Rollin' with the Cumbia

Hey family,

Another week, and were still here having success and working hard :) Today has been the first P-day in a long time that weve actually done something other than sit in the apartment and clean and write letters. We got like 10 or 12 missionaries and some of the guys from our ward together and we all went and played soccer this morning, and it was way fun. I still suck horribly, but it was way fun to play and actually do an activity on a P-day for once haha

So the best news first......we had a baptism on saturday!!!! It was way good. We had a bunch of members come and even an investigator made it there. The ward members were really good to welcome the lady into the ward that got baptized and they talked a lot with our investigator too, so it was awesome. There just happened to be a massive stake relief society activity going on in the church and all the different wards were doing like dances and foods and culture presentations of all the countries in south america. We stayed for a minute to see a dance and make sure that our recent convert and the investigator were in good hands and we got out of there. But i did feel kind of bad during the actual baptism, because the lady Rosa Lopez, is like absolutely terrified of water and has never actually submerged herself completely in water. She ended up having to get baptized like 5 times because she kept freaking out and sticking a part of her body out of the water. But luckily neither me nor my comp were in the water with her, cuz her son has the priesthood, so he had to deal with the awkwardness of the whole thing haha But all in all it was a way good baptism. Rosa was so excited afterward that she kissed both me and my comp on the cheek and there was nothing we could do about it. But shes like 60 years old and not in love with me, so i didnt really care haha

 

We went to a less active members house on friday to do service, because were teaching the mom their and she bought stuff to paint her house like a year ago and still hadnt painted it. So we got there at like 9:30 in the morning and her daughter gave us all the stuff and then had to go to a meeting at the school with her daughter. She left us alone in the house and right before she left she pulled out a giant speaker with a memory card in it and just started blasting cumbia music. So me and my comp were rollin with the cumbia all morning long just painting the house. I kind of felt like a thug cuz the music we were listening to is what all the thieves and like street thugs listen to when theyre partying and getting drunk.....the whole time i felt like i was missing a beer or something and the image would have been just perfect haha But we got her house all painted and she came home just in time to cook us an awesome lunch. So it was a dang good day. And now i know a lot more cumbia songs from argentina too!

During this last week we also started to teach Suzanas oldest son David. Thats a miracle by itself because he told us he was gonna burn her house down when we tried to take the virgin statue out of suzanas house. But we talked with him and found out that the reason that he wants to talk to us is because his life is kind of a wreck and all this bad stuff has happened lately because he does a LOT of cocaine. So we talked with him about prayer and the Book of Mormon, and we got him some goals set to get him off of cocaine. Suzanas other daughter Silvia got to come home from the hospital for the weekend because it was her birthday and she got interned again this morning. So far all of her studies have come out good, and theyre just waiting on the one for toxiplasmosis. They might have to operate on her. So were not exactly sure when shes going to get baptized, but she´ll get there soon! We´re praying a lot for her so she can leave this whole sucky situation behind.

 Oh and your packages got here too, and weve already destroyed the candy haha And i opened peggys fudge there at the church and believe it or not it was still good.....just a lot of oil had come out of the fudge and was all over the container and inside of the box. She individually wrapped every piece and i think thats what saved it. We ate all of it, and so far no one has died so i think were alright haha The sending date on her package was the 19th of January and we ate it the 14 of March....kinda sketchy. But it tasted dang good! So tell peggy extra thanks!

But yeah, i think thats about all for this week! Were going to have another baptism this week, and it will probly be my last here in Tucuman, because we wont baptize conference weekend, because we dont want our investigators to wait a week before theyre confirmed. So ill let you know how our next baptism goes next week! Thanks for writing and i love you all!

Con amor,

Elder Sirrine