¡Hola!
Another 6 weeks has passed by which
means we had transfers again but nothing changed here in San Luis! I’ll be here with Elder Hobbs for another 6
weeks and I’m way pumped about it! We
just wrapped up one of the best transfers I’ve had, so we’re excited to have 6
more weeks together.
So, it’s
summer here in Argentina and in San Luis the weather is even more bi-polar than
it is at home in Utah. On Saturday, the heat
got up to 48 Celsius (104° Fahrenheit) and legit, it was like an oven outside. We were dying of heat and humidity then, out
of nowhere, a storm came and it started to hail! It was still 85° outside and it was hailing. It
was whack! But, it’s safe to say we won’t be having a weather determined “White
Christmas” so we compromised and had some baptisms instead. Our white clothing made for an awesome “White
Christmas!” Haha!
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| Elder Hobbs, Miguel, Elder Roderick & Augustin |
On
Saturday, Miguel was baptized! It was such a beautiful service and the happiest
person there was his son, Augustin! Elder Hobbs baptized him, I gave a talk at
the service and everything worked out so well.
Then, on Sunday, the bishop gave Miguel the Holy Ghost and he was
presented to the ward as our newest member.
He was welcomed in with open arms!
It was a very special weekend.
On Friday
night, we invited all of the youth and their parents to a little park in the
area and we basically went Christmas caroling by singing Christmas hymns to all
of the people in the park. We tried to
form a crowd, but that didn’t work out too well so we just walked around to
each table and sang to all of the families who were there. We had the youth run around and pass out “Ilumina
El Mundo” cards and those who had smart phones, shared the video. It was a great
time and a ton of people were grateful to hear our message that night.
We had a
couple of great lessons with Matias and Dalma this week. We talked a lot about
the Plan of Salvation, Family History and Temple work. These topics were just what they needed to
hear about because Matias has already been looking for his ancestors and when
we told him the Church has the best technology for genealogy work, his eyes lit
up like a Christmas tree! We are excited
for them and we hope they will be our next investigators who will take a swim
in the waters of baptism!
We also
found another couple, Carlos and Carolina, who are old investigators. Carlos is actually a less active member who
travels on the weekends to see his kids.
They live in another city with their mother, who he divorced a while ago. Now he is with Carolina and they are such
homies. Carolina was about to get baptized,
but she couldn’t because she and Carlos weren’t married and he was having
trouble with his divorce papers. Now,
however, they aren’t going to be living together because Carlos is moving near
his kids and they’ve decided not to live together until they’re married. So, this situation makes it possible for us
to baptize Carolina in a few weeks. They
told us about this whole deal on Friday and it was such an awesome Christmas
gift. Haha!
I was
talking with my companion about Christmas and how it’s so different in the mission
field. It’s really different but it’s
also so special because we don’t receive many gifts (apparently, Santa doesn’t
visit missionaries) and we aren’t with our families but we are giving the best
gift and that is the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ! I’m so excited for this
next week because we’re getting ready for Christmas by having a party or event
literally every night.
Elder Roderick #HabráLugarEnTuCasa?
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