Week #8: Two Month Mark!!
This week was awesome. We had 2 baptisms on Saturday. Scarlett and Matias. They are my favorite family here. They feed us every time we go over and their are willing to try to actually talk to me despite my poor spanish speaking skills. My comp and his former comp had alreadybeen teaching them for about 2 months before I got here, so he baptized the mom and the dad baptyized the son (the dad is the x of the wife... their story is so complicated). But I sang a duet at the service. Sunday was Branch conference, so everyone from the closest 4 cities took buses here because nobody has cars and the room was packed! My mish prez and his wife came and spoke and during the sacrament me and my comp and the branch president were able to give them both the gift of the holy ghost! We asked them both how they felt after to be a member of the church and they both lit up with smiling faces and felt it was such a special day. The family came to the baptism as well, and they said it was beautiful so we are hoping we can startr teaching some of them too. Other than the family, there were 3 other people that came besdies the missionaries haha.
Fun things this week: last week after I emailed I went to the main square and we walked alla round the festival. Tried a ton of new foods and watched a whole lot of drunk people dance haha. The weather here is so bi polar. It is freezing in the morning. Hot during the day. And even more frezzing in the evening. Also, its so funny because people call sauce here salsa. and salsa is pepre. And they always warn me at the table that the sauce I am putting on is super hot, but most foods are pretty bland here so it is super hot to them but it literally does not phase me. There are 24 cities in my mission you can be sent to (in each of those there could be more than branch, so you could have like 3 areas in one city). Anyways there are 2 areas here in Linares. Linares 1 and Linares 2. Linares 1 has the main square and shops and stores and basically anything you would actually want to go to. I am in Linares 2, which is the more poor side, but my area is more receptive to the gospel because yesterday, all of Linares 2 had to go into Linares 1 and we did a district attack. Which is essentialy wehere we all bombard the area and help them get more investigators and lessons. We do A LOT of teaching the doorways if we do not have a member with us since we cant enter the home if it is just the wife at home. This week I randomly had ice cream like 4 times, which so awesome because it is my favorite dessert. Some days we are so packed and I on the go go go and some days we knock doors ALL DAY and nobody answers (those are the long days) cause after a while we are like... well this is super fun. A lot of times people always think we are Jehovah Witnesses and the funniest thing happended this week. We walked up to a gate and 2 other guys walked up to a gate to, and they were the missionaries for Jehovah Witnesses and we were like uhhhh you guys can take this street. hahaha kind of awkward but so funny. Also the bread here is so dense, it is so packed in there, legit no air. 1 roll is almost as filling as like 3 rolls at home. There are 3 areas in my area. Sector A, Sector B, and Huapi (which is the ghetto part that the hermanas are not allowed to go to and we are supposed to not be there at night). Also, we are not allowed to take onze in our mission which is really hard because we will finish a lesson and people will ask us if want anything and they can sometimes get offended if we say no, but if we say yes then they will start cooking and it takes a long time. Lastly, we taught a man named Hugo this week. We started talking to him and he said he was very far from God and started walking away. We kept asking him question to make him stay and then he said he has a drug addiction and he is a really bad person. We taught him Lesson 3: the gospel of jesus christ and told him how can turn his life completely upside down and feel so much happiness. He was on the verge of tears the whole lessons and in the end he had waterfalls flowing from his eyes. He said he has been praying every night for help from God and to help him turn around his life and stop his addiction. I know we were the answer to his prayers. He wants to learn more so we are going to try to teach him this week, but it is hard because he does not have a phone, so we have been just going to his house, but he is rarely home and has an unpredictable job so it is hard to schedule times.
~ Elder Nord
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