Hi readers! This is Hermana Scarlett's mom with a little bit of news. I received an email from the Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission office this week. They are beginning the process for releasing our Hermana Scarlett from her service as a missionary. Her return date is March 25, 2015!!! Time is flying by for us and for her but I wouldn't have her any other place doing any other thing. Her service has blessed our family in many ways for which we are most grateful. Now back to the latest update from our Hermana Scarlett....
Well this week has been interesting :) But good!
Monday we went to a pizza libre as a zone. It´s like a cici´s pizza, but they bring the pizza to you. It was so yummy! I ate 8 pieces of pizza! I felt so fat but i was happy :) It was fun to chill with the zone and just laugh.
Tuesday we had a good day. Visited a lot of people. Not much to say
Wednesday is where things got crazy. So we had a really good zone meeting then after we went to lunch and it was good too :) yummy food. We left and were on our way to the bus stop when we got a call from one of the AP´s. He was like "Are you busy?" I said "No, we´re heading back from lunch" SO he said "Oh okay, then i´ll give you something so you can be busy. How do you feel about having another companion?" I had NO Idea what to say..... I was like "Okay... but is she new, is she going to be with us one day, til the end of the transfer? I need details!" He then told me that she was from another mission and she would be with us for 10 days and she would show up at the offices in 40 minutes. So we took the bus straight to the offices and I'm freaking out the whole time (like i always do when i get a new companion) We get there and they explained that she finished her mission in Mendoza but when they got to the airport they couldn't go because they needed the yellow fever vaccination. So they gave them the vaccine and they have to stay here 10 days before they can leave Argentina and go home. So now we are in trio. Her name is Hermana Reyes and she is So AWESOME! I always thought I would hate being in trio but we're really enjoying it :) Also that day we found a great new investigator named Jean Carlos from Peru. He has 17 years and has such a great desire to know the truth. He accepted a baptismal date for the 23rd and wanted to read the Book of Mormon and go to church! Also, we almost got hit by a train again (not really), but it was super funny :) Learning to look both ways before we cross the train tracks :)
Thursday was a long day. ALL of our plans fell through and we didn´t find anybody! We passed by this one guy and he said hi really friendly. SO i thought. why not talk to him? SO i started to talk to him, BAD IDEA! He was crazy and very blasphemous. So i was like "Alright, we gotta, go! Have a nice evening!" SO we left and on our way to our correlation meeting and stopped to make copies of our informe de progreso, when a guy walked by yelling stuff about the Savior then he saw us and turned around. WE paid for the copies and started walking to the church when he looked at us and was like "You girls, are you going to heaven or hell?" I was just like "WHA?!?" and Hermana reyes looked at him, smiled and said "heaven, thank you" And we just kept on walking. It was pretty funny :)
Friday morning we saw Jean Carlos again and he said he received an answer that the Book of Mormon is true. WE were super stoked. He also said he talked to his mom and she said she didn't have a problem with him going to church or getting baptized! Later, we supposedly had a Family Home Evening and the Ward mission leader asked us to prepare a message. We were excited because we had a really good idea of something we could do. The Elders were supposed to do the games. Well the Elders called us and said they had to travel to capital for divisions so they wouldn´t make it. SO we had to do the games AND message. We get to the church at 7, the designated hour for the activity. AND there was NOBODY there! AND the lights didn´t work! So we had to find the switchboard and check everything. FInally we fixed it and we had lights, but still nobody showed up. THe ward mission leader called and said he would get there in 30 min. 3 people showed up and 45 minutes later the ward mission leader still didn´t show. So we did the activity with the few people we had. 3 more people showed up and we had fun. I was just a little frustrated at the lack of planning and all but it turned out fine :)
Saturday was alright. We went by to visit Jean Carlos but he wasn't there. So we went by later and we found his sister. She said that he had to go visit and uncle for the weekend and would come back Monday. SO we started talking to her. Shared a quick message. She wanted to know which church was true and decided to go to church. We invited her to be baptized the 23rd also and said yes :) So we were really excited. Her name is Olimpia
Sunday morning we get up and go by Olimpia to take her to church, but she wasn't there...... SO we were a little sad. But Javier came to church here with his friend. Javier is super awesome! He won´t be able to move back to his house for like 2 more weeks and his pareja said she would give him the answer about getting married before new years. SO WE are still working with him. He´s basically a dry mormon. Just need to add marriage and the waters of baptism!
Don´t really know what else to say. It´s been a fun but difficult week. But we keep smiling and laughing all the day long. Love all of you!
Hermana Allison Scarlett
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