Hola familia,
This week was transfers, but I am staying one more transfer in Ollivariia! Yeah! Life is good for us in Argentina. Cannot wait until Christmas to talk to you. Thank everyone for the emails, they really make my day & week. I am really enjoying the small bags with Christmas count down that you sent, it makes everyday fun! I am happy and healthy and know that the Gospel is true. I am learning so much here, about myself and about my Father in Heaven. It is a blessing to be able to serve here in Argentina! Here is my week in review.
Monday
We had a little Thanksgiving as a zone and it was super fun! We (kind of) had food similar to Thanksgiving! It was fun, we had some other elders staying at our house and so we did splits with them that day! We talked to a lot of investigator this day and one want to come see our baptism this week. He was wondering what it’s like! He is really cool and just graduated high school and he is about our age and we have been meeting with him for a while.
Tuesday
We had our last zone meeting with the current zone. After we all signed each other books kind of like the end of a school year books. I think it is kind of weird, but fun. It took awhile because everyone was writing like a page in each others books. After that we had a meal with some members, and did splits and visited menos activos and members. It was really fun, it got cold this night because it was so over cast. It was a great blessing from the crazy heat! We have been seeing temperatures in the mid to high 90’s. Not even full summer yet!
Wednesday
Today it was really raining so we had a difficult time going out, but we made some visits and some contacts. I got the privilege of calling my dearly beloved cousin in Buenos Aires and we talked for about 10 min! It was so great to talk to Elder Kofford! He is doing great and counting down his mission in Argentina. After that in the evening we had to go prep our chapel for this Fridays chapel open house. This is the day where the ward comes helps us prepare for the open house, so I guess it was a prep for the prep.
Thursday
We went to Azul this day to interview the hermanas investigator for baptism. It was really fun… except the bus didn’t come to take us home at the time we needed. Then on top of that I did not have my Argentina ID, I had some how forgotten it. IMAGINE THAT MOM?!?! So they didn’t want to sell me a bus ticket and it was very scary! Luckily an old member was a few people behind us and he knew the bus driver . He talked on our behalf and he allowed us to just pay the bus driver directly to get a ticket to ride, it was a super great blessing! He just asked us in return if we would go check on his mother for him cause she lives near us… we are going to do that today! hahah
Friday
We spent most of our day in the chapel cleaning it and prepping all the rooms for our open house. We had to move all the furniture at least 4 times until the hermanas where happy, haha!!! It was good, we cleaned every corner and space and we hung new pictures. It looked super great when we were done and lots of member and menos activo (less actives) came to help support and assist in the prepping of that chapel.
Saturday
We had the open chapel we had 5 investigators come! It was great we were in the baptismal font room. We talked about the importance of baptism and it went amazingly! They all asked questions and it was great, we even had some contacts that we meet in the street come by. It was a great day. We had all the elders and hermanas in our city come and help and be part. It was good to talk and get to see them all again!
Sunday
Fast Sunday! It was really great we had some investigators come to church. I have no way to describe the joy this little thing brings missionaries, only other elders and past elders will understand this simple joy, it was great! We didn’t have lunch this day, we were given stuff for hamburgers from our bishop the day before. I had some pineapples, so we grilled up some mean hamburgers with grilled pineapples. We didn’t have any bread so my comp and I tried to improvise and cook some, but we also didn’t have flour. So he thought… blend up some rice and thats like the same thing,RIGHT?? Let me tell you it’s not close to the same thing as flour. We ate meat and that was great!
Love you all,
Elder Vance
