Elder Eli Christensen in Uruguay: Ferrocarril week one

Dear Folks,

Wow I just have to say that the Lord really does bless his servants. With epic miraculous ocurrences.

But to start from the beggining. I got to my new area on wednesday and I am loving it. It is just a really normal suburb outside of Montevideo. There are houses and parks and things like that. My new compaion Elder Diaz is super cool. He is from Otorbalda Ecuador and has been in Uruguay for eleven months. He likes to drink yerba mate and go mountain biking.

The members of the ward here are really cool and I appreciate that, because they care about missionary work and help us out a lot. Especially this guy named José María who is a convert of a few years and currently the elders quorum president. he let us help him cut branches off of this giant alamo tree and then made us an asasdo.

As far as investigators there havn't really been missionaries who have done much work here in a while so we have been working really hard talking to tons of people. So far we are teaching this guy named pablo who is the son of one of the members here. He has been in and out of prison and drugs and things but wants to change his life and be forgiven by God so he is progressing.

We found another investigator named María nazaret. We were Just Knocking doors my first day and she came out and was excited to see us so we set up an appointment and went back friday. Basiccally she is a young Mother who wants to know about the Book of Mormon because she wants to have more truth in her life. So we taught the restoration.

Now here is the really crazy part. One day we talked to this guy named Juan Manuel with an excellent beard outside of his house. We told him we were missionaries, he said to come by the next day at five. That was it. So we went by and nobody was there. Then yesterday happened. It was cold and rainy and nobody was out or opening their doors. We stopped at his house but nobody came out. Then we were just walking down the street and all of the sudden this car pulled over right next to us and rolled down the window and it was Juan! He said do you remember me? let me turn around and park. So he did and got out, and said that he was sorry he hadn´t been there when he said he would but that he saw as and wanted to hear what we had to tell him. SO we taught him right there in the rain, and are going back this week. If you were ever a missionary you understand how amazing that was.

Other than that is has started to get pretty cold here. And the thing is that even when the tempurature isn't that cold it still hurts because of the humidity. I went out one day with a coat and gloves for the first time, and we stopped to talk to a guy and I started shivering and almost passed out. So life is good.