ANOTHER GREAT WEEK!!!

Hola a todos...


This week was a great week in which we found some really cool people and saw a lot of progress in Araseli.  Your prayers must be working or something because Araseli had her baptism announced in sacrament meeting for Saturday at 5 pm and she is super excited and hasn't had any problems.  She was always there waiting for us with extra chairs for us and the members that accompany us with her Book of Mormon and pamphlets.  She has been progressing so well and hasn't even had one doubt of what we teach her.  She really is a great example of a 50 year old woman with a lot of faith!!!

To answer your question mom, although we are in an apartment... we don`t have a washing machine.  We still wash it by hand in the sink and hang it up to dry in the spare room with the window open to dry by wind and time.  I`ve gotten used to washing my clothes by hand but I will be really grateful when I can wash by machine because it just takes a lot of time out of Pday to wash by hand all the clothes for the week.

This week we are super excited for the baptism and for the two other investigators that we have with a baptismal date... Sebastian (who came to church with us yesterday for the first time and wants to change his life).  We found him knocking doors last week and he came out and asked us if we wanted to sit down and talk a little.  He told us that other missionaries had come in November and had invited him to be baptized but he didn`t believe in God, but then something happened in his life and now he does believe in God and has been reading the Bible every day.  We gave him a Book of Mormon and invited him to church and he came and enjoyed it.  His baptismal date is for the 30th of April.  We also found an incomplete family of members (inactive for now) where the mom and their 18 year old son are inactive but the dad is not a member but super nice, so we started teaching him and invited him to get baptized on the 30th as well.  Please pray for him so that he can recognize his answer when he prays to know if the Book of Mormon is true.

Well these are our best investigators and we hope to find some other great investigators in this week as well. Elder Butler and I are having a great time together here in Camino Carrasco and are excited to hit our goal of 3 baptisms in April and are doing our best to help our zone reach its goal of 22 baptisms. cI`m doing great, staying healthy, and having a blast!!!  Thanks for all the support and prayers.  They truly are appreciated.

How`s the missionary work going on the home front?  That`s great that you made the 3 minute club in seminary and that it sounds like you are all growing spiritually at home.  Is there anything that you want to know about Uruguay or Montevideo or the mission?  This Saturday the bishop's daughter turns 8 and is getting baptized as well so it will be a big and great baptismal service with a lot of nonmember family members.  Please pray for these familes (the Beron family (bishop's family) and the Borges family (Araseli`s family)) so that they can feel the spirit and have a desire to get baptized as well.

I love you all and know that this church is true and I know that the gospel has been restored on the earth once again through the prophet Joseph Smith and that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the only true church upon the face of the earth that holds the authority of the Priesthood to baptize and administer the saving ordinances.  I love my Savior and I love all of you!

Elder Gardner