It has been pouring here in Montevideo for the past week, it let up today
but another storm is already rolling in and it looks like it will be here for
the next week as well. Got to love it! Seriously I have never seen storms like
this. To the point where you cant even see through the windshield but you have
12 missionaries in the van whose bus is leaving in 5 minutes. Ha-ha. Good
times. But seriously, the streets turned to rivers. It was nuts.
This week has been great. One of the most frustrating but
also good weeks of my mission. First off, my comp got both of his toes operated
on this past week. They took out half of his big toe nail as well as the root
on both feet. He has not been allowed to walk which means that every time I
need to go out to work in our area, I need to do splits with the other elders
or try to find some youth in the ward to go out with me and one to stay with
him. It has made things really difficult to go out and teach. I have never had
to cancel so many lessons. But come what may and love it right? I just feel bad
for Elder Woods. He has been bummed not being able to do anything. He tried
walking a little bit and then blood started soaking through all his bandaging,
so he stopped. jaja. Poor guy. That combined with his partially torn ACL is
making life difficult for him.
So this week I got to go to concilio with Elder Castillo. It
was so awesome. It is always good to get to go and get all the teaching right
from president: don’t get me wrong, the zone leaders do an awesome job, but to
see it come right from him and the assistants is powerful. We learned a new
lesson about the Sabbath Day. I can’t wait to practice it with my new comp and
go out and teach it. It is such an awesome lesson! It’s also a ton of fun to
get to hang out with all the zone leaders. Some of my best friends are the zone
leaders that we have and they all came down so we had a blast! You just learn
how to be an overall better missionary at concilio. Can’t wait to get out and
apply it all. Whoop whoop!
So it has been the last week in the offices!! It´s a little
bittersweet to be honest. The offices have been awesome! Getting to work so
closely with president and his family, the assistants, all the zone leaders,
and just getting to know the entire mission. It was so much fun from everything
like getting the new missionaries from the airport, 2 hour drives to get things to president,
staying up all night during changes, to going and spending 3 hours in DHL
trying to free a package for a missionary at Christmas. I have learned so much
about myself in the offices and how to maximize the time you have to work in
your area. BUT something I am looking forward to is leaving all this stuff
behind and not having to focus on anything other than helping the people we are
teaching to come unto Christ. Its going to be awesome having time to write in
my journal too...;)
SO president talked to me this past week and told me that i
am going to an area that has not had success since before he arrived in the
mission. But we both have faith that we can change that. I am going to
ARTIGAS!!!! I am going to the 4th ward up there. I am so excited. It is the
most northern department in Uruguay.
It gets suupppeeeerrrrr hot up there. Dirt roads and campo. I can’t wait. I
think I know who my new companion is, but cant say for sure at this point. I
was here in the offices when he came into the mission. He is such a stud. I am
so excited for this coming change.
Well I am out of time for this week. But I love you all so
much. Thank you for taking the time to write me. It means a lot to know how
everyone is doing! I hope that you all have a great week! Keep the faith and a
smile on your face!
Lets all try a little bit harder to be a little bit better.
Con Cariño,
Elder Staffieri
Clearing the Drains on Top of the Church after the storms!
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