Well we now don´t have a phone or my watch, but I´ll get to that later since it was the icing on the cake for this week.
Well, Walter did not get baptized this week. Everything was going well this week until I got a text thursday night at like 1 in the morning from Walter telling me how he´s been talking to his dad who lives in the north of Argentina, and that his dad forbid him to be baptized so now he doesn´t want to get baptized. I was like, this dude is 38 years old, can´t he make his own decision? Anyway, we stopped by his house several times and he never came out. And he doesn´t answer our phone calls. So, yeah.
Although there was some really good stuff this week too because we found some awesome people. We contacted this one lady on wednesday who had literally just moved into the house that day, She was really nice, and said that she had talked to elders before, like 10 years ago and they had given her a book of mormon. We set up a time to come back on friday, and when we came they let us in and we sat down with the entire family (the dad, mom, and their 3 daughters that live with them) Which is not something that happens very often at all. We taught lesson 1 and then invited them all to be baptized and they said yes. The only thing is that we don´t know if the parents are married... so I guess we´ll see.
Also we found this cool dude named Alejandro whose 28 years old and lives with his girlfriend and their 2 year old kid. We were contacting him, but then he brought out some chairs and we sat down in front of his house and taught him lesson 1 and gave him a book of mormon. He was listening super intently and he actually understood everything really well. Afterwards, we somehow got on the topic of Boca vs. River (the two big soccer teams of Buenos Aires). I told him I like Boca, and he went into his house and came out with a sweet Boca jersey and he just straight up gave it to me. It was pretty sick haha.
The crowning moment of the week had to be on sunday morning when we were out looking for investigators to come to church. It was raining slightly so there weren´t very many people out. Long story short we ended up getting robbed at like 9:30 in the morning. We were also in the less-sketchy part of our area, so it was neither the time nor the place that I expected to be robbed. All we ended up losing was the phone and my watch though. Although I was pretty sad to see my watch go, because I have worn it every day of my mision without fail. I also had my nice spanish triple combination with me because I had to give a talk in sacrament meeting, so luckily he didn´t take that. The look on my comp´s face was priceless too because he didn´t understand anything that was going on. He told me he didn´t even know that we were getting robbed until I gave up my watch haha.
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But anyway, all is well here in Castillo. Oh yeah, we should be baptizing a lady named Laura this saturday, we just need to do the interview tonight and then everything will be set. I know I probably sound like the boy who cried wolf haha but hopefully this one actually happens.
Have a great week!
-Elder Shelton
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