Transfers were today. I´m out in
the "campo" in Derqui. I´m a third companion to the Zone Leaders. Earlier this
week while we were finishing our papers we found a place by the train station
that was selling boxes of 40 alfajores [cookies] at 1 peso each. I bought one. It was
about $8 US. Almost all of our FBI clearances had expired, so now we´ll be
working to get new ones.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Everything
is in disarray because there are four elders living together right now. But
don´t worry, I bought a 4 column notebook, and everything is in order in at
least that context. Transfers are next week, so I´ll be in a companionship, but
for the meantime we are getting done twice as much work.
We went to
finish all the papers today. There´s one last step and then the visa is
permanent.
We have an
investigator who when we met with him said that he hadn't been drinking or
smoking for 2 weeks. One day he called us saying that he had drank the night
before, but he wanted to get baptized on a specific day in August.
There are
three kinds of missionary work: 1) The missionaries do the work, 2) The members
help the missionaries do the work, and 3) The missionaries help the members do
the work. The third one is always the best because it is the bishop who holds
the keys, and the members who have the responsibility. There are few things
better than the missionaries getting a call that you want them to come to a
dinner where you've invited some friends over who are interested in the church
because of your discussions. The clip "I´ll go where you want me to go" that was
used in the last training broadcast is very instructive. The first and foremost
principle of sharing the restored gospel is to understand it yourself. "Come" is
the invitation. Missionary work becomes easy once you are trying to live it in
full.
-Elder Damitz
-Elder Damitz
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