So this week everything has really started to blur together so I apologize in advance for repeats or for missing things (although you won´t know if I miss thngs :))
Here are some of the main differences I´ve found between english and spanish: there are 4 verses in Called to Serve, and 3 in Sweet Hour of Prayer (which were two of my least favorite hymns in English, but are okay in Spanish). Mucho means much and many, so that´s easier. And there are 2 different types of ´past tenses´. ;P. We also started learning about different moods for which there aren{t equivalents in English.
One sister said the truest thing the other day: ¨Missionaries find joy in the smallest things... becuase we have to.¨
I have been publicly announced as the person who laughes the most in our district. I definitely don´t laugh the hardest, though. The same sister who said the above quote has nearly (and not so nearly) wet herself in laughter. We also started this thing where if you take a joke too far, or say somehting that makes everyone else uncomfortable, you get a mark on the board. It didn´t last very long, but I think it raised the awareness of how many times people took thngs too far. Even here at the CCM (which people are now comparing to elementary or middle school in their weaker moments).
But all in all everyone is happy and leraning so much faster than any of us realize. I hope that my companion is a Latina when I get out into the field so that I can really get more Spanish mastery done.
For proselyting this week our distric was only 6 away from breaking the CCM record for referrals, so we have a goal for this week--8 referrals per companionship. My comp and I didn{t talk to as many people this last week as our goal, but we contacted a lot.
Our first contact was a young man who approached us and asked my companion if she wanted to go on a date with him to get some coffee :D. Ummm.... no. Ah well, we were able to find a nice lady who talked with us through her fence about Joseph Smith. She was very curious about him, but didn´t want the Book of Mormon we were offering. We explained as well as we could that it was like the Bible, and I pointed out a chapter that was like Matthew 5. We got her to keep it, and hopefully she´ll read it. We forgot to get her informtaion, though, so I{m praying that another missionary will find her and answer more of her questions.
This week proselyting was a lot harder than it was last week, but I just think about that woman and a couple others we were able to teach. I just hope that the overall experience is the exeption and that usually things go better.
While we were out we got some chocolate covered oreos, and were going to get some empanadas, but ran out of time (which is good, right?). Another sister got some chocolate dipped chocolate chip cookies that were stacked into sandwiches with Dulce le Leche.... mmmmm they were heavenly!!
Yet another sister got some Lay´s chips, and shared some with me that night. They tasted so good!!
We aren´t starved for American food, since they feed us cereal and even hamburgers every once in a while, but there are some things everyone is missing (brownies and popcorn being primary among them :))
One thing I´ve heard multiple times here is that on your mission you become the person you want to become. So I´ve been wanting to take some time to write down the person I want to become, but I keep forgetting. I´ll do it this week, before I leave the CCM. I had a dream last week that I came home from my mission and was so guilty and disappointed in myself becuase I´d just cruised through it doing the bare minimum. It was terrible, and I still felt guilty in the morning. I want to make sure I don´t feel that way. In the talk we listened to this week, Elder Holland said that all Satan has to do to win is for me to keep quiet. I he gets me to just sit back, or walk past people, he wins. ¨Exhert all your power to Call upon God.¨
A scripture my companion found this week: Luke 10:19 ¨Behold I give unto you (missionaries) power... nothing shall by any means hurt you.¨
Sister Tova S Biesinger
Argentina Buenos Aires South Mission
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