So this last week was excellent!!!! It had a really good ending too, so im pretty satisfied with whats going on haha So before i get into details, i had some more requests! haha First off, send me stickers! it doesnt matter what, but send stickers, like a couple sheets or something. sometimes letters are boring to write and its fun to throw that in there. and the kids here absolutely LOVE them. Also, you should go buy some classical music CDs, preferably piano solos and send them to me, along with my One Voice CDs. oh, and go on youtube and search for ThePianoGuys, its John Schmidt and that cello dude playing tons of covers of songs and stuff. You should see if you can get all those songs on CD or like in MP3 format and send them to me as well :) We can listen to that before you ask if its allowed haha And also, if you could send a Gilette fusion razor(if you can find it, the one that vibrates) and some replacement heads. ive got a flippin MAN beard and these wimpy argentines dont grow facial hair, and the biggest razor i can find has 3 blades and sucks. So there are my requests! haha And now on to the good stuff.
So the week started off with a FHE with Juana and her family, it was really good, especially cuz a member from the ward went to their house and did it for them, so we basically just participated, and talked with the new people that Juana invited over. She has all of her friends coming now. Theres Rocio and her 3 daughters Cristina, Abigail, and Alejandra, and then Analia with her two kids Valentina and Roman, and then of course Karina with her 2 sons Ruben and Franco, and her daugher Andrea. Juana is still just goin to town inviting all of her close friends and in every appointment she tells them that they need to read their Book of Mormon, they need to pray, and they need to go to church so that all of them can get baptized like she did. She always goes off about how awesome the church and how good it makes you feel, and then she tells them that even though they dont really understand much right now, they will and this is the right thing for them to do. Flippin AWESOME missionary. All of her friends want to get baptized, except were going to have to work with all of the moms and their "husbands" because none of them are married. But thats alright, we´ve got God on our side :)
During the week though, i was sick a little bit, and on Friday, we didnt go out to work in the morning cuz i couldnt leave the bathroom for more than like 10 minutes. I slept until like 3 o clock that day haha but now im completely healthy and fine, so dont worry! i shouldnt have mentioned it anyways, cuz it only worries you guys.
We were also doing divisions on Friday for baptismal interviews, and this guy came up to us in the street and told us he was a member, but inactive and that he wanted to come back to the church. He had recently moved back here to the Colonia and told us he wanted us to pass by his house because he has three stepkids that arent baptized. Him and his wife are both members, his 3 kids are members, but hers arent. So we went by on Sunday, and we met the whole family. The oldest kid of his wife, Martin, seems the most interested. He was listening to the missionaries a lot in their other town, went to church all the time, and was always super involved with the church activities and stuff like that. So we tried to take out a baptismal date with him for this Saturday, but theres something holding him back, so we have to find out what that is so we can take that doubt away and get him baptized!
And the best part of the whole week!!!! Ruben and his brother Franco both got baptized!!!! It was super sick. We had to do some convincing with their mom Karina, but both of them ended up getting baptized and confirmed and it was a cool experience. After their baptism i was asking their mom how she would like to see her whole family in white, and she said she would love to see it. So then i started talking to her daugher Daiana and told her she had to come to church and whatnot so she could see her brothers get confirmed. Supposedly she hogs the book of mormon in her house and never lets anyone else read it, but she never comes to the lessons we have with her family, cuz of something with her mom. We havent really figured it out yet.But we´re gonna try with her next i think to get baptized and also with her sister Andrea, cuz Andrea has already gone to church a lot, but says she wants to keep going on with the catholic school and do the communion and confirmation......gay. But with time, they too will be wearing white :)
There was another little issue with Juana and Ariel this last week, cuz i guess Ariel stole quite a bit of money from his cousin or aunt, not really sure what relationship it is to him, and Juana flipped out and started drinking again. She was saying her usual stupid stuff about never going to church again and stuff, but we got her calmed down and then the branch president went to her house the next day and gave her and ariel a good talking to and everythings fine :)
I also killed my comp today!!! Elder Lessing officially is going home after serving his full two year mission haha We went around last night saying around to all the members and we left a couple of families crying haha They liked my comp a lot. So much in fact, that they destroyed him with flour, eggs, and water. how nice haha And now because hes gone, i get to fill in his shoes. When we got the transfer news last night, i found out that i am the new district leader, and im also prego right now haha I get to train! Im super pumped for it, but im a little nervous too, cuz thats kind of a lot of responsability put on my shoulders. I personally hope that my kid is a gringo, cuz we´ll be able to relate better and whatnot, but we´ll see what the lord wants!
But yeah, that was about all for my week, im super pumped for this week, and ill tell you how everything goes! Love you all, thanks for writing faithfully every week, and hope to hear from you all next week! Love you!!!
Con amor,
Elder Sirrine
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