Working Hard.

Hello everyone,

We put up good numbers this week: 18 new investigators, 4 lessons with members present, one person confirmed and one person with a baptismal date who attended church. All of those match or exceed my previous numbers in the mission, and I can say that we are definitely trying our best right now. Im going to be honest it is kind of hard having a latino comp. Im learning a lot, but he can be really impatient with my spanish when I sometimes don't understand a word he says to me, and its frustrating. I don't get how someone can get mad at somebody who is learning a language when they don't understand a word or phrase they've never heard before. Even if we don't get a long the best, at least we are working hard.

Our investigator who was baptized last week was confirmed yesterday! yeahhhh first convert. Its a relief!

The person who we had attend was the mom of an investigator who had dropped us 2 and a half months ago. We didn't plan to ever pass by her house again, but we were close by and I felt like we should so we did. Vanessa (the daughter) wasn't there, but her mom was. She is pretty old, and she has cancer and does chemotherapy and stuff. But she told us she used to go to our church in the 80s, and she still has her book of mormon from way back then. She is almost blind and can't walk hardly at all, but she said shes been searching for a way to church because she wants to get baptized. What a find! She accepted a date to be baptized (the 28th) with joy, and came to church the next day with our help, and she liked it a lot! It was kind of hard to get her to church, we had to ask president to drive us and it made us late because she took 20 mins to get ready and president was mad. He told us to take a taxi next time.

Me and my companion are seriously low on money. We have now 72 pesos for the rest of the month, thats like 5 bucks. It didn't help that a member asked to borrow money from us yesterday because he desperately needed it and he didn't want to bother the president he said. He is our ward mission leader so we gave it to him.

Something out of the ordinary that we did this week was that we went to go donate blood. I was surprised that we would be allowed to do it while on the mission, but I guess its allowed. But it turned out that I couldn't do it because I still don't have my Argentine ID. :( so I got to watch everyone else do it haha.

Sorry I don't have any way to upload pictures this week. I have one with our convert, but my computer doesn't have a place to do it. So next week!

PS Im basically out of time but Im heartbroken that the ward split! I can't help but feel that that was a really bad idea. They did it recently down here in La Rioja and it was really hard for a lot of people. Im sad about it but I guess its part of Gods plan. I love you all and keep the faith!

Love, Elder Christensen