Hola a todos mis amigos, y familiares!
Wow this week a lot has happened, so to start we travelled all the way from Bella Union to Rivera! Which took all night, and is always fun! We arrived in a place in called Paysandu at 2 in morning and went to the church in that area to sleep because our next bus didnt leave to Paysandu until 4. Haha so we had a fun little sleepover in the church with about 15 missionaries, with chair made beds haha it was a pretty rough night but it was fun igual. After we woke up from our little night, we took our bus to Rivera and arrived at 9:30am around there. There I met my new comp, Elder Gamarra from Peru!!!! He is 21 and has about 8 months in the mission, but he started in Rivera and he has been in Rivera his whole misson! But he really is such a stud! Right when we arrived to the house with the other missionaries (Elder Wakely from my group! and his comp Elder Clark) we all talked about how we are going to support one another and work como locos! But yeah a house of 4 missionaries is a lot better than 2!
After we unpacked and got everything organized we went to work, meeting all the members and investigators, and like I said in the last email, I was going to find out if they really speak as much portugues as everyone says, and it wasnt too bad... even though one of our investigators, Clea, who I will talk about later, speaks it a ton, and Elder Gamarra and I just look at each other and say "Qué! Por favor hermana habla en enspanol!" ("What? Please sister speak to us in spanish!") Also in Rivera there is a part that we went to today called the linea where you can have one foot in Brasil and one foot in Uruguay. Haha so right when you cross the line every one speaks portugues and all the street signs are in portugues haha its really weird, but they all understand spanish igual. I will take a picture of it next week.
This week there was also a talent show with all the wards here in Rivera, so I met alot of the members there! The place was packed! You could say that Rivera knows how to throw a party (talent show). Elder Wakely played his clarinet like a boss. We couldn't stay too long because it started late but what I saw was awesome. I will tell you a little bit about some of our investigators real quick. Clea is a 40 year old woman who has such a kind heart, but has some problems with smoking. All the lessons we had with her this week were some of the most spirtual lessons that I have had in the mission. She is really so kind and everytime I leave her home she always tells me, ahh tan amable. (Ahh you're so nice.) But one of the other investigators we have is Lourdes she is 30 something and she is pretty much a member, but her situation is a little difficult because she is in the process of divorce or has been separated for a long time from her ex and when she can finish that she is going to get married to a member, so all we can do is wait for the papers (I know its a weid situation) but those are just a few - I´ll tell you more next week.
For this upcoming week of Thanksgiving I just want to say that I am so grateful for my family and for my Savior Jesus Christ, and for this great work that is flourishing in Uruguay. I know that the Love that our Savior demonstrated for every one of us is something that I will always be grateful for. I know that this work can never be stopped, no matter how much oposition there is, the work will continue because it is lead by a loving Heavenly Father.
I love you all and I am grateful for everyone of you!!
Elder Watts
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