January 26, 2015
Hey! How’s it going? This week has
been pretty good!! We have had lunch almost every day this week, so that has
been really good!! I love not having to wash my own dishes!! It’s pretty nice!!
I get a free meal and then I don’t even have to clean up!! I love it!! lol!!! The
members in this area are so cool! They are very good to us and are very generous to feed us. They are always happy to help us wherever they can. I am
very grateful!! The food here is pretty yummy!! I really like it!! (If you had
not picked up on that from previous letters). Ha-ha!! Unfortunately, the water in our
pension tastes pretty funny. So we buy juice packets. I don’t think I have had
a glass of plain water, other than in a member’s house for over a month!! Ha-ha!
The water tastes pretty milky and stuff! It’s pretty gross and I still can’t
get used to it!!
Today we are getting together as a
zone to play some sports so that should be pretty fun! I am excited for that!! But
lately my toe has been bothering me a little bit again L I am taking the antibiotics again, because I think it is
infected! So hopefully it will heal pretty soon!! It only hurts when I stub it
really hard against something!!
Some really great things happened
this week! Do you remember that investigator that I wrote to you about, the one
who took a bus an hour and a half for church? We tried to visit her!! Our area
is San Lorenzo and then every other “pueblo” up to Santa Fe, which is about 2
hours away. The President had told us to focus on San Lorenzo so that’s what we
have been doing. But she showed some serious interest in the church, so we
decided that we needed to go find her and teach her the gospel. Her son recently
got baptized in Spain and now he is telling her that she needs to investigate!!
Well, on Friday we decided to go up there! There is one specific bus that goes
up there, so when we saw the bus that we thought went up there, we asked the
bus driver, “dos para Serodino?” He said,
“si 11 pesos,” so we paid and sat on the bus. Well 1 hour later he says “end of
the line” and drops us off in some pueblo in the middle of nowhere!! After we
found out where we were, we were still determined to get to Serodino so we
asked around and found out where the bus passes (busses don’t stop, we have to
wave them down and it slows down and we hop on.) We waited 45 minutes when we finally
saw it coming and tried to wave it down! But he just stared at us and kept
driving!! We were like what the heck?! So, sadly we had to take a bus back to San
Lorenzo. That was our adventurous Friday morning.
We had a baptism on Saturday! G
is his name! He is 9 and his dad baptized him which was pretty cool!! Everything
went super well so we were really happy!!
The sisters in a branch near us also
had a baptism, but their building does not have a font, so they came to ours
later in the day. Well the brother that was supposed to baptize the new sister had
to go to Rosario that morning and did not make it back in time. So, I was asked
to do the baptism!! We ran back to the pension, I grabbed my whites, and ran back.
I was pretty excited!! I got to baptize her!! It was so awesome!!! I did not
know her too well but was so happy to be part of her special day!! It made for
a great Saturday!!
After church on Sunday we talked
with some members to see if they could drive us to Serodino where this
investigator lives. C is her name! So, we piled into their small car,
which only goes 70 km per hour and whose windows don’t work, and we were on our
way!! We found it quickly and taught her the first lesson! She wants to get
baptized and has set the date for February 28th. I am so excited for her!!
That’s all for this week! I love you
guys!!
P.S. if you were to send another
package I would like to put in some requests;
Glasses cleaner
Books from The Doctrine of Salvation
series
The Miracle of Forgiveness
Thanks! Love you guys!!
Elder Carter
First time baptizing in Argentina
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