Week #11: Vida De un Uruguayo!
Hola everyone!! Hope yall are doing great! Twas a good week here in Delta Del Tigre of good ole Uruguay! My time here is starting to go by really fast and Im feeling much more comfortable being here in a different country and all. The Spanish is coming along...the Gift of Tounges is a real nice gift that God thankfully blesses missionaries with.
This week was great here. We started off with Divisions (splits) on Tuesday. That is always an awesome chance to work with another missionary for 24 hours and learn new things from them and get to know more missionaries here better! I went with one of our Zone Leaders, Elder Lopez. He is such an awesome guy and I learned a ton about how to connect with people and have good conversations with them from him. He is from Bolivia and has learned English very well. He doesn't really speak it too much, but he can understand everything so we both got to practice our 2nd languages! I spoke in English to him in the streets and he spoke to me in Spanish. Haha!! It was kind of a weird experience talking in 2 different languages, but it was fun. He speaks very clear and is easy to understand in Spanish, so that definitely helped me alot.
This week was the week of asking people to be baptized and running into tons of less active members of the Church!! Now we have dates for a family and another man to be baptized in the coming weeks. We are so excited for both of them!! We really think they will progress well and will soon enter the waters of baptism. It's an amazing thing to watch someone be baptized. To make a statement to your Heavenly Father that you are willing to be His disciple and live the way He wants you to live.
We also found tons of members of the church who don't attend the church anymore...and we're really excited to help them regain their testimonies and bring them back into the fold of Christ! We actually have tons of non active members here in Delta, sadly. I am really hoping to continue finding them and help as many as possible find the love of Christ again in their lives!
Thats all I got for this week! We are going to see The Prophet this week....so next week expect me to be writing some good stuff!!! Its gonna be one of the coolest experiences ever! I love you all and am thankful for all your influences on me! Ciao Ciao yall!
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| Braxton and Elder Lopez enjoying an 'amazing dinner' after doing splits this week. |
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| Braxton's favorite food/snack so far in Uruguay!! They are called Alfahores! He says they are keeping him from starving! ;) |
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| Brax just trying to be obedient to all the mission rules, so the blessings keep coming! ;) |
