I have a crappy keyboard again. well not crappy, but the letters W, A, S
& D have been rubbed off by the excessive number of young Argentine children
who come and play counter-strike in the cyber.
We had two less actives and two investigators out to church, what's
good!
Also there was and amazingly fluffy puppy that was super cute that one of
our less active families had, and it was awesome. but then someone stole it so I
can't play with it anymore.
The weather is better! but seriously. It's not to hot here anymore, and the
weather has gotten really... Beautiful. just awesome. the exact right mix of
warm but not hot. and the region is just pretty looking in general, so, yeah. it
would be a great place to vacation except that the peso is absolutely
insane.
Oh yeah, um, we built a roof on Saturday, out of concrete, and we're doing
another one this week. Horray for applicable skills that I am gaining, I guess
(if I ever want to build a janky flat roof out of logs, bamboo, concrete and
liquid asphalt). But even better, there are pictures of the service project on
the progreso branch Facebook page. here, wait let me go get the link wait I'm
not allowed okay uhh just look up "Rama Progreso" and it should show up. there's
a great one of a large amount of liquid concrete falling on me from above.
Spiritually this week I had a great experience learning the value of
listening. we had an unplanned lesson with one of our investigators, Gorge, and
he's a talker, an older fellow, 50 or so, and he just had a lot to say. I was
struggling to really be able to listen to him since I had just had an hour-long
language study and was feeling rather done with spanish. Still, I focused in and
tried to get every single word he was saying. I was hard, and he was talking
about things that I didn't necessarily think where super relevant. But as I kept
listening, I started to understand more what he was talking about, and how he
was expressing his doubts and concerns to us; We where able to understand a lot
more of his needs on a spiritual level. He then made a somewhat abrupt change of
topic and told us about the death of his mother and the impact that had had on
him. he expressed how he had been very downcast and hopeless for some months
after his mother had passed away, until one night he had a dream in which he
though he saw his mother and heard her tell him that everything would work out.
After he shares that powerful experience with us, I felt greatly moved by the
trust we had earned in this man by being willing to listen patiently instead of
trying to quickly share a planned message and move on to another
appointment.
That experience and a couple other led me in my studies to some of the plan
of happiness chapters in the book of Mormon. some of the verses that stuck out
to me where 1 nephi 8:12 and the antecedent experience that lehi has finding the
tree of life.
That's all for this week,
oh wait it's not I had questions to answer. We have lunch with members
because that's the big meal here. we have lunch with members every single day
except P-day, even though there are only like 9 or 10 families that feed us.
They're fairly good about varying the fare, since we eat with each one of them
almost once a week... We eat a lot of milanaisas? not sure if that's how you
spell it... and uh other food to, like empenadas sometimes and casseroles and
pasta, lots of pasta... lots of beef, lots of chicken. yeah.
uhhh now that's all for this week.
Have fun with your cold weather and stable currency,
El. Backstrom
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