Not a whole lot has gone on this week. We had visits on Friday, Sunday and Monday. I have a new companion. She's a mini-missionary and she's from here. (She lives in the stake.) That means that Hermana Kent got transferred. She is now in Ezeiza. We have a lot of appointments this coming week. We'll see how that turns out.
Gabriel came to church on Sunday with all of his family. He's progressing soooo well. Please keep him in your prayers.
Hope you all have a nice week --
Hermana Crotzer
Editor's note: A "mini-missionary" is someone who is paired with a regular full-time missionary to help out for a transfer or two. (A transfer is six weeks.) It could be that the mission is short of companionships and so a local youth is helping out, or it could be that someone is wanting to experience what it is like to serve a mission before they put in their full-time papers. We'll ask Catherine for more details for next week. As a reminder: a "stake" is just a geographic area containing multiple congregations or "wards" of church members. So the new mini-missionary lives somewhere not too far from where Catherine is serving, i.e. she is a local young woman.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
Still Looking for People to Teach
Not much to report this week. We walked a lot and we haven't found all that many people to teach. Hna Kent and I thought it would be a good idea to go and see a bunch of the old investigators we have records for and see if they might be interested this time around. The majority of them aren't but...
One of the statistics we report is how many people we talk to and try to share the gospel with. I don't know if contacting old investigators counts towards this statistic so we haven't been counting it. But if we did, we would have really, really, really high numbers.
We have one new investigator named Gabriel. His parents are recent converts (of about a year) and we started teaching him recently. He read all of the pamphlet for lesson one in one day for our next lesson. We had only asked him to read a page!
Con amor --
Hermana Crotzer (formerly Cortez)
One of the statistics we report is how many people we talk to and try to share the gospel with. I don't know if contacting old investigators counts towards this statistic so we haven't been counting it. But if we did, we would have really, really, really high numbers.
We have one new investigator named Gabriel. His parents are recent converts (of about a year) and we started teaching him recently. He read all of the pamphlet for lesson one in one day for our next lesson. We had only asked him to read a page!
Con amor --
Hermana Crotzer (formerly Cortez)
Monday, July 14, 2014
World Cup Finally Over
My brain is complete and total mush right now. It probably has something to do with the fact that I inhaled a lot of chemicals this morning trying to kill a giant cockroach. Bleh.
I forgot to tell you all last week about the cockroach family I found under the sink. Mommy cockroach, Daddy, two kids, and Grandpa cockroach. They are very dead now. Raid for flys and mosquitos also kills cockroaches. Maybe it's because these are the huge flying cockroaches.
This morning, the other grandpa cockroach invaded our apartment. Probably to get revenge for killing his daughter and grandkids. (I doubt he cares very much that we killed his son-in-law, but who knows. Maybe they had a good relationship.) After a lot of screaming and spraying of chemicals, Hna Kent finally succeeded in killing it with the mop. The person who lives next door asked us if we were all right. And we need to buy more Raid.
In other news, we walked around a lot. A LOT. And that's all I've got for the week. I don't think we had any lessons.
Germany won the World Cup and I might change my last name to something less German. I have a feeling there are a lot of anti-German feelings in Argentina right now. Cortez sounds like a nice new last name. ;)
Until next week --
Hermana Cortez
I forgot to tell you all last week about the cockroach family I found under the sink. Mommy cockroach, Daddy, two kids, and Grandpa cockroach. They are very dead now. Raid for flys and mosquitos also kills cockroaches. Maybe it's because these are the huge flying cockroaches.
This morning, the other grandpa cockroach invaded our apartment. Probably to get revenge for killing his daughter and grandkids. (I doubt he cares very much that we killed his son-in-law, but who knows. Maybe they had a good relationship.) After a lot of screaming and spraying of chemicals, Hna Kent finally succeeded in killing it with the mop. The person who lives next door asked us if we were all right. And we need to buy more Raid.
In other news, we walked around a lot. A LOT. And that's all I've got for the week. I don't think we had any lessons.
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| Hermanas Crotzer and Kent (and a third companion???) |
Until next week --
Hermana Cortez
Monday, July 7, 2014
Weird Week in Banfield
It's been a really weird week. That's pretty much all I've got to say.
We had a nice lesson with Hector and Claudia which means that they are progressing.
We had to plan three times on Wednesday because people kept canceling things on us.
Friday was the fourth of July and we had "exchanges" that day. Both the sister training leaders came to our area.
Saturday I turned 13 months old in the mission.
Sunday was Hna Newman's birthday. We fibbed to her and her companion and set up a fake appointment in their area with somebody named Sabrina. Sabrina was really Debora -- a recent convert of about four weeks. Debora got baptized the Saturday before Hna Newman left. Debora got a video from Hna Newman's mom and a bunch of other people singing "Happy Birthday" and she also made a cake and the whole nine yards.
Pablo didn't go to church this week because he wanted to watch a tennis match. I'm worried he's going to go inactive soon. He knows all the "right" answers but he doesn't know how to apply the Gospel to himself. That's just a little important. And of course I ignored that little voice inside my head because everybody else thought things were going great.
Today somebody sent me an envelope. Just an envelope with my name on it. There wasn't anything inside. And only my mom sent me an e-mail this week. So when I finish typing this I'll probably spend the rest of my hour and a half of time watching Mormon messages without sound. I might even have time to watch the Joseph Smith movie.
Hope all of you had a nice week --
Hermana Crotzer
We had a nice lesson with Hector and Claudia which means that they are progressing.
We had to plan three times on Wednesday because people kept canceling things on us.
Friday was the fourth of July and we had "exchanges" that day. Both the sister training leaders came to our area.
Saturday I turned 13 months old in the mission.
Sunday was Hna Newman's birthday. We fibbed to her and her companion and set up a fake appointment in their area with somebody named Sabrina. Sabrina was really Debora -- a recent convert of about four weeks. Debora got baptized the Saturday before Hna Newman left. Debora got a video from Hna Newman's mom and a bunch of other people singing "Happy Birthday" and she also made a cake and the whole nine yards.
Pablo didn't go to church this week because he wanted to watch a tennis match. I'm worried he's going to go inactive soon. He knows all the "right" answers but he doesn't know how to apply the Gospel to himself. That's just a little important. And of course I ignored that little voice inside my head because everybody else thought things were going great.
Today somebody sent me an envelope. Just an envelope with my name on it. There wasn't anything inside. And only my mom sent me an e-mail this week. So when I finish typing this I'll probably spend the rest of my hour and a half of time watching Mormon messages without sound. I might even have time to watch the Joseph Smith movie.
Hope all of you had a nice week --
Hermana Crotzer
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