This week was a week of firsts. Im a district leader for the first time here in cosquin, and I have a lot of new stuff to do. One of those things is that every week I have to run the district meeting with the other elders in the district, and the other main thing thats new is that I have to do the baptismal interviews for the people who the other missionaries in the district are baptizing. On Wednesday I did that for the first time, it was interesting because she was pretty confused about some things, and hadn't been taught about tithing. It was kind of stressful trying to explain all of that there in the interview, and for that reason it took about an hour, but thankfully the Lord helped me to explain everything well, and for her to be able to understand and accept the teachings. That sister was baptized this sunday.
On thursday we tested out the new schedule of waking up at 7:30 and coming home at 10. I for sure am a big fan of it, but we are going to have to see if our president keeps it this way, or makes his own. I felt like I had a lot more energy through out the day though, so I hope he leaves it this way. We had a lot of really great lessons on thursday, unfortunately one was with a lady that doesn't live here, she just has a vacation home here and she lives in another province. She has gone back to santiago del estero by now. But something cool that happened was that while we were teaching the family baez, the super old investigators we have (82, 83) there was a lady there who kinda helps take care of them sometimes, so when we shared the scripture James 1:5 -
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. she said that just the night before she had prayed asking God for wisdom, and then the next day we shared that scripture with her. I told her that it was surely a sign from God. If she doesn't take that for an answer, then she won't take anything for an answer. We haven't seen her since though.
On friday we had zone conference with president, we had interviews and everything, even though I just had one about 3 weeks ago. On Saturday the main thing I remember was that we had a soccer activity with the neighborhood kids and some less active members, it was really fun, plus we got a bunch of new investigators from that.
Sunday was super stressful..we had to go early to pick up the family baez to come to church, but they are super old and half crazy I think sometimes, we were there with a taxi, but they made us wait 15 mins for them to finish drinking mate, and the taxi guy kept charging me the whole time. Then we had to help them into the car and everything, finally we got them to church. We have to help them around everywhere because they can barely walk on their own! Its so different being at church with investigators, because the whole time we are focused on them, and making sure they are taken care of, and like it, etc., It was especially stressful with these older people because they really say what they think. Afterwards they were kind of irritated because they where tired, the old man, named oscar said that if he would've known it was so long he wouldn't have come, but then when we got them back to their house he calmed down and said that he actually liked it a lot, and that next week he will pay for the taxi. So hopefully we can help them to get baptized.
Monday was absolutely horrible, we had all our plans fall through and we had to knock doors the whole day. We where rejected about 30 times I don't really want to think about it.
Today has been a really nice p-day, we got up an hour early to catch the train, to come to cordoba and go to the temple. We were asked to help with the confirmations because they where short on people and needed help. It wasn't what we where planning to do, but I felt really really happy to be helping where I was needed! And also the temple in cordoba is beautiful inside and out. The train ride was also super fun! It was my first time being on a train in many years. It was about a 2 and a half hour ride, and the best part is that it only cost 6 pesos! thats about 33 cents! a steal at twice the price.
Im out of time! I sent lots of pictures to mom this week.
Love you all! Hope everything is going good!
Elder Christensen
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