Hola familia como esta
I am doing great and we are having a lot of fun teaching great lessons down in Olavarria. We had a full week yet again but thats the life of missionaries.
Monday
One of our investigators had a wedding and it was held in a civil court. We walked to it and it was super fun. We saw some members there and lots of their friends all in the little court room. The groom, our investigator, came over to me and asked if I could tie his tie for him just prior to the service commencing. I have never tied a tie so fast because they had literally started the wedding when he asked me! After the wedding we went to his house for a little reception and it was fun. Of course, they had mariachi music and it was a way different kind of fiesta. I really enjoyed it. Later that day, when we were contacting, we passed a house that we pass a lot yet can’t follow up with a girl we contacted there because she is never home. About a block away after we passed it I said we need to go back and knock on her door. Just felt like we needed to do it. So we went back and sure enough it is completely dark with the blinds shut. We knocked anyway and waited a minute then knocked again and as is typical, no answer. However, to our surprise just as we were leaving she pulled up in her car. She was way excited to see us because we forgot to leave our information the last time we were talking to her. She is a very sweet nice girl and reminds me a lot of Makenzie. We asked how old she was and she has the same birth day as Makenzie’s and I! So not only does she reminded me of my sister, she is the exact same age as we are! Crazy!
Tuesday
We were contacting all morning because we have a goal this month to have 100 contacts. While contacting our bishop calls and says he has a referral for us! We were so excited we practically ran to this woman’s house and we were able to teach an amazing lesson with her. We learned she had recently left her church because she didn’t like how the preacher was talking about how not everyone can make it to heaven. We knew it was going to be a great lessen when she started crying before we even started our lesson. Of course I took that as a good sign. And yet it was kind of hard because I have no idea what to do when someone cries. I have zero experience with people crying like that so, I kind of just sat there awkwardly and just kept teaching.
Wednesday
We contacted a lot this day, surprise right? While we were out it started to get really hot, hottest day of the year so far. Apparently “hot” means every person starts drinking and hanging-out outside. We had several drunk people try to talk to us. It was kind of scary. They would always ask for stuff and one man took my comps sunglasses and said he would return them one day. Luckily he didn’t ask for mine, just my comp’s so I felt bad. Luckily we both bought our sunglasses here for about $3 us dollars so not a big loss.
Thursday
Spent this day working with the zone leader while my companion was in Bahia Blanca for a meeting. We of course contacted all day and it was really fun. We ate a meal at a members house and it was just noodles, plain noodles. haha. We met lots of people and talked to a lot of people on the streets and it was really fun. I love just talking to the people on the streets. They are always so interested in talking to new people, when you just walk over and ask how’s it going?
Friday
Today I was on splits with a return missionary from our ward and we had a ton of fun. He is native to Argentina so obviously he speaks the language far better than me. haha. We gave him a flyer for our missionary taught english class and I have never seen someone more excited to learn something. He had been praying for a way to learn english so he can go to school and I am super excited to help him out with that!
Saturday
My companion got home at 2 in the morning so I met him there. It was really fun to hear the city people because apparently the city never sleeps. At 2 am it was just as busy as in the middle of the day. Well, maybe not the middle of the day because that is siesta and nobody is out during that time. Later we had lessons with some of our investigators. One is living with his girlfriend. He said he wants to marry her so they can be baptized and I am super excited for that. I hope it comes together like the other one did!
Sunday
Sunday was fast-and-testimony sacrament meeting and it was really funny because nearly every member said the exact same thing in about 5 sentences then they sit down. It is good that they are sharing what they know to be true. After church we contacted until night fall then visited families at night.
Thats was all for this week. I am glad to get everyones emails to see that you are all having a great week! I love you all!
~Elder Vance
