Makin' it Rain

Hey fam!

So this last week was decent, it wasnt like super super amazing, but
it wasnt the worst week ever either. There were some really good
parts of it though :) So first off, i had another question. Is anyone
of you doing family history research? that stuck out a lot to me in
this past week with the things that happened, and i now realize how
important it is to do it, and im super pumped to be able to do it when
i get back. Also, congrats on all your efforts to keep praying as a
family! i know its hard, but its definitely worth it! keep strong, and
youll all be even more blessed!
So this last week wasnt too exciting investigator wise, we have a lot
of potential people that could be baptized, but we´re trying to take
out their last doubts so that they really committ themselves to
baptism. One of them is a kid named Ruben. Ruben is Juana´s friend
Karina´s son, and hes 13. He´s a really cool kid, and he like to come
and accompany us. So we were talking this last week with him and his
mom, and the reason she doesnt want him to get baptized is because hes
kind of crazy in the house and doesnt behave himself. So she wants him
to change that before he can get baptized. But we have some super
good news about him! haha there was a branch baptism on saturday and
we invited all of our investigators and stuff to it. Karina came with
her kid Ruben, Andrea, and Franco. Juana was also there, and she
looked at Franco and was like franco, you gonna get baptized today?
and started laughing, because he´s never even come to a lesson or
anything before. he was kinda like i dunno.....and then i was like
Karina, next week Ruben is getting baptized right? just to see what
she would say. She completely surprised me when she was like Yup,
Ruben is getting baptized, and i want Franco to get baptized as well.
Sweet!!!! So we´re gonna be talking a LOT with them this week so that
they can both get baptized this weekend :) So hopefully we should have
a couple baptisms this week!

Last week, i also went on divisions with the Zone Leaders and it was a
good experience. Theyve got things really well set up there, and it
was good to kind of get away from my town for a while haha I ended up
going with Elder Glock, a kid from california, and it was good. We
ended up talking a lot about what we´ve been studying and it turned
into a ton of deep doctrine. i loved it :) haha i absolutely love
learning from the scriptures now, theres so much to learn.

Apparently while i was gone on divisions, my comp and the other elder
went to juanas house and she had drank a little bit :( but she wasnt
raging drunk like last time, so we´re progressing! i guess nobody had
remembered her birthday or something like that, not even her kids, and
she was feeling bad. but she hasnt drank since then.

But when i got back from divisions, i wasnt feeling too good. we went
and visited a family, and they said everybody there was sick, so i
kind of blame them. but i got back, and that night, thursday, i just
got a huge stomach ache and some ridiculous diarrhea that continued
friday in the morning. i was just wasted, and i ended up sleeping
until like 12 friday morning. but i think im getting better, i just
have a worthless diet that i have to follow.....basically rice,
cheese, crackers, and water until tomorrow or wednesday. so hopefully
ill be perfectly fine by tomorrow :) that was one of the expenses that
i told you about mom.

But this is definitely the best part of the week last week. i dont
know if you guys heard, but after years of renovation, the buenos
aires temple was re-opened last weekend. as part of the celebration,
saturday night was a huge cultular event that got transmitted by
satellite. we could only go if we had investigators with us, so we
figured go big or go home and we took 10 people with us to oran. that
was the majority of our expense, because paying for all of those
people was SUPER expensive. but worth it :) we took juana and 2 of
her kids, and then karina and her family, and Ramons sister Juana who
is not a member. The event was super cool, the 3 apostles who came
down to dedicate the temple were there and they talked a little bit,
and then all the youth from the church in the temple district put on a
huge like dance show, with all of the different cultural dances from
argentina. super cool to watch, and i totally want to buy a gaucho
suit and learn to dance like them.

Then on sunday, we got to go and watch one of the re dedication
sessions of the temple and it was super spiritual. only members could
go to that one, and that was only if they had a current temple
recommend. So we took a bus as a branch and went to Oran again to
watch it. It was really cool, and kind of interesting too. Ive never
seen a temple dedicated before.

We got back from the temple dedication and went to work, and Juana is
still just missioning away! haha she invited more friends over and was
telling them they need to read the book of mormon, go to church, and
get baptized. apparently her other friends that she introduced to us
a while back are pissed because we never visited them(because we dont
know where they live) but apparently they want to get baptized too.
So Ariel or Ramon is going to take us to their house tomorrow, and
hopefully there are some more potential baptisms there! haha

Speaking of baptisms, Marcos was going to get baptized last weekend,
but i guess his mom had told her ex husband that he was going to get
baptized and the ex didnt like that idea very much. We had a lesson
with them Friday night right before Marcos´ mom went to work and when
we went to his house the next day to look for him for his baptism, he
wasnt there. so we ran down to his moms work ready to just rip her a
new one, and turns out marcos´ dad came to town while the mom was at
work and literally kidnapped marcos, without telling his mom or any of
his brothers or sisters where he was taking him. the mom was TICKED.
so hopefully we´ll be able to overcome this barrier too, we´ll see!

but that was about it for last week, hope you enjoy it! haha have a
good week, and hope to hear from you all next week! love you all, and
i appreciate all the support you give me!

Con amor,

Elder Sirrine