Well, this week was still a tough one, but we were blessed
nonetheless. We had a baptism this weekend!!!!!!! Susana Ochoa is
about 50-60 years old and has had quite the crazy life. She never knew
her real family while growing up: she lived alone. Her friends weren't
the best in school: she had a baby at 13. The doctors were about to
put the baby up for adoption because there weren't any parents to take
charge of raising the kid, until one night she escaped from the
hospital. She spent all her time raising the kid instead of going out
with friends. In her 20s, she took whatever little job she could take
to survive. She even picked up sewing and started making little bags
and other stuff to sell. Since then (I'm talking in the past few years
now) she sews for a living, her son now lives in Switzerland (no idea
what he's doing there), she's the Catholic godmother of this other
family that sortof took her in for awhile, and in the past year, she
got to know her birthmother and her whole family that lives in Salta,
all of which happen to be members of the Mormon church! She's been
talking to the missionaries for some time now; just didn't really
receive the push to get baptized. But, she's a very spiritually
intelligent woman and has a testimony of the truthfulness of the Book
of Mormon, Joseph Smith, and the church itself. With the help of other
Relief Society sisters and Heavenly Father, we were able to help her
make the decision to have her baptism this past weekend. The service
was rather small, seeing as a member of the seventy decided to come
during the baptismal service to give a training to the ward and stake
leaders, but it was still very spiritual and very touching.
We were also blessed with a new pension! We were talking with one of
our richer less-active sisters that we have a good relationship with
about how we were without a place to live. She couldn't believe it and
was interested in helping us out, so she asked what kind of place we
were looking for. We described what we wanted, and then she showed us
in back of her house this separate apartment that she doesn't use
that's absolutely perfect for us! We moved in on Friday and we're
loving it so far!
Even with these blessings, Satan is still working on me, from big
things like discouragement to little things like a bird pooping on me
and a dog peeing on my leg during the week!!!! (I couldn't believe my
luck!!!!!!)
Nevertheless, the work moves on, especially in this last week of transfers!
Also, quick news: I received my Argentine 'National Identification
Document', so I'm official now ;)
Love you all!!!
-Elder Powell
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