This week started off crazy. On Monday I headed to Salta Capital, a 3 hour bus ride from my area, to do paperwork for my visa. I was there for about three days. It is so cool and pretty there with huge hills full of tropical trees. I got back to Pichanal late wednesday. Its been a busy week with lots of work but we saw some miracles, especially with one of our investigators Amancia. We started teaching her about a week after I got to Argentina. Her brother Santos was recently baptized and has been joining us for every lesson. Amancia is so great and has such a strong testimony, but everytime we try to set a date for her to be baptized she says shes not ready. We´ve been fasting and praying that she would receive an answer that she need to be baptized this coming friday. Then last night we were teaching her and we asked her again if she was ready to be baptized, and she said she still didn´t feel like she was ready. So we asked her if we could all kneel together and say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father if the date was right for her baptism. We all kneeled and Amancia prayed. After the prayer we all sat there on our knees for almost 20 min. Then she finally got up and we all sat there for a bit. Then the member that was with us said to Amancia " God wants to know you better". She started crying super hard and she committed to the date and is going to be baptized! It was such a miracle! I just want to say how powerful the Book of Mormon is, we have been talking about it lately and we really have seen huge changes in the peoples lives here that are reading. Santos, the brother of Amancia, was an alchoholic for over 20 years. When I got here he never wore a shirt, could barely read, he never spoke much but he has been reading the Book of Mormon every day and he is a changed man. He is so much more friendly and talkative and enjoyable to be around, and just has a different light about him. I know that when we read the scriptures every day it will give us the spirit and help us to be able to resist the temptations of the adversary.
Love you all tons, Chau, Elder Starkey
The internet cafe we were emailing in...
Our chapel, this is where we have sacrament.
We usually have about 30 people every sunday.
Part of my zone after soccer today.
Getting ready to baptize Angel, or as we call him Angelito...
Us cleaning out the pool for the baptism...
Miguel our faithful third wheel, he picks up every animal he sees...
pigs, dogs, cats and birds.
The family of Angel...
The font...
This is heading back to Pichanal near Salta...
A pic from a while ago,
hahaha, me and Elder Longi.
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