HOLA TODO!
This week was excellent! The weather here right now is beautiful!! I couldn't ask for anything better! This week was full of surprises! I was almost bitten by a dog and I also found a picture of someone I knew at one of the member's houses just to give you a sneak peak! Also we have zone conference this Wednesday, so we have to take a bus to Salto at 6 in the morning I believe, entonces, vamos a tener que levantarnos muy temprano! (we will have to get up very early!)
Okay so this week we had lunch with a lot of members so we have eaten a ton of food! One of the lunches we had was just Elder Duke and I. It is usually all of the elders, all four of us, but this time it was just us two, so we had to eat soo much, I honestly thought I was going to break the buttons on my pants, I was so full!
Okay this next lunch is for the people who know Brother Jarvis (our friend in our Midway ward), so if you don't know him I am sorry this story wont be as cool for you guys but for the people that do, this was crazy! Okay so one of our lunches was with an hermana called Hermana Portugues. So after we were done eating she brought out her big book of family pictures and all the pictures that she has put together, and while I was looking through it I saw a drawing of two cartoon missionaries and it was a really funny drawing kind of like dad's cartoon drawings. When I looked to see who it was signed by, it said Elder Jarvis 1995, and I was like wooooahhhh I know him - he is in my ward! So parents - you should ask him if that was the time he was in Uruguay was '95 and if he knows the family because that would be crazy if I was in the same house as him almost 20 years later!
Okay so moving on to the dog story, Elder Duke and I were just walking down the street minding our own business and all of sudden this one single dog starts coming at him, so I start to run!! Bad idea, and it is getting close to bitting my ankle and I can see the pinkness of his gums about to nip my heel, when thankfully my bufanda (scarf) fell off my neck and surprised him and scared him away. Thank goodness for my scarf or I would have experienced my first dog bite in Uruguay haha.
We had a great week with our investigadors! There was a less active family that had not come to church for almost a year, and this week they decided to come! It was amazing!! It really was a milagro! And they have a daughter who is 9 who is not baptized yet so if we can continue to get them to come to church and continue to be fieles (faithful) they can be become active and their daughter will have the opportunidad of to be baptized.
Also we had 3 of our other investigadors come to church for the first time! Rosa came with her kids, and Agustine and his friend Nicolas came as well. They are jovenes (young) and they kind of remind me of Little G! Oh and this week we recontacted a family whose daughters are baptized but the parents just need help with getting married, so we are going to continue to visit with them and work on there situation. They are a super nice family and they believe in the church and love the scriptures, so we are going to do everything that we can to help them.
Oh yes, and the update with Ricardo and Fabian - something weird happened with them this week. Elder Duke and I were on our way to there house, and we saw Ricardo sitting outside the house drinking mate (sort of like tea), of course. He looked at us and ran into the house! And we were like huh? so we asked the woman who Ricardo and Fabian pay rent to, if they were home, she said no and that they are not interested in listening anymore, so I guess all we can do is pray and hope that they have a change of heart.
Something that I have learned this week is patience! Patience is something key that you need on a mission and something that you need for your whole life. Patience is so important when you are working with investigadors because it takes time for a lot of people to change, and for things to happen. But as long as you put your faith in our Father in Heaven and continue to work, everything will be okay.
I love you all!
Con amor,
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