well another week has gone and once again I dont feel like I have much to say. life as a missionary is pretty repetitive you wake up at 630 excercise and get ready then study from 8-11 then basically from 11-9 at night you are teaching lessons and finding people to teach. and we are lucky because pretty much everyday we have lunch with a member so we dont have to go back to our apartment and cook. There arent many days where the day is much different than that. but the other day we were out walking around trying to find people to talk to when we got a call from our zone leaders saying that one of the sisters in our zone her companion was just a temporary companion and was leaving so we had to go be with her until they found another companion for her. We were a little suprised and shocked but that night we went and stayed with her at her apartment and then the next morning she was going to get a new comp. well she lives on the 6th floor of her apt complex and so they have a elevator to use so that morning we got in the elevator to leave to go pick up her companion and it starts going down when all of a sudden it stopped on the 4th floor and totally broke down. I was like ahhh NOO I am in a broken down elevator in Argentina that was seriously tiny and there were 4 of us in there. my comp, the other sister, me and some cleaner lady named maria. we had no idea what to do and it was 8 in the morning so most likely people would be sleeping but we just started pressing the alarm until someone came. we ended up being in the elevator for about 20 minutes and yes you best believe we started talking to maria about the church. haha we ended up getting her address and the address of her family who actually lives in our area. so sometime we are going to try and visit them. maybe there was a reason that this happened and her family needs the gospel at this time... but ya that was def an interesting experience this past week.
This past week we started talking to this man who was raking leaves outside of his house and he let us sit down and teach him so we taught him the first lesson and put a baptism date with him and he excepted and told us he would go to church on sunday. we were pretty stoked and then when we went by the house on sunday morning to pick him up for church his uncle came out and said that he didnt live there but he lived in a totally different area!! we were so frustrated. its so annoying how many people lie to you saying that they promise they will go to church and then when we go by to pick them up they wont go. and the zone leaders keep calling and pressuring us to put baptism dates with people but we are trying and they arent accepting. sometimes missionary work is really frustrating but i think patience is a big quality that is so be learned throughout the mission. we have to be patient with the people because it might not be their time right now. and i have also learned that i need to be patient with the language because i want so bad to speak but i need to be patient with it and just keep studying and it will come over time. at our district meeting last tuesday we were doing a practice in trying to ask inspired questions and getting to know the person and my comp and i were teaching our district leader and he kept looking at me to speak but i always get scared to speak and so he kept telling me that i need to start speaking more to the people and it will really help me a lot. so this past week he gave me a goal to speak to 10 men in the streets a day! ummm can you imagine my reaction! ahh i just about died. 10 men?! my companion wont even talk to men in the streets because most of the time the men are just creeps and make cat calls at us. so ya i am scared to talk to people but i need to get over my fear. ahhhh anyways things are good. i have never been so tired in my life. everynight i crash and when 630 comes every morning it is miserable. haha but it is starting to get really cold here especially because we are outside all of the time. i think i am going to buy a heater for our apt because it is always so cold in our apt. i am just glad that i was warned that it was going to be cold because i feel pretty prepared for it. i have worn my rain boots a couple of time because it will rain over night and then the streets will be just huge pile of mud so it is best to wear the rain boots but they are super comfortable so i dont like wearing them a lot. anyways. i better go. i love you lots and i love hearing from you all. have a wonderful week! and how exciting the girls end school this week! wow that went by fast.
love,
kara
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