Mar 25, 2013

Hi!

We had a Baptism this week, Sara!! Her mom Maribel will be baptized Saturday! Now we need to find new investigators so PRAY FOR US PLEASE!!! We are actually really struggling we only have 2 investigators right now and It stresses me out.

 EVERYONE is talking about the new Pope. In Spanish the word Pope is “EL Papa”, which can be confused with potato – “la papa”.  The other day I accidently said LA PAPA to one of our contacts and they GOT SOOOOO OFFENDED because I called him a potato and not the Pope!  Argentine Catholics are very loyal, even if they have not stepped foot in a church in years.

Yesterday we were talking to the father of this young girl that wants to come to church but he wont let her. We were sharing the things she´ll learn at church, how to be a teenager with values, why its important to wait until marriage to have sexual relationships, how to say ‘no’ to temptations etc.   He said  “yes but she can learn that at our catholic church” .  I said , “oh you guys are attending your church on Sundays so that she can learn these things?”  He said  “no..... but ummm, well,  she can learn that in our house”.  It made me sad.  I was just thinking that he is literally choosing the worst for his child by saying no and not allowing her to come to church! 

Mom asked if I am getting trunky  No I am not getting trunky, I actually don’t believe it’s going to happen!

We need all your prayers this week. Pray that we will find families with married parents that will understand the gospel and be baptized.  

Gotta go LOVE YOU ALL! XOXOXO 

Mar 18, 2013

Hi!!

Well I feel much better this week, thanks for your prayers!!! 

This week Maximiliano was Baptized and Confirmed! Oh sorry, did I said Maximiliano? His real name is SungHo Song, He´s Korean. Latins can´t pronounce his real name so he goes by Maximiliano. He´s probably one of the most interesting persons I´ve ever met. He is from Korea, he obviously speaks Korean, but also English, Spanish, and French – fluently.  He is learning Italian and he´s the wealthiest convert I´ve had in my whole mission. 

Its already hard enough to baptize wealthy people, but rich Koreans who grow up believing God doesn’t exist?  A MIRACLE. I would love to say that we helped him resolve all his doubts, but that would be a lie because by the time we found him, he had already read the Book of Mormon and had attended church a bunch of times.  HE asked US if he could be baptised! It was kind of amazing! 

We found a married family that came to church and is super, super prepared and we have see a ton of miracles!!!

I heard that Pres is taking the Hermanas out of my area this coming transfer, but sometimes its just rumors. With all the new missionaries there are a ton of changes so we´ll see what happens! I

I love you all, I’ve noticed my letters are shorter and shorter as times goes on!  Haha, I’ll try to write better this coming week. XOXOO

Love,

Hna Marchant

Mar 11, 2013

HI! carolina and Ezequias were confirmed yesterday!! And Maximiliano will be baptised saturday and confirmed sunday!

This ward is going to divide so we´ll see what happens this coming week with investigators and everything.

I have been sick all week, with like a stomach flu or somthing, but i have been working each day and haven't called the doctor yet. I'm going to give it one more day and if im still sick tomorrow I will call him. A prayer would be awesome please!! I love you all!!

xoxoxo

Mar 4, 2013

This week was awesome!

Carolina was baptized!!!!! And oh yeah so was Ezequias, You don’t know who that is? That’s because WE DIDNT EITHER UNTIL SATUDAY. It was kind of a HUGE miracle.

So last Sunday a member wrote us a note with the reference of a less active member who has a son that wants to be baptized. Monday came and I wanted to contact this reference, but I could not find the paper with the address number or anything for DAYS. I realized that my companion that got transferred had it in her bag and must have taken it with her. So I was trying to remember who it was that gave us the note in the first place… but couldn’t remember.

Finally Friday afternoon the REVELATION came and I remembered who the member was. So I called right away and got the phone number of the less active member. I called her and set an appointment for as soon as possible which was Saturday at 4:30 in the church building. So we went on Saturday, and it just so happened that our District Leader was on his way to the church for the baptismal interview of Carolina.  He was going to be at the church building at 5:30. 

So we met with the less active member (Erika) and her son (Ezequias) who wanted to join the church.  Erika tells me that Ezequias had already been meeting with the Elders from another area before, and had attended church a ton of times. He just needs to get baptized. So we said we have a baptism planned for ‘tomorrow’.  We told them that the Elder is on his way right now and that Ezequias can be interviewed for baptism by the Elder.  Both Erika and Ezequias teared up and said yes, lets do it.

So Carolina and cute little Esequias were both baptized! Like always, baptism days are crazy, and something always goes wrong.  This time instead of no hot water there was NO COLD WATER. The baptismal font was soooooooo hot that in the middle of sacrament meeting (right after the Sacrament), my companion, our ward mission leader, another member and I jumped up ran out and started doing anything to have cold water. We were dragging the ghetto broken dirty hose through the building into the font and also carrying buckets of cold water from other parts of the building. The baptism turned out fine and no one knew anything happened ha-ha.

When the baptism started they announced who was going to give the talk (one of Carolinas friends from church).  When it was her turn to talk we realized that she had ‘escaped’ with out telling anyone, and went home because she was so nervous! So our ward mission leader jumped up and gave an impulse talk on baptism. It was crazy, but turned out awesome!  It was a day I’ll never forget! We are extremely blessed!!!

Oh I almost forgot!!! My companion’s name is Hna. Leiva. She is from Argentina (Rosario). She lives so close that she took a bus here and it was like 2 hours. That’s like from where you guys live to North LA ha-ha. SOO CLOSE! She is the most excited person I've ever met and she is hilarious. We have been laughing soooo much! Well that’s about all. The time is passing TOOOOO fast. I love you all tons!! xoxo

Love,
Hna. Marchant