Anyway, this past week was super cold! They were saying it was gonna snow, it was -1 C sunday morning, and yesterday morning it was -3. We almost froze to death on the way to church at 8:30 am, I dont really like the cold when we have to be outside all day! The worst is when we knock on a door and somebody says "chicos, its too cold to have the door open" and they close it on us. I dug out the scarf and gloves that grandpa sent me in the MTC to use, it had been a while since Id used them.
We also repaired the bikes this week! It has been over a year since I last had an area with bikes, its really useful to have them because without them we have to walk 30 mins just to get to the start of our area. The only bad thing is that its really windy here and really cold to ride around on a bike.
We ate lunch with a family Gonzalez this week, they have a 16 year old daughter named sofia who they sent to Orlando last year for her 15th birthday..Its pretty popular here for girls to go to Disney for their 15th birthday. But they were saying that when their other daughter Delfina turns 15 they want to all go to Orlando with her, and stay in our house and cook argentina asados with us...sounds pretty fun, she is only 12 though so its 3 years away, I doubt it will actually happen.
On wednesday my comp really had to go to the bathroom, and we were really far away from our house, so he was knocking on doors asking people if he could use their bathroom. The first couple doors he knocked on to use the bathroom, girls came out so he was too embarrassed to ask, it was kinda funny. But eventually one guy let us in so he could use the bathroom, and the guy was super nice and we talked to him a lot about the church and we were able to set an appointment with him to come back and teach him and his family.
On sunday I we ate lunch with the bishops family, I found out that one of the bishops sons named Caetano was born in American Fork. That was interesting, because his mom was pregnant when she went to visit her parents who had recently moved there, but then she got really sick and had to end up staying there until the baby was born. After he was born they went straight back to Argentina as soon as they could. But he wanted me to ask who was the doctor that helped me to be born? Because he wants to know if its the same one?
I am really short on time but there were two good spiritual experiences this week..the first one was that I had to do a baptismal interview for an investigator of the missionaries who live in the apartment with us, I was thinking about it all day because they knew before hand that he was going to have a few problems in the interview because of his past. I really just wanted him to feel the saviors love during the interview, and to not feel like he was being judged in anyway. I felt it would be good to share the story of the woman who was caught in adultery, where they were gonna stone her but Jesus said whoever doesn't have sins, cast the first stone. I wanted him to understand that jesus doesn't condemn us for what we have done in the past, he just wants to help us to change and to go forward, "sinning no more". He (antonio is his name) felt really good, and had to have an interview with president correa with skpe, but he was able to pass! And he will be baptized next weekend!
The other one was that we were kind of sad the other day, because none of the people we went to visit were home, and we had been rejected a lot and the people were just lying to us so we would leave. We really wanted to find someone to teach, so I said a prayer (it was my comps idea) and I felt really emotional, because I said in the prayer that we just wanted to do Gods will, and I asked him to guide us. Right after the prayer we both picked the same house to knock on the door, it was one on that same street and the lady there was able to receive us. Her grandma recently passed away a week ago and she has a lot of questions about the plan of salvation. I was really happy to receive a really quick answer to my prayer!
Another fun thing we had this week was last night, we had an asado at the house of Sergio (deaf) and Nelson (blind) and they have a rock band, after the asado they were playing a few songs for us. It was honestly super impressive that they can play so well being blind, and the other deaf but they played great. The only thing is that the volume was so loud I almost thought I was gonna go deaf too..
Im out of time! Love you all, I hope you have a good week!
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