I'm not sure how well I'm
really taking it with my comp. but I am really trying to do my best. It's
hard to see somebody so new not come with the fire for the work, or
with the willingness to be obedient. One day he was just complaining
about everything..." why do we have to kneel down to pray... why do I
walk so fast.... why do we have so many rules to follow.... just about
everything." And it finally got to the point that I stopped walking and I
got after him for it. I asked "why he was here in the mission? if he
misses his family? and if he loves Jesus Christ?" and he answered yes to
all of those questions I told him "That is why we are here. We aren't
here just on vacation or to focus on ourselves and only what we want...
but because of what we want and for the love for other people." I felt a
little bad for being so hard on him after... but really, it's the truth.
It's a promise if we lose ourselves in his name (of the savior) that we
will find it. I know that their are blessings waiting for everybody but
sometimes we need to work for them through diligence and obedience. But other than that experience it has been a good week with my comp.
we have been contacting a ton of people and finally starting to find
some gold. I just wish that the people had the desire to get married
here, haha. I have found so many people that seem so prepared for baptism
but in the end nobody wants to get married. That's one of the challenges
of Buenos Aires, especially in my area, haha. It would probably help if
the president of the country wasn't paying all of the kids for having
babies young..haha but it's fine I guess.
Oh, and I got sick
again this week... I don't know what happened but one morning I was just
having some super sharp pains in my stomach then eventually I made it to
the bathroom and again had problems from both ends of my body for the
day. It was the worst.. I just wonder when my body will get used to
things here so I will stop getting so sick all the time.
Oh,
and also it rained super hard this week... so bad that all of the
streets were rivers about a foot deep all of the streets... and some
even worse. A lot of houses ruined. We saw a car just completely
submerged. It was bad. But I didn't even think it was raining so bad, it's
just that they don't have a very good drainage system here I think. Oh,
and it's sad that a couple kids died in my area because they got lost in
the water. One of them was 11 yrs old and the other only a baby like 2
years old. And it happened like a few blocks from where I was working
that day. It made me feel sick when the ambulance finally got there and
they couldn't even find the kids in the water.
I was a little
mad that I didn't bring my camera cause we had to take off our shoes and
socks to walk down the street for awhile. That was the first time
that I had to do that as a missionary.
Well, that's about
it from my part.. a lot of hard work. In Elders quorum they were talking
about the things that parents need to teach their kids, and the teacher
asked me a few things about things before the mission. And really it
made me think about how blessed I am to have the parents that I have. I
have been able to see examples of patience, humility, and hard work in
my life. I have also used the example of your marriage a lot in my
teaching... it has given me a goal to have something similar one day.
Jake
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