Lima - Post 4

June 16, 2014

First off - HAPPY DAY FATHER´S DAY!  hope you all had a good one :)

Second off - WHAT A WEEK!  It has been pretty busy!

Tuesday we had a zone conference that took up a big chunk of the day but was WAY AWESOME! and the cooolest part is I GOT PACKAGES!  It was a freaking miracle!  They were the last ones Mom sent before the No More Packages Rule came out.  That was months ago!

This means Prayer in Spanish -
Of course I had to take a picture of it!

Wednesday was a normal day except that NOBODY was home went we went to visit them.  Lots of appointments fell through but we kept on going. It also started POURING rain the night before and the leaves that had fallen from the trees clogged up the street drains so the streets were FULL of water and it just kept on pouring.  There were people outside trying to unclog the drains with their rakes

Thursday it continued to rain and halfway through the day Hermana Lines from the office called us and told us they received the papers for Hermana Weitl to start the process for her Argentine ID.  So we had to run home, get ready, pack up, and get to San Fernando (just outside of Buenos Aires) that day in order to do the paperwork the next day - it is a 3 hour trip on which we take 2 buses and a train.  So we got there and stayed with Sister and Elder Lines (a senior couple that works in the offices)  They're like the mission grandparents.

So we get up Friday morning, get ready, and go to the church offices here in Buenos Aires to pick up the papers.  We are just looking around while Elder Lines is doing his business.  Bumped into a couple members from Vicente Lopez that worked there and some Americans too.  Then Elder Lin

Yeah - we are definitely in the country!

es said "I have bad news"  In the rush of getting all the mail, they accidentally put Hermana Weitl's papers in the box for the Buenos Aires West (BAW) Mission, not ours which is Buenos Aires North (BAN).  So they were calling people in the BAW mission to see if they could take the papers to the immigrations office in time for our appointment. The folks in the BAW Mission office said they would send it over on motorcycle by such and such time.  SO we were FLYING in the minivan to meet up with the other missionaries there and let them know what was going on.  SO we met them, all piled in the van, went and parked in front of the immigrations office and waited.... and waited........ and waited for hours and the guy never showed, nobody was answering their phones, and the appointment time passed.  SO we got NOTHING done.  Then had to travel 3 hours back to Lima and wasted pretty much a whole day.  Don´t get me wrong it was a good break and lots of fun but very unproductive.

Saturday yet again everyone fell through.  Not such a great day either.

Nicer home in Lima -
dirt roads are standard

Sunday everyone we had planned for church fell through again.  It was great...

But this week the World Cup Series started (that´s soccer ya´ll)  And Argentina played Sunday, so we had a record low on church attendance.  It was 19 including the 4 missionaries.  Everyone we visited that evening was prepping for the big game, nobody let us in.  Once the game started there was NOBODY in the streets.  It was eerily quiet and empty until someone shot a goal, then you heard the whole town cheering, blowing their horns, lighting firecrackers in the street.  We were wondering how on earth we were going to find someone to teach!  

So we biked the streets looking for a human soul, when we saw a little old man walking. We walked up and started talking to him and had a nice chat. We talked about the restoration and how Christ has restored his church on the earth again through a latter-day prophet.  Then we invited him to be baptized and said yes! Then he was like, but I need to go see what it´s like.  SO he´s definitely coming to church.  His name is Nicolas so pray for him!  He´s a way cool little old man.  And he was our miracle for being diligent even when it seemed like we wouldn't find anybody.

And as for today (P-Day), it´s been pretty chill.  We cooked lunch with the Elders and chatted and listened to some wholesome music (Sons of Provo) it was a good calming day

SO yeah that was my week.  I love this work and am ready to keep on keeping on for the next 9 months!  (I hit my half-way mark next week.  HOLY CRAY!)

Love you all!

Hermana Allison Scarlett
allison.scarlett@myldsmail.net