Cooking steaks and another baptism!!!

My Clothes Don't Fit

Hey family!

Hows everything going this week? This week flew by even faster than the one before and its crazy! This transfer is already half over and ive almost been out 7 months. Before you know it, itll be transfers again and hopefully ill be shipped out to a new area!

So first off, we were going to have those 4 baptisms last week, but they all fell through except for 1. Let me explain what happened. So we were going to baptize Silvia, Suzanas daughter, but she got interned in the hospital on monday for a sickness that she has that is worse than they thought at first. So when she got interned, her little boy Facundo got sent to his dads house which is kind of far away and we couldnt finish teaching him. And then Jessica wanted to get baptized with Silvia, and we decided to give her more time, cuz some stuff is still up in the air that needs to be fixed. So that kinda sucked. But we visited silvia in the hospital friday and she gets the results of all of her tests that they did to her either today or tomorrow so well find out exactly when she can get baptized.

But now the other baptism! Her name is Rosa Juarez and she is the wife of a less active guy who has been less active for 30 years. But one of her kids is a member and he goes to church regularly with his family. So she got baptized on Saturday and it was cool to see the son baptize his mom. It was all tender and whatnot after he baptized her cuz he kissed her on the cheek and they were hugging and stuff. So it was a good baptism :) They also invited us to an asado afterwards and what that is is the all time famous steak here in Argentina. And oh my gosh it was amazing! Argentino, Rosas husband, put down some money to buy all that meat! i took some pictures of it so you can see how they cook it and what not. But yeah, best steak EVER. She also got confirmed on Sunday and now she is a happy member :)

This past week we did zone wide divisiones, and so that means that every single companionship within the zone, someone went and someone came. So we all had new companions for the day. My comp was Elder Vallejos. I ended up not feeling good on tuesday night, the night before the divisions and then wednesday morning in the morning i threw up like 5 times and had diarrhea and all that good stuff. So my new comp and i basically stayed inside the pension all day except for district meeting and lunch. I had to suffer through watching them eat lunch and then i went and slept for like 4 hours. We did leave for like 3 hours at night, but everyone failed us anyways, so our division was basically worthless. i felt bad that he came here and then basically he had to stay cooped in the pension with me.

Oh and while ive been sick ive had diarrhea like mad. Its also super hot so its hard to keep sufficiently hydrated and i have lost like 6 pounds....I went and weighed myself the other day and i weigh freakin 175. Im like disgustingly skinny and i dont look good with it, especially cuz my clothes are all baggy now and dont fit me.

But other than that, it was a good week! haha were still working hard and we should have a lot more baptisms before the end of the month, so ill keep you all updated! Cant wait to hear from you all next week! Love you!

Con Amor,

Elder Sirrine

Sweet Hour of Prayer

Hey family,

 

This transfer is absolutely flying by and last week went by pretty fast. Me and my comp are absolutely tearing things up here in Tucuman, and were starting to see some promising results.  My comp and i are starting to get used to each other and were teaching together better too. He still does most of the teaching, but hes taught me a lot and im feeling a lot better about how our investigators are understanding everything.  Before i get started on what happened last week, i just wanted to say something to you guys as a family.  I love you!

Alright, so here it goes.  We had a way good week, fulfilled all the mission goals that they have set for us, and even went beyond them in lessons, new investigators, investigators in church, all that.  We had 7 people come to church this week and it was awesome! A little chaotic trying to get people to introduce themselves and get people to sit by them and whatnot, but so worth it! Also, because some of those people came to church yesterday, there are 4, maybe 5 that are going to get baptized this weekend! 1 of them is Suzanas daughter Silvia, the other is Silvias son Facundo, and then her niece Jessica, and maybe Suzanas granddaughter Sofia, and last but not least, Rosa Juarez.  Im SUPER stoked for this weekend.  Its gonna be a soul savin party! Were trying to get Rosa´s son Argentino to baptize her because he is a member and has the priesthood. 

 

We will probly have at least 5 more baptisms before the month is over, and a lot of that is because were focusing on finding all the less actives in our area in the member directory.  We go and find their houses, start talking with them, and then if they have kids that arent baptized, we talk with them and we start activating their family by baptizing their kids.  Were going to have at least 4 from that i think from the less actives that weve already found.  We found one lady in that little pueblito of San Andres and she has 2 kids who arent baptized.  Her son Lautaro is a freakin stud that knows like everything about the bible but wants to read the Book of Mormon too.  He just wants to know everything. We also had a meeting with the ward mission leader the other day and apparently me and my comp are now the only ones in charge of San Andres.....so our massive area just got even bigger.  Its super hard to balance it all.  But were doin it! 

 

Also, we have an investigator named Cristian, who is the friend of a member named Victor.  Victor recently started to re-activate and brought Cristian to a lesson with him one time.  Cristian is evangelical and knows a ton about the bible.  He was pretty interested and came to church last week and liked it and everything, but we went to his house the other day and he told us that he received a voice in his head one day that basically told him he was going to enter into apostasy, and he took that as his answer that his religion is true.  But he still agrees to meet with us, so were gonna keep doing our best with him. We were talking with Victor about him the other day and we found out that Cristian is dating his pastor´s daughter, so that could be a giant reason that he doesnt want to change.....we´ll see haha

 

As with all comps, me and mine have had some struggles, but we get over them.  Hes Latino, and from that he doesnt really understand the meaning of a schedule. Its really hard to get him to leave the apartment on time, and it frustrates me sometimes.  Once we get out we work our butts off and get stuff done, but a lot of times we leave late.  But hes getting better.  Im trying not to get mad too, cuz contention is of the devil! He´s still super cocky too, but i kind of dropped cane on him the other day for that and have prideful he is and hes toned it down a little bit.  At least hes humble enough to accept what i say and try to fix it. 

 

But yeah, i think thats about it for this week!  We are gonna baptize everyone in this area if it kills us! haha but look forward to more success in the coming weeks, and a lot more baptism photos! As always, i look forward to hearing from all of you and cant wait to talk to you next week! Love you all!!!!

 

Con amor,

 

Elder Sirrine