Hey Everyone!
Yeah, this week has gone fairly ok.
So Monday was fairly chill. Tuesday we had the final district meeting of the transfer. Went fairly well. The only thing is that we were supposed to do exchanges with the ZLs Tuesday, but they totally cancelled on us, it was the most bizarre thing. The night before they asked us where we were gonna do our district meeting, and I answered "in the stake center, cuz we have to do exchanges right?" and elder roman (who ended yesterday) was like "ehhhhhhhh. We'll let you know." Ok. Then we have to wait after we´ve already finished our district meeting for them to finish theirs, and then see if we have exchanges or not. But their district meeting goes on for SO long that we decide to leave so we can get back in time for lunch. Then, while we are waiting outside the church at the bus stop, they walk out, look at us, and just walk away. It was kinda funny, I guess.
Then Wednesday, we went to Cafayate again. For Baptismal Interviews. So, I thought I´d be smart and just get our tickets roundtrip, right? so when we need to leave, there´s no problem. BUT, because of the schedules of the buses, we are gonna have to spend some time in Cafayate, and we go off in splits with the elders there. And as we head back to the bus station, I realize that I don´t have my ticket for coming back, and there´s absolutely no time to go searching for it. So, we had to hop in a Taxi and come home. It was a lot faster but also four or five times as expensive. Sigh. But all in all, it was fun, I guess.
Thursday was Thanksgiving. And our lunch cancelled. And we had no money. So for our Thanksgiving, we ordered up some Argentine Pizza.
Friday, we were supposed to have exchanges with the other elders in our district, BUT, they called us Thursday night saying that they´re really sick and have to go into a Clinic the next day. So again we didn´t do exchanges. But all in all, pretty good days. We were able to find an investigator that we´ve been looking for a while. And she accepted a baptismal date, she just didn´t go to church this week, so we´re gonna have to fix that. Same with another investigator, she said she was going to go, but in the end, never showed up.
Saturday we worked fairly hard, and at the end of the day had a really good lesson with an investigator, Julia. We finally figured out what´s been holding her back. She used to be Adventist of the Seventh Day or something like that, and she was very active in that church, doing a lot of service and she's not in that church anymore, like, she kinda already knows that our church is true, but she feels like all the work she did in the other church was in vain, and now she´s just tired and feels like she has to start all over again. So now that we know her need, we can start working. Also, her and her husband made us Argentine Barbecue. A REALLY good Argentine Barbecue.
Sunday was interesting. The only investigator we had come to church was one that we weren´t even focusing on. Sigh. But, if we´re doing our best, we´re successful missionaries, we can´t make peoples' decisions for them. And then, we had a really good branch council meeting, literally one of the best I´ve ever seen in Argentina. And when we went to lunch, well, the wife had already left in taxi, leaving us the car. BUT she accidentally brought the keys with her, so we had to leave the car and head up in another taxi. And then, in that lunch, we had ANOTHER Argentine Barbecue. It was good, but we could barely move once we got to the apartment, which was a long time after. Cuz we had to take two buses to get back from lunch, and while waiting for the second bus, we had to sit in a plaza absolutely FULL of people playing bingo. It was just bizzare. We were getting home from lunch yesterday at like 5:30.
And then we got the transfers. Nothing much changed, two more people come in, the rest of us stay the same. This next transfer is gonna be interesting though, cuz one way or another most of the district will change. I´ll most likely be leaving. If not, it´ll be really weird.
Anyway, so that´s been our week. fairly interesting I guess. Here are some pics that I took.
Love you all!
Elder Blaylock
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