Excitement in the Chapel and on the Street

¡Hola Familia!                                                                                                          

We had another solid week here in San Luis.  It was another short week because I had to travel but it was good week anyway.

            I think one of the best parts of the week was on Sunday during church because we filled the whole chapel.  Down here in Argentina, summer is coming to a close which means that all of the families are returning from their summer vacations.  Their return has filled the chapel and there has been a lot of excitement on Sundays, which has made the investigators feel a lot more comfortable.  It’s kind of hard to explain how nice it is to have 100 people at church and all of the classrooms full.  Let’s just say it’s been awesome to experience!

            Lately, we’ve been teaching Juan and Sandra quite often and they’re progressing a ton in the Gospel, but not in their divorces/weddings. Ha-ha! In order to give them a little bit of motivation, we tried to set a baptismal date with them, but it didn’t work out too well.  Ha-ha! Even so, the good news is that we have a Sister in our ward who is an attorney and she is going to help us with their paperwork and all of their legal matters. Our goal is to get them in the water ASAP! This week Sandra told us that ever since we’ve been teaching her, her life has made a 180° spin for the better and she’s felt things that she’s never felt before.  Now we are teaching all of her seven kids, as well.  So, hopefully we can get at least one of them in the water soon!  Ha-ha!

            In our ward, we have a ward mission leader who loves to proselyte with us and he literally talks to everyone on the street.  It is actually quite entertaining to spend time with him.  On Saturday night, we passed by one of our investigator’s homes so we could invite them to church the next morning. We were in a hurry so we planned to chat with them on the porch but it was a bad moment because the dude was drunk and he wanted us to enter his house.  We told him we didn’t have time to stay and he just blew up on our ward mission leader.  It was actually pretty hilarious.  Then, we stopped to talk with another person and we spoke with her outside of her house as well. While we were talking, the ward mission leader decided to show her a video from the Church’s website.  Everything was going perfectly and the woman was very receptive BUT then, the mission leader wanted to show her another video, which was 20-minutes long! So, we just stood outside of this woman’s house for another 20-minutes while she watched ANOTHER video. It too, was pretty hilarious and fortunately, the woman was really nice.  But, my legs nearly fell off from standing in one place for so long! Ha-ha!

            On Friday night, ...