Hello!
Hope everyone had a great week! We as you all know had to start over with all of our
investigators. It went well!! We have a lot of new ones. Our ward is really focusing on Less
Active members and is having us do that too. They are being difficult about baptisms and only
want us to focus on reactivating, so we are all working on a compromise. But we met a less
active member named Alfredo. He is absolutely amazing. We came to his door and the first thing
he said with tears in his eyes was ´´you don't know how long I have been waiting for you. it
gives me emotion to think you are finally here´´ It made me feel like ´´wow I really am where I
need to be´´ He got offended at church years ago and because of his pride that he knows he has
he was mad no one came to say sorry so he stopped going. We were the first ones to come visit
him in years. He said he reads the Book of Mormon all the time. I told him that ´´the Gospel is
perfect. The people are not. You need to come back to church. The people and what they said to
you doesn't matter what matters in your devotion to the lord´´ ...in broken Spanish of course ha-
ha and he said he knows, but he is really scared. So we are working on getting him to commit to
coming back! He is the cutest little old man you´ve ever seen though! He said he is glad that I
can understand some Spanish because usually one of the missionaries in companionships can't
understand ANYTHING. Ha-ha little did he know I could only understand every 5th or 6th
word...I'm good at nodding my head and pretending like I understand I guess!! Another random
(non member) we met said ´´I've been waiting for you guys to come to my door for a long
time...finally your here´´ also. That was two people in two days! So crazy!
While looking for another less active members house (which is almost impossible on 9 out of 10
of them because the roads and the addresses and houses and everything in so unorganized) we
asked a random guy a question about the road or something and he called us over and told us that
we shouldn't go in that area we were looking for because it's very very dangerous at this time of
night so we ended up talking to him for a few minutes and I fell in love right away. He is also a
little old man. He has ´´sickness of his heart´´ not sure if its cancer or what, but he said has dying
and only has a little time left. My companion was talking to his friend and I was attempting to
talk to him. He is different. I know we're going to baptize him. The second we started talking
I knew that we can help him. His name is Hugo. I couldn't get him out of my head that whole
night. We will see him again tonight or tomorrow! He is very closed to our message right now
because he's very Catholic, so I'm praying to be able present it in a way that he can feel!
This week we had a lot of rain! One day we were out working and one of the bikes broke (of
course) so we found a repair shop and got it fixed and got on our way. It started to drizzle right
then...thinking nothing of it we kept on going. Well before we knew it, we were at the farthest
tip of our area and it was dark and POURING. We started laughing because we are both accident
prone and disaster prone ha-ha doing our best to keep working we decided to stand under a bus
stop and talk to people waiting for the bus hoping the rain might calm down. Well 30 minutes
later, and 3 lessons taught later it started pouring even harder. We got a call from the Elders
telling us to go home so we started on our way. Little did we know, the roads turn into rivers
here when it rains hard! At first we were trying to avoid the water, but we were already soaked
and there was no point anymore. So we started going straight down the center of the road.
Laughing and singing the whole way. The sewer ditches along the side of the roads were over
flowing and all the other mystery puddles we usually avoid were all mixed in...Knowing there
was nothing I can do, and full of fear that I was going to get a disease, I blessed the water ha-ha.
Just like they teach us to do at members houses with drinks. Bless and ask that it won't make us
sick! We get home and that's when the laughing stopped and the annoyance started...the clean
up! All the papers in our bags...ruined our shoes....puddles with every step... clothes and bags:
soaked, muddy, and the weirdest awful smell ever! I don't even want to know what was on us ha-
ha. Plus when it rains we get tons of bugs in our house. Well to make a long story short I have
ring worm or something very strange and weird that sounds like the description of ring worm on
my upper thigh. I have to send the doctor pictures today and he will tell me what to buy at the
pharmacy tonight hahaha. Argentina never lets me down on interesting stories :)
This week was really good. Once I met Hugo (the cute old catholic man that is dying) I was
laying in bed and I was just thinking about how I can help him, then my mind started wondering
and I got SO excited about all the Lord has in store for me this coming 15 months. All the people
I can help, the good I can do, the changes that need changing all that are waiting for me!! I hope
you all are doing your missionary work there at home! I love you all and miss you tons! Stay
Happy. Besos!!
