Familia,
Well,
this week was actually a pretty awesome one. It seemed like every day something
crazy happened. First of all, I’ll start
with the big L of the week. I was chilling in a lesson, just doing my thing,
and like every family here in Argentina, the family we were teaching had five
dogs. I’m pretty used to dogs running all over the place, so this was nothing
new. We were sharing a lesson and a dog
started sniffing my feet and as I reached down to give it some love, without
even hesitating, it marked its territory by peeing on my scripture bag. All I was doing was trying to preach the good
word of the gospel and the dog gave me ZERO respect. But, that family ended up
accepting our baptismal invitation, so that made things a little bit better.
This week we also had some more great lessons with
Rozanne and Marcelo. Every time we are
in their home, it feels like there is a special spirit present. It truly feels like they have been prepared to
receive our message because all of their interest in other churches and doubts
about God are finally being erased. One of the coolest things we saw this week happened when we were approaching their
house for a lesson. We saw their nineteen-year old daughter reading the Book of
Mormon outside. My companion and I saw
her, then we just stopped for a second to soak in what we were seeing. It was pretty awesome! Every time we walk out
of their house it really feels like I’m walking on Cloud 9 because the Spirit
is always so strong.
We also made another homie this week. Luciano approached us and talked to us;
instead of us doing the work and approaching him. He is twenty-four years old and to be honest,
he has had a pretty rough life because he has basically grown up on the
streets. He approached us one morning
because he wants to become closer to God and eventually leave the life that he
knows. We actually had a really good
conversation about repentance and we taught him that the best way to truly repent
is to get baptized. He immediately
accepted the invitation because he basically just wants to start a new life. He
hasn’t had a family to push him a long and give him expectations. Despite this
difficult lifestyle, Luciano is such a stud. He told us that the other day
something just clicked in his mind and he realized that there is so much more
out there in the world for him. I just
pray that Luciano can progress toward baptism so he truly can leave his
difficult life behind.
We had the awesome opportunity this weekend to hear from
Ronald A. Rasband, as well as a couple of Seventies. One of the coolest things about being far
from home is being able to hear and receive support and love from the church
leaders who are in charge of the South America South Region. The Church is
literally all over the world and it’s so cool to see how much the church
leaders love every member in world and to witness how much they sacrifice to
help us. Of course, in Salt Lake, we
have the church headquarters fifteen minutes from our house, but this weekend, when
I was thousands of miles from home, I felt like I was home because it was
broadcast from Salt Lake. LOL!
One thing I started to do this week, while I’m reading the
Book of Mormon, is look for all of the times that Christ is mentioned and mark
all of the different names Christ is given. I’m also marking all of the
remarkable things He did on the earth.
It’s amazing to see how much the people in the Book of Mormon knew about
Christ and His life before He was even born.
The Book of Mormon truly is another testament of Jesus Christ.
Happy Birthday shout out on Sunday to Princess Emily and
Big Marv who is killin’ it across the ocean in London. Go UTES!!
Elder Roderick
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