Elder Morley Haley Santa Fe Argentina Mission: Cheeseburgers, walking and teaching

I’m not going to lie, this week was pretty tough. We didn’t teach too many people and we did a bunch of walking. But it’s okay. We have plans to be better this week and are going to put in our best effort. I finally received 6 letters that Mom mailed! One was from January and the others were from 5 weeks ago. I don't know why it takes so long, but I am happy to have received them.

Tuesday was pretty alright. It was the only day of the week that we had decent success really. In the morning, we had to spend almost all of our working time trying to figure out some money problems. Our financiero in our mission office accidentally put the rent money for the Hermana´s pench onto our card. We thought we had gotten lucky and gotten a few extra thousand pesos for this transfer, but it turned out that we were wrong. So we had to take out the rest of that and pay the rent. We also had District Meeting that was really good. I was asked to be the lesson person. Alright, so we talk about our investigators for the first half, and then a short lesson at the end. I gave it on the Christ like attribute of Hope and related it to faith and I felt really good about it and Elder Robinson gave me nice complements about it afterwards. For the afternoon, we had a few lessons that went really well and we scheduled return appointments with a few people. They didn’t really accept the baptismal challenge, but they also didn’t NOT accept it.

The only thing that happened on Wednesday was a lesson we had with our investigadora, Soledad. She is a really nice old lady and we taught with a member named Carlos Fernandez, again. We taught the Plan of Salvation and she loved it. She had a lot of questions about the life after this one because she had a son die. So she said that the lesson was very beautiful and she now has a different hope and love for her son.

For Thursday, not much at all happened. We had a lesson that we picked up for the Zone Leaders because they were out of town, but that’s about it. We also had a good council meeting without Branch President. He is a really cool guy and always has ideas to help us. Oh yeah. That night we also had a cool experience. We had a few minutes at the end of the night to do some contacting, and found one house that had a kind of intercom thing as a door bell. So a lady answered, talking through the intercom and after I introduced ourselves, she said, in English "I don’t understand you" And then we started talking English and she came to the door and asked us " have you eaten? I’m a grandmother and when I see young people, I always think, have you eaten? So that was funny. She asked us to come back the next day.

So when we went back, we were a little disappointed that the lady was crazy, super Catholic and only wanted to have a bit of a bible bashing lesson with us. So whenever she would ask a question, we would answer and bear our testimonies, but she would cut us off and start going on a different question. So that was not fun. But for lunch, we had a lunch with our mission leader of the rama and he was cool and told us "go buy three pizzas, one for each of us" as he handed us a few hundred pasos. So that was cool. When we got done, we were fat and happy. The meeting afterwards was really good too. That night, we also had cheeseburgers with Lucas, and they were pretty good, but also nothing compared to a real American burger. But it’s the thought that counts.

Saturday was an ok day. In the morning, we went to invite a bunch of people to church the next day, but no one was home. And in the afternoon, we had a bunch of plans to get into contact with some less active members, but ended spending the afternoon worrying about a money problem of one of our investigators and walking to see Soledad. When we finally got there, we were really disappointed to learn that she didn’t want to take the lessons or be baptized anymore because her daughters and other family didn’t want her to. So that stinks. Especially because her baptism was planned for this Saturday.

Sunday was alright. Church was good except for not having any investigators in the church. But the lessons were really good, about prayer and miracles. In the afternoon, we were not really having too much success which was not good. But alright.

Pday has been awesome today, we got to be in the stadium of a futbol team and we made some dang good cheeseburgers, the Haley way with cebolla and bacon in the patties. So good. We took a picture on the roof of the Zone Leader’s pench. Pretty cool. We also found street signs this week called “America” and “Santa Fe” on the same corner. That is me…American in Santa Fe.

Alright, no more time, see ya guys next week . Thanks for prayers and everything

Con Amor,

Elder Haley