Week 49 - Made it to Rio Grande - Elder Jake Hollingsworth

Week 49 - Made it to Rio Grande

7/10/2017

Buen día todos

A super fast week with a sick transfer and a super sick area.

Tuesday morning I left Rio Gallegos at about 9 in the morning to head down to Rio Grande. We passed the Chilean border and took a ferry across the Strait of Magellan, then crossed back into Argentina. I was sitting next to this guy named Daniel from Bariloche and we chilled and talked about skiing and traveling it was sweet. When we head down to Ushuaia for zone conference I´m going to call him to have lunch. Got into Rio Grande at about 5 or 6.

My new companion is Elder Romney from New Mexico he´s sick we are having a good time. He is my first companion that speaks English so these last few days have been really weird. I just keep talking in Spanish mostly though. For right now we are living with the zone leaders until we can find a new apartment. They split our area like 3 weeks ago due to the massive amounts of new missionaries so we have lots of work to do. We are preparing a family of 6 for baptism that have been investigators for like a month and so it is super exciting to see that. We hope they can get married the last week of the month and baptized that same Saturday.

We also had some cool experiences just knocking on doors these past few days. On Thursday we contacted a deaf man and it was super weird but cool. Definitely don´t know sign language so we said we would come back another day, well wrote that out obviously. Then the next day we were eating lunch with some members, and just before we left I asked this one sister who is just visiting from up North if she knows sign language. She served a mission in Peru like last year and she definitely knows sign language so that was sick. We are going to teach that guy this week so that should be fun.

Excited to work this week, the people here are a lot nicer and more open to the message than in Gallegos. Hope everyone is well donde sea que se encuentren.

¨And it came to pass that when Jesus had ended these sayings he said unto his disciples; Enter ye in at the strait gate; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it; but wide is the gate, and broad is the way which leads to death, and many there be that travel therein, until the night cometh, wherein no man can work.¨ 3 Nephi 27:33

Elder Hollingsworth