Hola,
Thanksgiving is upon us! There isn’t Thanksgiving
here in the ARG but I´m sure we can find a turkey on the side of the road for
dinner! Thanksgiving is such a wonderful time of the year: football, food, and
of course remembering what we are thankful for. Since living in Argentina for a
last little bit, I have realized how blessed I am and how grateful I am for
everything I have in my life! Please eat turkey, mashed potatoes and watch as
much football as you can!
It was a pretty interesting week here in Salto, one
I will never forget! We started this week up in the beautiful city of
Mendoza to finish up some of my legal work so I can be an actual citizen of
Argentina. After what I heard last week about America and the results of the
elections, maybe I should be glad that I’m about to be legal in another
country. Just kidding of course, America is the best.
Taking a little break from regular missionary work is
always kind of nice but it slowed down the work we had in Salto. It has become
really hard to find people at home when we want to because everyone is working
the whole day in the fields. This week many appointments fell and most people
just weren’t home, so we saw a lot of precious time slip out of our hands,
which was frustrating.
Probably the worst part of the week was when we went
to visit our good friend Segundo, who had just returned from Buenos Aires after
being there for 3 weeks. We were really excited to start teaching him again
because he had a baptism date that fell through. We knocked on his door on
Friday night and luckily, he was there. He walked out and immediately said, “I
don’t want to talk to you guys anymore. I’m not from your church.” Then, he
just walked back inside. This was a huge bummer. We don’t even know what
happened and he never gave us a legitimate explanation, so we were really confused.
Just a few weeks ago he was showing us his wife’s Bible and he was crying to us
about her. We’re assuming his family said something to him while he was
in Buenos AiresJ. I thought we really had
something going with him, but I guess not L.
On Saturday, we had a really interesting experience with
one of our members, Hermano Eyvar. We went to the Police Station to do some
service. It was a good chance for us to get noticed in the community and show
people that we aren’t “spies.” While we
were finishing up our work, the police truck pulled in and they had a man in
the bed of the truck whose face looked like a nice piece of rare carne meat and
he had blood all over his body. Apparently, he had stolen a car, while under
the influence, and crashed into a ditch and flew through the windshield. This
dude was messed up! The cops threw him in the back of the truck like he was a
piece of game that they had just shot. Half of the cops were laughing at him
while the others were just yelling at him. This poor guy had no idea what was
going on as he was crying and trying to explain himself. The cops didn’t even
get him medical attention, just a hose to wash off all of the blood. Looking
back, it was a pretty hilarious experience, but still I felt so bad for the
guy.
Later that night we had a killer lesson with
Francisco as we basically told him he had to start showing progress or we were
going to have to drop him. We made some Argentine pancakes with him and they
were “the bomb.” With our good friend Luis, we taught him a great lesson and the
Spirit was so present. The kid is so ready for baptism and loves talking about
it, but he needs to show that he really wants to do it. So, we told him that
Luis was relying on him for a ride to church in the morning and… he came
through!! Oh, man! When I saw him walk through the door before Sacrament
meeting, it was the greatest feeling. He even participated in Sunday School!
Now we just need to make this a habit for him and he´ll be ready for baptism.
He was the first investigator to attend church in Salto for a whole year, so we
are really pumped for him.
On Sunday morning, we received a call from the
bishopric that we are a part of and they informed us that we were in charge of
the meetings in the day. It was a little stressful but everything went smoothly
and the meetings were great. Being in a bishopric for the day was so
awesome.
Our man, Daniel, and his wife are doing so great.
One of their kids had a bad asthma attack on Sunday morning so they couldn’t
come to church, but they were really sad they couldn’t come. His wife, Carla,
still needed to be taught about the Restoration so we reviewed that with all of
them and then we pulled out the Book of Mormon and she told us that she has
already read up to 2 Nephi!! I saw that and I was soooo excited for them. They
are such a great family and there’s really something special about them!
Well, in my studies this week I finished El Libro
De Mormon in Spanish and it´s still true!! How lucky we are to have this great
book in our lives. It´s the most true book on the earth and I am so grateful for
it in my life because it has given me guidance, motivation, and inspiration.
Enjoy the entire week of Thanksgiving! I love you
all so much and I am so humbled to be missionary!
It's
gonna be another good week!
Besos,
Elder
Roderick
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