Ethan's Ten Percent in Argentina: The Nets are about to break!

Hello everybody, I got transferred this week! It wasn't really expected because I had been in my last area for a short time. I was only in Roque Saenz Peña for 9 weeks overall, because I switched areas half way through my first transfer in Rio Cuarto. Its unfortunate because I didn't get as close to the members in that ward as I have in my other areas, just because I was there such a short time and it was a really good big ward, we had lunch with a different family every day (usually its the same people every week) so I only went to each members home once or twice during the whole time I was there. Still, there are some people that I will really miss and I didnt want to get transferred because we found some really great people this week, and they are for sure baptisms for the 26th of this month. Im sad that I wont be there but Im just glad that they will be getting baptized so that all our hard work last transfer wasn't all for nothing!

But yeah, with the transfer and everything I have been traveling all day, we left at 5:30 in the morning, 3 hour bus ride to cordoba, then another 3 hour bus ride by myself to san francisco. I fell asleep on the second bus ride, when I woke up I was surprised to see that the bus was stopped in the terminal in Arroyito! That brought back a lot of good memories, hopefully I can visit there sometime soon now that Im a lot closer.

But with all the traveling today we have a shortened pday, I dont have a lot of time to write so Ill make this one short. Id just like to tell you guys about a lady named deborah and her daughter named brisa, that we just met this week. As you know from the last email we had been working really hard for 5 weeks with no success, but we had received what we believed to be revelation that "the nets" were about to break, at the revelation was true. We had been working with and teaching a lot of people, and something Im am understanding better is that all investigators are "fruits", but some of them are just higher up on the tree and need more time to be ripe enough to be baptized. We are not here to plant, but rather to harvest. There are people prepared in ALL areas, fruits that are within our reach and ready to be picked, we just need to have the lords help in finding them.

So we worked 5 weeks, and found nobody who was ready. But finally, in the last week of the transfer God led us to some people who were ready! I asked a member who is a recent convert if he had gone with the missionaries before to teach anyone, and if he remembered where those people lived. He lead us to the house of Brisa and Deborah, and for us it really was a miracle! The first time we talked to them we found out that they had already received all the missionary lessons, had read a lot of the Book of Mormon and had a testimony of Joseph smith and that the Book of Mormon is true. They knew the word of wisdom, keep the sabbath day holy, everything. The only reason they hadn't been baptized is because the missionaries who were teaching them got transferred and the new ones never showed up at their house. They are excited for their baptism on the 26th and they both came to church on sunday! They are probably the most prepared people I have met to be baptized in my whole mission.

That was the miracle we had last week, now my goal is to find more people like them in my new area! Im still zone leader, my new comp is from buenos aires and we are white washing an area, so im not sure if we have investigators or not. And even though I didnt want to get transferred, if I did this was the place I would have wanted to go! There are 6 of us in the apartment, and one of them is elder Mooneyham who was my best comp and he is going to be training now! We will meet his son, aka my grandson tomorrow so we are pretty excited for that.

Sorry the email is short! I have a lot of pictures to make up for it!