¡Hola Todos!
Well, this was a rather miraculous week! To start, we were protected during crazy weather conditions. On Tuesday, it was super-rainy in the morning, but as the afternoon hit, the sun came out and blasted the clouds out of the way, making it extremely humid. And then all that evaporated rain hit us again, but even harder this time, on Thursday morning, right at the point where we needed to get back to the pension. I didn't have any raingear on, so I just gave in and let myself get completely drenched in the middle of the street. I felt rather special as I just sang in the rain and as the rest of the Argentines just stared at us, probably thinking we were going crazy! I was just loving the fact that it wasn't hot! The next day, I kid you not, I saw in total about a few hundred thousand of butterflies heading in a southern direction! We're guessing that they were migrating, or something, but for a few hours, butterflies just kept appearing out of nowhere from the north! And then Sunday, all the rain hit hard again early in the morning. If there's anything that spooks Tartagal citizens, it's lots of rain and water. Last year, a huge landslide ('alud' in Spanish, I tell you because there are youtube videos of the news footage) came through and just destroyed Tartagal. The people almost never leave now if there are heavy rains. The rain alone killed assistance at church, bringing a total of 40 people between our two branches and the entire city of Tartagal! We just held a combined sacrament meeting and called it good because there really weren't enough people to hold the other classes! As we were waiting about an hour for the decision to be made to combine the two branches, I decided that the silence in the chapel was a little awkward, so I just decided to start playing prelude music until something happened. Well, it turns out I never left the bench for that hour, right up until we started the meeting. It was a little hard finding enough hymns to play for an hour, but I managed! The miracle came halfway through that meeting: 4 investigators showed up!!!!!!! 2 of which are getting baptized within the next 2 weeks--talk about faithful ;) 3 of them are actually the dad and nephews of a member-family and were brought by them, so I was glad they were able to get to church.
We're having some success with our investigators. We're hoping to have a baptism this week. It's this older guy that has been investigating the church for a really long time, but he was finally able to get over his chewing-coca-leaves addiction! We're hoping for the best.
We're looking forward to another good week. Good luck during your last week of January (time flies, doesn't it? :P )
-Elder Powell
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