¨Everyone has their agency¨. As a missionary it is difficult to not get frusterated becuase others(investigadors) dont use their agency as ¨I¨ would like. For those who arnt aware of the religous meaning of agency, it is the ability and privilege God gives us to choose and to act for ourselves. This week we had a lot of success in our lesson and commiting a lot of people to baptism and going to church. Elder Moore and I were running all around Goya on foot and by taxi in order to get to everyone we are teaching right now. We had some great lesson with some really promising people,and to help all these people keep the commitment to go to church, we had set up 9 teaching appointments for Saturday. We had to leave a little earlier but ended up getting to 7 of the 9 and commiting all of them to go to church. The majority have accepted a baptismal date to be baptized and are reading and interested. We then sent out text reminders saturday night and sunday morning and even went and picked up some people to get to church. In all we had 4 out of the 9 we were wanting attend church. I was super happy but at the same time kinda disappointed that the other 5 didnt come. But all in all one of the 4 that did come will be getting baptised this Saturday! So that will be exciting! Her name is Marta and I will write more about her and her story next week.
This week with Elder moore, we had a cool lesson with an investigador named Claudio who is 32 years old. He has a strong testiimony of the gospel and will for sure get baptized one day.... but he needs to get married with his ¨wife¨. So that will be a process. But in mid lesson, he went and grabbed his accordion and started playing us some classic ¨Correntino¨ Chamamé. Which is the argentine version of mexican Ranchera. It was super funny and I snagged a pic of him with his accordion.
It rained a lot this week so we were walking a lot in the mud. At one point we had just arrived to a ladys buiness we had contacted the other day and right when we entered and started the lesson, it starting dropping buckets and the lightning was literally stricking teleaphone poles across the street from us. It didnt flood luckly but just lots of wet dirt and soaked missionaries.
There is a lot of drama in the branch here that has been going on since I have gotten here. Basically in Goya there are 2 branches, The centro branch and the Belgrano Branch. and they both hate each other. The members act as if it were a sport team riverally. This week in paticular was bad. Two weeks ago president patania had to move the belgranos branch church to the afternoon so that the two branches dont see each other on Sunday. So we are facing with that right now. Doesnt really help the missionary work either.
But that was my week! I hope you all have a great week! Talk to yáll on skype next week!
