Hola todos...
Happy Birthday Dad!!! I hope you have a great birthday week and I wish I could be there with you all to celebrate, but my birthday present to you dad is the fact that I am enjoying my mission here in Sarandi Grande and am serving the Lord with all my heart, might, mind and strength... also we have another person with a baptismal date!!! You remember the woman who was baptized in my first week here in Sarandi...well, her daughter who is 10 years old wants to be baptized too, and she will be baptized on August 28th. We also are hoping to prepare 3 other people for the 28th as well.
Well, to answer your questions... I`ll talk with some of the other North American missionaries about the debit card. Yes, I still have to wash my clothes by hand, and even better now... we don`t have a wash board so we wash our clothes in the shower or the sink. Elder Bermudez is a great cook and we are eating really well. We have a wide variety of ingredients to use here, but we don`t have an oven, only a microwave and a gas stove burner. And yes you do have the greatest missionary son or brother in the whole world, haha.
This week has been great and really cold and rainy, but we did find some great people that we are teaching right now and have another baptismal date set up for Candelaria which we are very excited for. I love it here in Sarandi Grande and we had more than 20 people in church!!! It was fast and testimony meeting so everyone except for our two investigators bore their testimonies and there would have been time for the investigators to do so as well if they had wanted. We are small in numbers but seeing a lot of progress here in Sarandi Grande.
There was a new Area President called to the South American area, Elder Arnold of the Seventy. We have a zone conference with him in September and we are all very excited. Elder Bermudez and I are happy and loving being companions. He is fluent in English and is studying really hard to learn the little he has left in English. He might write you all in English to practice in letters.
I am now teaching 3 people piano in Spanish. I have 2 Uruguayan students and one Honduranian student, so I guess you can say that I am an international piano teacher now, and bilangual too. It`s been really fun and they are all learning fairly quickly and I`m learning a lot about the Spanish system of music as well. It`s been a really great experience and I`m glad that I stuck with the piano in order to have fun playing and sharing my musical knowledge with those who have desires to learn all around the world. I love you all and want to once again wish dad a happy birthday and give him an international hug (and tweeky)... You are all in my prayers and I hope you are all receiving as many blessings as I am!!!
Love,
Elder Gardner
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