Dec. 29, 2014
How crazy it seems like it was just Christmas and
already it is New Years haha. Hope you are getting your New Years resolutions
ready! And I hope you make a few goals that are related with missionary work!
It was really nice seeing all of you on the 25th! The time seemed short but the
important thing is that you all are healthy and beautiful as always. We even
had a new member of the family present.(whooo future niece/nephew thing!) You
should give the name of Benjamin the younger in my honor, boy or girl it
doesn't matter! Well after the 24th my comp has felt better and so we have been
working normally, and man is there a lot of work to do! We actually have a
little group of investigators that comes to church normally and some of the
menos activos who are coming back, and a WHOLE bunch of part member families.
On Sunday we pulled out a baptismal date with Kenny Gutierrez. He is a boss, he
already received all the charlas in Peru and has been wanting to get baptized
for a while, but he was living without being married with his wife (a returned
missionary) but about 5 months ago they got married and now all that he needs
is to stop drinking coffee which he is already one week strong without coffee.
We'll see if he makes it for the 17th. I felt pretty blessed on Sunday for
doing my personal study every morning. The quorum president thought it was the
5th Sunday and so hadn't prepared a class, and said "Elder Andrew could
you give the class" haha uh yikes. I had no idea what the prophet class
was so I just kind of made up my own things. As I have been reading in Nephi
lately, we looked at and analyzed the example that Nephi is and how we can be
like him. It really does impress me how rock solid Nephi is. He never doubted
in doing what was right. Even though he was the youngest he was chosen to rule
over his brothers. He never broke in the face of opposition. He didn't see
himself as someone special but was very humble. He always looked for revelation
and his own confirmation of things. The list goes on. The Book of Mormon is so
full of examples of mere mortals that really were able to put off the natural
man and become purified through Christ. Hopefully I can do that. I love you all
very much
and hope you all have a ¡Happy New Year!
Love,
Elder Andrew
and hope you all have a ¡Happy New Year!
Love,
Elder Andrew
Almost here!
Dec. 22, 2014
Que loco! Christmas is almost here! Hopefully this
letter won't be too short but I wasted and am still in the process of trying to
figure out the Skype thing. (I hate technology) Well now that I have used
almost all my time and it still didn't work I'll tell you how I'm doing and
pray that on the 25th it will work. I will call on the 25th at 3 Argentine
time. And if it doesn't work it will just be like the time I tried to call you
in the airport haha, I was only depressed for a few hours afterwards. Anyway on
Tuesday they brought me to Budge in a taxi and to be honest I am liking it here
a lot. I am back in Banfield so that brings back some memories from the
beginning of the mission, how weird that was like a year ago! The members here
are really nice! (Most of them Bolivian, Peruvian or Paraguayo, pretty much
anything but Argentine haha) There is a lot of potential here and Elder Garcia
and I are trying to work hard to sacar that potential. The Bishop is a stud,
and works really closely with us but will be moving in two weeks.... I finished
the Book of Mormon last week I just forgot to tell you. What a great book! And
now I am loving the story of Nephi and his family as I start over again. I also
was able to finish Acts in the New Testament, good book. The Lord puts me where
I can learn the most I feel like. I am doing well and we'll talk more on the
25th!
Love,
Elder Andrew
