This week we traveled...again! jaja. suprise! But seriously....we
traveled half the mission. First we went to Concordia for zone meeting.
Literally 10 minutes before we left our apartment to go, we got a call
from the office that we had tramites[paperwork] for my comps visa also. So we went
to Concordia in the afternoon, had a meeting, attempted to sleep for 2
hours in the apartment of the hermanas there, had a bus ride in the
middle of the night to Paraná, arrived and all 12 of us missionaries
(attempted?) to sleep on the oh-so-comfy church benches for a little,
then we had a training for all new people and leaders. Then that
afternoon we took a bus to Rosario. We slept in the mission home that
night, did the paperwork stuff, and took a bus back to Colón that night.
Quite the time...it´s what we get for being in Entre Rios!
The training with president was just lovely, it´s always good to
hear him talk. A very powerful man. He spoke about the importance of the
spirit. There is also some new program for all missionaries, about
emotional health, that they introduced. I always figured yoga and ice
cream solves the problems of stress and all....but it is to help all the
new missionaries adjust to the missionary life. Paraná is a pretty big
city, the bus terminal is full of gypsy ladies who rob your stuff and
poor little kids that sell stuff and beg all day.
Then in Rosario, we
went with the office elders to pick up a new hermana that had just
arrived. The elder who was driving us in the mission van, was driving
for the first time manual (out of the church parking lot...) Oh my
goodness, I don´t know if I will be able to let my kids drive....it
literally may have been one of the scariest moments of my life as we
almost died about 5 times in the insane streets of Rosario.
We had a cool experience while my comp was doing tramites for visa.
In this building it is very diverse, as the people there are from other
countries. We were next to 2 guys from Haiti who are living here now.
We talked for quite a while about the church and everything, but it was
interesting as spanish is not their first language, they speak french
and creole, a little english, I speak english and spanish...jaja. It was
translating between 3 languages!
This week there was also a baptism for a kid in our branch. The
dad, Martin, was the first missionary who left from Colón (and since
then there has only been one other...). He is very much into sharing the
gospel, the chuch was packed with people, their friends and non member
families. It was a really good experience, we had numerous menos activos
who went, and we even had the elders from our district come. The
baptismal font....oh boy. Every possible thing seems to break loose
before a baptism...We were able to get a new pileta (little swimming
pool), as the old one made a lake covering the entire floor. The day
before Martin went to fill it up, there was no water. At some point the
water went back on during the night, and the handle thing was left on.
The morning of a member found 6 inches of water covering the entire
floor....but then there wasn´t water to fill it. It was quite the day,
at one point we resorted to using a little hose and bucket to carry
water from a spout close to the street. In the end we were able to get a
longer hose, and we didn´t have to have a baptism in the river.
There was a socieded de socorro activity for mother´s day. Our
investigador Antonela went with us, it was a lovely little time in the
park with all the moms and their kids. And mate of course.
We had a miracle this week with Antonela. While we were in Rosario we
called her, and ended up talking to her husband, who is never there. He
told us that they want to get married now so that she can be baptized,
and not wait until March!!!! It was such happy news for us! (as we had
been planning a hardcore law of chastity and marriage lesson. jaja) They
completely changed! The next day we went to her house, and she told us
that they decided it is more important to be married now than have a big
fiesta!!! The sad news....that she went to the place to do the
paperwork and all, and found out there are only civil marriages some
semanas, and you have to sacar a turno (take a number??), and it is full
until December! ugh. Now that they want to get married, there isn´t a
day to do it! We are praying for another miracle, that they will be
able to get married.
I got that dear elder mom, thanks! Those are great to send, if you
can send copies of talks through dear elder that would be appreciated:)
Who are the girls landon´s age? Seriously, you have the best calling.
Ethan, how was your vacay?
Thanks for the updates and
everything! (mom...spud, the guy bald guy, is married! yep. And tricia
is pregnant!!!!) I´m glad I could teach you some good FB skills!
Love you all!
hermana andrews
p.s.
I chopped my hair. Well, my comp chopped it. I wasn´t sure if I should
have more confidence in her or in finding some place here...but hey, ya
fue! The ends were pretty nasty damaged, and hey it will all grow back.
p.p.s. I saw some advertisment for a car wash, and it used the Utah
licence plate in the background. Utah! with the arches and all! how
random, huh.
p.p.p.s This is the happy 9 months pic, taking a wild ride.
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