Well, this has been quite the interesting week. Things got a little crazy when we got a call tuesday afternoon saying that we were to take a little trip - I needed to go to Buenos Aires to get some paperwork fixed. And almost everything about this trip didn´t go according to plan. So wednesday morning we left for Mar del Plata, an hour away. Then 7 hours to Bahia Blanca. We stayed the night with hermanas there, then the next morning went to the office. I was to travel with Hermana Chesler, another hermana who I knew from my time in Bahia, and Elder Pauni. My comp stayed with another hermana. We set off for the airport with Elder Spaunbauer and Elder Cruz from the office, to get there and find out that all flights had been cancelled for the weather. After lots of phone calls on the part of the office elders, they decided we would go in bus that night. After working the day in the area of Hermana Chesler, we set out for Buenos Aires in bus at 10:30 at night, arriving the next morning at 7 in Buenos Aires. It was a crazy day! The city was so full of people coming and going because there were some big events going on and a long weekend was starting. We hung out in the area office for a while, then after lunch headed off to the US embassy - SO weird hearing random people speaking english. Anyways after some unexpected complications I finally got on another bus at 7:30 that night to head back. I arrived in Mar del Plata at 1 in the morning, slept a bit at the house of the hermanas there, then 9 the next morning (saturday) we were back in good ol´Balcarce. Por fin. The trip was actually kinda fun, We bonded quite a bit, and the lady in charge of us there, M and the chauffer A were so good to us.
The miracle of the week, and the most wonderful part of all, was the baptism and confirmation of N!!!! An investigator of the other hermanas, J, also got baptized. It was a beautiful service. We werent in town for the last couple days, but thanks to the help of Hermanas Burgos y Ortiz and our district leader it all turned out great. :) He was baptized by Ezequiel, the hermano who initially invited him to meet with us and is such a great support for him. Sunday when he received his confirmation, I was so full of JOY seeing him up there and hearing the beautiful words of his blessing. He is 18 years old and I´ve already told him that now we´ve got to prepare for the mission. :) I asked him what it was that made him decide that he was ready to be baptized - he said he just felt it. He saw how he had changed during these last weeks, the peace and calmness that had come into his life. As he began to make reading the scriptures and praying a new habit in his life he just felt that it was time for him to be baptized. So he did it! woohoo!!!
The church is true, there is no doubt in my mind. This is the Lord´s work.
Love you all,
Hermana Nelson
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