¡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!
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| Elder Roderick demonstrates how to drink mate tea. |
Elder Roderick
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