So Monday we taught probably the funniest lesson in my life. It was a NDH (family night) with a less active family. They`re hilarious! But also not the brightest.. haha. We love them, but wow. To set the scenario, the mom is a darker women, also a heavier women, probably in her 60`s. The dad is right around there with his age but is whiter than me and not the brightest man on the block. Their daughter is kind of chubby and claims she's 21.. we think she's 29. Anyway, we started off and did a little model of reading, praying and going to church using 3 cups and 3 spoons that had to hold up a Book of Mormon. It's a common model we use to teach. We had them try first and they obviously couldn't do it, it's very hard. Then I did it in about 10 seconds. They were AMAZED. We then had them look up scriptures to explain it better but we started out having them look up fake scriptures like, "Moses in the Book of Mormon and the 137th section of Abraham in the Bible." They couldn't find it. We then gave them the right scriptures. (It was to prove a point.) During the lesson they would just stare at the cups and randomly, every 5 minutes go, "Waooo!!! It doesn't fall!" It was like teaching 4 year olds haha. At the end of the lesson they invited us to have some Ritz and Coca-cola. So we started some small talk about the World Cup. The dad starts off saying, "Perú lost 1-0 to Canada the other day." HAHA, Perú played Denmark. Canada isn't even in the World Cup. I figured I would have some fun so I played along and said, "Yeah, and they play the USA on Thursday." He agreed it would be a hard match. Hahaha, oh jeez. We had a good night that night.
Speaking of the mundial (World Cup), Perú is out. They lost 1-0 to France, and Argentina, where my companion is from, lost 3-0, just so everyone knows. Haha, my companion almost cried when he found out. We`ve been bugging him about it all week.
Thursday during our language study around 2:45 pm, we had a temblor! It started off kind of soft. My companion and I look up from our studies at each other with a little, "Hey this is kinda cool" grin... it went from a light shake to shaking HARD! Our faces turned from, "hey this is cool" to "HOLY COW, RUNN!!!" I straight up thought we were about to have an earthquake. It was a 4.9. Pretty nuts. A lot funner in the day than at night though, that's for sure.
Later that day we had 2 great lessons. The first was with a YSA (Young single adult) less active. We had a good "straight talk" with her. We all felt the spirit.. however, she didn't come to church because she had to help her mom sell breakfast.
Later we taught Maicol, our investigator that's progressing the most. When I got here, the week before, he had told the missionaries he didn't want anything. His wife is an active member and most of the family as well. We`ve been helping him a TON with service and gaining his confidence and love. We had a NDH (family night) with his extended family and him on Thursday. We analyzed Moroni 10:3-5, then my companion shared his testimony of personal revelation when he recieved his answer to come on the mission. (Elder Fernandez didn't want to go on a mission. He came out at 20 years old.) After sharing his testimony and experience, Maicol started asking a bunch of questions like, "How did it feel?", "How did you really know?" etc. He said, "I always pray and ask but maybe I'm not very good at listening because I haven't gotten an answer yet." It was such an amazing night. We all felt the spirit super strong and could see the light in his eyes.
Friday we did a service for Maicol's sister who needed help building her house. We intented to only be there that morning but ended up staying until 6 p.m. to help finish. We were EXHAUSTED afterwards.
The next day we had a Multi Zone conference and had to wake up at 5:45 a.m. and the meeting was very... Long.. The end was good though because president Rios and his wife shared their testimonies. Afterwards I went up and took a picture with them and thanked them for everything. President hugged me and told me he loved me and thanked me for all my hard work that I have given and told me I am a very hard worker and will be a great future leader. He told me to never forget the principles I learned and to never alejarme (get away) from the gospel. I sure love those two.
Yesterday (Sunday) was a good.. day of rest.. The light went out here and so apart from 6 p.m. we couldn't leave to proselyte because it's too dangerous. So we went to the penshe's house and played Monopoly with the other elders. Good day.
Also, I measured myself the other day.. without shoes. It's the first time I've measured myself in the mission.. I left home with 5`11" and a half. It always made me so mad because I could never pass up 6 feet. And now, I'm not sure I believe it myself, but it was a measuring tape...... 6 foot 2 inches!! CHEEEHOOO!! Maybe it's off but I HAVE to at least be above 6 feet. Hyped. We`ll double check in 3 weeks.
Anyway, that's all for this week. Pretty eventful week. Be safe this week. I love you all. Besitos. Abracitos. (Little kisses. Little hugs.)
Elder Rokovitz
Elder Rokovitz
Saying goodbye to President and Sister Rios. Their mission service of three years is over.
Very thin wood wall house, dirt floor, adobe walls inside, door without a handle....and a satellite dish.
Maté - the drink of Argentina
We had everyone trying it.
The birthday of one of our investigators.... look closely next to the cake..... we sure know what the next lesson will be about.
Feliz Cumpleaños!!
