Hey,
Sounds like its been yet another crazy week over there! I'm
glad that everyone is doing so well! Shoutout to Elder Funckes for being a
stud!!
This week has been pretty good, not too crazy. I'm still
training Elder Trelease as the new financial secretary, so thats going well.
Haha I like him a lot...which makes me feel a little bad, knowing that he'll
have to be here in the office for like 6 months. But I really am glad for the
things that I've gotten to learn while I've been here. At the same time, I'm
way excited to leave here next transfer. So...yeah.
Honestly, this week has been pretty calm. The president was
in Buenos Aires all week, and the banks were all closed/on strike or something
for 2 days, so that was sort of lame. That appointment we had last week with
Mario fell through, but we got to meet him this week on thursday! He was
supposed to meet us at the church, but he didn't show up, and we had his
address, so we went to see if he was home. He lives in a small group of houses,
so we touched the doorbell that had his name on it...and nothing happened. So
my comp said we might as well try another one since we were already there, so
he touched another doorbell...and guess who answered? Mario! He's way awesome
and super prepared! It was sort of a joint lesson with the sisters from our
ward, because they wanted to be there to introduce us to him and explain to him
why we were going to be teaching him instead of them. He told us all about how
he had grown up planning to become a catholic priest or something, but
eventually came to the decision that he didn't like the things he was
learning/seeing there. Then he had spent a long time looking for the truth, and
said that nothing had ever touched him the way he had been touched when he met
Hermana Russell on that bus 11 months ago. He lives sort of a lonely and busy
life, and admits that he wants religion to play a bigger part of it, he's just
always been skeptical about which religion. He has a strong testimony of the
apostasy and is really just looking for something that will help him feel more
happiness and love in his life, and he's eager for the rest of his family to
find it too. We only had a very short meeting with him, so there's still a lot
to do for him. We have another meeting with him tonight, so hopefully it works
out.
As the verse of the week, I chose 3 Nephi 14:24-27. I was
reading in Preach My Gospel (the missionary handbook) in the section about how
the Book of Mormon answers questions from our lives. One of the questions had a
reference to this chapter and I was curious about how that chapter answered
that question. I found these verses and I started thinking of them differently.
They talk of how those who build their house upon the rock will remain after
the storms come, but that those who build their house upon the sand will be
washed away by the storms. For some reason, changing the word "house"
with the word "family" made a huge difference in how I read the
scripture. Pretty cool.
Anyway, I hope you are all doing well! Hopefully next week
is even better!
Elder Webster
hey sorry, we left early to go to centro, so I didn't finish
my email time...plus, unlike every other missionary in the mission, I don't
have to pay to use a computer..so I figured I'd take my last couple minutes to
send some pics.
Eating some alfajors with my new comp
Elder Arndt contemplating transfers after we helped him
update the transfer board at President's house
Preparing the sack lunches for the missionaries that had to
travel a long way after hearing Elder Christofferson
The view from President's house... I guess we've been there
kind of a lot lately to make all those lunches and update his boards...which
was weird since no one was there either time
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