Transcribed from Tanner's audio letter
Hello my eternal family, good morning, it's so hard to speak
English. I'm here new week new
companion, Elder Tapia from Costa Rica.
Elder Tapia is learning English from me.
I'll tell you what happened last week. Last p-day was SUPER hot, I almost died of
heat. Basically what we did is we went to down town Formosa and bought a
bunch of souvenirs for Elder Johnson and then we ate a delicious pizza.
Tuesday we had lunch with a member from
another ward that was so good. He cooked
us empanada's and ice cream and cake and then after all that food he got out
his guitar and he and his wife started singing to us. I recorded it was really cool.
This week we had 3 BBQs, all the members here
loved Elder Johnson so they just kept giving him food so I ate way too much
last week. The Family C and O both got baptized this week.
Everything turned out great with
that, it was probably one of the coolest things I've seen on my mission so far
is one full family completely baptized.
That was so cool. O was
baptized too , he's a cool kid super spiritual.
The members made a huge cake for it, one layer of chocolate and a layer
of coconut with a frosting on top and dulche de leche inside, super good. The
baptism was on Friday and then on Saturday we had an activity where we watched
Meet the Mormons and invited everyone, members non-members.
What happened is an Elder in Clorinda had the
DVD so they had to sent it to Formosa on a bus.
It got here Saturday morning and we went to go get it but the place
where we picked it up was closed. We
didn't know what to do so we went to an internet Cafe to try to download Meet
the Mormons but that was really difficult because the church has it pretty
protected so we then tried getting on Netflix, Youtube, and Amazon to rent the video. That's why I sent the email asking for the
password. That didn't work either so
then we went back to the place to get the DVD and it's 5PM at this point and we
asked the lady again for the DVD and she said no it's closed you can't have the
DVD and then Elder Johnson pulls out 50 pesos, which is like $5, and said we
need the DVD. She said to us wait right
here, I'll get the DVD. It took about
another half hour for her to get the DVD to us so the other Elders and Sisters
just stalled at the activity, we got the DVD, took it to the activity, watched Meet
the Mormons, and one of the recent converts here in our area decided to go on a
mission after watching the DVD so that was pretty sweet. Last Sunday fast and testimony meeting with
Elder Johnson and then we went and ate with the Bishop at another BBQ, and then
he packed all afternoon long and left at like 6PM, poor guy he was so sad to
leave. He really helped me a lot. He really loved the people and was a good
example for me. I'm walking the road
right now because I didn't have time to record this earlier. It rained yesterday and the road is
destroyed.
That's about it. Me
and Elder Tapia are going to work our bums off to find more people to
baptize. We should have a great
transfer. It's a beautiful day in Argentina,
love you guys, talk to you later.
Elder Simmons
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