To preface this week's letter, let me start off by sharing the text that I got early on Monday morning from Taylor:
"Mom and Neccia...whoever gets this text first. My companion and I were robbed by gypsies this week and my comp needs money. Can you please put some into my account."
Needless to say, we worried all day wondering what had happened and if it was really real. The following explains how brilliant Taylor and his companion are!! Still little boys!!
Hey family!
So this last week was good, and i gained one of the greatest
mission stories ever as you all know! haha But ill go into that later.
This last week was good, except for the weekend :( Turns out that
melanis mom wont give her permission to get baptized until after she
completes the catholic confirmation, and that wont be for like 3 years.
I guess when her older brother alez got baptized, he had already done
all that, so that was why his mom was cool with him getting baptized.
We just learned last night that her mom said she can get baptized now if
she still does the Confirmation in the Catholic church later, but we
dont know if thats possible, so well see what happens.
Other than that, the week was way good! We found some way awesome
people and one family that is amazing! They are the Padilla family. The
first time, we knocked their door and the dad let us in and we just
taught him. We invited him to invite his family to the next lesson and
he totally did! His wife and 2 daughters actually participated and his
son was there, but ran off somewhere. His daughter in an inactive
evangelical, but still has the mentality of an active one, cuz we had to
defend a lot of our doctrine against her and answer a lot of her
questions. it was pretty fun. So yeah, the dad loves us, and if we can
get him to get baptized, the rest of the family will follow suit!
The other guy we found last week, his name is Kiko! Hes kind of a
recluse, but he wasnt that way before. He has his own producing/editing
company and apparently he does/has done some pretty big stuff down here
in argentina! hes way cool and we had a good lesson with him. When we
explained about the book of mormon, he said that he had always wondered
what had happened with the people from america and why jesus was only in
jerusalem and what not. So that was a way cool spiritual moment, and
hes super interested in the Book of Mormon now. Also, he had found this
one video thats a documentary of this guy going around the world asking
everyone what they think god is. in spanish its called what is god,
but english its oh my god. he burned us a copy of it and we got
permission from the mission president to watch it during the next few
days if we have time. im pretty curious as to what the people are going
to say.
That was really all of the spiritual stuff, so nows here for the
not so spiritual. First, on thursday we went to go buy some ground meat
for lunch and my comp bought vegetables while i was buying the meat.
Apparently, i didnt know how to buy or ask for the meat in the right
way, cuz youre supposed to ask how much it is a kilo, then watch them
weigh it carefully to make sure they dont screw you, cuz they like doing
that to americans a lot cuz they think we have lots of money and theyre
very dishonest. So yeah, i didnt know any of that, and the guy ended up
giving me about 3 pesos worth of meat and made me pay 10. My comp was
TORQUED. so yeah, watch your meats in south america.
And now the most anticipated part of all, the infamous robbing by
gypsies!!!! So my comp and i were walking along and this gypsy woman
sitting in front of her house waved us over. So we went over with the
intentions of teaching the gospel. When we get there, she starts going
off about how handsome we are and how she was going to read our palms
for free cuz we were so handsome. So she makes us sit down and starts
going off about our hands and then asks us if we want luck in work or in
love. My comp says work, i say love to be different. So then she was
like to my comp take out your money that you have right now and well
bless it so that you will receive like a billion times more! so he takes
out a 50 cuz that was the smallest he had at the time. she puts it in
the middle where our hands our and then asks if he has more money on him
and if he does he needs to put it in there too so it can be blessed.
She makes him take out his wallet and she find the 100 in there and puts
it in with the rest. she told me to take out my money too so it could
be blessed. i luckily only had 15 pesos. so i put it there, she
crumples it all together, and then she tells her son to get a glass of
water. She takes the money and then her son dumps all this water all
over it! i dont know if she like swiped the 100 out of there first or
no, but she totally destroyed all the money and said that even though
that hurt, he would gain much much much more in the future. So then with
the crumpled mass of shredded bills in her hands, she tells me to take
off the ring so we can bless it for love. So taking it off, i put it in
the money and then she has us blow on it and what not so its blessed
and ill have lots of luck in love. Then she says for the blessing to be
complete, the ring has to stay with her, and i would have the love i
wanted and my comp would have the work and the money. So i left it
there so i could say i got robbed by gypsies and we went on our way!
haha my comp was pretty pissed after that cuz that 150 pesos was what
was left of his monthly asignation. I literally laughed my head off for
20 minutes because we got screwed by this gypsy lady, and then realized
that i would probly have to pay for my comps food for the rest of the
month. so yeah, there you go! haha we got robbed by gypsies!
But thats about it for the week! lov you all and hope to hear from you next week! STAY AWAY FROM GYPSIES!!!!
Con amor,
Elder Sirrine
hahaha oh taylor. can't believe they gave their money to the gypsy. funny funny boys. glad he's doing well!
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