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| Elders Nielsen and Layton (credit Hma Teresa for this photo) |
Hey everyone!
Uruguay is super awesome, and I am sure lucky to be serving
in the celestial mission (we have a sun on our flag). We have been working with
[...] recently, who was a less active that has started coming to
church again. We are working to get him the Priesthood, and we want to
eventually have him to be able to go to the temple. We had a lesson with him
this week during halftime of a Uruguay soccer game, and when we finished the
lesson he turned it off mute, and Uruguay scored while we were there haha. He
got so excited, it kind of reminded me of when my Dad and I would watch Duck or
Blazer games :) We also had a super great lesson with Paola and Romina this
week, and they said they would try to come to church, but never showed :/ So we
will see what is up this week.
My reading of the spanish book of mormon during language
study has been really great so far. Right now I am just reading it side by side
by english, and even though it is a little slower, I feel it is more effective
as I can compare words and sentence structure. I actually feel like my
understanding is growing quite a bit, but it is still really hard to say what I
want correctly.
We recently learned that Hermano Runco, our ward mission
leader living under us has kidney stones. Ouch! But we had the opportunity to
give him a Priesthood blessing so that was a neat opportunity.
We have three people we are teaching (one investigator and
two less actives) that all live right next to each other. So each week, we get
done teaching one and just walk right next door haha. That has been pretty
convenient.
We had a bunch of walking of Saturday. It rained most the
day, and so our plans were all cancelled, as everyone stays home and sleeps
those days. We had a bunch of references we recently got and that we tried out,
but everyone was either gone or asleep. But hey, at least it is good exercise.
And I really need it because we eat a TON here. We usually have really big
lunches with members, and then people always feed us in lessons and stuff. On
Sunday, we went to Fernando's for lunch and he had just about everything you
could imagine, from chorizos to ribs to intestines. And, yeah the intestines
(pig, cow, and goat mixed in one) were the first kinda weird food that i have
eaten here. BUT, just wait until next week because Fernando wants to feed us
something very interesting this Sunday. Haha, I am not going to
ruin the surprise though, you will all have to find out next week.
We also had the primary program yesterday... There was only
7 kids there and about 3 of them even opened their mouths, so that was
something funny to watch :) Also, the Bishopric was involved in one song with
them, and it was really funny because none of them could sing a right note to
save their lives.
It is starting to heat up here a lot actually. I heard
Summer's are pretty brutal, and it hasn't even quite started... So with the
humidity, I think it is going to get preeeety hot! I can already feel it haha.
I love you and miss you all. Thanks for all of your prayers and support.
The
Book of Mormon is awesome. I never knew how much of a joy the scriptures truly could be
to read. I love reading every day. But when I look at Ether 12:27, I
see my love and understanding for the scriptures growing all the time and I
recognize that the Lord has made them something I yearn to read every day. I
read the BOM once before my mission, but not that closely. I am currently
reading it again and am in Alma 18 now. I seriously love them. What a great
blessing we have been given!
See ya!
Elder Layton
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