It has been another crazy week. This has felt like one of my longest weeks in the mission, but it has been good. I am still in Posadas and still with Hermana Griffeth! It´s our THIRD transfer now together!
I will start with San Ignacio since I didn´t have much time to write last week about it. This time I am attaching a few pictures.
We left on a colectivo (a nice double-decker sleeper bus) at around 11, right when our P day begins. The ride to San Ignacio is only about an hour, but it was nice to enjoy the hour-long ride in air-conditioned comfort. Hna. Griffeth and I were very excited.
The ruins were fascinating, like I said. The old San Ignacio colony was laid out in the form of a giant square with the church as the focal point of everything and then the housing making up the outskirts. The GIANT columns are from the old church, then all the photos in windows and doorways are from the houses where people used to live.
On the way home we found out that they are willing to pack as many people into the colectivo as possible, not taking into account how many seats they actually have. Running late, we jogged up as the bus was ready to pull out and they told us to "hop right on!" So we did, and this time rode the hour home, standing/sitting on the stairs of the double-decker bus. It was pretty fun.
Okay, now, you remember how excited I was to have 6 investigators in church last week? Well, this week, miraculously, we had NINE investigators show up! And that means several of them are well on their way to baptism! I am still in shock. Posadas has been my hardest area so far in terms of finding new investigators and teaching lots of lessons. In the mission we have certain "standards of excellence" or certain numbers we are supposed to reach every week in lessons we teach and new investigators we find and ever since I´ve gotten here our numbers have been depressingly, dismally, low. I honestly thought in Resistencia we were struggling, but here it is even tougher!
However, all of a sudden we have been seeing miracles and I feel so grateful that I get to spend another transfer here in Posadas. Suddenly, we have Maria and her 4 kids who are all just GOLDEN and so excited about the gospel and coming to church every week! And we found Ramon, a nice blind man who just wanted to come to church so bad that we scrambled around last minute to find him a ride, and when we got there he had invited his cousin to come too! We also have a new family in the ward who had been inactive for a while but are just now coming back and want us to teach their daughter. We also have an adorable young couple in the ward who are about to have their first baby and are planning to get married soon so the wife can get baptized. I feel so blessed to be working with all of these people! And I think it´s incredible how they all just sort of seemed to appear out of nowhere. Bottom line is, we are preparing for a busy July with 4, maybe 6 baptisms to plan!
I will keep you all posted. I have to go! I am already over time!
Love,
Hna Parker
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