Dear Friends and Family,
Finally, this Saturday Elìas, the son of Claudia, will be getting baptized. We are super excited for him. He has progressed little by little. He is slightly stubborn and difficult to teach because he is only 9 years old but we try to make it as fun and interesting as possible for him so that he can understand the Gospel at his own level.
Juan Peralta, the kid in the picture I sent home last week, is progressing a TON. He is super awesome, we love him. He defends the church a lot and basically tells everyone that they need to go to the Mormon church. He reads and prays daily and his faith is growing little by little. His prayers are getting better, and now he is finishing them in the name of Jesus Christ. One of our challenges with him was that of helping him develop faith in Jesus Christ. But as he read and began to understand the plan of salvation, he has come to have more faith in Christ. This week he explained to us that he loves the way we view Christ in our church. It inspires him to believe and to strive to be like Christ. Juan even expressed his desires to be "an Elder," hahaha, so we are pretty stoked. He went to church yesterday and everyone talked to him and helped him feel comfortable. He said he had waited all week, "anxious for it to be Sunday again." He said that in church he feels welcomed and not judged. If all goes well, he will be getting baptized in the next couple weeks.
This week we also had a meeting with Elder Viñas from the Area Presidency. It was fantastic. He didn't come with a prepared message; he instead stood up in front of us and answered our questions for about 2 hours. It was fascinating. He explained that as leaders in the church, we are like the signs that they place to mark the trail and that stick up through the snow when the trail is covered. But he wanted us to understand that as a leader or as a missionary or even as a Seventy of the Lord, we are not the way…Christ is. At the end he bore his personal testimony, explaining that he knows that Christ lives and that he knows many things that he can't tell us but that he knows them. He said he is less than the dust of the earth and is simply an instrument in the hands of God.
The following day, my companion and I planned meetings and taught our zone of 29 missionaries all that our Mission President, the Assistants, and Elder Viñas had taught us. We also had a meeting with our District Leaders to teach and train them and show them how we'd apply everything we had learned in our zone. It went well, and we are very excited because we are seeing a lot of success here in Bahìa Blanca! The Lord is blessing us for our hard work and we are seeing the miracles that He works through us.
Thanks for the letters, the prayers, and the support!
Love,
Elder Garrison
Finally, this Saturday Elìas, the son of Claudia, will be getting baptized. We are super excited for him. He has progressed little by little. He is slightly stubborn and difficult to teach because he is only 9 years old but we try to make it as fun and interesting as possible for him so that he can understand the Gospel at his own level.
Juan Peralta, the kid in the picture I sent home last week, is progressing a TON. He is super awesome, we love him. He defends the church a lot and basically tells everyone that they need to go to the Mormon church. He reads and prays daily and his faith is growing little by little. His prayers are getting better, and now he is finishing them in the name of Jesus Christ. One of our challenges with him was that of helping him develop faith in Jesus Christ. But as he read and began to understand the plan of salvation, he has come to have more faith in Christ. This week he explained to us that he loves the way we view Christ in our church. It inspires him to believe and to strive to be like Christ. Juan even expressed his desires to be "an Elder," hahaha, so we are pretty stoked. He went to church yesterday and everyone talked to him and helped him feel comfortable. He said he had waited all week, "anxious for it to be Sunday again." He said that in church he feels welcomed and not judged. If all goes well, he will be getting baptized in the next couple weeks.
This week we also had a meeting with Elder Viñas from the Area Presidency. It was fantastic. He didn't come with a prepared message; he instead stood up in front of us and answered our questions for about 2 hours. It was fascinating. He explained that as leaders in the church, we are like the signs that they place to mark the trail and that stick up through the snow when the trail is covered. But he wanted us to understand that as a leader or as a missionary or even as a Seventy of the Lord, we are not the way…Christ is. At the end he bore his personal testimony, explaining that he knows that Christ lives and that he knows many things that he can't tell us but that he knows them. He said he is less than the dust of the earth and is simply an instrument in the hands of God.
The following day, my companion and I planned meetings and taught our zone of 29 missionaries all that our Mission President, the Assistants, and Elder Viñas had taught us. We also had a meeting with our District Leaders to teach and train them and show them how we'd apply everything we had learned in our zone. It went well, and we are very excited because we are seeing a lot of success here in Bahìa Blanca! The Lord is blessing us for our hard work and we are seeing the miracles that He works through us.
Thanks for the letters, the prayers, and the support!
Love,
Elder Garrison
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