This week we had quite a struggle to say the least, trying to find people, trying to teach lessons... in general, just working hard to get some sort of result.
The fruit of our labor this week was one that still to this moment surprises me. Yesterday, we passed by an inactive member, who, even though has been inactive for about 20 years, has still had a lot of questions that she knew only the Church could answer. About two months ago, the father of this mother passed away, and one of the things he constantly tried to teach her was about the plan of salvation. When he finally did pass away, she became very confused about her father, not knowing what was going to happen, not knowing where he was... anything. We learned about this from her the week before, so obviously, we had planned on teaching her the Plan again... in high hopes and many prayers that she would understand it.
We started to teach her, as well as her 21 year old son and 15 year old daughter about the plan. They all took it in very well, and I believe that all of them honestly learned how great the plan is. The son, by the time we finished the lesson, told us that he felt that s for the moment he would be going to the Terrestrial kingdom, with a bit of regret in his voice. We asked them all if they felt the same, to which they all said yes. We then encouraged them that part of the plan is that ALL can return to the Celestial kingdom if they obey the commandments and do all that is necessary to return. We then asked them if they were willing to do everything, to which they all said yes. We then invited the son and daughter to be baptized, to which the daughter said yes. The son on the other hand showed us his immediate doubt, that he had already been baptized Catholic, and quite recently as well. (He recently just left the Police Academy here in Córdoba, and one of the things that you have to have to be a member of the force is a religion, so he joined the only one he knew.) We did help him realize that he needed a correct baptism and he seemed to be at the least convinced.
Now this is all just great, fine and dandy, be I'm sure you've noticed that something is missing from this family... the father. He will be a large obstacle because he's apparently very Catholic and as well is probably not gonna be very easy to convince to let us baptize his children.. . so starting as of now, we're going to be praying a ton!
Well, the birthday partying was that big really, we passed by Candelaria and they surprised me with a shirt and a cake, and that really was about it for the festivities.
I also forgot to mention something in my letter last week. I'm now in a pension of insanity.... being the ONLY white-boy, and more-so, the other 3 latinos are ALL from Chile... it's fun to say the least.
Well that's it for this week, love y'all!!
-Ian
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