Hey Everyone,
Yeah, so the weather wasn´t
so bad this week but yesterday the temperature did drop like crazy! I can’t believe it is almost September!
This week I have been able to focus on the positive and my prayers have been
answered a lot because of it this week. For example, I had worked so hard this
week we taught and taught and walked and walked. We even skipped our studies to
work on some days because I just wanted people to come to church. I prayed and prayed that someone would come to
church this last Sunday and we had 5 investigators in church! The most I have
ever had in the mission! I was so grateful for the blessing that Heavenly
Father gave to me. We finally had success! We also had more lessons in one week
than I have ever had! We had 22 lessons this week and we found 16 more new
people to teach and we now are preparing a few people to be baptized this
weekend! C.B. is the son of a member and he is for sure going to get baptized.
We had a Family Home Evening with him and he came to church and he really likes
rock music so we get along really well. That reminds me that last night I
played the guitar for some investigators. I was a bit rusty but I managed to
play two songs.
The other people that came to
church on Sunday all have a lot of potential especially M., but we could
probably baptize all of them if we really work super hard. To be honest, A.
could get baptized but I don´t know if he is ready. He just wants to be a
member to get help from fast offerings and he only comes to church if someone
comes to get him and he doesn´t really understand what we teach. We will see
what happens. I guess if he wants to get baptized he can, but he needs to
understand the commandments first. I am excited to train this next transfer. Transfer
week is September 2nd or 3rd. I think I will be writing on the Tuesday of that
week, but I am not sure. I might be in Resistencia when I get to write to you.
So, funny story about J. and
the pastor of the evangelical church. Our mission president told us that we
could go visit our new investigators J.’s church with him, so this week we went to the evangelical
church on Tuesday night. It was an adventure! It was very different from
anything I’ve ever experienced. So what
ended up happening is that my companion taught the pastor the restoration
lesson, he was a nice guy, but he had his own views about religion.
Afterwards we celebrated the
Pastors birthday with empanadas and cake. All the people that spoke in the
meeting talked about us as missionaries and all the good things we do in
spreading the gospel and that we all need to go out and find those people that
are in need, so that was funny that the evangelical church recognized us Mormon
missionaries in their talks. We just went there to support our investigator and
if president said we could go we thought we might as well! We also taught the
Book of Mormon to everyone in the church while sitting and eating the empanadas
because they had a lot of questions for us about it. I will never forget that
experience ever! I took a picture of the inside of the church. It helped me to
see the background of some of our investigators and to also see where they are
coming from as we try to teach them the gospel. I feel that I can teach and relate to them
better knowing how they do their kind of church meetings. They are totally
different from ours!
So, Elder Harris just called
me and said that the kid Brian, that we found in Resistencia when I had that
spiritual prompting to go back into the passage way and to contact that house, is
getting baptized soon!!!! I knew there was a reason we found him! So, that is
cool!
There are not any conferences
coming up soon just our transfers, so Eduardo Reyes just called me from Buenos
Aires and he gave me two referrals to go to visit here in Clorinda!
Anyway, so other things that
happened here are: I ate cow tongue and at another house I ate cow utter! Haha!
Also, this week I made a mistake with my Spanish and when a lady said her name,
I didn´t understand and in my attempt to say what she said, I accidentally said
M….
and instantly I realized NO! How did that word come out? Haha! M…means the S word in Spanish.
I called a lady the S word! Freaking Spanish, sometimes! Haha. I couldn´t
believe that I had said that! Also, one
of our investigators had an electrified tennis racket to kill mosquitos. Let’s just say I have never
had so much fun in my entire life!!!! There are way too many mosquitos in Clorinda!
Haha! Anyway, I love you and miss you all!
Chau,
Elder Nate Pendleton
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