First off I wanted to express the hapiness I felt when I heard that James was able to give the baby blessing and the Chelsea went through the temple. I can´t express the hapiness that comes from our Heavenly Father when we follow in his way. That was the highlight of my week (: We too in San Juan are starting to see some miracles.
I thought I would share with you all some of the experiences we are having in San Juan with our investigators. All of these situations I guess seem pretty normal to me...but sometimes I forget that you guys arent missionaries too, and that these stories probably seem a lot more amazing coming from the "member" side.
We are teaching this one lady named Maria, whose testimony is super strong. She read The Book of Mormon and she also goes to church as well. We met her about a month ago, and now finally we are getting her documents ready so she can get married and then baptized...it has been a process but keep her in your prayers. We went to talk with her the other day in her house made of bamboo canes and mud and she gave us her testimony. She told us that..."When I heard I had to get married to get baptized...I wasn´t sad...because if it´s what the prophet says, it must be what god wants. So I just have to do it." She is amazing, so hopefully we can see some progress in that area. We are also teaching another girl, Fabiana...who we have been teaching who told about this crazy sweet dream she had. She had been praying about baptism and then that same night she had a dream that she was walking around and everyone was wearing white tunicas and half of the people had tunicas that were clean and white...and the other had stains and rips and they were tattered. She told us that she was confused until she looked at herself and found out that she too, was in a dirty tunica. She realized that she wasn´t happy and that her friends in clean tunicas were....and she wanted to be like them. It was incredible the dream, and even though she didn´t understand what it meant, we explained to her what it meant. She doesn´t come to church still, but hopefully we can see her testimony grow even bigger this week. Way nice lady. Another lady we are teaching, Patricia (Marias sister) started reading the book of mormon. She talking about one time when she was alone with her three kids and how they were crying and how she was having a bad day, and so she went to her bedroom by herself and found the book of mormon and began to read and she said she read only a few versus and she instantly felt good and so now, she carries her book of mormon everywhere so that whenever she feels bad, she opens toa random page and finds what she needs. I have learned too, so much about the book of mormon on my mission...how it strengthens us in any situation. The stories, tree of life, sons of Mosiah and so much more are so applicable to our lives and now, Patricia says it´s true and told us last week she wants to get baptized....she just now has to get married....oh man. But I still have faith (:
the church is doing something kinda different. they have given all the elders, each companionship a portable dvd player. as part of the new training, we have to watch dvds as part of comp study and so we now have a little dvd player in our apartment. it felt pretty weird to have one in the apartment but it was prettty cool. we don´t have the dvds still...so its just there. lol. i´ll send a picture of us watching the joseph smith movie.
i am a master at making chicken...oh man. i just buy a raw chicken and cook it. it´s amazing. i will have to make some for you guys when i get back. one learns a lot when the members can´t give you lunch and noodles become too common for lunch.
i had consejo this week in mendoza with pres. avila and everyone else. we actually had it, october sixth....the year mark. so all my buddies who came with me who are leaders as well, i got to see on our year mark. it was wicked fun, and we never stop laughing seeing eachother. they are right when they say this is the best time of your mission. pres. avila gave a killer talk about how to start teaching and showed us the goals for the mission. he is amazing.
the vineyards out here are getting super green and wine is soon to be made. it´s incredibly pretty...there are vineyards everywhere. i´m serious. we live next to one, the chapel is next to one...and where i am i can see on right now. it´s gorgeous but i´m starting to get used to it. haha. argentina.
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