This week was transfers, And.... (drum roll please.....) I´M STAYING WITH MY HIJITA HERMANA GOMEZ!
Monday: We rested like normal and ordered peruvian food for lunch (Lomo Saltado) DE-LISH! It's funny how I've come to Argentina and developed a love for the peruvian culture ;)
Tuesday: Don't really remember much. This week passed by so fast!
Wednesday: We saw Brian again. We were waiting outside their family's fruit and vegetable shop and we saw some watermelon. So we bought it and ate watermelon outside while we talked to him. It was a fun and good lesson. Also wednesday we had lunch with a family the elders baptized. They are SO GREAT! The dad reminds me a lot of my crazy uncles.... Also we visited with a less-active member who has a daughter that turns 9 soon and wants us to teach and baptize her daughter. Today she is going to talk to her husband and tomorrow we pass by to teach the first lesson and set the baptismal date!
Thursday: We had interviews with president. Let me just say that we have the BEST MISSION PRESIDENT EVER! :) I feel like i can tell him anything. He really cares about each of his missionaries and knows how to help. Also that afternoon we were working when we got a phone call from the sisters in Lima. THey were here doing tramites and wanted to know if they could work with us, So we said YES! SO we went by the mission offices, picked them up, called some members, organized divisions, and went off to work. I went with Hermana Duran and Hermana Fullmer with our member Juan Manuel and Hermana Gomez and Hermana Reyes went with another member Jorge Luis. We went to visit a less-active member and she said she had a friend that moved in with her family and he had listened to the elders before but then they stopped visiting him. SO we met him. His name is Ramón. He is a really humble man. He has diabetes and because he hasn´t been taking care of himself; he also has gangrene in the pinkie toe of his left foot. It looks pretty bad. He also has a small mental disability and doesn't know how to read. He has probably about 40 years old. He has a strong desire to learn and be baptized.
Friday: We had weekly planning. It was good. We have made some good solid plans to visit a lot of people and through them we can find more people to teach! We also decided to go visit a less-active member that my companions met at the train station the day before. SO we went by and he wasn't there so we left to go visit with Ramón. We walked about 2 blocks when we heard someone running behind us and i turn around and see this drunk man. He was the less active they had met the day before he was like "They said I wasn't there but I was, come visit me." I kindly said "We don't have any time right now, we have to go to another appointment, but we can come back another time." And he got mad at me because I didn't want to save his soul. He then blubbered some drunk spanish stuff that i didn't understand waving his finger in my face. It was a bit scary but we gave him a Book of Mormon and got out of there. That night we had a Family Home Evening with a member who is re-activating and her less-active boyfriend. She is pregnant and they are living together but she wants to make everything right. We just need to help him come back too! So we went by and had the plan to do a lesson about faith where you try to put the hard boiled egg into a glass bottle, but you can't. Then you but a match inside the bottle set the egg on top and it creates a vacuum and the egg drops right in. SO we were running all over the place trying to find a glass bottle, and we finally found one in the church. So we grab it and go. We were so excited and it came time to do it... And it DIDN´T WORK! The hole of the bottle was too small.... but it was funny :)
Saturday: We had a special meeting with the North and West Buenos Aires Missions and Elder Christofferson came to speak to us! (Elder Christofferson is one of the 12 apostles who work directly with our Prophet/President) Our zone were the ushers and it was way cool :) IT felt almost like a conversation. AND HE SPEAKS SPANISH PERFECTLY! He served his mission here in argentina with Elder Lines (the missionary couple that work in the offices) when there was only 2 missions. He talked a lot about how we have an apostolic calling. THe first presidency and 12 apostles can't get out and preach the gospel to all the people, so they send the missionaries out. We have the same power and authority that they do. He said that the spirit he felt on the mission and the spirit he feels now as an apostle are one and the same. He also talked about how each of us are called by an apostle of the Lord and that they feel the spirit the most when they make missionary callings. It was really good. And he left us with some of the most beautiful blessings i have ever heard. One of which was that our missionary service would be recompensed with blessings upon the heads of our families. That one made me cry. And it's so true. The Lord has really taken care of my family when i've been away and to me that shows how much the Lord loves and blesses his missionaries and their families.
Sunday: We had a special Stake Conference with Elder Christofferson. 1 Apostle, 2 days in a row. Boo Yah! Blessings of being a San Fernando Sister :) Except I walked in and saw the drunk less-active member! I just about flipped! But 15 minutes into the meeting he left. That guys freaks me out a bit, so we are going to talk to the bishop about him so he knows. Ramon came to the conference! But it turns out the he´s not going to move in with his less-active friend, so we presented him to the elders. Javier went too. He is so awesome. They are still meeting with the lawyers to resolve thee house situation.
Monday: Was a good day. We enjoyed our last day with Hermana Reyes with ice cream, crazy less-active member, and saving a little old lady from the elevator in our building. We stayed up helping her re-pack and chatting. It was nice :)
And here I am now. Hermana Reyes took a taxi to the airport this morning at 7. I´ve picked up a bit of a cold but we´re good :) I LOVE YOU ALL!
Hermana Allison Scarlett
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