Hey all!!!
Well the big news today is that I have my first hijo in the
mission!! That’s the other thing that we call greenies down here! Haha he is
awesome! His name is Elder Hilario he is from Northern Argentina. He is 21
years old and has served as a ward mission leader for the last couple of years
so he doesn’t need a bunch of training, but it has been so fun to be with him
and I have already learned a ton! I am so humbled for the trust that the Lord
has given me to trust me with this special experience.
So Monday we did a lot of saying goodbye to families from
the ward, we ate like 3 different times in our P day which was good, but I need
to go on a diet I think haha, that night after our district meeting we went to
the setting apart for one of the hermanas in the ward Melissa Enciso who is
from one of our favorite families in the ward, she left for the Querretero?
Mission on Tuesday!
Tuesday we spent most of the day with cambios and I got
rushed into a training and I thought I had done something wrong because there
was only one other Elder there and the assistants said President will be here
in just a second, so I was pretty scared. Then he walked in and he is like
congratulations you will be training our two newest missionaries, I was still
scared, just in a different way! Haha but President gave a great training on
the importance we have and the things we need to do to help the new
missionaries, and why the Lord has trusted us with this. After a super long
training I met up with Elder Hilario and we were off to Olivos again. We got
here to meet the two new elders that whitewashed my district, Elder Walker
(Idaho) and Elder Vasquez(Ecuador) Elder Vasquez is actually the papa of Elder
Lovo who just left! They are awesome guys!
Wednesday came and went haha it was an interesting day
teaching about 90% of the lessons because my comp is new but I am still
thankful that he knows Spanish so that I am not teaching 100% of the lessons.
Thursday was a really hard day, literally no one was home we
walked around for like 6 hours straight without finding one person to teach, in
the rain, bleh, I feel bad for my comp, he is going to think we have days like
that all the time!
Friday, we put a goal to contact more people in the street,
and we saw a lot of success with it, in the evening we both felt prompted to
contact a few families and for the first time in my life I saw consecutive
families accept a contact!!
Saturday we had an awesome day that was spent teaching
lessons the whole time! Woohoo!! I love doing that, haha! One of the cooler
lessons was with the family Chaparro who kind of vanished from our radar for a
little bit, but they told us they feel closer and closer to the church and they
think they are going to make a decision soon!
Then Sunday, Gus Chaparro game to church for the first time,
I was so excited!! He is so awesome, he just gives me the biggest hug every
time he sees me and thanks me a ton, I can’t wait until he decides to get
baptized! I also gave a talk where I kind of scolded the ward a little bit by
talking about how the missionaries are here to support the efforts of the ward,
but that we are going to leave after just a little bit, so it cant be all us. I
challenged them to really think of these people as their converts, their
investigators and their members and take charge. I think it was what they
needed to hear, so I think its alright that I was a little hard!!
Well, I hope all is well
Elder Stout
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