¿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
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