Oh yeah... sorry for forgetting to say happy birthday, but I'll make it up to you by sending some more pictures of... me! cause there are not many that I have sent.
Well... this area is pretty awesome, and we do already have a golden investigator. His name is Alberto. He has everything ready right now except... that they can't get divorce papers right now for some odd reason so he can marry the member he is currently living with. Other than that he truly is golden. His son, who apparently wasn't listening before, asked that we come over so he can hear more, so that was awesome.
It's a very... VERY calm area, Cosquin is even titled "the Vacation of the Mission." I thought that was dumb at first untill I thought back on Crucero.
It was a very stressful area even with some of the success we were having. I remeber that last week I was there, I was just physically sick because of how stressed I was, and the realtionship I had with E' Holbrook had finally broken apart for some odd reason. I was ready to leave the mission again because I just didn't like feeling that stressed.
Here however, E' Hone has already taught me something big. That I need to have fun doing this. If I'm just so stressed on the work, I will fall apart. So we've made sure to have fun this entire time while working and I already feel TONS better. We have a great relationship already and he declared me as one of his 3 companion friends (apparently there's a belief that you will only have 3 friend companions your entire mission.)
I've also finally learned more about the dark side of this mission. Córdoba is the LOWEST baptizing mission in all of South America, because it is the most European of them all, and that the norm of baptisims are 3. I've also learned about the Elders in the mission which aren't doing to good right now, in one way or another. For instance, we've got a pedifile in our district... who became a pedifile during the mission. They've had tons of emergency transfers just in the last month.... it's insane. But I know, that as long as I keep doing what I'm supposed to be doing and not slacking off, not focusing on myself, it'll all come through.
Anyways, some bright light of this conversation, Luke is going to be missionary this week!!!!!! I can't wait to hear from him and his experiences. I know that he will honestly be awesome and that whoever meets him will have their life changed in one way or another.
We also get our new president this week so we'll see how it all comes together.
Ciao!!!
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