Hello family how is it going? My name is Elder Simmons and I'm here to tell
you what I did this week.
The investigators are doing good. D and C are our best
investigators. They've been to church 3
or 4 times but D doesn't feel ready yet because she's not very good at
praying and she doesn't want to get baptized yet until she is ready. She knows it's a big responsibility and she
doesn't want to mess up. I think she
will get baptized very soon. C she really wants to get baptized but she isn't married. C had us over for dinner this
week. We'll see what happens.
B is sweet but she's having a hard time waking up and
coming to church so I'm not sure what we are going to do there. We found some part member families this
week. We found P who is a member and
met with his wife M. M is
evangelist. We also found this guy named
M and E. M has been a
member since he was 8 but E is not. We
taught her the restoration and is was great.
Right as we got to the end we gave them the invitation to read the Book
of Mormon. She said "look I'm Catholic
and that's not going to change." I've
been reading the New Testament and how Jesus invited everyone to follow Him and
not everyone followed Him because of the pharisees or for whatever reason. I can relate to Jesus Christ in the mission
which is a good thing. I'm learning a
lot.
We found a less active lady named E. My last companion had told me where she lived
so it was about 8:30 and we were headed back to the pension and I said let's go
see these less actives and so we did. We
set a lesson for 2 days later. On Saturday we were talking with them and after
we shared prayer E told me that whenever she is super
sad the missionaries seem to show up so you showing up I take as a sign that I
need to go back to church. Sweet! She has a lot of grandchildren that live
with her. She owns a restaurant which
she works at on Sunday but she said she'd figure some way to go to church on
Sunday with the grandchildren.
We met this girl named N. She is from Mendoza, far from here. N has about a week and then she goes home. She said she has a cousin that is serving an
LDS mission in Mexico. She showed us a
picture. So that's pretty crazy, she has
a lot of family and friends that are members.
She was pretty open to learning so we are referring her to the
missionaries in Mendoza. We also found
this girl named E but she doesn't want to get baptized but I'm not sure
why. Her dad is catholic and her mom is Mormon
but she doesn't want to be baptized in either church so she doesn't disappoint
her parents. We taught them last week and they came to
church. G and N, They are
really good people. We sat down and asked him
if we could share something and G said no I want to share something with
you. So we said sure and they shared a scripture
with us. They want to get married so she
can get baptized. They went to do
paperwork in Formosa but they've disappeared so we don't know where they've
gone.
We got a reference from a member named B, this is kind
of funny. He's an older guy, he didn't
understand much but he listened and then we set an appointment for 2 days
later. When we went back he asked us if
we were Catholic and when we told him we were Mormons he said he couldn't
listen to us anymore. That same day in
the afternoon the same thing happened, they thought we were Catholic. I'm not sure how. What I've heard is that there are some famous
Catholic missionaries that came here to preach in Las Lomitas so a lot of
people think we are Catholic.
It's been a lot cooler here lately but something happened
with our air conditioner. It's pretty nice but when it's cooler our air
conditioner drips a ton of water. I fall
asleep to the sound of dripping water.
You know that music dad would put on that had the sound of waves
crashing or rain falling. I honestly
feel like that. I'm falling asleep to
the water dripping of the air conditioner and all sorts of bugs making noise
outside and the AC makes a humming sound.
All of that together says Argentina to me and it puts me to sleep so
fast. I might record it and take it home
with me so when I have trouble falling asleep in college I'll just put on my
Argentina noises and fall right to sleep.
I have 2 pair of shoes left.
I have the ones Elder Harris, my trainer gave to me and they are pretty
beat up. The other pair are some dad
gave me a long time ago. I replaced the
bottoms on already. They will last me to
the end. The others are a little shaky
and my companions shoes were shaky too so we took them to a shoe fixer. He fixed them up and shined them up. So now I'm pretty sure I'll make it to the
end with the shoes I have. I'll just be
able to endure to the end. The shoe
fixer we contacted him first and then we couldn't find him again. We then were referred to the shoe store and
it was the guy we'd contacted previously.
He really wanted a dollar so I gave him a dollar bill.
Yesterday church was
good, we had 19 people. I gave a talk
on prayer. I still have my little in
grown toe nail, it's not that bad. Not
like it's anything new. We are going
over to Iberetta as we have district meeting and we'll stay the night there and
go back to Las Lomitas in the morning. I
really like Las Lomitas. We are doing
everything we can right now. There are
some great people we're teaching we just have to be patience. You can bring a horse to water but you can't
make him drink it. It's the same thing
with the investigators. We can bring
them to the water but they have to drink it.
We are doing our best to teach and baptize but sometimes we just have to
wait. Every missionary wants to baptize
the whole world but it doesn't always work like that. Speaking of that a family that we found in
Formosa, we taught them for about a month.
She had come to church the week before I left and they got married and
then got baptized this last week. I was
really excited for that.
I just love the mission, it's sweet. I love you guys, have a good week and bye!
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