Sleeping in the kitchen after the flood
Milanesa, fideos, y alfajores
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Bueno... it all started Tuesday when our zone leaders called us and told us we had to go to this building TODAY and get this paper signed and stamped for this lady who wanted to get married Friday and baptized Saturday. It was supposed to take a couple hours, so we went after our district meeting and they told us they couldn´t do it that day and they could only do it the next day. So we left with lots of time to spare and decided to go visit Ramona (one of our progressing investigators who is CAPISSIMA). We went to see her and we taught her the law of chastity. We were really worried to teach it to her because she has a baptismal date and wants to get baptized but she´s not married and her marido (spouse-ish that she´s not married to but lives with) drinks a lot so we didn´t know how she would take it. After we talked about it we asked if they had thought about marriage and she said ´actually... I couldn´t sleep last night, and I was lying awake thinking about that, and I asked him if he wanted to marry me, and he said yes!´ and our mouths just dropped open. We were like ´wait... was he asleep? was he drunk?´ haha and she told us he was awake and he was clean! So crazy... so we were all super excited, and told her to talk to him more about it to make sure he wasn´t just saying that and that he really meant it.
Then that night we were going to an appointment and we stopped to visit the familia Rotela.. Fabian and Matias are still progressing but can´t do anything about it because the mom still doesn´t want to get married and won´t give matias permission to get baptized. Anyway, we were stopping by and Fabian told us he had a friend who is in trouble and needs the gospel (so awesome.. not even a member yet and already doing missionary work!) so he asked us to go visit him that night. We told him we probably wouldn´t have time but we would stop by this week. After our appointment we were walking past their house again and this guy (who´s name is Jorge) was there so we met him and talked to him. He is an alcoholic and it is really bad... he is super super depressed and has destroyed his family, and was talking suicide a lot. Fabian was really worried about him... we told him we might not have time to stop by the next day but we could Friday and Fabian asked if we could get someone from the church to go visit him then... after he said that we realized it was pretty urgent, so we told him we would make sure to stop by the next day. We ended up talking to him for a bit and singing him a hymn and then we were past curfew so we had to leave.
The next morning we wake up with water on our floor in the bathroom. We didn´t know what was wrong but something was leaking, so we told our dueño and he had some guys come and try and fix it. During this, we got a call saying we have to run to the terminal to pick up a missionary that doesn´t have a companion (it was transfer day). She is Hermana Nava she´s from Mexico and has 7 sisters serving missions right now!! She is capissima. She was waiting for a mini missionary (an hermana from the area that can serve a mini mission for just 1 transfer... we have a lot of those in our mission) so she was with us and we were a trio for that day. So we went and picked her up, and came back to them still trying to fix our bathroom. They left so we left to get lunch and came back and ate, and then left for the day. We went back to that building to get the marriage thing and they told us we had the wrong number, so we waited and tried calling everyone we could and nobody answered. We ended up calling and waiting for about 2 hours trying to get it finished (because it was urgent we had to do it asap) and it ended up that we just left and didn´t finish it.
So we go back to the pension to find that our bathroom and room is completely flooded. Completely! Hermana Nava also reallllly really had to use the bathroom, haha. So the guys came back to fix it and they worked on the toilet while we mopped up our room for about 2 hours. Poor Hermana Nava... hahaha
After that we went out to see Jorge again and we brought 2 priesthood holders to give him a blessing. When we get to the house of the familia rotela, we see Jorge sitting there, completely WASTED. They decided to give him the blessing anyway, so we went to his house and talked to his mom for awhile and they gave him the blessing. It was so sad... he is really messed up. He was just sobbing and calling out to us ´ayudame, ayudame´. When we were leaving, I went to shake his hand and he started pulling me in and it was so awkward and I didn´t know what to do hahaha and my comp was like ´cuidado cuidado!´ so I turned my head to he couldn´t kiss me (since everyone does the kisses on the cheek thing) and we end up just hugging kind of really awkwardly hahaha. The same thing happened with hermana payne and hermana nava, and it was pretty hilarious seeing them try and dodge him, haha.
So we come home that night and everything is fine and we´re climbing into bed, when the toilet breaks again, only this time it is squirting water. We went to talk to our dueño and he came up with us and our room was already flooded worse than it had been before. Sheesh! We spent a good hour and a half cleaning it up again and finally went to bed around midnight. Since there were 3 of us though, someone had to sleep on the floor on a mattress, but since our floor was flooded we had to put the mattress in the kitchen. Hermana Nava was dead tired so I offered to let her sleep in my bed, and I slept on the floor of the kitchen. Haha :) capa.
The next morning we woke up at 5 to send Hermana Nava off. Then later the other missionaries called us again about the marriage paper. They needed it right then. So we stopped in the middle of planning and ran to the building, got it taken care of, then ran to the terminal to send it off. It took a good 3 hours or so. Then we ran out of credit on our phone so we couldn´t call any of our investigators to tell them our change of plans for the day. Also the zone leaders called us again to tell us we had to go back to the terminal that night to pick up another missionary-Hermana Juarez who is also waiting for a mini. Also we met with Ramona again and she started crying in our lesson and told us that she thinks her marido is into drugs and that he has cheated on her and that he told her he doesn´t want to get married now and also her daughter told her she doesn´t want to finish school. WHEW! Monton de emociones. It was really sad, and Sunday we ended up having someone give her a blessing.
SO.... now, we have Hermana Juarez with us and we are a trio until they find a mini for her, we have a toilet that is somewhat fixed (it still leaks a little bit sometimes), we have a drunk that we are working with, I have now recieved my first hug in the mission, and.... yep! Whew. LONG WEEK. Hahaha. It was awesome though! Way fun, and I learned a lot. Ohhh the drama of missionary work!
Ok, so now that I am out of time and I just wrote a million pages of a story.... I better go. Haha. But I hope all is well! Thank you thank you thank you everyone who wrote me this week and sent pictures!!! I am going to write back next week because I am out of time but seriously all of your letters and pictures made my week! Check out the pictures this week to get a visual of the happenings of this week.. haha. I am so grateful to be here serving in Argentina and I know there is no other place I should be. I hope you are all helping out in your wards to do missionary work because the best missionary work is done through members (and that´s a statistic!). Thanks for your constant support! :) Besos! Ciao-ciao!
--Hermana Hunt
Dinner! Roasted Pig
Our Landlord
A smashed mosquito!
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