Christ Statues are all over Argentina
Pretty blue stream in Chilecito - Enjoying P-day, LOVE ARGENTINA
The Awesome 4
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I loved reading your letter!!! Well i will tell you about my new companion hahaha. Transfers came really fast. I cannot believe i have been here for over a month and almost a half. So I will tell you about my new companion (or at least what i know about him because i just met him about 3 hours ago and.... he is native) so... my new companion only speaks Spanish and is from Uruguay, so that language learning hopefully will come sooner than later because i am now in charge of my area and teaching him the area and our investigators until he knows the place. I think i will really like sleeping at night. That is my only mental rest I can have now hahaha.
I want to tell about today because it was pretty crazy. So the two senior companions left for transfers leaving me with only one transfer and the other elder who only has two transfers on his mission. So Monday morning we did our studies and then went to the terminal. Two gringos :) we were a little bit late because we bought some food but our companions were not there. The bus was but they were not. So we waited a little and then we called the mission home. (had to talk in Spanish because the missionary in charge of travel really can only speak Spanish) he told us to go back to our apartment because the missionaries might have taken a taxi without us. So we ran back to the pension but no one was there!!! We called again and he told us they missed their bus and would be coming on a no name bus and we did not know when they would arrive. so we decided to shower and get ready for the day. The other elder went first and i went second but while I was showering we ran out of gas (about 4 seconds into my shower....) so i had to take another cold shower :( and then i had to figure out how to order gas, and then order it. Phew.. Today has been a little frazzling, and now i have to only talk in Spanish. This week will be rough. please pray for me.
Let’s see... this past week we had a couple days where all we did was knock doors during the siesta... in the hot sun.. oh and one day it was crazy during the siesta (oh ya, to answer your question yes there is a siesta and everything closes and everyone goes to sleep, tracting during the siesta is TERRIBLE, but we still work because that is our calling). Ok back to the crazy day. So we tracted during the hot siesta and had no success with any of our plans, even the appointments we had fell through. Then around 5 the wind started to pick up and it felt really nice. We were talking to one person and they said just wait it will get cold this is the southern wind. And cold it got!!! By 9 I was freezing!! There was even a little snow on the mountains. Anyways it is now back to being hot but oh well. I wish i could send more pictures so you could see my companion. He was really good. I spoke more English with him than at the MTC but it was good because he helped me relax a little and joke.
So my knee this past week was hurting really bad and we were just walking and tracting a ton so with my knee and the heat i was getting pretty down. i remember thinking one day about my Savior. i then remember that in alma 7 we learn that he suffered all that we feel and suffer. I then thought of a poem i read in the MTC it goes something like this.... there was a missionary that was not getting letters from home, didn’t like his helmet because it was too small, and his back hurt from wearing his backpack. He said a prayer to his Heavenly Father and asked why am i going through this. he then heard a voice saying. i know how you feel... i know how painful a helmet can be, especially when they placed the crown of thorns upon my head. i know how heavy your backpack feels, especially when they made me carry my cross. I know how you feel to be left alone and not receive letters, especially when i hung on the cross and ask Father why hast thou forsaken me." There is more to the poem but this is what i remember, i then felt that this is the work of the Lord. i KNOW it is. if the Lord wants me to teach lessons he will bless me with lessons, if he wants me to knock doors he will bless me with doors to knock. And if he wants me to knock a door, that is what i will do. After this day of no success, we had no lessons only slammed doors. i remember coming to our last appointment with this one family. We had an excellent lesson with them we set a baptismal date with them.
We are teaching a family of 4 mentioned just earlier. The mom and her three sons are great. She already knows the church is true and we have a fecha with them for the 22 of october. the only problem is they live really far away from the church and don’t have too much money. I hope that they will come because they need to have church assistance to be baptized.
I love you all do very much. Thank you so much for the box that you sent me, i hope you get mine too!!! I love you all so very much, thank you for all the support. This is the Lords work, i feel honored to be trusted with this calling and opportunity. I feel humbled to be trusted with a new companion that does not know the area and to teach him the area. I love you all so very much, i pray for you every night and send my blessings!!
Love
Elder Rowse
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