Monday, May 28, 2018

Julio's baptism, Locro, and the Universe

[As you can read...sister Hall is busy in Bella Vista and the work is progressing!!]

The inactive family we´re teaching has had relatives visiting from Buenos Aires, so we couldn't teach them this week.  But Evelyn, the 24 year old, has a son named Alejo who turned 4 years old. So we brought him a little present and chatted with her. She wants to come to church, but couldn't because of the visitors and all that. But this Wednesday we´re having a noche de hogar (family night) , so i hope they commit to come this week. 

Julio is getting baptized this Saturday!  I don't know if I've described Julio very much. But he's super awesome. One day he was busy doing yard work, but still attended us. He´s just a super happy dude.. always smiling.. sometimes its hard to take him seriously because he's just so smiley haha. But he has come to church 3 times now, and came to an activity this week. We had a ward activity and he really bonded with our branch president.     

So may 25th is a really big holiday here.. basically like their Independence day. It celebrates the day that Argentina became independent from Spain. So the ward did a big locro in the church. Locro is when you get a huge pot and you cook this soup like thing - basically they put like every part of the cow in it, and oil and corn, and it cooks for like 6 hours. I don't ask what I'm eating anymore. But it was a great day. It's been cold, but for our activity the sun came out and Julio was there. 



Also one day this week we were eating lunch with this dude Jorge Villanueva, he's 71, and a recent convert. He told us that he wakes up at like 3 or 4 am and sits outside to watch the stars and enjoy the universe silently. So we decided to set an alarm that night for 3 am, go on our balcony and look at the stars for a couple minutes. So we did, and after like 30 seconds we realized that it wasn't worth it hahaha. But hey, did it for the experience. 

We went to visit Jose´s (he has one eye) to teach him and help him quit smoking.  We made these huge posters about quitting smoking and pictures of Jesus and put them all over his house.  

We did a noche de hogar  (family night) with another menos activo (less active) member family this week. It's a lady and her 2 sons. One of them, Santi, is 17... and he's just a teenager, kinda too cool for anything, ya know? But his mom made him participate  I'm sure. So after sharing 1 Nefi 16, about Nefi's broken bow.. we played a game. And I suggested "water in the face". (the only game i had off the top of my head haha) I think we played it a couple times in family nights. so we played it and it was a big hit! It was my turn to start it off and Santi guessed it right.. so I squirted my water bottle super hard in his face. And it got the who family laughing and then they got super into the game. It was great, and the mom was so happy that her sons were actually interacting with her. It brought the family together.  

We also taught a couple of the girls from the English class we visited last week. So we taught in English, and it's so hard to speak about the church in English haha. But one of them was saying that she doesn't really believe in God, because of all the bad things that have happened in her life. But we talked about the plan of salvation, and she says that she really wants to visit our church and learn more. 

We also found a guy named Armando, who's talked to missionaries for 20 years and has never came to church. But we met him on the street, then visited him in his home... and he came to church for the first time! we were so excited.  Crazy. 

 Anyway, it was a good week. And I probably only have 1 more week in Bella Vista! I've got to take lots of pics. I took some more pics this week of what Argentina looks like. This stick fence thing is really common here. 

PS: I haven't used a microwave in over a year 😶



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