On wednesday we had another lesson with Diamela, she's the one that doesn't want to get baptized cause her daughter goes to a catholic school. It was another really good lesson, but it is so sad with her because she is soooo close but just can't take the last step :( A good thing that happened that day is that we did a practice baptismal interview for our investigator benjamin, he knows everything now. He has his interview tomorrow, and he will be getting baptized this sunday the 19th! Later that night we had dinner with family Palomeque, I was trying to take a plastic bag from one of their dogs, and it bit me on the finger and it was bleeding a bit. Hope that dog didn't have rabies!
On thursday we went to go tracting on a street called "pringles". We mostly went because it had a funny name, but it must have been some kind of inspiration because we met a girl named luna who seems really interested! We had an adventure trying to find the old guy Tito that we met last week, we went to the address he gave us and he wasn't there so we called him, and he said he lived in a city 400 km away...I was super confused and still am actually. I think the guy was a bit off his rocker. We taught english class that night, its really fun and funny! The youth are hilarious here.
On friday we had a zone meeting in Cruz del eje, it is really far, we had about 4 hours of travel overall and it was expensive. Its a real shame because the mission hasn't given us any additional travel money yet (last month we got 1400 pesos, about 100 bucks) and we are basically out of money for the month because of travels. I hope they give us some soon, because I really don't want to use my personal money for traveling again. I feel like im back in arroyito.
On saturday I had some definite inspiration to go to americos house..he is an investigator that we have had for a while now, but he never comes to church. I felt that we really needed to talk to his wife, so we went and she was there and we were able to talk to her and it was a really great and spirit guided lesson. Im glad we followed the spirit's prompting to go there, because we had basically dropped americo and weren´t planning to go back! That night we saw a car driving the wrong way over a busy one way bridge..could have been a disaster, but they figured out that they were going the wrong way and backed up.
On sunday we only had 2 investigators go to church, we were hoping for a few more but they were mauricio and fátima, the wife of a member. We just met them, but we set an appointment with her for the next day. I also got assigned a talk for the next sunday.
Yesterday started out a bit disappointing, because we had a lot of appointments fall through. But in the evening we had two great lessons, one with a girl hockey player named Candela, we taught her on the river bank while drinking mate it was pretty fun actually. And then after we had one of the most spiritual lessons of my mission...It was with our ward mission leaders son Jorge, who has been inactive for a while and his girlfriend of 9 years. (that was fátima) And we talked about temples, and how families can be eternal. They have a son together. Jorge started crying a ton and sharing his testimony, about how even though he has been inactive he has always known its true, and that an eternal family is what he wants more than anything. and everyone else in his family started crying too and his girlfriend said thats all she wants too. This is why I came on my mission, for moments like this. Of course right in the middle of that moment a guy named pablo and his gf and 3 other people come barging in really loudly and sit down, and our phone rang twice in a row. Satan always tries to send distractions at the key moment, literally every single time..But thats just another testimony that its true.
This is Matthew 9:
36 ¶But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
This scripture had a huge impact on me this week. It was mostly personal, but it has helped me have more and more love and desire to help the people here.
I love you all! Im out of time! Talk to you next week!
Love, Elder Christensen
Downtown Cordoba
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