some of his own interesting beliefs but we feel like they can progress well! We were able to have two lessons with them last week and one today we will have!
...Funny Experience of the Week: I dont know if this qualifies as "funny" more of interesting and mysterious but oh well. But this week we encountered ourselves with two of the three nefites! haha no just kidding but ya never know. We found one of them in the bus stop at about 8.30 at night in a dark and sketchy area. He had a big beard and scruffy clothing. He kept on looking over at us. Eventfully, he calls us over, "hey, we´re brothers" and shows us his consecrated oil and thens gets on his bus and on he goes. Next we do a contact of an old man and he just said to us, thanks anyways kids, but I already have the true and smiles. Then starts walking away. We also start walking in a different direction and then look back and he had disappeared haha! Anyways, those are my crazy stories of the week...
Miracle of the Week: Despite all the hard challenges of the week, we were able to have a great miracle on sunday with one of our investigators coming! His name is Victor Laurenco. He is the father of a member family who was inactive, but we helped them come back to church as they have been assisting the past three sundays. They are a pretty poor family and got offended by some members of the ward or something. But we were able to go with the bishop here and fix things up with them and they were able to get help from the bishops store house which we believe was their issue. So the family started coming again, but not Victor. He had attended before a long time again but didnt like the members for something that happened and didnt want to go for the longest time. But we have been working with him a lot and he finally musttered up the courage to come! He was pretty nervous the whole time and looked uncomfortable so we´ll see how it went for him when we visit again, but he came!
I´ll keep you all updated on with our investigators, Irene and Mario next week. As of now, we still dont know what happened to Irene but planned to pass by again today.
Have a great week! Love you all!
Elder Trent
Hey Im here a little erlier today! hows it going?
We usually go and buy food first, but we came to write first because I wanted to download some recipes from our missions president wife that she put up. Ive put the goal to start to learn how to cook! what!? crazy right!? wish me luck! hopefully by the time I get home, ill be an argentine chef haha!
(Send recipes if you´d like to)
a few small news.
im no longer the district leader :/ Im not sure why it just came up suddenly, when the new transfer started they also texted us that a new elder, elder soto, was going to be the new district leader for us. Its weird cuz i stayed in my area but i got downgraded. I know its not a down grade but it left me a little confused, thinking I did something wrong or something like that. but the zone leaders said I did a really great job and that we dont understand all the time why the Lord does things. but im ok with it now, it was a really great experience and I learnd and served well! Elder Soto, the new district leader I can tell will do really great, he is a stud.
Second, we didnt have the baptism of Irene of Mario this week:( its a long story and Ill explain it in my mass email...
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