The Sabbath Day is a delight, but sometimes a little disappoiting - 10 septiembre 2018
assistancia = attendance (at church)
fecha = date
obisbo = bishop
pensh = appartment
lended = loaned ☺
Well it`s been a pretty good week, but unfortunately it ended up pretty disappointing because we were only able to get 2 investigators in church. One of them, Esteban, is an 11 year old who´s a capo and now already has two asistencias. He has a fecha for this saturday, but yesterday he dropped a bomb on us and said that his mom isn't going to let him get baptized. We were definitely not expecting that. We talked to his mom about a week and a half ago to ask permission to teach him and to bring him to church and she didn`t have any problems with it. So we`re going to go talk to her today to see what`s up. Hopefully it goes well. Also la familia Juarez wasn`t able to come, which was one of the biggest disappointments. The parents are members but have been inactive for like 10 years or more, and they have four kids above the age of baptism. They had fechas for this saturday too, but they weren`t able to get their 2nd asistencia yesterday, so we`ll have to wait another week. The other person we had in church was a 16 year old named Edwin. He is also a capo. He`s kinda a long story, but basically he started attending in Los Pinos (which is a ward that borders us) because he has a lot of friends there. So the elders in Los Pinos started teaching him, but the obispo there won`t allow him to get baptized in his ward because Edwin lives in our area. So basically now he will be getting baptized here in Castillo 2 on the 22.
Also, I`ve been learning a little bit of sign language because we are teaching a deaf couple. They have already been to church several times and they love the book of mormon. The mom read the entire thing in like 3 days. Their son got baptized a couple months ago and he translates for us. Like always, they just need to get married. They are currently trying to pick a date to do it, so hopefully it can happen somewhat soon. Also we happen to be teaching another kid that is deaf, so we use their son a lot to help us translate. I´ve actually already learned quite a bit of sign language. But for some reason, Argentina seems to have it`s own version of sign language so it`s a lot different from American Sign Language.
Well so it turns out that our pensh is haunted. My comp and Elder Ramirez have told me quite a few crazy experiences they`ve had here. And then, on thursday, our Pday, my comp had another one. In the morning we went and played soccer with some of the kids from the ward, and when we got back we decided to take a nap for like half an hour. Well, I was just laying there ( I sleep on the top bunk) and then all of the sudden my comp yells really loud. Apparently he felt like he couldn`t move or speak, and that something was grabbing at him. He said he started praying and that when he was finally able to gain control was when he let out the yell. We told the other elders about it, and they said that they felt like something was not right in our pensh. So they decided that we should bless our pensh, which we did, so hopefully nothing crazy happens from now on. We told the bishop about it and he said that a member used to live in our pensh before the missionaries started living there. And he said that one time he got a call from the member at 1 in the morning because they couldn`t sleep and crazy stuff was happening in the pensh. So he had to go and give the member a blessing. So apparently we aren`t the only ones haha.
Oh also, our bishop lended me one of his guitars, so now we have a guitar in our pensh and I play it a little bit before we go to bed. It´s been a long time and my fingers have gotten really weak, so I gotta toughen them up again.
Anyway, that`s about all I got. Hopefully you all have a great week!
-Elder Shelton
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