This has been a really good week! Elder Dosdall, the missionary that I was able to train, has been in the offices the last few weeks recovering from an ingrown toenail and just this last week he got permission from the doctor to start walking around some again and so he was able to work in our area with us this week (and will do the same next week until he is fully recovered and can get assigned to an area). Thus, we have been a companionship of 4 missionaries, which has been quite fun living in a very small 1 bedroom apartment. More importantly though is that that means we have been able to work in pairs of two and cover a lot more ground, finding 4 new people to teach this week. We were pretty excited about that, but hope to find even more this next coming week as well. Something else really awesome is that we were able to establish contact again with Milagros, a 15 year old girl who was the last person that I baptized (with Elder Ehlert and Elder Moreno). After being baptized, she had a falling out with her father and went to live with her mother. After about 2 months though, she came back and is once again living with her father and so as we stopped by to visit him one day, we ran across her. It was something not quite expected, but it was super awesome and so we hope to be able to help her come back to church again and keep learning and growing.
Other than that, it has been a fairly normal week. This is the last week before transfers and so my next P-day will be on this Saturday, but these will be the last transfers for President Robertson and two weeks later President Resek will get here. As such, President was visiting last week (and will be visiting this week) all the zones in the mission to have a special meeting with all the missionaries to say good-bye, give some last spiritual thoughts, and some last trainings. It's been really weird seeing him start to wind down a little bit as a Mission President, taking all the pictures out of his office and leaving a little more room for President Resek to make the changes he feels necessary when he gets here instead of being bringing forth lots of new ideas on how to do things as he normally does. Us in the offices have been helping out with the meetings though, and so on Friday I was able to travel all the way out to Bragado again with Elder Venecia to help out. That likely was the last time that I have had a long drive with Elder Venecia too though, because in transfers he will go back to a normal area and Elder Cespedes will be the new office Elder in charge of apartments (and thus I will likely be traveling with him instead). Lot's of little changes though kind of spice life up I suppose.
Last P-day as well then, I had to drive Elder Dosdall to the MTC here in Buenos Aires so that he could visit an American doctor and get his opinion on his toes. Since the MTC is attached to the Temple here in Buenos Aires, we were able to walk around the grounds a little bit afterwards though there wasn't time to go in. It was a fun experience.
Other than that though, there isn't really all that much else new to share for this week, and so until next time I hope you all have a good week!
Love,
Elder McCollum
Photos attached are all of the temple. :)
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