Baptizing Buenos Aires: Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

Hi everyone! This week was crazy busy as usual.

It started off with leadership council on Tuesday. I absolutely love those meetings because 1, all my friends in the mission are there, and 2, it's like 5 straight hours of spiritual revelation. It took us about 3 hours to come to an agreement about the goal for the mission for the amount of Books of Mormon we would hand out per week.. but we finally came to an agreement. We agreed that every companionship will hand out 30 books/week. Seems más o menos easy, but the catch is that the people who accept the book have to also accept that we come back and visit them, and we have to agree on a day and time. That made it a whole lot harder.

Wednesday we then had our zone meeting. So it was our job to present the challenge to the zone. I've never seen so many looks of disbelief in my life. Haha after they calmed down and listened to us, the accepted the challenge. President Smith also decided to make a surprise appearance so that put a whole lot more pressure on us. After the zone meeting we did divisions with the sisters from San Pedro. I was with Hermana Riree and Hermana Zanotti. Hermana Riree is from Oregon, and Hermana Zanotti is waiting on her visa to go to Oregon so that was cool.

Friday we had the new missionary meeting so we got to go to Capital again. I love those meetings. Friday was also my year mark so it was so weird to see all the new missionaries and think about how that was me a year ago. We got back to Zárate just in time for the ward movie night.

Saturday we went to a school with our ward and the other ward from Zárate for a service project. It was super fun.

Then Sunday I got a call from the nurse ordering me to my bed for 3 days as a trial period to see if it helps my knee, so after lunch we went home. I was only allowed to leave to write. Luckily we found some sisters in the ward to do divisions with us, so one will stay with me while the other leaves with my companion to work.

We´ve found a lot of people who seem interested this week thanks to handing out Books of Mormon, but none that have progressed or who have let us come back. Once we showed up to a house and they were outside cleaning and we said hi and without saying a word all went inside and shut the door and windows. That was encouraging. But we do have Alicia. She was supposed to get baptized this coming week, but since she didn't come to church yesterday, we´re going to have to move her date back. She shared with us the most sincere testimony of the Book of Mormon the other day. It almost had me crying.

I read a talk this week (don't remember what its called or who gave it) that talked about the difference between knowing and believing. We, as members of the church, know that this is the only true church on the earth, the same church that Christ established while He was here, but do we really believe it? We as members know that priesthood holders literally hold the power of God to act in His name, but do we really believe it? We know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and contains the fullness of the gospel, and has the power to change lives, to change eternities, but do we really believe it?

I invite you all to reflect on that this week! And to share your testimony with someone.. and if you're up for the challenge, give a Book of Mormon so someone and give the reference to the missionaries :) They´ll love you.

I love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Hermana Prestwich

1. Meli y Tomy! Converts of about 4 months.