Saturday, November 4, 2017

A Witness to Their Faith

¡Hola!,                                                                                                           

Happy Halloween! There isn’t any trick-or-treating in Argentina but I’ll make sure to buy myself a Kit Kat or something tomorrow so I have the Halloween spirit.  Haha!
            We had another beautiful week here in Villa Krause.  I’ve learned that the sun hits a little harder here in San Juan than in the other cities in the mission.  The afternoons are getting pretty hot and my farmer’s tan is coming in really nice. Our week was very effective.  One of the most promising investigators we’re working with right now is Lantaro, who is the 10-year old son of a less-active family in our ward. His dad has been a member for 10 years but a while ago he moved south to work and during that time, he lost contact with the church.  Then, when he returned, he didn’t get back into the habit of attending church. So, we are trying to help the whole family break their habit of sleeping in on Sunday and instead, build the habit of coming to church. Lantaro is such a stud! Even though he’s only a 10-year old, he reads the pamphlets we give him like they’re comic books. I think that eventually the family will take a leap of faith and come back to the chapel.
            On Tuesday, we had interviews again with President Panzacchi and the two of us had another good chat. To be honest, the mission has changed a ton since the change in Presidents but it’s been good to have some changes.  President Panzacchi is really focusing on the urgency of our work by simplifying the lessons and making sure that we aren’t losing any time. President and I also talked about the faith and confidence needed to find the people who are truly waiting for us and prepared to receive our message. I’m not gonna lie, this is something that is always hard because we get rejected a lot.  But, having faith and confidence to keep working is necessary in order for us to eventually find success in our work.
            

             Another investigator who is progressing well is Jessica. She is a young mom, whom we found a few weeks ago. During our lesson with her this week she told us that she is cousins with a large family of members in our ward. We were so surprised to hear this news and so excited as well because her relationship with this family has provided her with a lot of knowledge about the church. She is a devoted Catholic so we are trying to help her understand the ways our church is different. Jessica has turned into one of our homies and she always making sure that we have dinner.  So, we’ll see what happens with Jessica.
            The highlight of our week was a little road trip we took to an hour south, into the Assistant’s area.  In this area, they are working to establish the church in a town called Media Agua (look it up on Google) and they are having a ton of success. We went there to give one of their investigators their baptismal interview. So, we were lucky enough to interview the first members of Media Agua. They baptized seven people in one day so it was a pretty cool experience! The people in this town think the missionaries are deity. So, that’s pretty cool too! The best part of the day was, during the interviews, I had the opportunity to listen to the new members bare their testimonies to me about the truthfulness of the gospel.  Three months ago, they had no idea the church existed and now they live in a town where twenty people go to church.  It was an awesome experience to witness their faith!

Have a GOOD WEEK!


Elder Roderick demonstrates how to drink mate tea.



Elder Roderick

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