This week I have really grown with my spanish and ability to speak. i have also decided to try and learn Argentina spanish from my comp. In Argentina they have an accent that is spanish but with a more italian accent its really awesome.
Alrighty so this week we had a lot of really good things happen and a lot of really lame things happen so to be honest i am not really sure what to share with you so i will try to share a little of everything.
Monday we met with victor javier and his family. his wife renata really doesnt like the mormon church and when we went over she was really rude to us and cold. she told us she would never meet with us and that our church is wrong and a lot of awful things but after a conversation of 30 minutes and us expressing that we really loved her honesty and sharing her feelings she asked for our forgiveness and said that she would love to meet with us and that we are welcome anytime.
Tuesday was a huge blessing for me! i was having a really rough day so after lunch i decided to start fasting. i had prayed for a lot of things, one of them being for the ability to feel the spirit stronger and to know that i could help the people here. 20 minutes after my fast i recieved a phone call from my trainer! i could hardly believe it as i heard her voice on the other line. i was able to talk to her for a good 5 minutes and hermana braithwaite my companion from the ccm. She shared some things with me and told me how much she loved and adored me. after the phone call i was so shocked i could not believe that i had so rapidly recieved a long awaited answer to a fast.
Wednesday we met with Elaina and tonia! it was a fantastic lesson about the restoration and they really loved the clip we showed about the joseph smith and they both argreed to read and pray. they both expressed the joy and peace they felt when we were there and that they just cant stop smiling because they feel so good. We also had a party for a returned missionary that was so weird for my comp that we eventually left because she couldnt stand to think that she would be doing that in a few short months (december)
Thursday was a crazy day... a lady almost hit me with her car but nothing happened and i am fine mom so dont worry. Eliana felt so strongly to have us visit a friend of hers that is having a hard time. her husband has recently been lost in the mountians and they cant find him so we taught her the plan of salvation and called the elders to give her a blessing of comfort and then after they stole her from us because she lived 4 houses into their sector needless to say i was not happy but i am at peace with it now because atleast she is getting to hear the lessons. my compy is still flaming mad about it and says the elders always do that. we were also yelled at by an angelic lady that said we believed in joseph smith and not god and that we are bascially losing salvation and that we need to read the bible i literally had to bite my tonuge after testifying to her about the book of mormon.
Friday we had lunch with Eliana and tonia it was such a great afternoon and they were still progressing so much and even agreed to read some chapters in the book of mormon.
Saturday and Sunday we spent the day in osorno for the stake conference this weekend that was really great! the stake president and our president of the mission really gave it to the members about helping out the missionarys and our convents about baptism. the sad part of the day was that we went to visit Eliana and she dropped us saying she couldnt read a false book. what happened was when we had lunch with her she took pictures of us with her and posted it on facebook well are her friends and family that are angelics gave her alot of anti mormon stuff so she rejected all the spiritual feeligns she had felt and said we were a cult and wouldnt meet with us i was so sad to see satan win a battle with someone that was really progresssing but i have faith that she will one day see the light of christ.
the most spiritual thing i want to share with you is a video that we watched during this stake conference from Jefferey R Holland about missionary work. he shares the story of peter and christ when christ asks him 3 times if he loves and each time peter says yes more than anything. then he tells him ¨THEN FEED MY SHEEP¨ If we really love christ than why is it so hard to give up our worldy things to do missionary work? i really loved this question because as a missionary we have our things that at times make it so we do not feed the sheep of christ. as members of the church why do we not visit thoughs in need? why is it so hard to visit teach people we are given even when they dont want us to visit or still arent coming to church? i want you guys to pray and ask heavenly father ¨what is it that you want of me today?¨ look for those in need of missionary service this day. When we entered into the waters of baptism we said YES LORD I WILL FOLLOW THEE AND DO THE THINGS YOU ASK we didnt say well maybe i will today or down the road decide no. when it comes to commandments and good doings we do not need to kneel down and ask heavenly father if we should or shouldnt do it we already know the answer from when we were baptised at tender age of 8 years old and for some older but thats not important what is important is we promised to feed his sheep (: i love you all ponder this and when you have an experience or want to share what happened send me an email i wooukld really love tohear it love you all so much
con amor xoxox
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| Madi took pictures of flowers that she knew her Mother would love |
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| My hair is a dream here for all of the girls that are attending beauty school. |
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| we made MILANESAS food from argentina! |
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