On Thursday, we went to teach Maribel, our "investigator", again, and since it was a Thursday we had to teach with a member. Luckily for me and Elder Kanan, our member turned out to be a total jerk... It was crazy. She hated me and Kanan because we had trouble understanding her because she spoke so fast. I am still not entirely sure how she was selected by the MTC to be a helper with new missionaries, but some growing definitely happened on that day. We got into the room to teach Maribel, and the member kind of said mean things about me and Kanan to Maribel. Then the member also hijacked the lesson, which was about baptism, but ended up just being a weird and rough experience for Kanan, Maribel, and me. So we left that lesson, not understanding really anything that occurred and we felt pretty rough. A few hours later, we got into the elevator and stopped on the fourth floor. Some hermanas got on the elevator from the advanced Spanish class. They started talking to us and as soon as they found out we were going Spanish speaking they started talking really fast in Spanish. The second they realized that we could not understand they started making fun of us. It must have been pretty mean stuff because after we got out of the elevator and were halfway back to our dorm, two of the sisters that were in the elevator felt it necessary to come and apologize for what they had done. That really ticked me off. I was pretty much ready to call it a mission at that point. I was mad the whole night and into the next day. Before bed, I said a prayer to Heavenly Father that if He was willing that He could show me an example of what my mission was really doing for other people, because after that lesson, I felt pretty useless and not great. So I woke up for Friday, still pretty upset. We went to class and I was pretty much done the whole time. We even taught Hermano Garcia a fifteen minute lesson and I didn't really feel better. We then went to teach Maribel again because that is just how the schedule is. Needless to say, Kanan and I were pretty done with everything this week. All I was thinking was make it to Pday. We walked in to teach Maribel and she just started speaking English to us about how disrespectful that member was. Also apparently Maribel talked to some of the people in charge of the operation, so that member will not be returning. Maribel was not angry at us or the church, but was pretty mad at the member, and the things the member had said. Apparently she had said that Elder Kanan did not understand anything, which is pretty mean. And apparently the member claimed that Mormons are smarter than all other people because we read the Book of Mormon. And the member was apparently mad at me for having English scriptures. It was a lot of stuff like that. Not an outstanding example of the church to have with us. But Maribel went on to, in the next 45 minutes, explain how grateful she was for us and how much we help her in life and how it isn't about speaking Spanish well, because most people will understand, it is about the message. Then I kind of had a prompting to not say anything and Elder Kanan proceeded to teach a lesson by himself, which was really cool because he had really struggled with speaking because he was so focused on being perfect. I think it was a good experience for him, and it answered my prayer so that was pretty neat. There is a picture here with Maribel, and she gave us her address and stuff so that we can have a pachanga(party) in two years when Elder Kanan and I get back. Pretty cool experience, even though most of it was terrifying and not very fun.
Also I got my travel plans!!!!!!! So that means that I can pretty much for sure count on going to Argentina on time. Wooo!!!! That is exciting! I am really excited to teach the people of Argentina, and to have them make fun of me for being different and then I can beat them at soccer.
I think that is about it for stories of this week. God is real.
Yo creo que dios y jesucristo viven y escuchan a nuestro orraciones. Yo testifico que Dios y Jesucristo traten contestar nuestro orraciones pero en sus tiempo. Yo se que cosas dificiles existen para nosotros cambiar y ser mejor. Este es mi testimonio. En el nombre sagredo de Jesucristo, amen
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