Dear family,
Another week has come and by, and we are that much closer to transfers and a full 6 months out here in the mission! Crazy!!!! And i actually have a shift key this week, so hopefully you can look forward to some punctuation that is at least a little bit better. We are still in the middle of a baptism drought, and it doesnt look like its going to end soon....we are working as hard as we can, but we still cant get our freaking investigators to come to church, and its so frustrating!!! We even had like a whole training about it the last conference that takes away every single excuse you could have not to come to church and only leaves you with the fact that you dont want to partake of the sacrament and be clean. Weve been teaching that all this week and our investigators should understand so much better, and we had 0 investigators in church on sunday! I was super disappointed and a little bit angry too. I feel like were doing the best that we can and things still arent working when they should be. Or maybe our investigators just want to go to hell, and we keep managing to find all the people who dont care about their personal salvation. Freakin come to church!!! And all you who are reading go to church! There is no excuse not to go, unless you are dying and vomiting all over the place youre so sick. Get to that building!
So now that ive got that rant out of me, we can continue :) We didnt have very much success this week, but were still going along. We went to that little town of San Andres again and we actually managed to find some members who were home. 2 of them said they would never come back to church again because they were in need when they went to church, and they talked to the bishop, and he refused to help either of them. So they both got super pissed and have decided not to come back....looks like weve got a hefty lesson on pardon coming up. But we did find one who only doesnt go because the street in front of the chapel is sketchy and shes scared cuz she doesnt have anyone to go with. But we got her hooked up with another family who lives there and goes, so she should be there next week! Also, while we were walking back to ride the bus back into downtown, a lady called us over to her door. She was like hey come here! So we went and turns out it was a transvestite.....commonly known as the Goddess of San Andres. She/He started flirting with me and saying how pretty i was, if i wanted to come over to her house for a beer and she promised to give me dessert, and then she said im a little lost sheep, can you take me into your flock? All of this was very provocative and hilarious. We went away from the house laughing our heads off. Argentina is insane!
Another crazy thing that happened. We had to take a taxi home the other night cuz we were gonna be late, and so we were about to contact this taxi driver. We started talking to him and he just kinda grunted at us and didnt seem interested.....then we noticed a little white bag of powder that he had in his left hand. He kept sticking his finger in it and then wiping it on the inside of his mouth. And then at every stoplight, he would stick some up his nose and sniff it. He was totally drugging himself up while he was driving us around! haha We kind of left him alone after that...
Speaking of people like that, the one thief overlord boss guy talked to us in the street the other day and wants us to come to his house cuz he wants to stop drinking and stuff. So we went and he wasnt there, but were gonna keep passing by to see if we can get in. Also we walked past some of his minions the other day and they were eating sandwiches and drinking water on top of this bridge. They were like hey, want some water?! it was super hot, so we were like alright, and went and talked with them for a while haha They gave us some of their water and it was all good! Were literally following Jesus´s example there and drinking with the publicans and sinners! haha
We visited a lady the other day who we thought was less active, but turns out shes super active, but is like 90 years old and goes to another ward with her kids cuz they take her there. All of her kids are members, but none of her grandkids are.....not really sure how that happens. But she had a piano in her house and i played it, and i guess one of her grand daughters recently started playing, and this lady called her so she could hear me play. She wanted the name of the song so she could find it and she said she would probly need my help. So looks like ill be going back to teach her lessons, and pretty soon were gonna start learning church hymns! haha
Elder Lindsey have recently started dream logs, cuz we both started dreaming a ton when we got here to Argentina....its super hard to remember, but when we were talking about it with another missionary, he said its smart to do that cuz you can look back on the dreams you wrote down that maybe didnt mean anything then, but now they have significance and theyre revelatory dreams! So were doing that now......so far, its all just kinda been a bunch of garbage, but im gonna keep doin it!
We went to Suzanas house last night and shes having a ton of problems. Shes fighting with all of her daughters except for 2, her one grandkid has diabetes now out of nowhere and theyre in Buenos Aires trying to get it all treated up, and Suzana has to give them money because they dont have any. The thing is that Suzana doesnt have any either, and shes in debt up to her eyeballs now because of all of this. Her godson recently got in an accident and is in a coma, and just all this bad crap is happening. So she told us last night that she thinks its because she ditched the virgin and now the virgin is mad at her and cursing her. She said if all this bad stuff keeps happening shes gonna quit going to church. We basically told her she was retarded and quitting church was the last thing she should ever do. Hopefully we got to her, cuz just the fact that she said that is kinda scary.....pray for her and her family!
But i think thats about all for this week......thanks for all the support and thanks for writing me! I hope to hear from everybody next week! Love you all!
Con amor,
Elder Sirrine
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