Yesterday was Mother's Day here
in Argentina! Happy day mom, I love you a lot. I threw you a shout -
out in my testimony yesterday. I killed the hymns, including a final
rendition of "Para siempre Dios este con vos - God be with you." More
than anything it was for Elder Villanueva who ends his mission today,
but we could also sense that perhaps I'd get transferred. And it came to
pass...
I'm about to head to the bus terminal
to catch a double decker to... Parque Guillermina, Tucuman. I'll be
working with Elder Philpot from Arizona (about 6 months in the mission).
I'm pumped! Tucuman is supposedly a crazy province with a lot of
theives, motos loaded with families of 6, and a lot of humid heat. I
doubt it's as bad as the DR tho...
Elder Cowan
is heading to Salta, the zone where I started. He's gonna have the task
of lifting up a battered zone, he and another Elder are whitewashing the
previous ZLs. Pumped for him to meet my converts.
Yesterday,
kinda anticipating the transfer, I said goodbye to some people here,
mainly the Brajeda family (see pics). Leo was my first convert with
Elder Miño and without a doubt one of the most converted people I've
ever met. He has turned his life around completely, and he says he owes a
lot to the fact that Elder Molina and I contacted him in the street 3
months ago. The rest is history! He ran with it and since then, his 2
sisters got baptized, as well as 2 friends that he baptized on Saturday!
So yesterday, he made us a cake and we had a good time together, We
even went out one last time to teach the Gospel to a neighbor!
Saturday,
Maxi and Ramiro got baptized. Love these 2 kids, especially Maxi - he's
a boss. Very shy and quiet, but in the month we've known him, he's
opened up quite a bit. I'm gonna miss him a lot. Fun side note - he was
born on May 24 of 1996! (Brigham's exact birthdate)
Thursday
it was freakin hot - they said it reached 42 Celsius (not sure what
that is in Fahrenheit), but it felt like 110. The worst part? We forgot
to pay the electricity bill and they cut the service in the AM. We ran
downtown to reinstate it, but it wasn't till about 5 that they plugged
us back in (it stunk because we had weekly planning aka all afternoon in
the apt without a fan or cold water).
To top it off, around 6 it started to drizzle, 6:05 rained a little harder, and by 6:10
- straight up hurricane. It was nuts. The house in front lost the roof -
the strong winds just bent the tin right in half. A cool experience as a
result - we went and offered that family some help and they had us move
some cinder blocks etc.
Gonna tie things up
and head to Tucuman! I'm not sure how I feel right now - I freakin love
these people here, but I feel like the Lord really needs me in this
area. I've seen many miracles here, as well as passed thru some tough
disappointments. For example, yesterday, an investigator in a wheelchair
and her inactive partner walked 10 blocks to church for the first time.
We've been visiting them for every week of my 4 months, trying to
exercise patience together. Bruno got up and bore his testimony - he
said, "I think the moment has arrived." I agree. Also one more little
thing - my absolute boy Adrian, the investigator that dumped us, came
to see me off this morning! It was kinda awkward because he's kinda
awkward, but I think he did it out of the love he has for us. We tried
our best to be at his side. Regardless of what he chooses to do in terms
of living the Gospel and commandments, I'll always love him.
I
feel the same way about y'all - I KNOW that the Gospel is the path and
the commandments are the handrail, but I'll always love you all
regardless!!!
Be good this week - shoutout to 52 heading into the field today! Bautize conversos, predique sin cesar, y disfrute la mision!!!
Elder Isaac Blake
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