I'm dreaming of a white Christmas (music) Yes that's right I'm dreaming of a white
Christmas, by that I mean people dressed up in white getting baptized. Hello
family how are you? Today in Argentina
is the national elections, a few weeks ago was national elections and I had to
stay in the pension all day long. Well
the elections tied so that everyone has to vote again, so we are in the pension
again because it can be a little dangerous if people don't like who wins. So here we are sitting in the pension all
day, reading our scriptures, taking a nap, living the missionary life to the
fullest.
We had a baptism Saturday.
Jose Louis got baptized.
Everything went perfectly as planned.
We've been stopping by their house all week to teach him everything he
needed to get baptized. We talked to the
dad a little, he got baptized and then he started drinking again. The alcohol started making him sick so he was
forced to stop drinking, he's actually a really great guy. He's semi-truck driver for a full-time job. The other day he had a whole bunch of bread
that was about to expire so he gave us like $20 in bread, sweet! We've been eating a lot of bread. He hasn't been to church in a long time but
he came to his son's baptism. Right
after his son got baptized, the smile on his face was HUGE! I baptized Jose Louise, we had asked a member
to baptize him but he didn't show up so I threw on the white clothes and threw
him in the water. Actually I baptized
him; it was super fun. We confirmed
today and everything turned out great.
Last Monday we were walking around in our area and we ran in
to a member. I guess what happened is
some of the Elders here were teaching her husband. Her husband is a smart guy, he's a heart Dr
and he knows what he's talking about. He
really liked what the Elders were sharing.
The Elders were white washed out and the new Elders didn't come so they
were forgotten about. He's really good
but the only thing is he doesn't have any time.
He's really busy with his job, so that was a good find this week. Also an Elder in our Zone is talking with an
ex missionary that served here. He was
talking with one of his converts and she said to pass by. Long story short, we got her address and we
met her husband too. They said they were
going to come to church. The only people
that came to church this week was GyA, because it's the voting the people have
to go to go to far away places to go
vote. It's kind of complicated but it's
OK because the work moves on. This week
it rained a lot so it flooded a lot of houses in our area. The river was huge. The house of GyA almost flooded. German said he was praying a lot that it
wouldn't flood and it didn't flood. Also
we've still been teaching C. She
is doing so great. She came to the
baptism. She couldn't come to church
today because she had to go to a little city 3 hours away to vote and left at
7AM. She really wanted to come to
church, she loved the baptism. More than
anything she said she loves the hymn book.
Also Maria, she wants to get baptized the only thing is she hasn't come
to church yet. She's already prayed,
she's felt the spirit, she knows it's all true she just needs to come to church
a few times and then she'll get baptized.
We went to Lysee and we contacted a few references that a
few of the members gave us there. We had
some pretty solid lessons. A special
experience that I had this week was yesterday we showed up to the baptism. It was starting at 6, Elder Tapia and I
showed up at 5:55 and no one was there.
We waited 10 more minutes and Claudi showed up, we waited a little more
and the family showed up. No one else
showed up. Brother M was not very
happy that no one was there, I was praying to help us and then the Bishop, 1st
Counselor, and more people showed up.
After the baptism GyA were going to come to the baptism because G wanted to see a baptism before he was baptized.
They didn't show up so we called them and he said they weren't going to
be able to make it because they got in a fight and he had to leave. The baptism started at 7 and finished at 8
and we have to be at our house at 9. At
8:10 we were waiting for a bus. They
lived a half hour away walking so there would be no way we could walk, teach
them and get back in time. We were
waiting for a bus and the busses were not coming. I said another prayer to please send us a bus
and then right when I prayed I looked up to the main road and one of the members,
elders quorum president was passing by.
I yelled Hermano stop, stop! He
stopped his car and took us to the lesson because he lived kind of close. German had left the house because he was
mad. We talked to Angela about love and
Jesus Christ and the basics. We talked a
little sense in to her and then we left we decided to call Herman on his cell
phone to talk a little sense in to him too.
When we called Angela answered the phone. In the lesson I had said the first prayer and
I had prayed that German would come back to the house and so they could go to
the church. So we called G and
A answered his phone. He had come
back to the house, YES! Basically God
answers prayers and he answered my prayers 3 times last night. He answered it different than how I had
thought.
This is the last week of the transfer we are going to work
really hard. I hope I don't leave, I
think that I'll stay for Christmas.
There are some great people that are going to get baptized. They just have to come to church a few
times. I'm happy, the work is good, it's
not white here, it's really hot still. I
don't think it's going to snow here.
It's OK because it's like I said people are going to get dressed in white
and get baptized and we'll call it a white Christmas. Love you guys done, see you later.
Chow
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