Thanks for the great emails. I always love hearing how the family is doing and that`s great that Colin and Mason have their own preach my gospel books now. Study it and you will truly become converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ and the duty to share it with those around us.
The weather here in Uruguay is really cold... yesterday it was -10 degrees celsius (14 degrees farenheit). and it`s been raining a lot. But yet miraculously, I`m still as happy and healthy as ever. It should start warming up by the end of this week. On P-days... I write you, do laundry (now a lot easier because our neighbor lets us use her washing machine:), today I cut Elder Burnnett`s hair, I cook lunch and clean the house and write letters. There aren`t many fun things that we can do here in the area because we can`t look like tourists here, and especially here in my area where it is a dangerous place to be robbed. But we have fun all together (the 4 of us in the house). They Pronounce elder Sasselli`s name (Saw-sell-E), it doesn`t get changed to ¨sh¨ because it`s an italian name.
Time is just flying by and I can`t beleive that it is already almost september. Jaqueline Turco was baptized and confirmed. She is doing well and it was a great baptismal service, we had a great miracle happen this week. We talked to an incomplete family that came to the activity last week and started teaching the oldest daughter and her husband last sunday... They told us that we were the 20th pair of missionaries to pass by them and teach them the lessons, and that she (Vanessa) had never gotten baptized because she couldn`t stop smoking... (she also hadn`t prayed to know that the book of mormon is true), but when we went back on wednesday, they told us how it went when they read and prayed and with a big smile on her face they said, ok... When can I get baptized, she has gone 4 days without smoking and came to church yesterday and are already telling everyone that they are going to get baptized on September 3rd. Vanessa and Alison(yes Alison is the name of her husband) are going to be baptized on September 3rd.
We are also seeing many miracles with the Level 3 missionary work here in Belloni. We are in the process of helping the members share the gospel with their friends and family and we are also starting what I call the ¨adopt a family¨ program... where we talk with members to get in touch with our investigators and call them up and invite them to have the next lesson in the home of the members. We are trying to get to the point where all of our lessons will take place in the home of a member who lives nearby the investigator. We are really excited to see how it works out this week.
Sadly, the zone isn`t doing very well.... out of 9 companionships here in the zone, our companionship was the only one to have a baptism in the month of August. That is really low for the zone here. We are doing everything possible in order to turn that around this week. Please pray for the zone of Maroñas so that we can have more baptisms.
I love you and I know that this is the work of the Lord, oh yeah I also was asked by the bishop to speak in sacrament meeting last sunday and it went really well, I used the opportunity to share my testimony of missionary work and explain a little about this great change that we are making in missionary work now. I challenge you to invite someone over for FHE this week and to help befriend them so that they can have a better chance of getting to know the church. Christ loves us all and our Heavenly Father loves us enough to allow us to assist him in this great work. He could do it all himself if he really wanted to, but becuase he wants to share his love with us and he wants to share the joy of missionary work, he allows us, as imperfect as we are, to participate in this great work. He lives!
Love,
Elder Gardner
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