Oscar´s Dream

After getting offered cake 4 times by the same member in the same cita...

And then 3 more times by different members right after that...

I realized something.

Members are like teachers.

Members give you food thinking that no other member will like a teacher gives you homework as if the rest of your teachers won´t.

I never left college after all.

Except I like this homework wayyyy more and is much worse to my body ha!

Oscar´s Dream

So a little over a week ago Hermana Hurtado and I found some people to look for in the area folder. We found this really elderly guy that had talked to the Elder´s like 10 years ago but hasn´t been taught since. 

So we decided that maybe it was time the missionaries stop by his house again.

He is this cute little elderly man that is so sad and lonely. He welcomed us into his front porch (we can´t go into his house haha) and immediately accepted what we´re teaching us. He is the hardest person to understand for me, but I still love him ha. He told us he remembered that the Elder´s taught him the Word of Wisdom, and so he told us that he stopped smoking since then.

We were stoked.

But then we had our second cita and he was so sad because he had stopped smoking but then the day after we visited him he had the tempation to smoke and he caved. Satan always knows when you´re about to do something right grrrrrr!

But then he told us that he had a dream.

He was standing at the bottom of a mountain and he felt really alone and tired. But then he saw Hermana Hurtado and I. I smiled at him and Hermana Hurtado told him that we were going to help him climb this mountain so that he can quit smoking and find a better life. We took his arms and suported him as he began to climb.

I had shivers. Sometimes you can just feeeeel it when someone is your person. I know that I am here to help them, and I am just amazed that I have this opportunity to help bring people to Christ.

We are never Enough

I feel so small and so insignificant in this work. I still feel brand new in the mission and now that I´m done training I feel so much more pressure. I need to be more obedient. I need to speak more in lessons. I need to help plan better and set goals. I need to be on time for studies. I need to look for this person or a visit this member. There are so many things that I need to do but there is never enough time. I felt so stressed because I felt like I just kept falling short as a companion and a missionary. I was frustrated that even though I was trying my best, sometimes I still fell short.

But then I realized, we strive to be perfect, but we aren´t. What we do isn´t enough. We are never enough.

BUT

But with CHRIST, WE ARE.

We fall short because we aren´t perfect,

But Çhrist fills the gaps where we aren´t enough. We do what we can, and he does the rest.

I´ve really seen that these past couple days. I just feel so insignificant sometimes. But the only words I can think of to describe this week is like the hymn "I stand all amazed" because even though I fell short, we were blessed to find people like Oscar. We have 7 investigators now and we recieved 5 references in two weeks - that´s more than I have ever gotten in the three months I´ve been here. I just am amazed that even though I am not a perfect missionary at all, we are still blessed with work and people. I am amazed that even though I am no where near speaking perfect spanish, the Holy Ghost will teach these people the things I can´t say as long as I am always bearing testimony of my Savior Jesus Christ.

Even though what I do and Who I am is never enough, Christ does the rest to make us where we are enough. Through him, we can do everything.

For this month in October we have a goal as a mission: Every companionship in the Argentina Bahia Blanca mission have at least one baptism. We have been praying in hopes that we can have one and I would like to ask you guys to keep us in our prayers so that we can have a baptism. Also please keep our investigator Noberto in your prayers this week. 

I feel very loved by everyone and am so grateful I have such wonderful family and friends.

The Tacos made my Companion Cry too

So as funny as the cake story from last week was I think I have decided to throw in the towell altogether with cooking and baking. We found cilantro (the rarest thing to find in Argentina) so Hermana Hurtado and I decided to make tacos for the Elders for lunch when they came over to Miramar to help us with an activity. It was fun until we spent too much time over it, starved for half the day, and had to haul all the food (to feed 8 elders the equivalent of 30 grown men) 15 blocks away because Elder´s are horrible with communication. My companion ended up crying at the end of this story too. 

But the Elder´s were extremely grateful and decided we were the best cooks out of all the sister missionaries in the mission.

Worth it.

PICS

Check out all these bananas I bought for less than $3!

I was really proud of myself. I might risk making my companion cry again and make banana bread haha

Hermana Nomellini told me that she and her companion before me drew a baptism symbol and a heart in some cement back in April but we never found it. But lookie here! We found it!

The sister missionaries have forever left their mark in Miramar!

​One of my most favorite places in my area. Am I in Argentina or Scotaland???

Quotes of the Week

One of the new Elders: "So I just had my first awkward kiss rejection in the mission..."

Elder Brown (his trainer): "yeah he went in for it and she rejected him."

su hijo: "Noooo she tried to kiss meee!" 

Elder Tew: "I miss soccer mom´s you guys."

Me: "I miss my Mom" (in moderation. I´m fine guys really haha)

Elder Tew: "Yeah, truuu."

Hermana Hurtado after I tripped for the 37th time that day: "They say in Bolivia, that when ever you trip, it´s because your boyfriend is lying."

*I trip again*

Me: "Mi novio chupa!" (my boyfriend sucks)

Hermana Hurtado: "This piece of paper smells like toilet paper"

She is just a big ball of fun haha. 

Hasta la proxima semana!