Aventuras con mi primogénito

On Tuesday I had to stick around in San Fernando most of the day waiting to pick up my hijo (greenie). At the end of the day there are only two of us who are training new elders, and one sister who is training a sister this transfer. Since there wasn't many of us, we went to the Mission Home with the assistants and President Ayre when they had the meeting with the new elders. President Ayre told them that when he was in the MTC, President Monson told him to always take care of his new missionaries that come in, and save the very best missionaries to be their trainers. I felt a little out of place there with the assistants and the other 2 missionaries who are trainers because they've already trained a few times in the past. I was kind of wondering if President made a mistake in me being there, but I am really humbled to have this opportunity to help out my primogénito. 

My hijo is Elder López (again right? who would've thought I'd have two Elder López' back to back?), who is from Rosario, Argentina and is 18 years old. He's my first companion that is younger than me! He's a pretty cool guy, and we get along well. He's here waiting for his visa to go to Ecuador, so I'm not entirely sure how long he'll be here. It's kind of different being a trainer because he follows and copies literally everything I do, even up to my morning exercises haha.

 

My primogénito, elder López

The orange sweater is from elder López, my last

companion... it's kind of ugly but I like it.

This week we had a great week and found a bunch of new investigators who accepted baptismal dates. Unfortunately none of them came to church, but we're staying positive and working hard. Adrian's sister-in-law is going to Santiago del Estero today to bring him his birth certificate so he can get married and baptized. The work is going really well, and I feel like we're going to have a lot of success here together.

I'm doing well, I've had a bit of a cold this week, but pretty much everyone in Buenos Aires does as well with the climate change. This week I will turn 19. It's weird to think that if the age hadn't been changed to leave on a mission I would still be at home and I wouldn't have experienced all the things that I have experienced in these 10 months. I'm so grateful fot this precious time that the Lord has given me. I know that Thomas S. Monson is His prophet on the earth today. It was an inspired age change, and I'm so grateful to have been able to help the people that I could during this time serving as an 18-year-old missionary.

I love you all.

Elder John William Garrett