I can hardly believe another week has come and gone here in Argentina. This week has been a week of miracles for us! We had eight friends at church yesterday and found 19 people who want us to teach them this week! We had Zone Conference and learned a lot about how we can be better missionaries and work with members. Zone Conference is awesome because we get to see our mission friends and spend time learning from each other.
On Thursday we had our 2nd lesson with our sweet friend Alicia and I asked her to be baptized and she said "Yes!! And I want my grandson to be baptized too!" We were so happy. We set her baptism date for November 18th and we are so pumped. She has some hurdles she will have to get over before she can be baptized, but we have faith that she will be able to!
This week we had lessons with our investigators and many of them are progressing well. We met with one of our investigators and he said to me, "I decided I'm going to be baptized in January!" I said "Great, but why not right now?" My companion just looked at me like what the heck are you doing, haha. But, he says "Okay, we'll meet in the middle - I'll get baptized in December!" We were so excited because he's been saying for months he will be baptized, but now we can actually nail down a date with him.
Spiritual experiences:
My companion and I were looking for a person named "Dario". We were walking all over and looking at the house numbers and we passed a man on the street and I said hello. After a few minutes I turned around and realized he was the man we were looking for! We asked him if he was Dario and he said yes and asked us to teach him and called his brother and daughter to come hear our message, too. Afterwards we were walking home and were talking about how his reference sheet didn't mention his daughter or brother, so we were confused. When we got back to the apartment, we realized that the reference was for a whole other person named Dario and had a different address. I don't know where we got the address we had, but I can't help but think it was God leading us to him!
Funny experiences:
It is true, there is a dog that follow us everywhere. His name is Samuel and he is soo cute! But, the problem is that all the dogs in all of Santa Rosa chase after us when he is with us. So it's actually pretty scary and sometimes we have to run away from Samuel, haha.
Everybody here breastfeeds in public like it is normal, it has shocked some of the new Elders.
We had a lesson with someone and he was insulting me for being American but I had no idea what he was saying so I just nodded my head and said, "It's true."
Missionary work is hard! Some days I don't understand anything and I feel so tired when I get home at night - but I just have to remind myself that this is all for the Lord. I am not here for me or for any other reason than to serve these wonderful people of Argentina!
Hope you all have a good week!
Love,
Hermana Spackman
pictures!
A much needed ice cream break
Our cute bautista walking out of the baptismal font last week
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