Good morning, how's it going? Another week went by way too fast but that's
ok. How are you family? I'm Elder Simmons and I'll tell you what
happened this week. I don't know what's up with Elder Tapia and I
eating so much crocodile. We made
crocodile empanadas and they are super good.
Crocodile we decided tastes like chicken and tuna mixed together, so
good stuff.
Another story, about a month and a half ago I'm on divisions
with Elder Espinosa and we're in his area.
He has 1 month in the mission and he tells me I don't really like
contacting and I've never really done it before. So I tell him the first person we see we're
going to contact. We walk to this person
and we talked to him and long story short he ended up getting baptized. That's cool and now he wants to serve a
mission. After he was baptized he put
his information on lds.org so the missionaries would contact him. I called him and said I hear you want the
missionaries to stop by. He says ya I
already got baptized so I got to talk him.
Another cool Story, S from Resistencia that her 2 kids got
baptized, she ended up getting baptized this week. That was super cool. The assistants called me Saturday morning and
told us they were coming to do divisions but they'd just seen S get
baptized. I asked if it was possible
that I talk with her and so they passed me the phone and I talked to her and
that was really special. I'm not going
to lie I was so happy, hard to describe.
We had divisions with the assistants, they came and stayed
the night with us Saturday. We had the
baptism Saturday too. 4 people got
baptized. M, his dad is not his
legal dad came up to us in church and said he wanted to baptize his son. We went by Tuesday and taught lesson 1,2,3
and then Wednesday we taught all the commandments and baptismal interview. He's only 8 years old and there's one
baptismal question that asks if you have ever committed a crime or killed
someone or gone to jail and he answered it yes.
I asked M what he did and he said he used the middle finger one
time so it was really funny. Thursday we
went to Resistencia and we listed to President Franco on how to be better
missionaries and it really helped me. I
got to see some missionary friends, took pictures, and hardly slept. Next Saturday we're having another
baptism. Guadalupe, she is a daughter of
a less active member that recently has started coming back to church. She's 9 years old and really mature, she
knows her stuff. That's pretty exciting. The baptism was great, I made another
cake. The cake didn't turn out so well
but at least it looked good, but didn't tast super good.
I assigned some people in the ward to give some talks and
one man spoke for 20 min and the lady spoke for 25 min so our baptismal service
was nearly 2 hours. But oh well. Brother Cbaptized Alcias and that was
his first one. The family C are
like little kids about the gospel, like when a little kid gets a new toy at
Christmas the play with it all day long.
That's how C family is with the gospel. They are so excited about it and sharing it
with their family that lives next door.
We'll see how that goes. We're
teaching another couple H & I. They
were a reference from another family.
Young couple with 2 little kids.
We've been teaching them for 3 weeks and they've been to church multiple
times. They said they liked it and that
it felt like it was their own house and that they'd been there before. They've committed to be baptized but they
aren't married yet so we'll have to have another marriage. It's been super hot. There's a picture I'm going to send you guys
and it says 111 degrees, but we go out and work.
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