September 9, 2013

Family. Thiss week was a pretty busy week. I am dead tired! On top of things, it sounds like you guys are having a pretty good rain experience too. Friday morning, at 3 Am I woke up to so much rain coming down and so hard, and also the loudest and most frequent thunder I have ever heard in my life. I couldn´t sleep at all. It rained from 1 AM until about 5 pm. It was a pretty wet day. Now, on the work side of the letter. We´re working with Teresa, the girl IU told you about last week. She has a lot of desires to get baptized. It´s kind of crazy. She is the step grandma of Jahaira, the girl that got baptized her a few months ago. The whole family went to church again this week! The best thing that happened was that teresa set a date to get married, so that she can get baptized. We did some work with her and now she´s just got to wait it out and she will become a member of the church! Its pretty exciting. Her spirit is spreading to everyone too. This last week her future husband also started listening to us. And her son, jahaira´s step dad is changing a TON! If you would have asked me if he was going to get baptized about 2 months ago when I first met him, I probably would have just started laughing. He always treated his family really poorly, and even treated us poorly. but now everyone is seeing changes in him, and he told us yesterday, that he would do anything to get baptized! AHHH ITS SO GREAT! BAPTIZING FAMILIES IS JUST THE BEST THING EVER!!!! We´re now in the process of helping jahairas mom get divorced from her last marriage so that she can get married with Jimmy and then they will all be baptized! Transfers are coming up, and I´ve been here for a long time now, I don´t know if I want to stay another one, but I really want to see Jimmy get baptized. I guess will just have to wait and see what happens. I might have to come back to Argentina in about a year or so too to see them get sealed in the temple :D. But anyway things are going great. My companions are trying to learn english, and they both told me they want me to speak to them in english. Lets just say that I get a lot of good laughs throughout the day. I´m so greatful that english is my first language haha. It´s such a terrible language to ave to learn. This week, we also taught a class. we´re starting classes every sunday to teach the members how to be missionaries. This week we talked about personal revelation. While we were teaching my companions told me of something they did in the MTC here in argentina. They all wrote questions on the board, then they chose a chapter in the book of mormon and you can literally find the answer to almost any question in ANY chapter in the book of mormon! its awesome. One thing I learned during a stake conference, when a 70 talked, he said that as questions come to our minds we should always write them down. No matter where we are at. Then we study the scriptures we can pull the questions out, pray for guidance, and find the answers. I have started doing this, and hit has been helping a lot. It helps me so much to have a guided study, instead of just studying. I also learned this week, if we want guidance from our Heavenly Father, we have to ask for it! I was a little worried about one of the companionships in my district and couldn´t figure out how to help them. I asked the zone leader what he recommended that I do, and he said, ¨"have you asked God?" I felt pretty stupid, but the next day in my studies, I prayed specifically for them, and I received so many answers during my study. It was great. Thats my invitation for you guys this week. I know its hard to remember, but I know it will help. Who knows, maybe it will give more incintive to read and pray daily. :) I know that reading and praying daily will help you to solve your problems in your daily lives. I know that as we study and take our questions to church too, that we will be able to receive the answers we need. God has given us these 3 simple tools as a guide for eternal salvation, we just have give our actoin. I love you guys so much! I feel your prayers, I´m so blessed to have such a great support team. :) Not too many Elders have a team like mine at home for me :p. I love you so much! Thanks for the birthday wishes too! Love you! eLdEr JoHnSoN