Well hello my
great family!! So this week was a good week in my eyes!! After pday it was Wednesday!
We went and had our district meeting where I get the opportunity to capacitate
about always having our mouths open and just talking to everyone that we see!!
It all started with an activity where I put facturas (argentine doughnuts) all
over the room and then put one on a plate in the middle! I had Elder Rahm come
in and he could only see through a tube and had to only look at the one on the
plate!! I said "you have 30 seconds to eat facturas, and if you get there
before you can’t eat it and nor after" so he waited the 30 seconds and
then went and ate it! I said “alright great that was really tasty and worth it
right?” He said “yes” then I said “alright you can see normal now.” He saw there
were facturas everywhere and I asked "well elder you had 30 seconds and
you only ate one facture, when I specifically said "eat facturas" and
there were way more everywhere what happened?" He said “well I was only
concentrated on that one!” Everyone just had a little light bulb I’m sure all in
different ways. I was trying to teach that when we are only concentrated on one
appointment we’re missing so much on the outside and people that are ready, but
we are too concentrated on getting directly to an appointment, so that was a
really good capacitation!!
Then we went back to our area the next morning!! On our way back we got
a ride from a guy named Chikin which means small one. He drove us back in a
really nice car and it was like what the heck who is this guy! I had my guitar
and he asked me "do you play guitar" and I obviously told him yes.
Then he said "you know what I love to sing personally." We told him
oh that’s cool and all and that we went to a place where we sing karaoke every
Tuesday and that he should come! He got super excited and then told us he would
go and that if we were there he would buy us something so that was freaking
cool. We got out of the car loving the guy and then said bye to him! That was
the end of that or so I thought! As we were walking in the street in Nonogasta
we saw a billboard and it had the president of Argentina Mackley and some other
guy, that other guy sure looked familiar. I looked closer and I had to know him
from somewhere. Below his picture I see the words, “Governor of La Rioja
"Chikin" That was the weirdest thing ever! He must have been
expecting us to know him or something and we had no clue and treated him totally
normal! So that was something pretty funny for the week!
So speaking of the work in the area, I won’t lie. It’s been kind of tough
lately! We need to get our anex here in Nonogasta because literally there is no
one that has enough money every Sunday to go to church anymore! That includes
investigators, so every week we work our butts off and no one comes to church
in the end. It’s always a little depressing when you have that happening every
week! We should have that anex in about a month so until then we’re gonna get a
ton of people knowing about it and hopefully when it starts we can get a ton of
people to go to it!! We have an investigator named joanna who is right on the
verge of getting baptized but we don’t believe that she is married that was the
final commandment we haven’t taught yet so hopefully she’s married! If not we
just have another step to go through with her!! Griselda still hasn’t gotten
confirmed yet and we’re working with that it’s just hard because she has 2
sisters with physical disabilities and she has to always take care of them because
her dad is always gone and just makes her do it rather than any other sibling,
I think it’s because she comes to our church the dad makes her stay.
The
members here I freaking love, they are all so amazing like oh my gosh! Let me
tell you guys this ward has more snakes than any other place that I have heard
of! This sister named sister Aldana.... well actually there are three. First is
Mariana who is the snakiest of them. Second is Claudia who is a return
missionary as of like 4 weeks, and third is Christina who is 18 and has a 29
year-old boyfriend. But for some reason
flirts a CRAP ton with us every single time that we go ever there. Another family, the family Limachi has 4
daughters and the little 6 year old is the littlest worm, which means snake but
young that will grow into a snake. Well as it turns out I’ve been kissed more
times than I can count by that little girl on the cheek, and somehow on the
lips too. When that happened, we talked to her and told her she can’t do that,
but she’s 6 so that changed absolutely nothing. Then there’s these girls that
all live in one house who are 18, 19, and 22. They all just want a half white
baby (name the movie) but they really just think that we are rich guys that
walk around in suits all day so they might as well take advantage of that
right. Finally, we have Eva, a girl that literally glares at me Gililland and Rahm
as if she’s dreaming, then she like pushes us and just acts like a 14 year old
girl that just wants love SO BAD. I can’t lie, none of these things are hard to
resist, having a snake or snakes in the plural hasn’t really been all that hard
here. And as of last night, Elder Rahm told me that one of the girls in the
ward has a huge crush on one of the missionaries and it’s like bad. So we’ll have
to find out who that is and I will keep you guys posted on that!!
So now how
am I personally?? Well I’m fantastic. The work may be hard and we’re not having
a whole lot of success but we’re putting our part in and I wouldn’t want it any
other way on my part. I’m feeling really good every day. We’ve been doing 2
cross fit workouts a day and they just KILL! I bought a 2 pound container of
protein and more creatine. Haha sorry mom and celeste, but all that together
like somewhat pushes me to eat better knowing that I’m trying to help myself out
with protein and creatine!! Me and my companion are freaking great let me tell
you we have been getting along so freaking well we have never fought nor really
disagreed on anything so that is freaking awesome because that almost never
happens in any companionship!! I feel like my Spanish has grown quite a bit in
a year and I’m excited to see what more I can learn in the next year to come!! Overall I’m loving the mission!! Summers goes
home in 2 weeks so that’s kinda really sad but oh well it’s just how life is.
Alrighty my family, I
love you guys and hope you all had a great week. I’ll talk to you all soon!!!!
Elder Andrew Indiana Jones
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