Well we had transfers (YEA!). I´m sorry if my last email seemed a little down... But this one will be better!! We are going to have 3 baptisms in our area this Saturday of Alan, Nahuel, and Luis. There are 10, 12, and 17 years old brothers. We are teaching their family and those three are ready and able to be baptized. The mom still has to get separated from her ¨spouse¨. Her spouse has 14 kids with 3 different women and they are living together still. But things are kinda rough right now so it is possible that they part ways. The zone had 2 baptisms this past weekend and I did the interview of one of them... his name is Rodrigo and is 37 years old and his family got baptized a year ago but he didn’t because he had a hard heart and was a devote catholic so it was harder for him to be open to the message of the restoration. But the hermanas had been working diligently with him and he received his testimony. It was cool talking to him... the excitement he had. He was going 7 days without smoking when I interviewed him soo he was really had to put his effort and faith into action to be able to be ready. But he was and it was a great baptism. He got baptized with his 8 year old son. Federico unfortunately decided to take a break from our lessons. We had 2 lessons with him this week and in the 2nd he told us that he want to take a break and start going to the Pentecostal church so that he could ¨close some doors¨ with them and then in a month come back and talk to us... kinda weird. The problem with him is that he, along with other evangelical based religions; believe that one true church cant be completely true and that the way to receive the grace of God and be saved is by straight faith. Therefore he doesnt feel a necessity to find the true church of Christ and so he looks for a church that will provide the most benefits and ¨Luxuries¨. But he´ll keep reading the BoM, maybe not with real intent, but he´ll keep reading it.
(Selfie with elder Poveda as we were sending Elder Evans off in a boat to his new area)
In transfers, there were 6 missionaries that left out of the 14. So I am excited to have the zone start from a clean slate. Elder Hannah came and is now in the zone.. he was in my MTC district so we will most likely end our missions together here. This morning we played uno, but we did it in the way that you had to do something if you lost. One elder had to drink a mouth full of fry sauce, another had to do 50 push-up... kinda fun. I took a pick with an elder from Esquina that had his face drawn on by all of us with a marker. Kinda childish stuff we do to have fun without technology and with alll the rules we have haha. I am excited for this week, even though our leadership council got cancelled this transfer.... no trip to resistencia or McD´s :( but its alright. That was my week... let me know if you want anything from ARG in these last couple months and I will do my best to get them . Love you all
(Me with 3 missionaries from Buenos Aires playing Uno this morning.)
Elder Keicher!
