Well I'm glad you all had a pretty good little week. Sounds like things in Tennessee are pretty good.
We don't all go to Bahia, just he went, but we still have to get up and take him to the terminal so he is not alone. but on the bus he is by himself, then he gets met by the Elders in Bahia when he arrives.
If someone new comes to church we for sure know. The branch only has from 40 to 50 people usually, and at this point I know who they all are. So that makes things pretty easy.
Sometimes we are the first, I would say, if they are investigators we know, then yes. If they are a surprise no, probably a member talks to them first. Sometimes we get to church right when it starts, cause in the mornings we go out and look for investigators to bring them to church. So if someone we don't know shows up at 9:20 for church a member will talk to them first but we always talk to a face we don't recognize.
Well it's good news the house in Idaho Falls will be sold, it will be good for you guys to have a house, ha ha. And I think you better give me your cell phone just in case, I don't have it noted, and I don't remember if the mission has it. Just in case. But whew it will be expensive to get a call from Argentina to a cell phone I would think.
OK, well. this week was a pretty interesting week. We had pretty decent amount of success.
I'm just going to tell you the big things that happened.
On Tuesday, we found a less active family that has 2 little girls, ages 11 and 9 that could get baptized if they go to church. That was good, I tell ya what that day, we didn't have ANYTHING good happen till 8 at night when we found them, ha ha.
Wednesday, we found a guy named Oswaldo. He almost got baptized 10 years ago, but was living with a girl so it didn't happen. Well he is alone now, so he could get baptized. We are helping him to get started reading the Book of Mormon again and such. We also, ha ha, reference for a lady, so we passed by and she is super nice, and a good person. Listened really attentively and wants to go to church and everything. She couldn't go this Sunday, but we hope this next Sunday she will go.
Thursday, we didn't have much honestly other then some problems with our lighting bill, its kinda a hassle paying bills, eh?
Friday. I had a nasty little cold, but we had a lot of things to do, so we worked. We had 8 lessons this day, in comparison to the 3 or 2 we usually have every day, ha ha. Which was good for me, I don't like walking when I'm sick. Hopefully I didn't spread it to much, ha ha. Actually you couldn't really tell I was sick. I bought some drugs to clear up the symptoms. It worked pretty well. Anyway, we passed by Graciela, an investigator I talked about a while back. She had been reading from the Book of Mormon, but still says she just can't go around getting baptized and changing churches all the time (shes been baptized in like 4 churches), ha ha. But we are trying to convince her its worth it. We passed by Oscar our recent convert, Juana again, Guillermo, Fernando (he still doesn't go to church. Hmmm, we are still trying to come up with a way to help him go) and we passed by a few more families.
Saturday, we passed by Oswaldo to invite him to church. He didn't go this week. Next we he will. I was still sick. Then we passed by Juan. For Juan we worked it out with a member to pick him up for church. Not sure if that was good or not since the members went by, and he didn't answer or something (maybe knocked the wrong door who knows) cause Juan said he was waiting. And I guess I wrote his phone number wrong, cause I tried to call it but it was a dead number, He corrected it Sunday when we passed by. So that was a bit frustrating. He almost went to church. I think I talked about him last week. He is great, and I have really high hopes of baptizing him in a few more weeks.
Sunday. well we went out early in the cold and we got Guillermo to go to church with us, Hurray. So we had 1 investigator in church. that was good. We were pretty satisfied. I'm not sure Guillermo really enjoyed church, it was hard to tell. He said he did, but he would say he liked something just so you don't feel bad. I guess we will know if he goes next week. I'm just not convinced he enjoyed it. He didn't really say much. After church, we met a less active member. He doesn't go to church, cause, uhh... ,he is a paintball addict... ha ha. I thought it was kinda funny. He travels and paintballs with his friends every weekend. Poor guy. He spends alottttt of money on it since they have to import it all from the States. I think he paid like 500$ on his gun...which is a lot of money in Argentina.... O well. He hadn't gone to church in like 10 years, He lost his Book of Mormon so we gave him a new one, he said he would read it. I hope he does, ha ha.
Today, well it might be the last day we have light in our house. The office is sending us money to pay for it. It was suppose to get to my bank account today, but as of right now it hasn't, and they cut lights tonight... o well. We all have flashlight, ha ha. I for sure should have it tomorrow.
Alright, well there you have the week., Pretty interesting. ,We hope things keep going pretty good., We have 3 or 4 people that should get baptized in August. So we really hope to have some pretty good success here in a bit.
Oh and with Josefina, well we couldn't really talk to her this week, She was ALWAYS busy, there were always people in her house and lots....and they didn't really want to talk to us. But she did tell us she could probably go to church in a bit.
Oh hey, and keep me updated on Tyler, it will be fun to hear where he could go now. He probably wont go to the same mission if I understand things correctly. But hey, who knows. He could come down to Argentina right? Ha ha.
Anyway keep enjoying the heat from Tennessee. Sound like lots of fun exploring the mountains down there.
Do you get to feed the missionaries lots there? I would think since its a companionship for your ward you could feed the missionaries a lot. I know the Elders like to eat, the Sisters I don't know, there really aren't many sisters in Argentina. Or at least I haven't been in a city with sisters since Mar Del Plata when I started.
Have a good week.
Love ya
Elder Obray
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