Hermana Marchant
Hope everyone had a great week! We as you all know had to start over with all of our
investigators. It went well!! We have a lot of new ones. Our ward is really focusing on Less
Active members and is having us do that too. They are being difficult about baptisms and only
want us to focus on reactivating, so we are all working on a compromise. But we met a less
active member named Alfredo. He is absolutely amazing. We came to his door and the first thing
he said with tears in his eyes was ´´you don't know how long I have been waiting for you. it
gives me emotion to think you are finally here´´ It made me feel like ´´wow I really am where I
need to be´´ He got offended at church years ago and because of his pride that he knows he has
he was mad no one came to say sorry so he stopped going. We were the first ones to come visit
him in years. He said he reads the Book of Mormon all the time. I told him that ´´the Gospel is
perfect. The people are not. You need to come back to church. The people and what they said to
you doesn't matter what matters in your devotion to the lord´´ ...in broken Spanish of course ha-
ha and he said he knows, but he is really scared. So we are working on getting him to commit to
coming back! He is the cutest little old man you´ve ever seen though! He said he is glad that I
can understand some Spanish because usually one of the missionaries in companionships can't
understand ANYTHING. Ha-ha little did he know I could only understand every 5th or 6th
word...I'm good at nodding my head and pretending like I understand I guess!! Another random
(non member) we met said ´´I've been waiting for you guys to come to my door for a long
time...finally your here´´ also. That was two people in two days! So crazy!
While looking for another less active members house (which is almost impossible on 9 out of 10
of them because the roads and the addresses and houses and everything in so unorganized) we
asked a random guy a question about the road or something and he called us over and told us that
we shouldn't go in that area we were looking for because it's very very dangerous at this time of
night so we ended up talking to him for a few minutes and I fell in love right away. He is also a
little old man. He has ´´sickness of his heart´´ not sure if its cancer or what, but he said has dying
and only has a little time left. My companion was talking to his friend and I was attempting to
talk to him. He is different. I know we're going to baptize him. The second we started talking
I knew that we can help him. His name is Hugo. I couldn't get him out of my head that whole
night. We will see him again tonight or tomorrow! He is very closed to our message right now
because he's very Catholic, so I'm praying to be able present it in a way that he can feel!
This week we had a lot of rain! One day we were out working and one of the bikes broke (of
course) so we found a repair shop and got it fixed and got on our way. It started to drizzle right
then...thinking nothing of it we kept on going. Well before we knew it, we were at the farthest
tip of our area and it was dark and POURING. We started laughing because we are both accident
prone and disaster prone ha-ha doing our best to keep working we decided to stand under a bus
stop and talk to people waiting for the bus hoping the rain might calm down. Well 30 minutes
later, and 3 lessons taught later it started pouring even harder. We got a call from the Elders
telling us to go home so we started on our way. Little did we know, the roads turn into rivers
here when it rains hard! At first we were trying to avoid the water, but we were already soaked
and there was no point anymore. So we started going straight down the center of the road.
Laughing and singing the whole way. The sewer ditches along the side of the roads were over
flowing and all the other mystery puddles we usually avoid were all mixed in...Knowing there
was nothing I can do, and full of fear that I was going to get a disease, I blessed the water ha-ha.
Just like they teach us to do at members houses with drinks. Bless and ask that it won't make us
sick! We get home and that's when the laughing stopped and the annoyance started...the clean
up! All the papers in our bags...ruined our shoes....puddles with every step... clothes and bags:
soaked, muddy, and the weirdest awful smell ever! I don't even want to know what was on us ha-
ha. Plus when it rains we get tons of bugs in our house. Well to make a long story short I have
ring worm or something very strange and weird that sounds like the description of ring worm on
my upper thigh. I have to send the doctor pictures today and he will tell me what to buy at the
pharmacy tonight hahaha. Argentina never lets me down on interesting stories :)
This week was really good. Once I met Hugo (the cute old catholic man that is dying) I was
laying in bed and I was just thinking about how I can help him, then my mind started wondering
and I got SO excited about all the Lord has in store for me this coming 15 months. All the people
I can help, the good I can do, the changes that need changing all that are waiting for me!! I hope
you all are doing your missionary work there at home! I love you all and miss you tons! Stay
Happy. Besos!!
Hermana Marchant
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