"BOOM!!! We Need To All Become Like Little L!!"

Monday, Dec 23, 2019

Hola Familia! We had a good week! Kinda crazy but good. On Wednesday we had our Christmas zone conference in the mission home. It was super fun! I got to see Elder Jackson and Galvez again! Me and Elder Andrus had to give a 30 minutes class on how to teach more simply and with the spirit, and they didn’t tell us we had to do it until 10 PM the night before, so it didn’t turn out super awesome like we would have wanted, but it was fun. We all went to that super nice restaurant called Kansas again during the conference. 

This is from my journal this week:  L. is gonna get baptized today!  Her mom wasn’t too excited about her getting baptized though.  She was kinda being a bum, but L. is valiant! Her mom told her, “Your friend is having a birthday party this Saturday. Why don’t you just go to the party and you can get baptized next month?” And nine year old, quiet L. responded to her mom, “Vos solo queries due no me bautice, pero yo me quiero bautizar.” (You only want me not to be baptized, but I want to be baptized.)

BOOM!!! We need to all become like little L.!  Mosiah 3:18, 19, 21 meek, humble, but valiant in keeping the commandments of God!!

So on Friday, the day of the baptism, our bishop told us that the other ward had a ward baptism at 6. “Let’s just do the baptism at 8 then,” we said, but no, they were gonna have a fiesta after their baptism; A flipping party for two hours after a baptism… They basically just kicked us out. Our blood was boiling, but it's fine, whatever. So, L. is gonna get baptized this Saturday. Also, please pray that C’s parents will give her permission to get baptized this Saturday as well!

Love you guys!! Merry Christmas!!

VIDEO: The Work in Action

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"She Had A Dream"

Dec 9, 2019

Family! We had a great week this week! We got to snap some pics of the villa so you guys can get a small peek inside. It is starting to get mighty hot out here. Today we played ball again, and this week we invited president Zuniga to come and he said he was! But he had to cancel last second.

I also sent a pic of Elder Andrus and I with two other kids.They are both studs! They are buddies that are both going to get baptized this week!!! We have been teaching one of them and his mom for the last three weeks. She stopped going to her church like two months ago because she is pregnant and it is a long trip, but when we came to teach her son, she listened to us! She told us that she had never, never listened to anyone from another church, but for some reason she listened to us. She has been praying for an answer to see if this church really is the church of Jesus Christ. After her first time going to church two weeks ago, she said she had a dream that night that Elder Andrus and I baptized her!!! I asked her, “Do you think that could be your answer?” She said, “Yea, I think it is.”

Sad thing though is that she lives with a guy that she is not married to and he is hardly ever there and doesn’t really want to get married. Let’s keep praying for her and the boys!!

There is a family that lives here who has an ice cream shop in the villa and we always get ice cream from them. On Sunday night they were making a fresh batch of banana ice cream and they served it to us straight out of the machine. It was goooood!!

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Video: The Villa!

"Starting December With A Bang!"

Dec. 2, 2019

Thanks for the email family!! Since the last the last time I officially wrote, I've been transferred to a new area.  I'm now in the Liniers Zone and Elder Andrus from my CCM group

is my companion! 

Thanksgiving was fun; that afternoon we went to the mission offices and stayed the night there with a bunch of other elders because we had a leadership counsel early Friday morning. Elder Vickery was making pumpkin pie but I didn’t get to try any because he didn’t finish it until late and we had to go to another pension. 

Well we are starting December with a bang! It’s so nuts that it’s already December.

I woke up at 4:30 on Sunday morning and my stomach didn’t feel good, so I got out of bed and went to the bathroom…  Then the diarrhea started - 100% liquid.  My stomach started feeling worse and the diarrhea kept going.  I feel like the Lord never answers my prayers faster than when I am on the edge of vomiting.  I was literally having diarrhea when I started praying, “Oh please no, I don’t want to puke.” My stomach started feeling worse; I absolutely hate that feeling.  Luckily the bathtub is right next to the toilet, because right after thinking the words, “Oh Padre, que se haga tu voluntad no mas,” (Oh Father, Thy will be done) I fell off the toilet onto my knees and puked up the mountains of food I had eaten that day.  The first time puking on my mission!!

So I felt terrible, but we went to church anyway!!  We were able to help three of our friends get to church and we had a total of 9 of our friends there!  We have a zone goal of 12 for the month of December, and the goal for our area is 3! I told you we were starting off December with a bang!

We came back to the pension after sacrament meeting because I felt horrible.  I puked one more time after church, but I’m feeling pretty good now! I was absolutely miserable for about four hours that afternoon though.

This week we stopped by a few of our friends' house and they were outside playing "volleyball" with some of their neighbors (the net was a construction fence). I’ll finish the story next week.  I’m out of time.  Love you all!

Goodbyes to Elder Dubois

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