I went on divisions to Hurlingham, a city closer to the capital! During divisions we switch companions to help us learn from each other (and also to prevent boredom from being in the same area for weeks and weeks). On Tuesday after district meeting Hna Lopez and I took the train to Moreno. There we contacted people and ate superpanchos (really long hotdogs. Mine had mayonaise with ham and cheese chunks on top, all covered with a "lluvia de papas fritas" i.e. mini french fries. Yum!) while we waited for Hna Scott and Hna Claros. When they arrived I left for Hurlingham with Hna Claros while Hna Scott returned to Lujan with my companion. I stayed in Hurlingham until Thursday morning. Parts of it were hard-- I missed Lujan! For some reason it was a lot harder for me to contact people in Hurlingham, but I kept trying until I felt more comfortable. It was also hard to try to help teach people I knew nothing about. Other parts of it were really fun. I LOVED hanging out with Hna Claros. She is from Jujuy, a province in Northern Argentina. She chatters constantly and is so funny. On Wednesday it was windy, rainy, and cold. While shivering, she would turn to me and say things like, "this is the best day of my mission! We get to walk in the rain and the wind!" Once on the way to catch a train to a different neighborhood, we walked past a bakery. Half a block later she asked "aren´t you a little bit hungry?" I admitted that I was, she said "oh, good, me too" and she dragged me back to the bakery where we bought facturas. Hna Claros is great! On Wednesday night I improvised oatmeal pancakes and we ate them with dulce de leche. It was really fun to cook again! On Thursday I was sad to leave Hna Claros, but excited to see Hna Lopez again and go back to Lujan.
This weekend was the annual pilgramage to the basilica. (different from the gauchos last week) Thousands of people arrived on foot in Lujan from the capital and other places to worship the virgin of Lujan. Some of them walked all day and all night to get here. On Saturday the streets were full of pilgrims walking to the basilica to see the virgin. They were dressed just like normal people, but many of them were limping a little. I imagine you could get a lot of blisters walking all the way from the capital to Lujan! We had to be extra careful because there are sometimes fights and more drunk people this weekend. We were told not to try to contact the pilgrims! Everything went fine though.
I´m out of time, but conference was awesome! We had 8 investigators come to the different sessions! Our investigator Sabrina, who I found while contacting, came with her baby and daughter to the Sunday 1:00 session (Sunday morning for you). Our awesome ward members surrounded her and welcomed her and cooed over her new baby. Afterwards Sabrina said that the session was really beautiful. I was so happy that she came! I think with a little more work she will get baptized.
Our investigator, Braian (the boy I committed to baptism my first night in the mish), had some worries about being baptized, but Hna Lopez told him to pray about it. Now he says he feels good about baptism. He will be baptized this Saturday! I´m really excited about that, especially because he is the last one in his family. We call that "completing a family". We have 4 other people scheduled to be baptized this coming Sunday, but we think all those dates will fall through. Hopefully at least some of them will get baptized later.
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