I have to say, I am a little glad it is over. It was a rough week. But we had a fun p-day playing lots of basketball again, Kusilek is helping me out with my shot and I hope to school Sammy boy when I get home.
Highlights of the week: The Familia Gillij was a family we taught a little bit ago, but we had to drop because they never came to church. Made me really sad when we dropped them because they were this huge family who were just so loving and I felt the spirit so strong when we taught them the plan of salvation, but they just never acted on the spirit so I was sad. But we hadn't seen them in over 3 weeks and they wanted to invite us over for lunch to teach us how to make ñaokis, by FAR my favorite food here. I am going to for sure make them when I get home, they are DELISH. I had the most fun time with them, and the ñaokis were so dang good. It´s hard to describe what they are, they are like little mini dumplings, with homemade tomato sauce, DANG they are just so good my mouth is drooling again! I'd try to type out the recipe but I think I might botch it.
Since (in mission terms) I´m killing Kusilek in 3 weeks, we have been planning to take a death picture for her. We were visiting Valle Maria and there is this siiiiiiiiiiick cemetery there. We went with this family...and i took a picture in there with her...and its super intense. Then I got really scared that the zombies were going to bust out of the graves like in the Thriller music video and freak out at us for disrespecting their graves.
One night we were teaching some investigators at a members house, and in the back yard they had a fire they were making an asado (barbaque). I was telling them how I loved to make roasted Starbursts over camp fires, but I had a hard time describing it. Then I realized there is a candy here called caramellos. I ran to a kiosco to buy some, and on the way home i was running on their front lawn and in front of a ton of people totally whipped out. like rolled on the ground and everything. It was hilarious. We laughed for a really long time. Anyways, it tasted just like roasted Starbursts when we roasted the caramellos! I felt like a genius. Watch, now that's going to be huge in Argentina :-)
We are teaching this couple, the mom is hard core Catholic, the dad is hard core atheist. They both came to church with their little girl and it was an extremely spiritual sacrament meeting and I was so glad they were there for it. Keep him in your prayers that he will have the faith to pray and ask if there is a God, because he refuses to pray and completely denies the existence of God and it makes me sad for him.
Well there are tons more awesome moments in this week, but I would have to say this weekend might be one of the most sad moments in my mission. Maria de los Angeles had everything scheduled to get baptized (she is the one I wrote about last week who read the book of Mormon and knew it was true) and when we taught her this week she was just so excited. Her brother was set for baptism the next week too. We had the font filled, the people were waiting at the church, and 20 mins before we got a taxi and went to her house to pick her up. We got there, and she told us she wasn't going to come because she didn't feel good. We tried to tell her how important it was for her to get baptized, but she has a really hard time listening and talks without caring if we have anything to say (remember, she is a talker) and we tried praying with her and everything, but after a long time, she refused to come. It was so sad. For so many reasons. I just felt really helpless.
But this experience helped me realize something. We are not obedient to God because we want instant blessings. He already promised us that we are blessed when we obey, but He has better perspective than us. He knows us so well and what is best for us, so when we are obedient, that includes just having faith that everything you are doing is for the best, even if things are not working out to how you want them to. My faith has grown so much through this, and I know that if I am doing what I can to be the best missionary, the best person I can be, blessings will come even if I don't see them right now or they are not how I would choose them. She said she would get baptized next week. I pray with all my heart she will.
Thank you so much for keeping me in your prayers. FYI since I'm calling next week, there may be a slight possibility that I wont get to email, but we will see. I'm still not quite sure. Sometimes I feel out of the loop here haha.
Take care! que le vaya bien
Hermana Collins
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