Well here we are again with another week
down in the good old mission. First of all we were able to have a
baptism this past week! His name is Nahuel and he is the cousin of Maria
who we baptized a few weeks ago. He is 17 years old and such a cool
kid. He was baptized on Saturday and then I confirmed him on Sunday.
He accepted everything we taught so fast and although it took 2 weeks
to get him to wake up in time we finally got him to go to church the
past few weeks haha. He is awesome and we were so happy to be able to
have his baptism. He even had a competitive soccer tournament on Saturday
that he skipped to come be baptized.
One funny note is that there are
two soccer clubs that are huge here in Buenos Aires. One is called the
Boca Juniors and the other is called River Plate, and they are both HUGE
rivals. His entire family are fans of Boca and he is the only one who
is a fan of River, who is my favorite team as well. Last night we went
to his house to fill out the baptismal registry and River and Boca were
playing each other. River ended up winning on a last second goal and he
was running around the house screaming while his entire family was
basically crying. He ran over to me and we did the River chant and it
was hilarious! Anyway it was all fun and games and his mom even made
some popcorn for us while we filled out the registry. His mom also came
to his baptism Saturday and afterwards she told us that she is 100% going to be baptized this next Sunday
in between sessions of General Conference in the stake center! She also
wants to get baptized with her other son who is Nahuel´s brother but he
would have to come on Saturday to General Conference as well so he could be baptized on Sunday.
We will see how that goes! We are also working with the rest of the
family and are looking foward to more baptisms in the coming weeks! We
are being very richly blessed with success and loving every minute of
it!
Well besides the baptism this week was just good in general!
Nothing crazy really happened but we are still just working along and
having a good time. This week we are halfway through this transfer and
it is really hard to believe. This transfer is flying by! Unfortunately
our Zone missed beating the zone monthly baptismal record by 2
baptisms... we were pretty sad about that. But this next week our zone
is looking forward to 7 baptisms so it looks like we might be able to
give it another run this month! Besides that if Elder Molina and I end
up baptizing the rest of Maria and Nahuel´s family that will be like 5
more at least so we have a pretty good chance! Usually when you break
the record the whole zone goes to the temple together but there are
transfers right at the end of April and I may end up leaving the area. I
really don´t want to leave I love my area right now but I will go where
the Lord needs me. I do feel really blessed to have been able to come
here though!
The weather has continued to cool off this past week. Thursday night there was a downpour and we got soaked completely through again. It also rained Sunday
morning which always makes it much harder to try and get your
investigators to come to church but it was ok because I just gave them
my umbrella and let them stay dry while I got wet. It was fun actually
and I didn´t even mind! It is cool to see how much joy you can get from
serving others! Besides even though it is cooling down here it is still
perfect for me and the rain is warm so it ends up being fun more that
anything. The time I spent at West Point during summer training helped
me a lot not to even care about getting wet as well. Nothing in the
mission can be as bad or as wet as some of the stuff that happened there
haha.
Anyway I am glad to hear that everyone back home is still doing
well and that the weather is heading right into spring. I always loved
this time of the year as the weather gets much better and summer starts
coming into view. I guess everything here is backwards as far as the
seasons go which is still so weird to me haha. I don´t know if I will
ever get used to it or I am sure that if I do it will be right as I am
about to head home and then I will have to adjust all over again! That
seems to be how life works a lot, right when you get comfortable with a
change it all changes over again!
Anyways as always I just want to end with my testimony of how
important this work is and that the church is true. It is the best thing
ever to see the changes that come in the lives of people as they accept
Christ and His Gospel. I love serving my brothers and sisters here in
Buenos Aires and would not give it up for the world. Just like life, the
mission is difficult but well worth it. I am so glad to have such great
fam and friends back home praying for and supporting me! Thank you for
all that you all do and as always just keep on keeping on! Keep the
faith and fight the good fight! And remember, when we are doing all we
can to keep the commandments and follow Christ, nothing is impossible! I
love you all and look forward to hearing from you next week! Have a
good one!
Love,
Elder Zollinger
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