First things first, the weather here can´t make up it´s
mind. It´s either super hot, or pouring rain... The other day, it was
raining a bit... a LOT. and Elder Córdova and I were walking down the flooded
streets. Then, like in the movies, a car passed by and splashed water on
us. Sometimes, all you can do is grin and bear it. :) Still, the week has
it´s gems. My companion can play the guitar, so in a visit with one of
our investigators, he borrowed their guitar and played while I sang a few
songs. It´s nice being the only one that knows English, because I can mess up
on the lyrics, but nobody knows it! :D
This Sunday was pretty good, our investigator Graciela
attended church, and a less active family that we´ve been helping out. We
had to move the baptisimal date of Graciela, because she didn´t attend last
week :( But still, moving forward. Also Sunday, I taught Sunday
School. The second hour of church, in Gospel Principles, I asked one of
the members who was the teacher for that day, and she said that we (the
missionaries) Were going to teach. It ended up being just me (I don´t know
why...) But still, it actually went pretty smoothly. Ch. 41 from gospel
principles i believe it was.
One AWESOME thing from this week was that we went to the
temple!!!! We got the message the day before, and were super stoked. We
first went to San Fernando in the morning to do paperwork for my visa, and
after took a pretty long trip to the temple.We ate a bit at the MTC there (It
was alright i suppose :) ) and proceeded to go and work in the temple. My
first time in Spanish there, but it went pretty well! Gosh, the temple is
seriously the best place on earth! (Being the house of God and such) I wish we
could go more often, but it´s not in the mission boundaries, so only special
occasions... But ya, simply incredible.
One thing that I was studying this week was about Hope.
one thing that I thought was interesting (like it says in Moroni 7:40) is
that we can´t have Faith without hope. It´s vital that we can build our
hope to overcome discouragment, maintain the desire to work, so that we can
have faith and work hard. We need always to have hope and faith that the
Lord will and is helping us. And go forth with this knowlege to do good works
every day.
Sé que la esperanza es un atributo de Cristo que va a
animarnos a hace lo bueno. Debemos trabajar a aumentar esta, y aumentar
nuestras buenas obras siempre. Sé que este es el evangelio restaurado de
Jesucristo. Esta es su obra. Amén.
(Translation:I know that hope is an attribute of Christ that will
encourage us to do good. We must work to increase this, and increase our good
works forever. I know this is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This is his
work. Amen.)
-Elder Holtry
Buenos Aires Temple
One of the days when
it was raining a bit... I put some plastic bags in my shoes to help with the
rain
The last pday, we had
a waterballon fight with the zone!
I taught my comp a
joke in English. They dont understand dry humor very well here. It doesn´t make much sense in Spanish, but still...
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