We had transfers today. My old companion elder Lyman went home as he finished his mission. Congrats. A large part of this past week involved us being in Córdoba so that he could do some paper work to be able to leave the country. That took up a lot of time but its always nice to go to the big city and see a lot of other missionaries.
On tuesday we were able to get a lot of work done. We had exchanges, so I worked in our area Arroyito with an elder from ecuador. He looks a lot like messi its crazy! I wish I had a picture of him. But anyways, we had some really good lessons. Especially with a girl named milagros. She did her homework, which was to read the intro to the Book of Mormon and pray. She did that and had a good experiance, and felt the spirit. She said she wants to be baptized so I'm super excited about that and we will be visiting her a lot in the coming weeks.
On thursday I learned how to make homemade tortillas. They don't eat tortillas in argentina. I've never seen them, but my companion taught me how to make them. They are really easy to make and they are super good! Probably not too healthy though.
The funniest thing that happened this week was that me and elder Lyman were walking a long a fence, and there was this big dog barking at us from the other side. Elder Lyman tried to scare it with his scriptures but the dog grabbed them in his mouth and ripped them out of his hands and pulled them through the fence! It was really funny/Embarrasing to knock on the door and say "help your dog stole my book"!
So my new comp arrived today, he is from Uruguay. The first day with the new companion is always really weird and awkward, I kind of hate it. We are in that stage right now, but he will get settled in soon im sure. We have a BBQ scheduled for tonight at 8 so that should be good.
Some crazy stuff happened to the sisters in our district. They were supposed to have a baptism on saturday, but the mini missionary couldn't take the stress/depression anymore so she went home 2 days early....which cancelled the baptism. Im pretty upset and annoyed at that sister missionary. If she could've waited 2 more days she would've had her first baptism! I don't really know what goes on over there.
Oh yeah. I finished reading the book of mormon this week, for the first time in spanish. Its a great book, and its true. I know that its not always easy to understand the scriptures, but at the very least they always help me to feel relaxed and comforted. If I have a crap day, or if I personally feel like im not good enough or that its all too much and too hard and that I can't do it anymore , I just read the scriptures. And no matter what part Im reading, it always calms me down and gives me a feeling that I know everything is going to be okay. I know that anyone who reads the scriptures will get that same feeling any place any time. Even if you've already read them, read them again. Youll feel better. Even if you've already prayed to see if they are true, pray again. Maybe don't pray for big huge signs just pray for your faith to be strengthened. It works everytime, just do it.
1 Nephi 4:1 And it came to pass that I
If you ever have to choose between following the commandmants and not following them, just be like nephi here. " why not keep the commandments of God? He is mightier than the whole earth"...even if there is any doubt, you might as well just keep the commandments anyway. Nothing bad can happen from being good.
Thats about it for this week! I hope you guys are all doing well!
Elder Christensen
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