Tuesday, September 8, 2009
bananas and dulce de leche
Hola Familia....
How are you.... Things aree going pretty great here in T -Bò. As you can see in my photos we had the baptism of Juan y Maria this weekend and it went great. I got to baptize juan. They got married tuesday and baptized saturday... I know that Maria is going to be a great member and is going to love to being a member but I am a little scared about jaun, maybe i just need more faith but the guy is always askisng for money and stuff but he has changeda bunch since we anitially met him. The wedding was pathetic.... hah nobody showed up. They said there were going to be soo many people and wow it was sad and embarrassing. But the baptism was pretty good, still no one really there but Maria said it was the best feeling ever.
Aslo week took out a date with anopther family last week and and now we are going to take out another this week. Last weekwas with the Familia of Carlos and Maria Fernandez who are studs... the watch BYU tv all the time and love it. She helps clean the church. They are pretty much members but they are going to get married on the 5th and baptized the 26th.
The other Familia is Barbosa.... remember that name because you are going to hear it a lot. This are always crazy with this family. This is the family where the mom lost four sons. Well she has two girls and one boy left. Well the boy was hit by a motorcycle this last week and was in the hospital. It s sad because the people who drive here really are crazy, this last week we had the brother of a investigator get in a crash and die, after church this five year old girl was crossing the street and was hit bya moto... she is in the hospital now, I am sure she is going to be okay, after she was hit the guy picked up his bike and drove off. Then we had this boy, the barbosa boy, gethit. He is fine (one of the pictures is me and the boy and the two girls outside their house). But as you can imagine the mom freaked... she only has one boy left... she lost the other two. We watched how to find faith in Christ and she said great movie but I still dont believe in Christ. We talked with her and we are really trying, I feel terrible. She has gone through so much. But her kids want to get baptized which is great but Elder Bitnoff and I wont do it unless they are baptized as a family. If we baptize the kids now they will go inactive within 2 weeks, but if you baptize them as a family they have a better chance of making it. So we have toget them married first and there is a lot hat we have to work with like the parents... they need to grow a lot stronger in the gospel. But just keep them in your prayers and I am sure that everything will be great.
But once again... much to say and so little of time. I have soo many stories but soooo little time. I hope all is well with the family and I am not sure if I have ever told you but I really look forward toi your e mails and letters.... they really help me out. I recived a packet of letters forwarded to me from the MTC... thank you Kris and tori and all of the nieces... that was awesome to recieve that. But I am in Uruguay now just so everone knows.
and to answer your question dad it takes about 7 to 10 days for mail to get to uruguay and we recieve our mail ever tuesday so depending on when they get it in the office it could take from 8 to 20 days to get to me which is not terrible.
But I hope all is well. I know mom is super busy so kids help her out a bit. love you all...
Elder Blanco
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JOE!!! Hey man things sound good down there. Its kinda crazy when you break out of the world you are used to and get into the real world. I remember feeling like my personal struggles in life were so small after spending time in the mission seeing real problems. Just remember man that what you are bringing these people is hope. The gospel will bless these peoples lives so take it to them and testify. Dude you are doing great. Sounds like your comp is a good guy. Its a good policy to baptize families not kids as much as possible. Its not about numbers....its about people. Miss you man. Be strong keep up the good work and know that you really are doing an amazing work....the most important work that can be done.
ReplyDeleteYo Its Patrick, Got my call to Serve in Fiji, fijian speaking, just letting you know
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