Yes, im still alive down here, even though it feels like the entire world has stopped other than down here in Argentina haha.
It was a good week, and the Lord definitely blessed my feelings a ton, with many challenges, but many moments of glorious rejoicing.
First, this week we had 24 appointments, and all but 7 fell. That was pretty hard, but we worked really hard and still had some good success!
We had a lesson with an investigator who is having second guesses on baptism. We watched the restoration video, which really invited the spirit, and then we talked about it, and then about baptism. We read a few scriptures, and then the big guns came out. We had brought a guy from the ward who recently returned from his mission, and he just dropped the Spirit bomb on her, and she just started bawling. Then, we all testified, and the spirit was super strong. I asked her to kneel down and offer a prayer with us right there on our knees about the baptism. We did it, and the spirit was so strong, she was bawling, and you could almost like see the spirit it was crazy, it was such a blessing from the Lord and im so glad that he allowed me to be a part of that.
On saturday, we had 7 appointments, and we were super stoked. Every one fell. hahahahaha some days just kick ya in the teeth. Literally, after six appts. fell, some kid kicked a soccerball square in my face. It was frustrating at the moment, but man, I wish I couldve seen it from another point of view, had to be quite hilarious. We just kept pushing and trying to teach.
Finally, one of our investigators (who is older) is starting to have problems with his health. We were talking to his wife, and she seemed kinda bothered. I asked her what was bothering her, and she completely opened up. We gave a mini lesson on the Priesthood, and had the opportunity to give the husband a blessing in his bed. It was really powerful.
Funny Stuff: (A Lot This Week)
There was a fire in my area this week, and smoke filled the sky, we decided to go over to the fire to see if someone needed help. Got over there and it was just people burning a TON of trash in the middle of this dirt field. Classic.
Elder Ribeiro wanted to grab something off of a tree, so he jumped for it...lost his footing, and tumbled into the Asaiquia (giant gutter) I literally almost died of laughter seeing him sprawled out in the Asaiquia haha
Something that is really lame of starting to understand the language is that you notice all the comments that the girls make. Also, ive really noticed how much people like to scream ¨HOW ARE YOU¨ in English. It was funny in the beginning, not so much anymore haha.
I was cooking steak yesterday, with oil, and it erupted into this huge flame in front of my face....literally almost gave me a heart attack hahahaha. But I put it out pretty fast haha
AAAANNNNDDDD as for the title.......we were walking near a more sketchy area yesterday, and a car passed us and they told us to be careful. We looked over and saw a bunch of Pibes (teenage gangster kids) makin a rukus. We turned away, but they saw us and we heard something hit the pavement near us. They chucked a big ol´ rock at us, but missed, and didnt bother us afterwards haha
Thats about it for this week, many miracles, blessings, and Awesome stories haha.
This is the Lord´s work and he truly guides it!
Love you All,
Elder Conover
What do you do on Friday night? We Plan!
It was hot and we were sweating, so of course Elder Ribeiro took
the opportunity to stick a ruler to his forehead!
This picture literally describes my mission perfectly.
The next door neighbor's dog. Literally the scariest thing ever.
I don't think it has any teeth but his bark literally pierces your soul
This is your average asaiquia
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