What a week! I can´t even remember what we did most days, so I´m not sure what to tell you about them...one day just sort of blurred into the next. We are pretty busy working with two investigators who have a baptismal date for the 15th (i.e. this coming Saturday, i.e. Jared´s birthday! Happy birthday Jared!)
One is Ezequiel, he is 16, we found him because he has lots of friends in the church and has been attending seminary (a little background: they don´t have early morning seminary here in this stake. Instead they have it 3 nights a week from 7:30-8:30 PM. Lots of kids go that aren´t members, but, from my perspective it´s more as a social thing than anything else, because afterwards they play ping pong and soccer and hang out. We have tried visiting a lot of the non-member youth that go to seminary, but have only really seen progress with Ezequiel). He is pretty shy, and at first it was difficult for me to gauge how much he was learning or if he was really feeling anything when we had lessons with him, but these last few weeks we have had some great experiences. He has been reading everything we leave him, and will even sometimes read more on his own, he has the desire to be baptized and it has been tender and rewarding to strain to listen to his soft, whispered, but very sincere prayers.
Our other investigator is a 9 year old boy named Lucas. He is a riot! He is pure chaos! Every lesson with him is like a whirlwind. But he sure is a lot of fun, too. He was supposed to be baptized with his mom about a month ago but his dad (who is separated from the family) wasn´t fully on board and the previous sisters also felt that he lacked a little preparation and understanding. Still, he comes to church each week and he loves it and we continued visiting his family often because his mom and older brother are recent converts.
I wrote about 5 more paragraphs but then the window randomly shut down and I lost it all and now I have an angry, annoyed, devastated feeling in my stomach and I think I might cry. grrrr.
Basically, Lucas is funny. Our apartment almost caught on fire and we had the re-dedication of the Buenos Aires temple this weekend. It was great.
Sorry. I will write more next week.
Blah.
Hermana Parker
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