Monday, July 21, 2014

Challenges are opportunities in Disguise!

G´day Yáll!

It's a pretty nice down down here in Buenos Aires! Nice enough to walk around in short sleeve shirt! ¨If this is torture, chain me to the wall!¨ We had a week FULL of hard work and prayer! So let's goooooo!!!!!!

So firstly, we had our transfers in the middle of the week and the new missionary in the branch is from Brasil. So my streak of being the only Yankee in the branch still holds 3 transfers strong! We started to work this last week with a lot of things we wanted to change in mind for this new transfer together. I´m still in awe that the Lord gives us so many miracles!

We found a family through our convert family, Family Benitez. They introduced us to the mom and her kids and her sister. Not all the kids came to church, but the mom (Cecilia) and her sister (Noelia) came to church with her kid. So we are excited to work with them. Finding the Benitez family was not an accident!

Another day we had set aside a few hours to contact some Ancient Investigators and Less Actives in a part of an area that I was not familiar with. But that's okay cuz I got my handy dandy MAP with me, right? WRONG! Haha, I forgot it. At first I was like ¨Welp... I guess we just keep on keeping on and see what we can do¨. We walked and the less actives we found didn´t want to talk. There was just one last house we were looking for, but just couldn´t find it! So we saw a lady outside and we went up and asked her where the house was, which is basically just an excuse to share the gospel. So it turns out her sister was baptized and she had assisted the church a few times! That was Friday, and she came to church! Had we not forgotten the map we never would have gotten lost in that part of the area and found Andrea! The Lord is in everything! The righteous need not fear, as Brody says.

On Sunday, we got to church and Nazareno (our convert) was up at the sacrament table! It was the best to see him bless the sacrament! And Jonny, who got married to Sabrina (our convert) is going to receive the priesthood. They are planning on being sealed in the temple for time and all eternity in MAY of next year! SWEEEEEEETTTT!!!!! Things are good.

My time here in Vucetich has taught me a lot. But one thing is sticking out and I think it´s something Heavenly Father wants me to know... He is a God of Miracles!

Livin´ the Dream!

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