Hola a todos...
This week has been trying and full of miracles. Yesterday before church we received trying news as 4 of our good investigators decided to stop investigating the church for various reasons... moving to another town, gave into Satan, or chose work over going to church. But we pressed forward and the Lord blessed us with 6 other investigators in church and 2 investigators that are going to be baptized this saturday!!! Jose and Mateo Rodao are going to be baptized this saturday 18th of February and it will be a great way to end my mission with 2 baptisms! and others that will be baptized in the upcoming weeks for other missionaries to work with!
I am also excited to see you and hug you all! I received my plans for the last two days before my flight. I have time to go to the temple with the mission president and his wife, visit old areas, buy soveneirs, and have a FHE with all the elders going home with me in the mission home with President and Sister Da Silva and our final interview before we get on the plane. It will be a fun way to end the mission and I`m excited to be able to go through the temple one more time here in Uruguay. then the long, nearly 20 hours of travel back home which will give me lots of time to read, reflect, ponder, pray and sleep before I get home!
One interesting story that happened this morning... So Elder Clarke and I left the house today at 7:20am to go buy some breakfast at the store about 3 blocks away and as we were about half way there... we passed by a bar with a group of people standing outside (it seemed like they had been there all night drinking and who knows what else...) and as we came near it there were two young girls that jumped on there moto and started following us in the road as we walked to the store and telling us that they thought that we were cute and that they wanted to talk to us. We ignored them and entered in the store bought our breakfast and came out and they were still sitting there on their moto waiting for us to come back to which we quickly told them to go away and leave us alone and started walking back home... They didn`t give up and continued to follow us back to our house... We didn`t want to let them know where we lived so we started to walk towards the church because now they were asking us to shake their hand, kiss them, etc... it wasn`t very appropriate what they were saying. so as we passed by our house on the other side of the street and tried to lose them on the way to the church, as we got about 4 blocks from the church one of the 2 girls jumped off the moto and started chasing us on foot (luckily we are fast and she was drunk, because she was pretty slow.) We ran and crossed the highway in place where there moto could not cross and they gave up the chase. I`m so very grateful for the commandments and the Spirit which are there to protect us and help us when we are in danger. I love you and will see you soon.
Love,
Elder Gardner
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