Just to give you an update on what the mission is like for me
right now... It`s getting really hot, but it`s been raining quite a bit lately,
so luckily the true heat hasn`t gotten to us. I`m in an area that`s a little
poorer, so we eat a lot of noodles, with chicken or meat, but it`s super good
anyways. I love the food here. I live with 3 columbians so that`s pretty
exciting. My area isn`t huge, it`s actually the smallest of all my areas, so we
don`t walk AS much, but we still walk a ton, and we`re always on the move. My
companion is Elder Escorcia, and we are currently in a ward, not a branch like
almost all my other areas. The members are really awesoem, and they help us a
ton, and are super willing to do anything. The zone is doing really well. Right
now we are really pushing to be the best zone in the mission, and we`ve got
councel this
monday so we`ll see if our
numbers are hitting our goal! We just wanna kill it. Health wise i`m doing
good! We are running again in the morning, because the other elder I live with
also likes to run, so i`m running every morning about 25 minutes, and that`s
helping a lot to keep the stress levels down. But i`m enjoying the heck out of
the mission now. I love being able to see progress in our area, and in the
zone. That`s the hardest thing i`ve seen being a zone leader, is that it`s
already difficult running your own area, and when they give you 5 other areas
to look after on top of that it gets a little hectic, but I absolutely love it.
There is ALWAYS something to do. The other day an elder forgot his documents
when he went to renew his visa, so we had to run around finding a scanner and
stuff, on saturday one area had an emergency baptism, so we had to travel to do
their baptismal interview, also last week one of the sister missionaries got
pretty sick, so we had to travel and give her a blessing, just things like
that, plus divisions weekly with the elders... It`s awesome! Each night we call
all the areas and verify with them and figure out what we can do and give them
some thigns to help them out. It was a little wierd calling Sister missionaries
at first, but it`s normal now. It felt wrong, like I was sinning by talking to
them haha, but it`s all good now, I love everything and i`m just doing great!
Anything else you`d like to know? Love you all!
Hey Everyone. Pretty awesome week. Started off
a little rough because my companion from Mexico got sent to Resistencia, and we
were like best friends, so that was really hard, but I got a new companion
that`s from Columbia! I actually already knew him from Villa Angela. His name
is Elder Escorcia. He was working in the other part of the city so we saw
eachother all the time. He`s SUPER calm and I haven`t heard him raise his voice
even one time, not even being excited haha, but he`s awesome. Which means now I
live with 3 columbians, and there is another columbian Sister in our Zone, that
goes to our ward, and her companion is from the United States, from Sandy, but
her mom is from Columbia and her dad is from Guatemala, so she`s pretty much
Latina and also columbian... So my life is pretty much columbianified right
now! It`s pretty fun. But I can`t believe i`m starting my last transfer. It
doesn`t seem real. This week was super successful for us. It started off
last monday after P`day, we found a family that lives right next door to
Tatiana, our investigator, who GOT BAPTIZED on Saturday! It was so aweosme. I
don`t know if i`ve told you about her, but we found her about 3 weeks ago, by
asking people if there was anyone they knew that had just ahd a baby, and three
different people guided us to her house, so we went and she`s 18, and we were
in divisions actually with another kid from California, so i`m pretty sure she
only let us sit down because we both had blue and green eyes, and she was
pretty stunned, (we call those types of girls snakes) but anyways she had a
billion problems in her life, and she has changed completely. Before in her
life, she did drugs, drank, was with a different guy each day, and her family
is a wreck, but since we`ve taught her in teh last 3 weeks, she`s stopped
smoking, stopped drinking, stopped drugs, and she actually had to leave her
boyfriend, who she had been with for a few years already, all to get
baptized.... She`s so freaking sick! We couldn`t believe how much she had
changed, and she was so excited to get baptized. she even went against her
family because they didn`t want her to get bapitized. With ALL the odds in the
world going against her, she did was the Lord asked, and she`s going to be sooo
blessed, and I am so surprised by her example.
This week was awesome, We did
5 different baptismal interviews, with some of the coolest people ever, and we
were able to find some of the coolest people ever too. On saturday we found 2
more families, and yesterday in church we had 12 investigators! I couldn`t
believe it. We were super blessed. And on top of that it was sprinkling rain,
and when it even looks like its going to rain here in Argentina, nobody does
ANYTHING. Everyone just stays in their house, because there is so much mud, so
we truly saw miracles this week. Laura and her kid are progressing
amazingly and she has already comitted strongly to be baptized this weekend. We
went to her house two days ago, did all the baptismal interview questions, and
we finished and she said... chicos... I`m ready to be baptized! Wow how awesome
is that! The spirit is so powerful. That`s the biggest thing i`ve learned this
week. I have also been reading a lot in acts, when the spirit for the first
time in the world began to work like it does now a days, and it`s amazing to
see how the apostles were able to have to much success just because of the
spirit. I think truly as far as numbers go, they probable converted more poeple
than Jesus Christ because of the strength of the spirit. I am so amazed each
time. One of the famlies we found on Saturday is the Family Santander,
and we found them by pure miracle, and we sat down, got to know them really
well, and said they`d like to go to church, but they live SUPER far, so we were
a little worried, but we woke up super early yesterday and passed by each of
our investigators and families, and at the end went by them, and we arrived to
the boyfriend of the mom, which we hadn`t even met yet, and he said, "what
do you guys need?" "We`re just here to go to church
with the family, we met them yesterday and they said they`d go to church with
us....."
"oh, okay let me get them" and he left, and then the little girl
invited us in, and each of them were still sleeping, one of the little girls
had gotten a little sick, and they said "sorry we`re not going to be able
to go today" and the only thing I could think of was to say "oh, but
we actually already called a taxi, and it`s on it`s way, so just get
ready" and as it was coming out I thought... we didn`t call a taxi? And
the mom just said "oh, serious? okay... get ready kids!" and even the
dad got ready and they all came! All seven of us crammed into a TINY little car
and went to church ahhaha. But we visited them last night to see how they liked
church, we get there, she invites us into her house, which nobody ever does
here, and she said, yeah me and my boyfriend already want to get married to get
baptized, and we want all our kids to get baptized too, also, would you like to
come eat with us next sunday?.......... WHAT?! How sick is that?! THey are super
humble, with a tiny little house, but they`re so awesome I already love them..
I really really really hope they keep progressing. So we`re super excited for
them!! Please pray for each of them. The other family we have is the family
Monzòn. and they are two girls, Diana, and Daniela, and they are SUPER
intelligent. Yesterday they LOVED church, and Diana the older one that`s 13
asks us "Did sin exist before we came to earth?" What 13 year old
thinks of a question like that?? They are both super awesome, super excited and
everything. But we`re super blessed, and we wouldn`t have been able to see any
of this if it weren`t for a miracle. Please pray for each of them and we are
going to be working super hard and diligently to help as many of them as we
can. I have a big goal for my last transfer, and I know that i`m going to be
able to hit it if we just keep working as hard as we can. I don`t know that
i`ve ever worked as hard as I am right now, with our area and with the zone as
well, so we`re super excited and super ready to just kill it this
transfer. I`m going down swinging like crazy!! This next week we`ve got
Zone Leader Councel, so i`ll write you on Tuesday, and a member promised to
make us cow tongue, so that`s gonna be cool. But please keep them in your
prayers (Laura, Manuel, Sofia, The Familia Santander, The Familia Monzòn, The
Familia Franco, and Edgardo, and Nico), and I`m so thankful for each of you. I
love you all, have a great week!
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