This week I went on divisions with Elder Lopez, one of my
old district leaders in Salto who is now one of my zone leaders in Artigas! It
was a blast and I learned a ton of things from him. We are blessed to have such
great missionaries to learn from in the mission. We focused on being more of
ourselves in the lessons. He taught me that God put us all here for a reason
and we can’t become robots when we get into a lesson. We were put in the paths
of people so that WE can help them as the missionary we are. We cant go in
there and just sit down with a straight face and talk for 25 minutes, we need
to show them how much it has blessed our lives and give them the lesson from
our heart being who our Heavenly Father knows we are. I don’t know if this
makes much sense, but it has made a big difference. I didn’t really think I was
doing it before but he pointed some things out that I do change in lessons that
he thought would be better if I didn’t. I have found that teaching has become a
lot more fun and that the spirit has been more present in our lessons. I LOVE
TEACHING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST!! There is honestly nothing that brings so
much joy to my life! The gospel is so awesome and when you see people accepting
it, there is a literal change that takes place within the person and they
become so much happier with a different light about them. I wish I could do
this for the rest of my life in a full time capacity like it is in the
mission!
Something awesome that happened this week is finding
Adriana. It was a longer day that we had and we were going from fallen
appointment to fallen appointment wondering why that was happening. We were
just walking on the street talking about it and then we just decided to make a
contact on a door we say. We stopped, clapped, and the most adorable toddler
runs out with the biggest smile on her face followed quickly by her mom. We
just started a conversation with her mom talking about her family and about her
life and then she asks us why we are her in Uruguay. Right in the middle as we
start explaining, she goes "What are we doing talking through these bars?
Do you guys want to come in and sit down and talk?" We accepted the
invitation. We talked about how we are here because the gospel of Jesus Christ
has been the one thing that has blessed our lives more than anything else and
how much happiness it has brought to our families. She then goes into her
family story and explains everything that has passed in her family life and it
hasn’t been the happiest of stories we have heard. We go into the first lesson
and the spirit was super strong! It was so awesome! We went back the next day
to teach her about the Plan of Salvation and she jumps right in asking if she
could offer the opening prayer. It was such a great lesson. She asks so many
questions and, as the lesson progresses, finds her own answers. She is so well
prepared. We are going to go back again to teach her and her family today.
Elder Owen and I are super stoked for the chance we have to teach her!
We had an awesome lunch with one of our investigators this
past week. It is a family of 4, all the kids have been baptized, and now we are
working with the dad. He shows up to this lunch with an older woman (70 years
old, mas o menos) and introduces her to us as one of the best family friends
that they have. She also happens to be an extremely faithful member of the
church as well. We had a great lunch with them surrounded by family and
friends. I honestly felt like it was a family reunion back at home with the
craziness as more people showed up at the end with about 9 people in a tiny
kitchen with a table right in the middle passing food and talking over each
other. It sounds kind of hectic but it was awesome. We are continuing to work
with Ernesto and we are really hopeful for him.
Jorge left this past week to go to work in another
department so it’s been kind of hard to find him in his house. Kind of a bummer
but he should be getting off work sometime next week so we can find him
again.
Well I am just about out of time! Sorry it’s been kind of
short but I love you all so much! Thank you for all the support that you always
give me and for all the prayers you send my way!
Get out there and share your testimony!
Lets all try a little bit harder to be a little bit
better!
Con Cariño,
Elder Staffieri
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