So this week has been awesome! Full of thunderstorms but so
much fun. We have been seeing a lot of success in our area by following the
direction of our bishop.
But first off, we had an interesting start to this week.
Elder Woods has some pretty gnarly ingrown toe nails. it took him to the point
of infections in both of his big toes to go to the hospital. They saw him,
cleaned out all the nasty stuff that was in there, and then scheduled him for
surgery this coming Thursday. Until then, he can’t walk or do anything that
requires him to be on his feet for a while because this will start the
infection again or something like that. So I have been going on divisions a
whole lot with the other office elders trying to get time in our area. It’s
been really awesome actually. It really makes us focus on having shorter
lessons and be more focused during planning. I feel like I just adopted the
other half of our ward as well working with elder Castillo and elder lamb.
This past week we have had some awesome lessons. We had two
lessons with the girl and dad who we found a few weeks ago who stopped us on
their moto in the street. Ursula went to Brazil so we hadn’t had that many
lessons with her but she is such an amazing person to teach. When she was in Brazil,
she was reading the book of Mormon and said that she telling us all about what
she was reading. At the end of the first lesson we had with her this week, she
accepted the invitation to be baptized. Yesterday we had another lesson with
her and her family and she had invited her friend over to listen to us as well
because she wanted him to know what she was learning. Her father is traveling
in his ship so we will start teaching him when he gets back. They are an
awesome family!
Fernando is still progressing super well. It was a little
harder to find him this week but they are all doing great.
We have been praying a lot this week to find people to
teach. We have been really struggling to find people to teach in our area just
through tracting alone. One day this week we felt like we should go visit one
of the members in our ward. As we get to her house, we just start talking about
how everything is going and what has happened recently, just start visiting.
And then she just cuts us off and goes, "I bet you don’t remember this but
I have been praying for what you asked me. You two came to me a few months ago
and asked me to pray to find someone to share the gospel with. well, I got my
answer" she goes on to tell us about her friend who had come to her to
talk about how she feels that she is lacking something in her life and that she
feels it is spirituality. Her friend had asked her if she could come to learn
more about the "mormonas." Maria Luisa, the member, got so excited.
Her face lit up when she was talking about her friend. She wanted us to come
the next day to teach her. We have a lesson set up with her later tonight. ¡¡LA
OBRA VA
BIEN!!
This week, all of the new missionaries and their trainers
came down to Montevideo
to receive more training and get all of their medical stuff done. It was really
cool for them and a marathon day for us. We spent about 6 hours in the car
taking missionaries different places, picking up different things, getting
stuff for president, etc.
Today was an awesome day! We woke up, went and did a few
hours of service for the same guy we have been working with for the past few
weeks. We have been cleaning all of the dirt and rubble out of his house so he
can start the actual construction. Well it has been raining a lot this week so
everything in the house was just saturated with water and way heavier. We got a
solid work out though which was good. So we were wheeling out wheelbarrow after
wheelbarrow down these makeshift ramps into this giant trash bin. Well we got a
little fan club. There was about 6 drunks sitting outside the house on the
other side of the street and when they saw us running down the ramps from
inside the house across the sidewalk and up the other ramp they all started
yelling and shouting at us. it was funny because when someone was struggling
they were all like "come on man! You got it! You are almost there!"
and when we finally dumped it in they all just started celebrating and jumping
up and down. haha. After service, we went and got a haircut and then we went to
a member’s house to have a p-day asado. We started up the fire, threw the meat
on there, and ate for about an hour and a half. Honestly one of the best asados
I have ever had.
Well I am just about out of time for this week. Sorry. It
kinda sneeks up on you. But I love you all so much. I hope that you all have a
great week.
Try a little bit harder to be a little bit better.
Love,
Elder Staffieri
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