Familia,
Occasionally
in San Juan there is a “Sonda” which is a strong, hot wind that comes from the North
of the country and is actually very dangerous because it causes headaches,
fevers and chills. This week, I met the
thing. We were out working in the
afternoon when we started to feel the wind and to be honest, it got the best of
me. That’s for sure! I had a huge headache and I felt like a
zombie walking around. So, I had to take
the afternoon off and take a nap because I was legit dead. Fortunately, I’m feeling better now.
We
spent a good amount of time this week with President Panzacchi because we had interviews
as well as Zone Conference. I had a good
interview with President and he gave me some great advice about prayer. As missionaries, we pray a lot with the
people that we teach, and personally. He
invited me to take some time before each prayer to just sit back and think for
minute about what I want to say. It
actually works really well! Since we
pray so much, sometimes I get lazy and repeat things but now it’s easier to
make my prayers more personal and more effective.
During
our Zone Conference, we talked a lot about our teaching skills and how we can
have more effective lessons with our investigators. Now, we are trying to have more frequent
lessons that are simple and shorter instead of longer and deep doctrine filled
lessons. By doing this, we can have
contact with our investigators more often and we can teach more lessons during the
day to more people. We also focused on
how we can explain the Apostasy more clearly to our investigators so they
understand that the Church of Jesus Christ was truly lost and it needed to be
restored by some homie named, Joseph Smith.
A
very cool thing happened to me this week.
I was able to baptize a member in the ward who had fallen away from the church
and wanted to be rebaptized. This member
is a big dude so they had to call on the biggest Elder, which happened to be
me, to baptize him. So, I baptized him and luckily, everything went fine. I
basically baptized myself because I had to make sure he went all the way under
the water. Ha ha.
One
of the funny things that happened this week occurred when we were talking to a man,
who is about 60-70 years old, outside of his house. We were just chatting with him and trying to
teach him. So, we asked him for his name.
He said, “My name is Martinez but the girls call me Jorgito.” I was
legit dying of laughter at this older man who was telling us that the ladies
have a nickname for him.
We
were able to have some awesome lessons with Ayelen, who is one of our best
investigators right now. Like the
majority of Argentina, she’s Catholic so we have found a lot of differences in
our beliefs but she always has such good questions. Her questions are awesome
and they tell us that she’s actually listening to us and paying attention. We talked with her about the Book of Mormon
and shared that it’s important because it provides evidence of the Restoration.
This
week we also taught the Torres Family and they are progressing really well.
Pablo, the father, is the son of the bishop in the neighboring ward. So, they know a lot about the church. One thing that I love about teaching them is
that the wife, legit, fills out the pamphlets that we give them. She underlines or highlights the parts she
likes. So, when we go to their house for
our lessons with them, they are always prepared with good questions. Now we just need to get them married!
Have a great week!
Elder Roderick
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