May 7, 2012
Hey Everyone
This week was pretty good. It´s a little nerve racking
because I may get transferred to a different area, not this tuesday but the
next, and we have a baptisms planned for this Saturday, so we´re really trying
to work hard to prepare him. His name is Sergio, and he´s like 22 years old,
and the older brother of Mauricio, the little kid that got baptized the other
week, and he wants to change, so he came and found us about 3 weeks ago. Our
investigators that are really close to baptism right now are: Blanca, she´s 24
and pregnant, and we just got a little lucky by finding her, but she´s
progressing pretty good. She´s got a lot of doubts about some wierd things, but
she told us, "I always feel so calm and feel really good when you guys
come over" and now she´s getting a good testimony of the Book of Mormon
and things like that, and it´s working out to be really good. She´s really
really nice, and she´s had a pretty crazy life. But I know she´ll get baptized.
Our new Pension is really fun, because it´s with the other elders, and we´re
all together, so you can imagine that it´s pretty fun and we´re always having a
good time. The weather here is getting a
little bit cooler. During the day it´s finally starting to be pretty nice, and
a little breezy every once in a while, but other than that it´s still a little
hot. Today we went to centro, and I bought some pretty cool things, I´ll send
some pictures next week.
That´s cool that you are going to be able to work in the
Temple again. I know how much you loved it. Mom thanks for always sending me
insight, and all the things you send me. You always know what people need and
you always give the encouragement for what people need, and you always listen
to the spirit. Thank you so much for always doing that and always helping me in
your emails. Dad thanks for always giving advice. You always give such great
advice that is somehow always something i´ve been thinking about lately or
something that I´ve needed to help me to help others. You´re always so aware of
people around you and I´m so greatful you taught me that.
These pictures are of us today in front of Paraguay, across
behind the water is Paraguay, and the huge river, when we come back to visit
this place we are going to go fishing in it, it´s pretty awesome. Oh and us
messing around in the pension, and a huge spider we found.
This week we have had to clap doors for pretty much the
first time in my mission. We had to clap for about 2 hours the other day, and
that was pretty awful, It really drains you having people just say no a ton and
walking all day. We also had a Noche de Hogar again, and we had a lot of the
little kids there which was pretty fun. We had 13 candles, and we turned off
the lights and stuff and we lit all the candles and said that they represent
the prophet and his 12 apostles, and then we explained the apostasy and how all
the candles got blown out, leaving the world in darkness. It was a pretty cool
idea we came up with and each of the little kids got to blow a candle out to
participate. Also we have been helping the members out a lot lately, which is
really fun to do, and it´s going to be really hard to leave this place with how
attached i´m getting to the members, so I hope I don´t leave quite yet. Plus me
and my companion have worked a lot of things out. We´re really growing to love
eachother, and i´ve really had to humble myself a lot, which really helped me.
I had to learn that it´s okay to let other people do things their way for a
little while. He´s taught me a lot of
things, and it´s pretty miraculous to see how the Lord works. Even though i´ve
seen that a lot in my mission, it still surprises me every time.
I love you all, and i´ll talk to you on Sunday, thanks for
everything, Hope all is well!
Elder Quynton Allsup
Posadas, Misiones
Argentina Resistencia Mission
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