FIRST BAPTISMS IN MY MISSION!

¿Como andan? ¿Todo bien? Everyone says that here to say hi, it´s super funny. We had such an incredible week here in the Parque Chacabuco ward that I don´t know if I can describe it. 

So where we do most of the work in our area is called the barrio and it´s mostly where poorer people live, but they are usually willing to talk and everybody always gives us Coke to drink, so no complaints here. There are wild dogs everywhere, though I think some belong to people, I have no idea how they tell. 

Everyone has metal bars on their windows and doors and many people have little snack stands, called kioskos, in their homes where they sell things through the front window of their house. 

We clap outside houses, and I look ridiculously out of place here, I don´t think I´ve seen one other white person while I´ve been here. Four missionaries live in our apartment, one is from Chile, and the other two are from the States but are half hispanic, so they kind of fit in. And then there´s me, white blonde boy in the middle of the ghetto of Buenos Aires, haha

So....the baptisms. Alejandra, the mom of this family, has been positive about her baptism for a while, but her kids are a little different story. Priscila, the youngest, was baptized with her mom on Saturday and she is a fireball. The oldest daughter who is thirteen did not want anyone to get baptized and so we are at the church, getting ready for the baptism, and Oriana (The sister) starts talking to Priscila about how all of her friends are in the Catholic Church and how she shouldn´t get baptized and putting all these doubts when Priscila very much knows that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet. 

We prayed and talked with her and she said ok, so her mom signed the paper and we started the baptisms at 8 instead of the scheduled time of 7. So crazy. 

We also had the interview with Pablo, Alejandra´s adopted brother, who is 12 and he was in the interview with our Zone leader and the zone leader asked if he´d committed a serious crime and he nodded, and so the elder asked what happened and Pablo said, "One time, I told my teacher that I had done all of my homework, and I hadn´t done it." These kids are just good kids. 

Pablo, Kevin, and Uriel should get baptized this weekend, so we´re stoked! 

Ok I think that is basically it for this week. We were just preparing them for baptism the whole week and fasting and praying a ton because it was kind of up in the air, but it was an awesome baptism, even if the water was cold. Alright I love all of you. I heard the weather has been nice, it cooled off here because winter is about to start and everyone has been saying how cold it is and I´ve just been enjoying it. 

Love,

Elder Wardle

P.S. Everyone got excited about the Pope being Argentine hahahaha