Okay. I have ten minutes. Ready!
GGOOO!!
Okay this week has been awesome! I
am getting to know my area more and we are finally finding more people to
teach! whhoooppp whoop! This week we have been working a lot on talking all the
time in the streets. It’s basically impossible to talk to everyone so we are
just focusing on never stopping talking to people when we are in the streets.
And we are seeing the results! It’s been a super cool experience.
This past week we went down to
concilio in Montevideo! It went great. President Smith taught us a ton about
obedience, sacrifice, and consecration (idk if I spelled that right) which is
exactly what the mission needs right now. We are so excited to capacitate the
zone about it tomorrow. It’s going to change a lot up here! But then after he
taught about that he basically gave us all the time to talk about our zones and
what is going on and to form a plan on how we are going to get better. He told
us that we are going to take responsibility of basically everything that has to
do with our zone. It’s awesome but kind of scary at the same time. He told us
that the assistant’s aren’t going to travel with him anymore and that he is
going to work a lot more through us. So that is going to be algo different but it’s
going to help us a lot. It is going to make us really own Paysandú!
We started practicing more for the
charla foganera this week too! We have some really talented elders and
hermanas. It’s going to be awesome!
This week we were in a tripanionship
with Elder Carreño. His corto plazo had to go back home to study so we went out
with us to work for a day. It was actually really fun working with 3. Usually it’s
a lot harder but it went great.
This Sunday I gave a talk in
sacrament meeting about missionary work. It was supposed to only be 10 minutes
but the sisters left me with 30 to speak...haha. I did the best I could. It actually
went really well and we have more members to go out with us this week! Blessings!!
We have been working a lot to gain the confidence of the members and of the
stake presidency. That has been the biggest desafio that we have had I think. But
with visits and leaving with them, things are slowly beginning to change.
Miracle of the week! An ex bishop
that we have been teaching for a while finally came to church!! yyyeeessss!! Smiles
all around on Sunday when we saw him there! I wish I had more time to explain a
little bit more.
Spiritual thought of the week:
Quote from Elder Ballard that we
learned in concilio--"The act of baptism itself doesn’t wash sin away.
Thanks to the Atonement, the effects of sin depart when someone keeps their
baptismal covenant faithfully to follow the Lord Jesus Christ."
Let’s all try a little bit harder to
be a little bit better this week!
I love you all! Thank you for all of
your support!
UN abrazo grande,
Elder Staffieri
las fotos:
The missionaries of Paysandú y the
stake presidency.
The elders and sisters of my group
who were at concilio (elder toledo, elder caires franca, yo, hermana simpson,
hermana fullmer, hermana toone, y hermana mazzini)
Traveling to concilio with chaja
(elder marín, yo, hermana valverde, hermana simpson)
Elder de la cruz: the new
secretary!! whoop whoop! I lived with him in Artigas
Taking a mattress from the hermanas
house to give it to the elders who came in from young.
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