Week Three in Ferrocarril

Hey people,

Well lets think about what happened this week. So far we have found some new investigators. There is Cayetano, Sergio who wants us to teach his kids good moral values, Ruben an old man with two greyhounds and a bunch of Uruguayo cardinal birds in cages, and Diego whohas been an investigator on and off for about six years because he has a busy family and an interesting work schedule. We are continuing to  work with the peireira family. This tuesday we taught them the restoration and it went really well, todo entendido. We shared the importance of praying to receive an answer from God to know if The Book of Mormon is true. At the end of the Lesson Patricia closed with a really spiritual prayer saying that she recognized the promise and would do her part. So we just have to count on the Lord to do his part.

Pablo is continuing to work on overcoming his drug and nicotine addiction. We gave him a calendar with a goal to completely quit in the next three weeks. We also had a Noche de Hogar( Like family home evening but more relaxed to comply with Uruguayo culture) with him and the Hoage family where Hermano Hoage shared his testimony and his experience overcoming drugs. Hermano Hoage is super cool because he gives us food, and he tried to rob me in the sketchy part of our area one night. Also pablo always starts laughing when I talk because my accent is really bad so that is another challenge we are overcoming.

One of the weird things about being a missionary is that you get to know all of the dogs in your area really well. You know which ones are mean, which ones are freindly which ones are going to start barking if you pass by. I need to be more careful because i have been bitten a lot more in the past few weeks then in my whole mission. But that makes things more interesting.

Somethings about Elder Diaz. He has a funny laugh. He drinks really strong mate. He likes to use his time before bed to watch these cool bible videos from the life of Christ.

Also My cousin Sam got called to serve as a missionary in Korea. Good luck Cuz

1: The Neighbors Dog 

2: Elder Diaz

3: A couple of coins from the seventies and eighties that we found stacked on top of each other on the stairs outside of the church. Most likley a Macumba offering. Black magic folks, Its real.