Thur Jun 20 was Argentina’s flag day and a holiday so the
office was closed. We went with the
other Senior Missionaries to Las Platas and visited a cathedral and a museum. The cathedral was relatively new and the museum was of
natural history with all kinds of dinosaur bones. The pampas of Argentina happen to have lots of dinosaur bones. It was quite the museum and trip
.
Sun 23 Sunday was a treat because Joan was asked
to bear her testimony in Relief Society and I was asked to help teach the young
women (2 young women and 1 investigator and 3 leaders and 1 stake leader) about
the blessings of the priesthood. I think
the lesson in relief society was on missionary work and Joan was nervous but
she told me what she wanted to say and I helped her write it. They all told me that it went well and after
her start by saying she wanted to learn how to talk to them they understood it
all. The relief society president came
up afterwards and said she would come on Saturdays and help her with
Spanish. My assignment was a real treat.
Tue 25 Tuesdays are our 4-5 hour meetings. I left early to get ready for the meeting and
as I left I locked the door behind me (remember this is a very secure place; it
is locked from the outside when shut, the key can lock a deadbolt type affair
from inside or out and it has a separate deadbolt you can lock from the
inside. I thought that Joan had her keys
but we had gone directly to dinner from work with the rest of the senior couples as part
of our FHE, Joan had left her stuff at the office thinking we would come
back. It got late so we did not go back. It turned out that I locked Joan
in the apartment with no way to make a local phone call.
She panicked for a while - shut up in a 7th story apartment and no way to escape. I was unaware in my 4 hr meeting. So she worked around the house and finally
called her sister in Salt Lake on our internet phone to hear a friendly voice
and her sister called the church office building and asked if they would
contact me in Argentina. The Secretaries
got a phone call from the Church offices to tell Elder Boyle that his wife is
locked in her apartment. Now if Joan is
not with me when I show up, everyone asks if I have locked up my wife again.
This week the Presidency was trying to get a lot of items
warped up because they have off the month of July to spend with family except
Elder Zeballos who will pick up the more pressing items.
Fri 28 went to dinner and got the biggest probably best
steak we have every gotten (bife de lomo)
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