¡Hola Todos!

Sorry for not writing last week! Lost track of time. But update of the past two weeks-We saw some great progress this 2 weeks! 

First off, we were able to go to the temple last week on Thursday wahoo! A huge blessing! We also started a Book of Mormon challenge as a mission to finish it in 60 days. So weve started things off good!

Right now we are working with two really awesome investigators! Things started to pick up two fridays ago during divisions when I was with Elder Alvarez from Chile. Our appointment at the end of the day fell at 8 oclock, so we start heading to the back up plan. And then I remember I contacted somebody at a house we passed in front of. So we stopped to see if they were home. They werent but a guy taking care of the house came out and talked to us. His name is Nahuel. he is 24 yrs old and has a month yr old daugther and is married. Whaaat. We taught him outside because it wasnt his house to let him in. It was the most spiritual lesson Ive ever had outside! So good! The whole time, I was like wait is thisguy for real? can he really be that great? Hes an active member from a cristian church. But commented how he doesnt feel that theres a set doctrine there, or anywhere, that everyones so different in what they belief. He understood so well and was interested about the authority you need to have to be baptized, since he was already baptized in that other church. He accepted the BoM so well and wanted to know if it was true. The next time, he shared more of his experience reading and how he can recognize his answer. Tonight we plan to teach the Plan of Salvation and hopefully with his wife too!

Our other investigator we´re working with, her name is Juliana. She is 12 yrs old. She was a reference, that I recieved like two months ago here, but we could never find her, until last week! We endured to the end and finally found her! Her grandma is actually a member too! So we taught her, she accepted a baptismal date and came to church!

So we´re pretty excited to see the progress of them!

Til next week! Enjoy Conference! Wahoo!

Elder Trent

he caught me off guard on that last pic hahaha

This is Juliana our investigator. and her grandma and a lot of other grandkids. 

Old cars

Street...art

Great Pic huh?

robbery story

So we were walking back to the pench on sunday night when I was in a threesome with the other elders in the pench since my companion had just gone to the offices to go home. Right before we take out the keys a guy comes around the corner asking us if we can help him out with a little money. I didnt have anything on me, neither did elder motta. and the other elder was new so he didnt understand what was going on. he then started to say how he always saw us come here and knew we lived there, we dont him we didnt saying we always visited members from the church that live here. so we said we would ask them"the members" if they had anything to give him and then he hiding around the corner. We pretended to contact the house and waited, meanwhile we hid our keys to the place, in case they took them from us and saw that he had left supposedly and we left to go to a members house that lives two blocks away from our pench. We start walking and he finds us again, we would have just kept walking but he had two other friends their one hiding in the shadows, we didnt know if he had a weapon so we stopped and the elder that didnt understand much, we told him before the guy came back that he was asking for money, and the elder turns out had five pesos. so when he found us again we gave him the five pesos and he told us he would wait for us to go get more. So we went to the members house and told him what happened. We called the asistents and waited in his house for a while and then he drove us back in his car to see if they were still there. They had left so we found our keys and went in and lock the doors. Thats about it, they never came back. It wasnt really that bad.

¡Hola Todos!

It was a good week! I always say that, but every week as a missionary is a great week no matter what happens! Gustavo is progressing well, hes on his high as a recent convert, loves everything. The other day we visited him and his neighbor was there so we taught him as well! Turns out he was recently separated from his wife and stopped going to his church because thats where is exwife goes still. He had a lot of good questions and opened up quickly to us. We felt to share the Plan of Salvation, even though we normally start with the Restoration, based on his questions and needs. He really liked it and we plan on going back today in the afternoon so we´ll see how it goes. 

Our area continues a little slow but its helping us grow. The Lord hastens his work we´re just the ones that needs to make sure we all always doing our best, being obedient, and keeping the spirits up!

Love you all!

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¡Hola Todos!

Its been a great two weeks! Last week I wasnt able to right because all the internet place closed for a holiday called Carnaval. So Gustavo got baptized! it was great, the actual baptizing part was really difficult though. Since he is in a wheelchair it was a little tricky. After thirty minutes of trying to get him in the water, we finally did it by bringing a chair in the water and sitting him down, my companion baptizing him and me in the water holding down his legs. He was pretty nervous but in the end was relieved.

Elder Vances last week was good, he was pretty trunky not gonna lie but we finished good with a baptism so, mission accomplished! Now Im with Elder Dye from Idaho. We were companions for a week a year ago, so we already knew eachother well and start off our first week great with good teaching unity. We had whats called Council this past week, which is like a meeting with all the zone leaders, the sister training leaders, the assistents, and president, talking about whats happening in the mission and what we need to improve on. So that was a cool experience, we got to go to president Robertsons house that is in a different mission, and ate american food for lunch, so good!

So this week we couldnt find hardly any of our investigators, they were on vacation, or working all week, so no updates for them. However we have been working with a new investigator we found two weeks ago thats starting to progress really well, her name is Cintia. Shes had a rough life and doesnt really believe in all the churches. After teaching the Restoration, we helped her to understand better, and how her focus she be on christ not all that goes on in the churches. She accepted to read and pray. The next time we went by she had read but not prayed, and then after that, the next time we went by she had prayed and gotten her answer! It was really cool, its not very common that that happens like that. So now we are helping her recognize what her answer means so she can connect it to the restore Gospel of Jesus Christ. Yesterday we had a great lesson on the Plan of Salvation. So she is progressing well and has plans to come to church next Sunday!

Love you all, Have a happy week!

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Elder Trent

Elder Dye from Idaho

Gustavo's Baptism