Queridos amigos,
This week has been wonderful! I can´t believe I only have 4
days left! I have no idea what the future holds, but I´m sure it will be great!
Last Saturday we went proselyting in in area called Moron.
It is in the Buenos Aires West Mission. It is much nicer than the first area we
went to. I had my first empanada! It was so amazing! Words cannot describe how
magnificent it was! I can´t wait to get some more this Saturday.
The first two hours it was overcast, but the last three it
rained steadily (fear not, for Hermana Chaffin is always prepared with an umbrella
and thermal tights). I stayed perfectly toasty and my toes didn´t feel a drop
(shout out to the dansko shoe company). Around 3:30 we came across a very
frinedly man. He asked us who we were, and we talked to him for a while. He tolds us that we were too pretty to be
missionaries and that it was too bad that we couldn´t have boyfriends (this man
was about 50 yrs old).
After about 5 minutes, his friend showed up with 2 teenage
boys. All but one boy went inside, and we started talking to him. He told us
that his name is Ian (he is 17). We ended up talking to him for almost an hour
in the rain. The poor kid was shivering! I offered him my umbrella but he
wouldn´t take it. We had a wonderful conversation and he ended up giving us his
phone number and address. After talking to him for several more minutes,
everyone came out of the house and he left with them (he and another man took a
book of mormon and they both promised to read it).
We wandered around our area for about half an hour, clapping
doors and talking to people to no avail. Hna. Warnock had to go to the
bathroom, so we started heading to a gas station near our drop off spot. We
were one block away from the station when we heard someone yelling
"chicas!" We turned around to see Ian running after us! He told us
that he had been driving around for several minutes looking for us. He asked if
we could talk to him longer. We of course said yes, and went into the gas
station where there was a dining area to sit down at. When we got inside, all
of the Elders from our district were there! It was so strange! Everyone had
something to add to the conversation, and we gave a short lesson to Ian. Elder Bednar was right when he said, "
There´s no such thing as a coincidence when you are on the Lord´s errand"
I was seriously smiling for the next two hours after our bus
picked us up. The gospel is true! All of it! I can´t wait to go out again on
Saturday and then after Tuesday it´s my full-time job!
I hope everyone has a wonderful week!
No pierda la fe,
Hermana Chaffin
Our only concern should be to do better than we did
yesterday. Step by step is the law of growth. God does not expect the acorn to
be a mighty oak before it was a sapling. -George E. Carpenter
D&C 64:33
p.s. please enjoy the photos from our rainy Sunday at the
temple
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