Monday, August 1, 2016

Families can be together forever...

Hello again friends and fam!  

This week has gone by SO fast. 

On Tuesday we went to San Fernando to have a training meeting with President. Well in this meeting he literally changed EVERYTHING about our mission. It was crazy. We all left with zero idea how to even do missionary work anymore. Before with President Ayre, we found "elegidos" or those who are completely ready for the gospel, and used things called filters in the first contact, things like if they were married, were free on Sunday´s, and lived in our area, things like that. Then if they passed all these filters, we committed them to baptism and a date in the first contact. And the date was ALWAYS in 3 weeks. And we baptized those we could fine, be it families or children or anyone really. 
Well we get there and President completely took away the filters, and the 3 weeks, and said that we are only allowed to baptize families... I´ve never baptized a complete family in my mission and so now the search has just gotten a whole lot harder. The whole way home we were all silent in thinking about how we´re going to find families.. especially here in Provincia where its close to impossible to find a couple that is actually married... 

But anyway. We came back and got to work. We started with a reference from a member that led us to another reference and so on and so forth until we found a lady named Alicia. She and her husband Emilio invited us back to their house. So we started passing by them. Emilio is in a wheelchair and has Parkinson´s. But they are so amazing. So far we´ve taught them 3 lessons and they did have a baptisimal date for the 14th of August.. The problem is they live in an area where its straight uphill and with them being older and Emilion in a wheelchair, its close to impossible to get them to church. So we went to the ward for help.

Sadly, we received none. Now  I´m not trying to complain here about our leaders or the ward, but we left this meeting with them in complete shock of the lack or support and help from them. We went to the bishop and explained the situation and asked if there´s a member with a car that could pass by to get them. He asked where they lived and when we told him he told us, without stopping to think, that there arent members down there with a car. So we then explained that the member doesnt have  to live down there to pass by and get them and he said "hermanas, I dont think you´re going to find a member that will want to do that." We then asked if he could because he has a car, said he couldn´t, and walked away. 

So we decided we were going to get there early and push im the mile uphill and 2 miles to church. But then we called them telling them we were on there way and they told us that they wouldnt be able to go. It just makes me sad to think that the ward would deny them the chance to be baptized because no one wants to take 10 minutes to pass by and get them. I left the conversations fully committed to helping everyone I can get to church. 

Well other than that, its been a good week. I cant believe we´re halfway through this transfer because I swear it just started this week. Time is going by so fast and I actually wish it would stop. I love the mission so much. I love the opportunity I have to serve and work as the Lord´s hands here in Zárate. I love the mission  :)

Love you all! ¡Que tengan una buena semana!

Love,
Hermana Prestwich

fotos:
1. We found a forest:)

2. Bikes!!

3. Enzo!! 

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