It's been a really good week! My companion is awesome. We get along really well. We started off the transfer making some goals for what we wanted to do this transfer. One of those was that we wanted to find a family. So we got to work. We focused 100% on families. All the reference we asked we for families, we let the whole ward know, our studies are about families and every prayer is about finding families. When we made the goal I felt really strongly that it's possible, we just need to work for it.
The elders in our ward gave us 2 references this week. One for a man named Roberto. We went by and he let us in, and told us that his wife and son had passed away. He´s older, but very open. We taught the plan of salvation. It was a really cool lesson. We committed him to coming to church with us, and yesterday he came! He really liked it, so we´re going to try and committ him to baptism this week!!
Another reference was Arturo and his family. We went and they let us in. They were so awesome!! They had history in the church, but never got baptized. I asked them if they could change one thing in their life, what it would be and the mom goes "everything. I wish I could be born again and start over" and the dad goes "I could write a book of everything I want to change". So there is a LOT of potential there. I'm super excited to keep working with them. And it's a family!!
We´ve planned a lot of activities as a ward and a stake to start sharing the Book of Mormon more and we´re super excited! Time is going by so fast and it makes me so sad! I love Argentina with all of my heart.
One of the counslers in the bishopric is one of those people that knows everything, and we had lunch with them yesterday. So we went with a list of questions to ask him, and he gave us the answer to all of them. Then we read a scripture in Alma that talked about the mysteries of God and how if we have faith they will be revealed to us. It made me think about something a companion taught me. That to me, the mysteries of God are like.. how any worlds there are and things like that, but she told me the mysteries of God are in the scriptures. It's personal revelation. Everything that we need to know to have eternal life is in the scriptures. The hermano told us that those who know so much about how many worlds and how God became God and all that slowly drift away from the church. Because yeah, they know all that, but they wouldn´t be able to explain what the Atonement is. The most important is the doctrine of Christ. The basic things that are in the scriptures that are actually so profound that we´ll never understand everything. Look at the prophets and apostles. They never talk about worlds or Gods or anything, just the basic doctrine of Christ.
Just thought that was interesting. Love you all and have a great week!!
Love,
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