I´m staying in Córdoba! Yes for more than 4 transfers, I´ve already been here 6 months. And I´m receiving two companions! Elder Robinson from Utah and Elder Wiltbank from I don´t know where. But I´ll be with them for three weeks then I´m getting transferred halfway through to a different area. It´s crazy that these will be my 4th and 5th companion in ONE AREA. Most people don´t have more than 2. 3 is unusual. But 5???? That´s unheard of. And Elder Robinson is going home this next transfer by the way. So that will be 1, 2, 3, 4 COMPANIONS in a row that I´ll be sending home. Woah kind of crazy. Even though I´ll only be with Robinson for half a transfer I´m still counting it as a solid "kill"! I´m the "matador" of the mission.
So this week was really good! My comp was super tired because he couldn´t sleep at night. We got some work done though. We met with this married couple from Peru named Elke and Catarina. They are awesome. Our first lesson with them was insane. So we started talking about the usual stuff and about how after the apostles died that the church of christ fell blah blah then Elke started talking and he´s a really smart guy. He was talking and he made a comment about how Paul was the last apostle to die and my comp butts in and says "well actually he didn´t die". So long story short we showed them the 3 nephites and had to explain the book of mormon at the same time. It was all over the place and Elke asked some really good questions. They have a bunch of potential and they looked like they were going to read. I think that was the first time I´ve taught a married couple where both were interested in listening. Crazy first lesson I´m grateful we got it under control though.
Monica was super busy this last week. She basically had to work all day everyday so that she could pay for all her bills. She was sick too so she didn´t have to good of a week. We saw her Saturday night and had a really good lesson. The whole week with all that stress and being so busy she didn´t drink any coffee or alcohol or smoke! I was truthfully really surprised to hear that! She didn´t pray or read but that´s awesome that she is following the word of wisdom. At the end of the lesson we tried for 10 minutes to get her to pray with us. She is so scared to pray in front of us because she never really has said a pray in her life. She ended up not praying, but I really hope we can get her to because she won´t really start progressing until she gets that prayer in. It´ll be a big step for her.
We have a bunch of potential investigators that we need to follow up on. There is a lot of work to do, and I only have 3 weeks to make Córdoba the best area ever. Hopefully we can get everthing done and my comps will only have 3 weeks to learn the area so they´ll need to learn fast!
Love you! Elder Stephens
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