The week where some stuff happened

So yeah this week was filled with ups and downs as normal. Tomorrow I hit 5 months. It´s pretty crazy cause yeah missionaries serve for 24 months and already 5 down, 19 to go!! And with time moving by muy rápido, things are going really well!!

So yeah Sunday night (last week) we found this kid named Cristian just knockin doors and what not. he´s 15. He invited us over this last thursday. We show up and his mom´s like yeah come in! and seemed super supportive. So we sat down and taught the first lesson flawlessly. (We don´t get many opportunities to do that so we took full advantage) We felt the spirit and then he recognized it and it was awesome!! he even seemed hyped to come to church. We left the lesson feeling pretty fly and like wow dude this guys gettin baptized for sure. So yeah. We set up a return cita for saturday. We show up and he´s not there and his mom and grandma are like yeah he´s not here but we´re catholic and we don´t want to waste your time. So we text him and he´s like I´m on vacation today. and then he says yeah i´m catholic and not interested in your words. and so we kept walkin and we see the little chavonaso (punk) in his yard like 15 minutes later. Haha so yeah we were close. But we WILL find the guy that is ready in Palmira. We missed the target by centimeters. But yeah. That´s an experience.

This week president challenged us to write down 5 blessings. So it´s helped us. Because we work hard every day, and some days it feels like it amounts to like zero haha. but getting back to the pench and seeing all our blessings doesn´t make it so bad. Like we had 5 citas fijadas (set appointments) fall through in a row. We were kinda frustrated but yeah, it´s really ok, because you get blessings after you do all you can do... and we see the blessings!!

We also accidentally got into a bible bash session this week. We knocked a door and a guy came out and asked what we believed (fishing for the first lesson and jose smith and the book of mormon) and then like 10 teenagers came out and backed him up. He pulled up galations 1 6 which they interpret as the bible being the only word of god. But what we did was really simple. Elder lybbert just testified about how he literally could not be in Argentina if jose smith didn´t restore the gospel of jesus christ. That pretty much ended the conversation it was pretty cool. 

So on Sunday I was playing the piano with the organ settings and things were just going pretty good. during the second hymn my finger like slipped and accidentally changed the settings on the piano to like a weird jazz organ thing. I was super embarassed and we sang the last 2 lines of the song with the wierdest sounding organ ever. But  all is well now. 

So the palmira train is still rollin, but just not how we thought it would be. We´re still working a ful which is good, and we will see results soon as we keep at it and keep goin. Sufrir con gozo. just make it to p day haha.

Have a good week and if you ever ask me how the people are in Argentina, just think of the famous words of Tony the Tiger.... They´rrrrre Grrreeeat!!!!

Love, Elder Anderson

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