¡Hola!
This week was good!! A lot of
really good things, and a lot of really hard things happened! We got to work at the temple this week! It was
absolutely amazing. They had 5 companionships of Sisters come to the temple Friday
afternoon, and we worked all day Friday, then slept there (at the MTC right
next to the temple). Then we worked half
the day Saturday too. I loved it! It was
like a big sleep over with tons of the Hermana’s!! They had more then 8,000
people pass through Saturday. It was extremely busy and turned out better then
they were expecting! (It was pouring rain that day too and they still had a ton
of success, which is weird! Argentines have a weird phobia of rain...Sundays
when it rains more then half the ward doesn’t come to church!)
But it was good; we will go this week sometime again, and on the 9th
of September is the dedication! So that was all really good.
A few weeks ago we got a tour of the temple before anyone in the
country with Elder Arnold (a 70 that is in charge of all the missions in south America)
and when we were in the sealing room he gave us a promise. We are promised with
the blessing that in our future we will know with out a doubt exactly who it is
that we are supposed to marry. That we will know exactly who it is when it
comes time to make the decision. How awesome is that!! One of the coolest experiences
of my life. What a blessing.
My companion is just amazing. She is definitely one of my favorites.
This area is amazing if anyone is planning of traveling to Argentina you have
to come to Congreso. Well, Sunday morning came and we went to get all our
investigators for church (not to mention our baptism Guliana) and turns out her
parents put a lock on the door from the out side and left for the day. So she couldn’t
leave the house. (¡Qué loco!) All of our other investigators didn´t come
either. It was disappointing and the first time in my mission that we didn’t
have even ONE investigator in church.
We were walking to an appointment and I felt extremely sad,
literally almost to the point of tears. So I started brain storming everything
we did, didn’t do but should have, could have done, everything... trying to
find what we can improve and how. Well we were walking and I felt, probably one
of the clearest ´´revelations´´ in my life ´´don’t lose your faith, and don’t
be discouraged. Discouragement is a lack of faith´´. So we decided to say a
prayer and start a fast about where to go and what to do. We both knew (because
our President says it all the time) that we will find prepared people through
recent converts. So we made a plan to teach all the retention lessons to the
recent converts this transfer and get references from them. We went to a recent
convert that doesn’t have even ONE of the retention lessons and asked him about
7 times in 7 different ways (he didn’t want to answer) who he knows that needs
the gospel and FINALLY he gave us a reference of his cousin that lives in the
same building.
We taught him a lesson and went to contact his cousin. Well turns
out his cousin wasn´t there, but the daughter was. She’s about 17 years old. We
explained who we are and how we have a message and she said ´´and what if I
want to get baptized. How can I? ´´ My companion and I looked at each other in
shock and told her that we will prepare her baptism service in 3 weeks and
we´ll teach her everything. She said ´´Yeah my mom wants to too and my two
brothers, we were just talking about this this week´´ hah! What a miracle.
Well, this week was definitely one that made me humble, and was definitely
a test of faith. But it ended with a family that wants to get baptized! I know
this week will be better and I know the Lord is preparing people to receive his
message.
les amo,
Hermana Marchant
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