This past week we didn't have a baptism- it'll be this week (: Damian has been doing well and is keeping the Word of Wisdom even though he's given us a few scares, they were just false alarms though. He came to a baptism in the ZL's area on Saturday and liked that the service was short and sweet. He's a good guy that just wants to calm down and turn his life around. He's also excited about being able to go to the temple some day and do the work for his little girl that died at age 11 (she's not technically his daughter but he raised her I guess). He's great and really funny. He reminds me of some of the people that Tiffany Coon writes about that she's teaching in Oregon haha. So yeah, this saturday should be the day if everything goes well and we make sure he's prepared of course.
We met this Brazilian girl walking down the street the other day and my comp started talking to her but she didn't understand anything. All she could get out roughly was that she was from Brazil and that she had only been here a little while. We drew a little picture of a chapel with the address and meeting times on a card with the mormon.org site on it and gave it to her because we weren't sure what to say or do. It made us wonder if that's what people felt like talking to us when we didn't speak any Spanish at all.. It's slightly awkward. Poor Argentines that have to deal with us gringos that just want to teach them the Gospel but don't know how to. Haha.
I also did exchanges with a mini missionary Hna Moron (hahaha yeah, I know) and it was an interesting day.. Basically she just wants to bajar la caña a todos which I'm not really sure how to translate into English right now but it means that she wants to like put people in their place and tell them why what they do or think is wrong. For example she wanted to read a scripture in D&C about how anyone that doesn't support marriage is not of God to a very Catholic family (their child is named after the current Pope) that we just barely started teaching.. I had to explain to her that for most people that's not the most effective way to help them accept our message, and she kind of understood I think.. hopefully. She likes to yell HOLA and BUENOS DIAS to everyone we cross paths with on street, which is even more uncomfortable when she does it with her mouth full of drinkable yogurt and tutucas (inflated corn?). It was a funny day. It made me glad to have the comp that I have- she's great!
I've been doing pretty good about concentrating on the work, but it's getting harder and harder. I try to only think about it at night after planning. I have a ton of lists of goals and stuff that I want to do when I get back, as well as goals for the mission of course. My favorite list is the grocery list that I made of all the food I want to buy when I get back <3 Haha but really I'm not quemando too bad (which means I'm not too trunky in English missionary slang), I promise. I'm obviously excited though- who wouldn't be excited to see their family, friends, country, etc. after being in practically another world for over 17 months doing something that's amazing but not easy. I'm super excited for Damian's baptism though too and to keep teaching and finding people to teach.
Sorry about the lack of pictures- this computer sucks and won't read the memory card. Only 2 more letters after this one though and then I be able to put the pics/videos directly on our computer and we can all look at them together! Woohoo. I hope you have a great week and stay safe like I said earlier. Love you!
<3,
Hna Crawford
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