This past week was my last in
Cementista! Honestly, I have been feeling very strongly for the past two weeks that I was going to
leave the area, and now here I am, writing to
y'all for the first time in six months from not-Cementista. It feels
great. It's not that I didn't like the area - I really, REALLY loved it -
but I have felt a deep unrest from a feeling that I desperately need to
be somewhere else, for some reason. It's a weird feeling.
But
the way the timing worked out was horrible and cramped, although it
worked out bien. We awaited the call with traslados information until
midnight on Saturday, then only received a message from the zone leaders
telling us to go to bed and await traslados in the morning. Great. When
we left the pensión to head for the church, all we received was, "Elder
Hill se va. Se puede despedir." Wow. That is not enough information for
me by any stretch. I ended up sharing DyC 76:22 with the barrio for a
simple testimony. Then I sat down, pulled out the phone to see if we had
received any more information, and THEN I found out that I would go to
Balloffet, San Rafael, to be with Elder Becerra. The best part?
Balloffet is in Zona Alvear, my first zone! That means I'll have contact
with Pellegrini, my first area!! I am loving it so much. Thus, here I
am in San Rafael, writing to y'all.
Continuing
with what happened yesterday, after the meetings ended, I took pictures
with many people, rushed back to pack my things from 12:30 until 14:15
(which, by a miracle, was sufficient), then ran off to lunch with a
member of the bishopric, then immediately afterwards went to Lorena's
house to eat asado with her family. Then, after that, we went to San
Miguel to make more asado with them before everyone parted the next day.
The district leader (in San Miguel) was also transferred, so it was a
goodbye asado for us both. It was great.
Honestly,
I am also very sad about the state of Cementista. The barrio is very
strong, but the people there don't want anything to do with my religion;
and even if they receive us into their homes, and even if they want us
to keep visiting and teaching them day by day, they never progress.
Ever. In just the last couple of weeks, we dropped about ten
investigators. We also found a woman who receives us but with whom we
will never visit again. She's one of those strange omni-religionists
that says she's a Christian but then says she likes the Budidharma more
than the Bible, and that Jesus was one of the Great Teachers, not a
Singularly Important Person. I explained with Ephesians 4:1-6 that
either she is wrong about everything or she doesn't believe in the
Bible, and simply invited her to think about that. She agreed to think
about it, but it was obvious to me that she really wasn't about to give
up any ground to us. Then, obviously, she started explaining to us the
three types of Jesus: the Cosmic Jesus (the Creator), the Planetary
Jesus (who visited Earth), and the One in our hearts. That doesn't make
sense to me in any way at all, but fine. At one point in our visit she
got up to get her Bible really quickly and Elder Cardozo and I just
stared at each other in confused and shocked silence; he basically
remained quiet the entire time because he hadn't a clue what to say.
Needless to say, I was very frustrated afterwards. Well, I guess that
wasn't "needless" to me, because if it were I wouldn't have said it.
Whatever.
So, yeah, this week has been
interesting and good, but it's had its hard parts. But overall, I am
really, really happy. I am feeling good, and I'm ready to start my labor
again in Balloffet, Zona Alvear.
Con mucho amor,
Élder Hill
No tengo tiempo para mandar fotos hoy por razón de traslados; esperen la semana que viene.
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