Hola everybody! Hope yall are doing great. It has been a great week here in Uruguay! First off, I hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving! I hope you all thought about all that you're grateful for haha! Elder Smyers and I didnt even remember it was Thanksgiving until about 7pm that night...but then when we got home we ordered a nice pizza and a pepsi, so we celebrated real nice.
Im grateful for all of you guys and your love and support for me and all the missionaries out in the world! We need your prayers everyday. But this week I think someone must've prayed real hard for me and my comp because we had some exìto! We found a couple people who are already preparing for baptism! One of them is named Ana, and the story with her is awesome. So a few days ago we were walking past a house and a little kid ran out and yelled at us, "Hey my mom has one of your guys' books!"...obviously, as a missionary, if you hear that you are going straight to that kids house and talk to whoever is in there. So we did, but his mom wasn't there, so they told us to come back another time. On Sunday night we went and found the mom and started talking to her. She already had her Book of Mormon sitting out when we got there. She said she's had the book for a year now, and she reads it almost every night just by herself! You can imagine what our reactions to that were like. She said the missionaries that gave it to her didn't teach her much and were really hard to understand, and then eventually they just stopped coming to her. Not sure what happened there.. but at least we have found this lady now! We asked her if the Book of Mormon is true, and she was like "Claro!" which is like saying, well yeah! Haha that was just awesome to hear and then she was so happy when we asked her to be baptized. Man was that just awesome!! It was a miracle to say the least. We're going to be teaching her more this week, and she should hopefully get baptized sometime in December...if things go well!
I know that your prayers and love for us missionaries truly help us see miracles in the Lords work everyday! So thank you for everything! Im grateful for all of you and love and miss you! Have a great week!! ¡nos vemos!
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Braxton and Elder Smyers enjoying their own Thanksgiving this past week! Pizza and Pepsi!  |
