Now, I know that seems random. But if anyone has guessed where this song came from BEFORE I give the answer. Let me know, and I´ll send you an Alfajor from Argentina. But be honest, I´m a missionary. It´s from VeggieTales. Do you remember that one episode, where the silly songs with Larry was when he did a ballad from ARGENTINA? I just remembered that this last week. And if you are wondering what I was thinking about to make me think about Veggie Tales I will tell you... I don´t remember. I think it just randomly popped in my head. Maybe it was the line that the little asparagus says afterwards "Hey mom, take a picture of me with the cucumber in authentic argentinian garb!" The things I think about. I can´t explain it.
Anyways, so this week.
This week has been full of miracles, and disappointments, but mostly miracles. We have been doing really well talking with people in the street and contacting references, trying to contact all of our investigators daily and pretty much doing a better job at being missionaries every day. Some days it´s harder than others, but overall I think we´re doing a good job.
The biggest disappointments came in the form of investigators falling through on their baptismal interviews. I think we've made Elder Johnson late like 3 times now. That´s our fault. We´re just sitting there hoping and praying that they will come last minute...and then it ends up being Elder Johnson and Elder Guichanao who end up getting into their pension last minute.
One baptismal interview that we wanted to have was an investigator named Jean Pool. He has 16 years and is the son of a friend who lives with Raul. Which is how we found him. He is very open to the gospel, just needs a little push to change his life and habits. He is actually really lonely. His dad leaves him alone all the time. Like yesterday, we went to go make him go to church, essentially, as in wake him up. And he had been up until 6 in the morning waiting for his dad to get home. But he came to church. Practically slept through sacrament meeting, but he was there. The good news is he´s found a good friend in the church. Lucas. Who´s helping him out. Lucas actually came with us to the church to wait for Pool to do his interview. He actually ran...because his mom told him to book it to the church we were waiting. He´s a good kid. He will be good for Pool tambien.
Anyways, we´re planning on having his baptism Tuesday, which will be better because then we can get his Dad to come. We´re not sure yet how we´re going to do it. But we will. We´re working a lot on faith this week. Because we need to have a lot of help from Heavenly Father. I think that is something that I´ve learned the most this week. That a lot of people are really sad and lonely, and you can literally see it in their eyes, and really the only thing that is going to help is the Evangelio, and a new family ward! It was crazy, so we were teaching Pool in the church yesterday and the ward Secretary, comes up and starts talking with us, and was all gung-ho about the church and the blessings, and was bearing his testimony, and you could see the words go directly into the heart of Pool. Because Hermano Devari was doing all of it in a very loving manner. And you could see Pool respond to the love of a different person, someone who cared enough about him to tell him he needs to change for the better. And then Hermano Devari got him to try on some baptismal clothes! Yes! We have pictures to prove it. He´s even in the baptismal font. It was a great experience. And I loved being a part of it. Members are the key, they just do so much!
Okay, so training. Well, I think it´s going great. She hasn´t yelled at me, or started crying because I was yelling at her (I haven´t). And we´re pretty good at resolving differences in a mature and adultly manner. For which I am super grateful! We are working on finding balance in our teaching. She knows the language so she is just all for teaching and bearing testimony, and sometimes there isn´t a polite way to step in and kind of guide the lesson back to the basics. But I remember what that was like in the MTC, going off on more in-depth tangents of the Gospel because I wanted to answer their questions, when what is really important for them now - and in the end to help them reach exaltation - is to recognize the power in the basics - faith, prayer, the Book of Mormon.
Anyways, it´s going good. We´re getting a lot better at putting baptismal dates, we just need to get better at getting out investigators to the church on sundays so they keep them. Thank you for all of your help and guidance!
Hermana Reed
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