Highlights of the week:
Tuesday: Hermana Scott and I taught another taller (workshop) at district meeting. This one was about teaching with the spirit. I talked about the part of Section 50 that says if you receive not the spirit ye shall not teach and that both teaching and learning need to be by the spirit so we can be edified together. Those are good verses. The workshop went well.
Wednesday: We had divisions with Ciudad Evita. Hermana Scott left me to go to Ciudad Evita with Hermana Johnson (who I met in the MTC, by the way) and Hermana Salazar (who got transferred after last transfer) came to Luján again. I was nervous about directing the area, but less nervous than before. The divisions went really well. I managed to remember how to travel by bus to Open Door and back without any problems. There is something very satisfying about mastering public transportation-- that felt good. Also, Hna. Salazar and I taught the Word of Wisdom to Celeste-- eek! It went perfectly, without any problems. Celeste told us that lately that no matter how hard she tries she hasn´t been able to remember to buy coffee and that the last time she looked for tea, she could only find the herbal kinds-- wow! She already thought smoking and drinking were bad, so she had no problems comitting to keep the commandment.
Friday: Hermana Scott had come down the night before with a fever and woke up feeling achy all over. It was so bad that she couldn´t work, so we stayed in the pench (pension/apartment) until the afternoon when she couldn´t stand it anymore and insisted on leaving to visit the investigators. We didn´t get very far before we had to stop at Hermana Medina´s house to let her rest. Hermana Rey was there too, and she and Hermana Medina swooped in and started taking care of Hermana Scott and giving her motherly advice and telling her she was too sick to work-- the members are so good to us. Hermana Scott laid down in Hermana Medina´s room while I went out to work for a couple hours with Paula, our ward missionary who is working on her own mission papers. I was nervous about working without Hermana Scott, but everything went really well and I actually felt really confident. Paula and I taught a new investigator named Ruben for the first time-- the lesson went really well and Ruben was way good-- I think he might get baptized! When we got back to Hna. Medina´s house, Presidente Medina and Hno. Rey have Hna. Scott a blessing for the sick and then we took a taxi back to the pench.
Saturday: Hermana Scott felt a little bit better and refused to stay inside, so we put in a full day of work. We taught a really good lesson to Mario and Celeste about keeping the Sabbath day holy, and they told us they had already decided to stop working on Sundays-- apparently last Sunday every time Mario was about to start working on the house (they are busy adding on to the house and finishing the construction of the first part) someone would stop by to visit. Mario and Celeste decided that was a sign from God that they shouldn´t work on Sunday. Everytime we visit they have a story like that. This family is crazy good!
Sunday: We were bummed because Mario and Celeste didn´t show up to church, but we did manage to bring Karmina, our 9 year old investigator, to church. We´re still trying to teach her what reverence means, but we were glad that she came. She´s going to get baptized next Saturday, if everything goes well! We visited Mario and Celeste later. Mario was asleep, but we had a really good lesson with Celeste-- we read Mosiah 2 together and talked about how she could help her family be more happy and united. We are starting to worry because she and Mario haven´t started the paperwork to get married yet, but we didn´t talk about that. We are going to tackle that this week.
After the lesson with Celeste Hna Scott started feeling worse again. She threw up 3 or 4 times in the street, so I insisted that we go back to the Peralta family´s house. They gave us crackers for her to eat when she started feeling better and we took another taxi back to the pench. Poor Hermana Scott was throwing up every half hour all afternoon and evening. I was getting really worried about her. She´s feeling slightly better today though and hasn´t thrown up yet, so hopefully the worst is over. She hates being sick because like any good missionary she hates not being able to work.
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