Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:41 AM
Subject: ANOTHER WEEK!
HOLA FAM!
Well thats weird that the computer is writing backwards…. But good to hear all is good. Its been going great here too. Well to start off we had an AMAZING week which ended with 2 baptisms. My first day here we found this lady Ana that i think i told you guys about and she was awesome but the week before last we couldnt visit her cuz her husband got home from Italy and they were doing family stuff and she just kept telling us she was busy so we got a bit sad thinking her husband probly wasnt too supportive of the “Mormons” so it was rough. On Monday though we decided to call her up and see if we could set something up and well her husband answered and well i was kinda nervous to be honest to talk to him but he was way cool. Ana was showering so i talked to him for a bit and told him we’d like to pass by and he was like of course and then we asked if he wanted to maybe do something with our Ward Mission Leader’s family, the Rizzo Family, and he was like yah we should do like a family night or something…. so thats exactly what we did. We had a Family Home Evening with Ana and Juan and the Rizzo Family and it went amazing. We watched THE RESTAURATION and they both got touched and loved it. They like deeply analyzed it and just felt so good about it and started talking about baptism and the importance of baptism and was just amazing. We invited them to an activity on Saturday that we had with all types of sports and turns out Juan used to be a Pro Basketball player here in Uruguay and in Europe… so that was cool. Better yet they went to the activity. Well Juan did… Ana was home with their daughter who was really sick but Juan came and loved it. They activity went really well! it was so fun and we played all sports but the best part was playin B-ball with Juan and the ward and us 4 missionaries that work in Buceo. It was the best game ive played in Uruguay and that includes Missionary games of all Americans. It was a good fun game that was intense. We also had the husband of a member whos not a member cook at the activity. It was really good. We ended up having like 8 investigators at the activity which was great including Chola whos getting baptized this Saturday and who is also the Mother in law of the guy who cooked at the activity…. if that all just made sense haha.
Well finally we had the 2 baptisms, Gladys and Nathaly, and the other 2 missionaries in the ward had a baptism also, Enzo, so it was 3 baptisms that went really well. It was amazing. They were so happy. I say that everytime but its true they are always sooo happy after. It was a huge success cuz we also had like 7 other investigators that went to the baptism. Was amazing. Alot of new people too that hadnt gone to church yet. Gladys brought a friend too and now we teaching her, Inès. It was just awesome.
So at church we had a few good experiences. Juan went to church and we just found him this week. Ana couldnt go because of their daughter still being sick but Juan LOVED IT! He interacted and all. Then Gabriel also went which was cool. Dont know if you remember but Gabriel is the LAZY guy and i mean really lazy. He went though and was there at 8:30. He felt really good at it and it was really good to see him there. He was taught before by other missionaries here and he went to church once with them but its because they had someone go pick him up and thats the only reason he went. Well this time he went cuz he wanted to go and felt he needed to go. It was cool. But yah its just been an amazing week. But hope all is going good there.
I LOVE YOU ALL A TON!!!
Con Amor
Elder Brown
