Well, 3 weeks later is better than 2 months for more information on Elder Corbett, isn’t it?
During the last week of June, Elder Corbett and his companion had a bit of a trial, something that hasn’t happened very often during his mission: a person publicly insulting them. They had knocked on a door and the woman who answered said she was too busy to talk to them. Then as they walked away a man, probably her husband, pulled up in a truck and asked why they had come to his house. When they tried to explain, he stated to yell and insult them. As the Book of Mormon teaches us, there will always be some opposition in all things.
The first week of July brought a major change for Benjamin and all the other Córdoba missionaries; President Olsen and his wife completed their 3 years of service, and were replaced by President Salas and his wife. They are from Buenos Aires, Argentina and Benjamin indicates that President Salas is “funny and at the same time, a spiritual giant” and that all the missionaries love him already. At that same time the general populace of Argentina was experiencing the opposite emotion, extreme sadness, as the national soccer team was defeated by Germany and thus eliminated from the World Cup. Benjamin wrote that even the dogs looked sad.
During the second week, Benjamin reported that he and his companion, Elder Isla, were asked by the President to give a small workshop in a multi-zone conference on the topic of how to follow the Spirit. He noted that it was “weird” to see so many new missionaries arrive and to realize that he has become one of the “old” missionaries. He also commented that he feels an urgency to work non-stop as he has little time left.
During the last part of the month, Benjamin got very sick with flu-like symptoms. As I mentioned before, they are now experiencing winter with considerable cold, so this may have contributed to his becoming ill. This was the first time that he has been so sick that he was unable to go out and do missionary work for a number of days.
At the beginning of August Elder Corbett and his companion were blessed to baptize a woman, Raquel, whom they had taught for the entire month of July. She is a physician and Benjamin noted that she was one of the most prepared people he has had the privilege of teaching during his entire mission. And then came news that, after having served 7 ½ months in Villa María, he had been transferred to Córdoba, the capital city of the province and that he would have a new companion, Elder Correnti from San Francisco, California. Benjamin is very happy about his new assignment indicating that there are many more members there and that he is now the leader of the largest zone in the mission, located close to the mission home, where President Salas and his family live. And, one of the first things he did was visit the Wal-Mart and purchase peanut butter and grape juice(see photo) something he hasn’t been able to find in the other places he has worked.
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