Rain

Well this letter is titled rain because it rained a lot this week. But we managed to have a good week despite of it.

We were able to teach the Restoration to a couple of solid families we found. The weird thing is that we talked with both families a loooong time ago but we felt like we needed to try again with them and it worked! So that was good. The other investigators we have are doing well! Still not any in church but that will change soon.

We had a zone conference this week and it was pretty great. They talked a lot about getting investigators to pray. Because if we don´t see them praying in the lesson, there´s no way they´ll be praying by themselves. So that was good. Not to mention the lunch they served us afterwards, haha.

It was a pretty normal week, we had to do trámites again, so we went to the offices to do that. Other than that we´ve just been talking to a lot of people and teaching lots of lessons! Hopefully before I leave one of these families will get baptized. That would be pretty cool. 

Today for P day we are in Mendoza centro, we just got done playing soccer at this big park. We´re at the computer cyber I went to when I first started in Cementista, it´s really weird. 

Sorry this is so short, pretty much same old same old this past week. Have a good week everyone! The church is true.

love.

Elder Anderson

Maipú Week 7

This week was great, here in the promised land of Maipú. 

As far as investigators go, we got Carlos a Book of Mormon in english so he can read better. That was his excuse for not reading it so hopefully that helps. He´s doing good. The Flia Vega continues to be clutch, they couldn´t come to church for family reasons, but this week is going to be good for them. 

Another investigator, Gonzalo (the soccer player), we found out he actually plays in the professional league in Mendoza. So wanted to go to the game today, but we asked the Zone Leaders and they gave us a huge no. Dangit.

It´s actually been pretty rainy this week, sadly. This week was also Semana Santa for Easter and stuff, so it´s supposedly hard to work, but we managed to teach a bunch of lessons, it´s really all about attitude. We taught this guy named Fernando yesterday the restoration and then he gave us some way expensive chocolate bars. It was great.

The mission is making a huge effort to talk with everyone, cause God has put them in our path for a reason. Elder Banks and I made the effort to talk to everyone. We got to the point that when people pass us and we don´t talk to them we feel bad. Haha.

I was studying a lot this week about the pride cycle in the Old Testament, the whole Prosper Pride Wickedness and Destruction. I was just thinking about how we must remain humble even if we are prospering. If things are all going well there is a better chance they will stay well if we thank God for it, instead of thinking that it came from ourselves. Without God we are nothing. 

On Friday it was Elder Banks´s birthday, turned 19!!! I told the members we were eating lunch with and they gave him some super awesome dulce spread. That was fun.

Well that, my friends, will do it for this week. Have a good one.

love,

Elder Anderson

Cool Week

This week was pretty awesome to say the least. I never know how to start these letters so let´s just dive in.

First of all, we found a family called the Familia Vega. They were a reference from a member in a different stake. Well let me just tell you that they are really prepared to hear the gospel. I´ve never been able to find a family like this before. They are really accepting of the gospel, and Elder Banks and I are really excited to teach them. They weren´t able to come to church yesterday because the mother got sick, but they called us to let us know. We have high hopes for them, so we´re crossing our fingers! (hopefully by the next letter they haven´t dropped us haha.)

Other than that we were able to find a dude that plays for the Maipu soccer team (he´s got some serious swag). We taught him and his family the restoration and he´s pretty cool.

Carlos is doing good. He consistently comes to church and we gave him the word of wisdom lesson. He needs to stop smoking and also needs to gain more of a testimony of the spirit, he told us as soon as we leave he´s gonna stop going to church so there´s some work to do there haha.

On Saturday we went to the baptism of Graciela, the convert of the other Elders in Maipu. That was the woman that Elder Banks and I knocked her door our first day in Maipu because we didn´t know the limits of the area. Wow haha. In fact, it was the FIRST DOOR we knocked that day. Crazy.

Yesterday we had this stake meeting in Maipu about missionary work with members with none other than Hermano Luis Wajchman!! He´s the man that delivered my package in San Rafael almost a year ago. It was a great meeting and we´re excited to be able to work more with members here in our area. Hno. Wajchman is such a great man. He has a very strong testimony of the gospel and I wish I could go to one of his institute classes here in Mendoza.

Yesterday we got transfers, Elder Banks and I are staying here in Maipu B. But they washed Maipu A, and Elder Keyes (an old friend in the mish) is coming to train there. Sweet. This week we also had a zone meeting, and I got My Plan, which a packet that you have to fill our for your last 6 weeks. Scary stuff haha.

Today for p day we are gonna go play some tennis or raquetball at this place right by our pench, should be pretty awesome.

That´ll do it for this week!!! Have a good one and remember that the church is true!!!!!

Love,

Elder Anderson

With Hno. Wajchman

Gettin all ready

on our roof

General Conference

This past week went by really fast, it was solid!

First off, our main investigator, Carlos, came to the last session of general conference yesterday. And since he speaks english, he watched it in the Gringo Room with us. The talk by Elder Costa really helped him we think, about getting baptized and doing what the missionaries say! His only problem is that he needs to stop smoking, which he said is going to be hard for him, but anything can happen.

Friday we had a ward activity and we spent like the entire day getting ready for it but none of our investigators came so we kinda wasted the day. On saturday we wanted to bounce back but we had district meeting and 3 sessions of general conference. But we worked between sessions and we were able to contact and teach a reference, and then teach another new investigator the restoration! It was weird cause I´ve never taught a lesson with a suit on but we did it. The reference is named Griselda, the friend of a member in Godoy Cruz but she seems super open, so hopefully we can baptize her!

We also did service at a member´s neighbor´s house. We cut a bunch of grapes that were out of reach for him. That was fun. And then it rained like all day that day. It´s actually been pretty rainy over the past week.

We also started teaching a Jehova´s Witness this week, that was fun. We knocked his door and he said ´Come back on Thursday´ so we did just that and we started ´teaching´. He had his bible and started showing us all these scriptures and stuff, it was fun. Based on what he told us he was bascially the equivalent of a High Priest for us. But he agreed to talk about the Book of Mormon next time we visit him.

Yesterday I got pretty sick, I don´t really know what happened to me, but today I am feeling better. And as I am writing this Carlos called to see if I was better. What a guy hahah.

And General Conference altogether was pretty awesome. I enjoyed a lot of the talks. I really liked Elder Oaks´s talk about the Godhead, some good stuff there. I also really liked Elder Renlund´s talk about the Shepherd and his Sheep. That was really good.

I think that´ll do it for this week. Have a good one!

love,

Elder Anderson