As far as here in Costanera....we had a super good week. full of miracles.
One
of the miracles of my entire mission has been Marcos. Maybe you
remember him from a few months back? Well he´s back on board. And is
getting baptized in 2 weeks. I am just SO happy for him. Something
changed in him completely. He told us he wanted to come to church and be
baptized. He came Sunday, even after working the entire night and got
home that morning. We had a lesson last night, I asked why he is even
going to church and wants to follow Christ, he just said ´When you know
it´s true, you know it´s true. I feel good there.¨ And then later he
sent us a message telling us he wants to do service for the members. (We
had the lesson at the house of a member and he heard her mention how
she was going to have the door painted...well Marcos told us he will go
back and paint it. Who does that.) We invited him to be baptized and he
said, "I already told you I want to be baptized."...jaja. We had to
officially invite him, to put a date and all.
Other miracle was sunday, having 2
investigadores in the church. I was sitting there playing the piano
prelude, when the counselor came up, and asked me to talk, if the
speaker didn´t come. Oh shoot. So I was sitting there with 2 minutes
until the meeting started....and then I saw the guy walk in. Hallelujah,
I was saved. Well we did the sacrament and then they announced my name
that I was talking. Oh shoot. A year ago I would have peed my pants over
that, but I survived. So I´m walking up there trying to think of a
scripture or something...I start talking, look up from my scriptures,
and a guy Leonardo walks in. Happiest moment. Leonardo is an
investigador we recently found, we taught him a few days ago and invited
him to church, he said he wanted to come. Well as a missionary maybe I
don´t have complete and full faith in all people following up on
that...but he came! He´s 40ish, a teacher, and genuinely interested in
the church. To say the least we were content this sunday. And luckily
our bishop just returned from brasil, and the members were so good to
our investigadores. Funny thing is we were cleaning the church saturday
and had the idea to take out half the benches in the chapel to the
members would be forced to sit next to each other instead of isolated in
their normal spots. Well we had permission from the counselor, but later
he called us and told us it probably wasn't a good idea...so we ended
up putting all the benches back. Good thing I guess, as it was quite
full of members Sunday. Although I still think taking out benches is a
good idea...jaja.
This week we were also blessed with other miracles
to find new people to teach. Three days in a row we ended up on the
exact same streets contacting as los testigos de jehovah. I still
haven´t found the prime opportunity to contact them and give a book of
mormon.... I also found my favorite food here, fugazza, it´s like a
pizza thing with bread on top, experienced crazy rain storms and having
no power, did lots of service for members (I´m getting good at sweeping
sidewalks), ate wheat bread (yes mom, you would be proud), visited
walmart (home sweet). Happy dia de la mujer! It´s a thing here, like
mother´s day. Funny thing is it started in the states, but doesn´t even
exist there.
Of course lots happens every week, but when it comes
to letter writing truth is it doesn´t even sound so good all written
down. Or pertinent to everyone. We had cleaning day. I cooked brownies.
Etc. But it was a good week. And now I will have a new comp, one of the
elders from Costanera is leaving also. But I sure do love being here.
Thanks for all the letters this week! So good to
hear from everyone. Sterling, I about died seeing pics inside your
apartment. What a joke. Enjoy. And just tell your comp that here the
missionaries with bikes are at the TOP of the totem pole. But I do love
hearing your experiences and all. No matter where you service in the
world, truth is there are a lot of similarities.
Congrats to Jack! His family sure has been blessed. Jacob, sorry
buddy. I´m sure you are at least getting spoiled right now. Not having
to any jobs or piano practice or anything. Lucky duck. I guess it´s
getting to be spring there! Weird, cause that means it will be fall
here. Today I did buy winter socks and leggings....and I have to sleep
with a blanket now. I survived summer in Santa Fe.
Love you all. I hope your week is great! I´m sure
grateful to be here in argentina for this little part of my life. More
than anything, to learn and to hopefully become closer to the person god
knows I can become. This gospel is so true, we just have to live it. We
can decide how we react to experiences in our lives, people we enfrent
(and this includes elders...oh boy I am learning patience/tolerance/and
the power of example. We as humans are so imperfect). God truly allows
us to pass through what we need to, to help us prepare and learn and
grow, all through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
Love you. Sigan
Adelante.
hermana andrews
Picture: our zone.....almost half hermanas:) (mom, we ate
salchichas for lunch. hotdogs. boiled. and I ate them. I think being a
missionary has either killed my tastebuds or made me tolerant...)
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