palabra de sabiduría = Word of wisdom
ley de castidad = law of chastity
diezmo = tithing
cita = appointment
vamos a ver = we'll see (if something will happen or not)
7 mayo 2018
Well the good news is we`ve finally got a baptism this thursday. Hopefully it will be two baptisms but we`ll have to wait and see. One is an 8 year old kid named Gonzalo that is living with some members on the weekends due to some family issues. He really likes coming to church though so we taught him all the lessons and we had his interview last night. The other is Nicolas who is 20. Elder Nash and I found him a little over two weeks ago and he is capo. We just found him on the side of the street one night and started talking to him. We invited him to play soccer with us the next wednesday (that`s when we play soccer with all the pibes) and then we started talking about baptism and we invited him to be baptized and he said yes. Well he came to church the following sunday, and he came yesterday, so we can baptize him this week. He didn`t just come to church though, he came early and was in a suit. I have never had an investigator wear a dress shirt to church before, let alone a suit. Like we called him one day to try and set up a cita with him and he was like ¨oh, sorry i`m in Morena right now looking for a suit for sunday.¨ We were so amazed we didn`t know what to do. We taught him the palabra de sabiduría about a week ago and told us he smokes marijuana with his friends a lot and that he smokes 2 cigarettes a day but he commited to quit when we taught the lesson and he hasn´t done it since. The only problem is that he works in Merlo and it`s really hard to find time to teach him. So we still have to teach him lesson 3, ley de castidad, y diezmo and have his interview before thursday... vamos a ver. The main problem is that he has a girlfriend and we still have to teach castidad. So we`ll have to wait and see how that goes and then decide if we want to baptize him now or wait a week.
It rained like every day last week and the streets are straight mud. Our clothes get covered in mud every day and we try to scrub them off every night but it doesn´t work too well. Then they never dry and so they´re wet when we put them on in the morning. Saturday night at like 8 we were in the farthest part of our area when the chain of my comp´s bike snapped in half. Long story short I ended up on his bike holding on to his shoulder as he pulled me all the way home on my bike. It was quite the adventure.
Another interesting story. We were eating lunch with familia Rojas, which is who we eat lunch with every wednesday. They are awesome. Well while we were sitting there the grandpa comes out, who I`ve only seen like once before, and he starts talking to us a little bit. Then out of nowhere he asks us if we knew his brother´s name. I was really confused but my comp knew what was coming. So then the guy was like ¨his name was Adolfo Mussilini Rojas.¨ Things got awkward real quick. He asked us if we knew where those names came from and my comp just said that he knew they were leaders of Germany and Italy a long time ago. He didn´t say anymore because he knew the guy was just trying to get us to say something bad about them so he could start arguing with us. Luckily Hermana Rojas told him to leave before anything else could happen. There was definitely some serious tension and it was kinda scary.
So about next Sunday. We didn´t realize mother´s day was this sunday until just barely so we haven´t really set anything up. I think we decided though that he´ll do his call at 6 and I´ll try to do it at 7 (my time). So I guess we´ll plan on that. Hopefully we can find a member´s house where we can do it at that time.
Well I gotta go, hopefully you all have a great week.
-Elder Shelton
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