Next Tuesday we´re all leaving! (besides the ¨New Americans¨ :)). It´s crazy to think that this time next week I´ll have a companion (probably Latina) and be somewhere in the middle of the city or out in the country.
We´ll be leaving at different times, since some people need to take a quick flight out. I joke that I just need to walk across the street since we´re technically in my mission (although we´re the farthest north you can get). An elder brought out his tourist book of Argentina and I got to see some pictures of the Pampas which are in my mission, and they look so cool!!
Crazy thing happened this week: I found two people who have read one of my favorite books... The Seer and the Sword!! None of us had never before found anyone who had heard of it, and we all just happened to be here wiht each other. :D It was pretty great.
This week I passed my one month mark. I´m officially 1-18th of the way done with my mission :D.
I made a list of the things I want to have accomplished during my mission. Apparently one of the instructors had the same idea, because he went over everything we were supposed to have done here at the CCM.
I hadn´t done everything, because I forgot about that one paper (in the 10 papers they gave us) that had the goals. :D. So this week I´ve set goals that I thought were unacheivable, like memorizing 100 words, 12 phrases, and 1 scripture per day, plus reading out of a bunch of books and still studying and practicing with everyone else. ... My companion told me not to kill myself when I told her about it.
But (besides today :S) I´ve been able to do it through a lot of prayer.
We get the chance to perform next Sunday. I´m violining again in ¨Lord I would Follow Thee¨and again on Monday for our farewell fireside, we´re doing ¨God be With you ´Til We Meet Again¨. It´s so sad to think I probably won´t see anyone here again, but we all know why we came here.
I got to give a talk in Spanish last week. I shared my Dad´s favorite poem ¨The Race¨ and Presidente said he´d probably be able to get me a translation in spanish so I could share it with the people I serve.
For Spanish this week we learned about the mood that is inexistent in English: the subjunctive. :P. We´ve mostly got the hang of it, and have been playing a lot of review games.
Oh! Crazy thing this week. Last Thursday or Friday an elder got super sick, and Hma. Benton (Presidente Benton´s wife) figured out that he had diabetes and they got him to the hospital. He´s about as tall as me and skinnier than Drew. When they got him there, they found out his blood was as thick as molasses and if he had gone one more day he would have been in a coma. It was crazy. He got better through the treatments that he needed, but will be going home today.
We hope that he´ll get better enough to come back out to Argentina, but if not he´ll probably be sent stateside.
The cool thing about this entire story is this: when Presidente visited the elder in the hospital a couple days after it happened, he said to the elder, ¨We´ll soon have you moving forward again.¨ The elder responded, ¨I don´t view this challenge as a setback.¨ Presidente was so proud when he told all of us. I hope I could have faith like that.
Proselyting was a lot better this week. Our district was only 6 referrals away from breaking the CCM record last time, so our goal was 8 per companionship this time to break it. Hma Adams and I got 13 referrals, although we didn´t get very many lessons. We were able to turn people´s rejections into referrals by asking ¨Would it be better if we came another day?¨ We had a couple of really good lessons thought, and one even set up an appointment for meeting us at the same place and time this next Saturday.
Unfortunately, one of the sisters got sick and the elders and her companions were helping her get to a chapel back to the CCM, so they weren´t able to do much. So we have the same goal for this week, and hopefully we´ll be able to get it, because it means that that many more people will have the opportunity to be sealed with their families forever.
We even had time to grab some icecream right before the bus pulled up to pick us up, so it was a very successful proselyting. :D
A funny thing happened on Monday. The elders found music on the computer that we use for language study. It was Enya, but everyone (even the hard rock fans) was happy to hear it for a little while. I can´t wait to get my CD´s someplace where I can listen to them.
One of our teachers told us that every time they pretend to be investigators, the teachers are thinking of real investigators. So after a particularly spiritual lesson practice, I asked her if the person was an investigator that she had on her mission, and she said that it wasn´t, it was her own story. It made the Spirit so much stronger, hearing about what she´d been going through when she accepted the gospel.
She and her husband (of 9 months) both work here, and they are the cutest people! They´re always happy and full of energy and jokes. But they are also both very spiritual and strong in the gospel. I´ll be sad to leave :(
I was thinking about the scripture in Moses 1:39 where God says bringing us immortality and eternal life is His glory. Then I started thinking about how happy I´d be to see my dad after a year and a half. Then I connected the two, and thought about how happy I´d be to see Heavenly Father after a lifetime, and how that is really His purpose. That´s why things happen, that´s why we have commandments. Because God wants to see us again, face to face. He even made the first gift free: immortality. He´s bringing us as close as He can, but He needs us to come the rest of the way.
I love you all!! I hope you have a great week.
Sister Tova S Biesinger
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