This week my companion and I got to know our area better. The ward members here are so great, they come to our little apartment with bags full of fruits and veggies, they offer to drive us around places and they are always willing to help us out when we get lost. Yesterday we decided to venture out into the Campo of Argentina to visit a less active member. We just kept walking and walking down this same pathway and about an hour and a half down this road we figured we were lost AGAIN. So we called a member and he said we weren't anywhere close so we headed back home and decided we would try again next week. I have started to realize that the words my comp learns in english reflect a lot on how our day goes. For example yesterday she learned two word "wilderness", and "SOS".
We also have learned what the phrase "Bahia wind" really means here. Oh my gosh I have never experienced wind like this before in my whole life. The windiest day this week hit us in the middle of the day, and I was wearing a skirt that did not cooperate well with the wind at all to say the least. That day my companion learned phrases like "are you kidding me", "over it" and also a little bit about Marilyn Monroe. That night we came home covered in sand with our hair knotted in a crazy mess and thats when my companion learned about comfort food and how to make pancakes. In other news, we have hot water now! NO MORE BUCKET SHOWERS FOR US!!!
The church in Argentina apparently hasn't progressed in 85 years and in our area in particular there hasn't been a baptism for the last 2 years. And almost every single baptism for the last 10 years is now on the less active list. We have our hands full teaching a lot of them and trying to bring them back to church.
I am also learning more than just Spanish from her. There is a language in Paraguay called Guarani, its a requirement to learn it in the schools there so she has been teaching me a little bit of that as well.
We are having fun and learning a lot in our new area! We also were able to watch the Women's Conference and Elder Uchtdorf's talk really helped me and my comp to have a little more faith. We were contacting yesterday and hadn't had any luck, but remembering Elder Uchtdorf story we decided to keep going any way. We had about 2 mins before we should be at our appt. and my comp wanted to knock on one last door. A man answered (the only person who had even come to his door in the last 2 hours) we introduced ourselves and he asked us to teach him. "Now?" I said. And he told us that he didn't know much about our religion and wanted us to teach him right then. So we taught him the restoration right there on his doorstep and set a time to visit him next week. I don't know what will come out of that visit but it helped me a lot. It gave me the boost that I think my comp and I both needed after a long hard week of no success. I loved Elder Uctdorfs talk and my comp and I are both excited for conference this weekend! Enjoy it in English for me!
Jajoecha peve! Chow!
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