Tuesday started out with a district meeting that started out with everyone upset and fighting and ended with everyone laughing until they were crying. The day started out with super nice weather and so we left the house in practically summer clothes, and it ended up pouring.. pero mal. We got home literally dripping wet. It was so fun though.
Wednesday we did divisions with some hermanas and I got to go to.. ESCOBAR! It was so awesome. I got to see familia Rios, well, at least some of the kids. I tried to see Dana but she wasn't home. And I got to see some other members throughout the day. It's kinda hit me there how much I´ve changed and how much everything has changed since I was last there. It´s been exactly a year. Crazy. It was cool though because I was able to understand everyone and they were able to understand me.. since when I was there was when I started and couldn't speak to save my life.
On Thursday we went by to see the man who had stopped us in the street asking for a book and who was super interested last week. We got there and he goes "I've decided not to continue. I´m more on the side of the JWs-" Well.. Jws: 1 Us: 0. That sucked. But then we went to Teresa. It was our second time back at her house and she said the prayer both times. We challenged her to baptism but she said she didn't know yet. But we´re going back tonight to see what´s gonna happen. On the way to Teresa we were stopped in the street by someone on the bike who wanted to see the Book of Mormon and we showed it to him and he goes "Nope. thats not it". I asked if we could talk to him about it and he said no because he works at a radio and he was late. We ended up going in the same direction and about 20 mintues later we passed the radio and he came running out to explain that he thought it was a bible and wanted one. We explained what it was and he accepted. His name is Maxi. We´re gonna go by this week to see what he thought :)
On Friday we had lunch with the bishop. We´ve had a hard time as missionaries developing a relationship of trust with him.. Not sure why. But we went and we shared a scripture at the end that talks about how the structure of the church should be. We talked about how we´re here to help and do what we can to stregthen the ward, and the bishop started crying and said that when anything goes wrong, everyone blames it on the bishop. It kinda broke my heart. I left that lunch finally feeling like we got that relationship and we´re going to be able to help.
Saturday was super busy because the elders had a baptism. The needed the clothes that we had used in our baptism for the hermana godoy, and we accidentaly forgot to wash them and they were still wet in a bag. We were in the church when the elders got there and we saw them open the door to the closet where all the clothes were and so we hid and we hear "the clothes are in here.... HERMANAS." Hahaha we promised them that everything would work out and not to worry.. and it did :)
Sunday was a good day. We all wore some form of brown as "la obra misional", and we had lunch with my favorite family. :)
Alicia is progressing well towards her baptisms. Well, she didn't come to church yesterday but she´s been doing well. We taught the word of wisdom and she committed to quit smoking. So hopefully that's been going well. We´ll see this week! :)
This past week my zone leaders father passed away. It was a hard first couple of days as no one really knew how to act around him. He found out on Monday. It was one of the most hearbreaking moments as we were together when he found out. This elder has been the biggest example to me on my mission and I´ve never seen him without a smile on his face. On Saturday we asked him how he was and he said he was doing really well. He said he got to skype his family and after felt really good. That his family said that families are forever and he will have time after the mission to think but right now is his time to give double of what he has been giving. Watching him has really strengthened my testimony of enduring to the end. I don't think I would be able to go through what he´s been going through, and even more with a smile on my face. I love this gospel and I'm so thankful for the opportunity we have to be eternal families.
Have a great week everyone! Love you all!!
Love,
Hermana Prestwich
1. familia Rios :)
2. Enzo :)
3. Alicia y Emilio :)
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