Wow, it has been a great week. To start, we were planning on
having a Noche de Hogar (family home evening) with the Cacosso family and an
investigator last Monday, but she was pretty sick when we went over.
So that was a big bummer and I felt bad because the Cacosso family prepared a
bunch of snacks, but then we decided to go try invited another investigator
last minute, and he was able to come! And it was really awesome too,
he enjoyed the video we watched and even bore his testimony to us about what he
learned.
We went on divisions over in Concepcion on Tuesday. I was
with Elder Baròn for the day, a tiny little Colombian. He is really cool, but
super hard to understand haha. We did a lot of walking that day and it was
insanely hot, but we ended up have some really incredible lessons that night.
Oh yeah, and something funny about Argentina is for some reason everyone always
tries guessing our age. And they always think I am way older than I am -
everyone is always super surprised to hear I am 18. I don't know if it is
because I have a little companion or what, but no one really
thought much of it in Montevideo haha. People here are funny. Everyone all have
these special handshakes here too. To be ´in´ with the youth you gotta learn
all these different handshakes.
After coming back from Concepcion on Wednesday, we had to go
back on Thursday for a zone conference and interviews with President Olsen. It
was a really great conference, and it was funny because in my interview I prayed
out loud in english for the first time in a while, and it was so hard! I kept
tripping up on words and slipping in a few spanish words on accident and
everything haha. It was the weirdest thing ever.
Anyways, we had the greatest day on Saturday! In the
morning, we had a really good lesson with two investigators named [...] and [...]. They are brothers and were old investigators that we decided to start
teaching again. They are super cool, and really acceptive of us. We had a
really great lesson that morning and they said they would think about being
baptized on february 25th!
We also had a cool experience that afternoon. We
went to visit [...]. For a little background, we had a lesson with him
earlier this week, and he expressed a lot of concerns to us. He is 20 years old
and has two younger brothers he takes care of, but he needs a job and has been
looking for a couple of months now. We were teaching a story in the Book of
Mormon, and after he told us that, I had a strong impression to make him a
promise. I told him that if he read the Book of Mormon every day, that the Lord
would help him find a job. And so we came back to visit him this Saturday
afternoon, and caught him just as he was getting ready to leave for his first
day- at his new job! So awesome. The rest of that day, we ended up being packed
with lessons and great contacts. It was such a great day!
I really feel that I
am being so blessed here on my mission, and I am so very grateful for all of
the opportunities and experiences I am having. We have been seeing miracles
each day, and I am grateful for the guidance of the the Spirit. It is so very
real. And this church is so very true. I love you all. Thanks for all the
support!
Elder Layton
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