Argentina Salta Mission

One day, on exchanges with the district leader, I overheard him talking on the phone with my companion about a prank they were going to play on a new missionary that was coming in. So, he was going to come in that night while I was on exchanges. Our plan was to leave the door unlocked and have my companion come in in the middle of the night dressed like a homeless person and pretend to rob the place just to see what the new missionary would do. Well, I had forgotten about that. At about midnight, I'm woken up by this somebody screaming and there's this big Latino guy with like long black hair and bags under his eyes and a machete yelling at us to put all of our valuables in his bag, get out of the beds, on the ground. I'm like, I'm freaking out. I'm like, Lord, how are we going to get through this? We've been through stuff in the past, but this is, you know, a whole other animal. And anyway, so I had already gone to the other room to fill his bag with valuables before I remembered what had happened. And he wasn't talking to my companion, he was talking to a member. Well, the new missionary doesn't know Spanish and had no clue what was going on.

So we're teaching this man that has a problem with alcohol and he had made a lot of progress. One day we went over to visit him and his wife answered the door and said that he was hiding from us because he had drunk again. Well we found him hiding in his car and we went to go talk to him and he was so upset at himself, and he was completely wasted, but he was so upset at himself that he punched his windshield and it broke. It takes a lot of force to break a windshield. Anyway, so we, uh, with his wife, you know, we we told her where he was and she kind of got him back inside, but that was just completely crazy.

A super crazy story that I had is my companion and I we were walking to a member's house for lunch on a Sunday and all of a sudden we see these guys on mopeds fly past us and I'm like what the heck and all of a sudden we see this police car fly past us and this police are goes and runs in front of the moped the two guys crash and one guy just like bounces off the moped and starts booking it through this field and another police are like hey get back here they start booking it and we're like oh my gosh it was so crazy and uh anyways crazy story and then another crazy story is on that same day we were sitting there walking and all of a sudden these four little girls looked at us and go gringos gringos and they started chasing us because they wanted to be our boyfriend our girlfriends were like ah anyways that was just one crazy story but there's tons and you'll experience so many things on your mission it'll be awesome

So me and my companion, we were walking to a new lesson and we were just talking about how the old one had just that we just finished with went and so I feel prompted to look to my left so I look to my left and that's where my companion was so but I look a little farther to my left and I see this figure running towards us so I just was like Hermana we have to go faster like let's walk faster faster and so we start walking and it's like fast pace walking as fast as we could so but I grabbed my companion at this corner and I kind of toss her into this store because I wanted to save my companion and I look behind and this guy passes us but he stops like in front of the store because he was trying to rob us he had a knife but the sad thing was is it was a 13 year old kid and I just looked at him and said no and he just looked at me with this these big eyes and just booked it and ran right where he was going back and so that was our craziest story.