This week we had so much hope and were working super, super hard with Rofino,
and he is progressing really well and was supposed to be baptized yesterday,
but obviously with that, he wasn´t. He got called in to work on Thursday and
they needed him in another pueblo...and he couldn´t make it to church and we
didn´t feel comfortable baptizing him if he didn´t come to church that day, but
we placed a new date for this Saturday, so keep him in your prayers that he can
be baptized on that day.
We
also found an awesome family…and THEY ARE MARRIED!!!! IT´S A MIRACLE IN ITSELF!
The dad´s name is José Maria and the mom´s name is Maria José...what? They are
¨super catholic¨ but never go to church...but we taught them the restoration
and they really listened and they had tons of questions! They couldn´t come to
church though because they were going out of town for a birthday party or
something like that. That was a bummer, but they said that they would come
to church this coming week.
Really
Sunday was super hard for us because we had a ton of people comprometido a la
iglesia (committed to come to church) but NONE of them came...We have another
family that we found this week...they aren´t married, but the mom, Vanessa has
two kids with another guy and now she is pregnant with Kevin´s kid, so yeah,
that´s like super typical for Argentina. But Kevin is an alcoholic and he has
had problems with abuse in the past so he´s a little rough around the edges,
but he has such a desire to change. The first time we met him he told us all of
this in the street, and that he wants to change before the baby is born! (You
have come to the right place my friend) We tried to teach him during the week
but he wasn´t home. Then we passed by before church on Sunday and he said they
were getting ready and would be there soon...well a solid hour of waiting
later...they never came...sad.
We
had quite the interesting week in our house there was a lot of sickness going
around and we had to keep doing divisions with the other hermanas so we could
all see all of our investigators but it was alright, not insanely productive
but the work needs to be done. It was super cool, I got to spend a few hours
with Hermana Williams, she is one of my companions after Hermana Zubeldia left.
But anyway when I was companions with her, she and I contacted this house in
the area and some guy answered the door and he was interested but nothing too
special, but guess what!? HE IS A PROGRESSING INVESTIGATOR!! He is talking with
them like four times a week and I guess he has been to church twice now!!!
Yay!!!
I
love seeing the fruits of contacting. Especially right now when most the time
we are contacting it´s just super hot and everyone is sleeping so when we
finally find someone, it´s awesome when they start to progress!!
Oh I
forgot to tell you guys, but last week we had divisions with our Sister
Training Leaders! It was awesome! I worked with Hermana Montelegre who is from
Columbia for an entire day. I had a whole day with zero English! AHHH! How
scary! But how fun! I learned so much just from the short time we were
together, I was super nervous going in, but it was awesome! She already worked
in Barrio 2 so she knew tons!
Today
we had interviews with our Mission President! He is awesome! And his wife is
the cutest thing in the whole world; I attached a picture of that! hahaha I
love when we get the chance to see and to talk to them. They come once a
transfer to every single area in the mission, I don´t know if that is normal
for all the missions but I love it. To have such close contact with your
leaders is such a blessing, especially when your leaders are the best!
Funny
story of the week. I was making breakfast one day and I see this huge thing in
the window...it´s a spider, a HUGE spider. So I ran and got the Raid to try to
kill it...Raid did NOTHING...I sprayed it like 20 times. Nothing. Then my
companion was like we should just catch it on fire...hahaha we used aerosol
hairspray and a lighter and lit it on fire.
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| The spider |
This
week was a little random and quite different than the rest but I´m still a
missionary preaching the same gospel and I love every minute of it. I love
sharing this message of happiness with everyone here in Santa Rosa it really is
the best!
Always,
Hermana
Barker
xoxo
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