Thursday, December 12, 2013

RIOTS IN ARGENTINA

Well this week is a very crazy week with lots to talk about. As I`m sure you`re aware it has taken TWO day to be able to write you this week which has never happened before. Well... here is the story:

It all started like any normal Pday we woke up, did our exercises, then our studies. From there we were ready to go to centro to use the computers in the library because they are the fastest and they are free. The only problem was that we didn`t have permission from president. We decided that since we don`t have a phone to even try to ask and he always gives us permission anyway that it would be ok. So we started waiting for the collectivo and there were some women talking about something that was happening with police, collectivos, and robbing’s and that is why it was taking so long. Well that was the first sign of the bad idea we had, but we ignored it. Then we went to the library to write home and all the computers weren’t  there they were locked away and we asked why and the people said it was because of some robbing’s that have been happening in centro. So we decide that we were going to go because that didn`t sound like a good place to be. On the way out of centro while in the collectivo we saw a mob of people and a couple police.

 We then went to the cyber in fontana but it was closed. We decided to go to the other elders house to see if they were able to write home or not. They told us that there was a message that went out that everyone has to stay in their pensh and not leave to proselyte. They told us that the police were on strike so there was a massive idea that every person was going to go out and rob the stores. So we went back to the pensh and stayed the rest of the day there. The next morning we got a knock on our door and the other elders had shown up and told us that we weren`t to leave the pensh again because the people had ran sacked centro and different stores. Also we were told that four were killed in the craziness. That day we just stayed in the pensh and relaxed, slept, read, etc. Now it is all over and the police are off of their strike. Now our week will start to normalize. So that is the crazy story for the week.

Here is a link from Fox news about the rioting. I am thankful that Cameron and all the missionaries were watched over during these riots!

More than that the only thing I can think of are a couple funny experiences. Like last pday after writing we were looking at some stores and E`Clemons was looking at a spatula and was testing it`s flexibility and it just shattered.  He then threw the pieces back on the shelf and walked away. It was pretty funny.

We had a lesson with and investigator that is golden and the next day that we came back to invite her to church her Evangelico friend was there. She was really annoying and didn`t want to accept anything we said just fight about what we were trying to teach. We started pulling out all this scripture mastery that we have been memorizing and showed her in the scriptures that what we were teaching is true. Then we testified of the truthfulness of it. Unfortunately I don`t think she will really pray about it but our investigator was impressed that we were able to answer her questions in the scriptures.

(PS can you guys look up what is the Evangelico church`s doctrine? It would really help because there are a ton of them here and I want to know exactly what they believe. That would translate to the ``gospel church`` but I don`t think there is that in the US. Maybe they are the seventh day evangelists... idk.)


I love you guys so much and can`t wait to hear from you next week. I feel like the time was very cut this week to write.

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