Its was quite the up and down week. Elder Lundell and I were without our companions for about two and a half days of the week as they had to got to a meeting for new missionaries and do stuff to get be legal in the country. So Elder Lundell and I were working together in both of our areas for a good part of the week, which made things a little more challenging, but when more difficult, more miracles, I like to try and think. We found some cool people together and had some nice experiences. And by the time the Saturday came, Elder Allen and I already united for a few days now, we had a ton of investigators committed coming to church. And then Sunday morning it rains. And when theres rain here, the world stops basically. No one goes anywhere. But we made sure to do our part so we could still have success or be satisfied with our efforts. So we got on our bikes in the rain and headed over to our progressing investigators house, The familia Pajon to see if they would go to church still. They agreed if someone picked them up in a car. So they actually made it! So sometimes one you think there isnt a way, there is a way.
That same day we had another interesting experience. So theres this old lady that lives alone in the ward thats one of the pioneers here in Mercedes and has been a member since the church started here basically. Buts shes had a lot of hard trials in here life. One being that all her family that are members hate the church and say negative things about it to others. And this past week, she had an accident and broke a bone in her shoulder, hard, and hurt her knee. She went to the hospital but later in the week was sent home and his bed ridden for now. Somebody comes to help her every once and awhile, but is mostly alone, with very few visits. that same week, on sunday, she had planned to have us four missionaries in the ward come for lunch. But because of the accident, we thought that was obviously canceled. So Sunday after church, me and Elder Allen were eating in the apartment what we had for lunch, when we get a call from the Bishop. I answer and the bishops asked me a bit concerned if we had lunch today with the sister, (Sister Simon her name) because she had called the bishop trying to get in touch with us as she didnt have our number to say that she was waiting with the food for lunch! despite that she didnt call and was a lack of communication with us, we still felt so bad. She was frail and injured but still made us lunch! She was pretty sad, said the bishop and he told us to head over there right aways and by that point it was over an hour late. It was really hard for me that day. I hate letting people down even though it wasnt directly our falt. When we saw her in bed all beat up, sad and at one point started crying, telling us of her problems, but at the end she cheered herself up and it was so amazing to see the change in her face. First her talking about all her trials reciently first this then that, she completely changed and got happy because she knew she would get out it and her testimony was strong, trusting in the Lord. We always going to have trials in our life, whether its something like rain on a Sunday morning in Argentina being a missionary, or remaining faithful with hope despite every thing going against you. God will always be by our side.
Love you all!
Elder Trent
best part. this wasnt here the first time we went. Baby tiger!
We went to the zoo again because the new elders dragged us along. but it was still good.
its about 1 hr and 15 minutes in bus. so we cant spend a lot of time at the zoo because of the travel time.
I fed a bear, I fed it, some sweet thing they have here called batata. Its kindof liked jello slash jam.
This time, the bears were out and I got to feed it! My bucket list section of feeding wild animals is pretty much complete by now haha.
Elder Lundell and I
ya its a nice pench, because it was for sister missionaries ;p
This week my companion and the other elders companion from our district had a meeting with President with all the new missionares and then the next day they had to do get their DNI visa thing in Buenos Aires, so they were gone from Tuesday afternoon until thursday night. So Elder Lundell and I stayed together and had to work in both of our areas at the same time which was difficult but we did pretty well.
This is their pench that I stayed at, remember how they used to stay with us and then moved to the sisters pench? thats what these pictures are.
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