It has been a good, interesting week. Wednesday we had transfers, so Tuesday night we went around and said a whole bunch of just-in-case goodbyes. It was really heart wrenching.
We have actually started to work with Ezequiel's entire family so we went to have a little Family Home Evening with them and take pictures and say our goodbyes. We even got Ezequiel to smile for us (he is much cuter when he smiles)! In our lesson we were also able to set baptismal dates with his mom (Raquel), his sister (Belen) and his little brother (Eduardo)! So we are working hard with them so that they can prepare for their baptisms.
Then we went to visit Lucas and his family. And then we went to our investigator Sandra´s house and ALL of her kids and all of the neighbor’s kids (her nieces/nephews/relatives) came over and we took pictures and made a video of all of them saying goodbye and they all started crying and then we all started crying and it was just a whole HUGE bittersweet mess of feelings!
We were pretty positive that Hermana Medina was going to be transferred to Colombia because, according to her contacts in Buenos Aires, everything is ready for her to go. But then we found out that she is NOT going to Colombia. At least, not yet. And we are together again for another transfer. So the rest of this week as we have passed by to visit people, we have heard lots of great sighs of relief and lots of exclamations of "you´re still together!"
I am excited to be here at least a few more weeks with Hermana Medina (it is possible she will be called to Colombia mid-transfer. NOOOO!). She is hilarious and we have a lot of fun joking together, learning English, inventing raps, making newspaper hats (do not worry family! I have top quality sun protection!), and dreaming of one day being on a popular radio/television show here: "The Roberto Oviedo Show" (well, actually it’s called, "El SHOW de ROBERTO OVIEDO!") The other day we passed by the radio station and decided to try to talk to someone to see if we could visit one P-Day and see how the radio works--and who should come out to talk to us but Roberto Oviedo himself!!! He showed us inside and showed us all his posters and trophies and all the old VHS copies of his show (30 years running) and we invited him to our baptism. It was an amazing moment. Now we joke all the time about one day making it onto his show (as far as we can tell it mainly features brassy, latin-y bands and exotic-ish dancers. but we are thinking we can change it up a little!)
This week we taught seminary one night and, oh boy, it was a DISASTER. We love them, but these youth from our branch are really hard to handle. We were teaching about the book of Proverbs and we only made it through 1/10 of the lesson.
Hna Medina takes a lot of short little videos and I thought I´d try sending one this week. The video I am attaching is from when we were waiting at the bus stop on our way to teach seminary. we had NO IDEA what was in store for us. It is half in Spanish and half in English--so for those of you who speak both you will understand it ALL. For those of you who speak only English, sorry! You´ll understand the first part. There is also ONE word in Guaraní--a word used commonly here in Formosa--"mitaii!" it means "kids."
Sorry, this week my email is all over the place. I am going to send a whole bunch of random pictures too from these last couple weeks to match the random tone of my email. Sometimes we make giant fires and sometimes I like to hold guitars. I love you all!
Keep keeping on.
Hermana Parker
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