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Lauriano and Romina baptism

Temple at the Leadership Conference

Lauriano and Romina baptism

Hey fam!

Well we had a good week. Pretty fun. First, some doubts to clear up.

The shoes I need replaced are the Hush Puppies. The Bjorns are fine. But if it still hasn't been ordered, don't worry about it. I don't want to take advantage of the warranty and stuff. It's all good.

There is a legend, an old wives tale, as it were, that the harder it rains and the wetter you get, the cuter your wife is going to be. It is a motivation to get us to work in the rain. True? We'll see. Not a trunky comment at all, just a little mission myth.

So good week, still have the same old investigators and are still looking for more. But the Balbi fam is doing great, only the son Ignacio could go to church, but he loved it and told his whole family about it when he got home. We got some of the paperwork we need to get them married (birth certificates for the kids) and we'll be going to the Registro Civil to see what the next step is. They are doing good and everybody but the 13 year old girl is diggin it. But she's 13, so we didn't really expect her to be in love with the idea. But she's working on it.

We baptized Lauriano and Romina on Saturday! Lucas their brother baptized them - he was baptized last month. It was a pretty good baptismal service, nothing outstanding, but it was good for the fam. We'll be baptizing the last two on the 25th, then they'll be a complete family! (us.jpg, fam.jpg)

We had the leadership seminar Monday and Tuesday. Here's a pic (temple.jpg) but it'll need some photoshop magic. It was pretty good, it was way too quick and it felt like we were rushing through. But we learned stuff and are going to get this area flying. Both me and Elder Luke went, which means we are either going to train or be a leader next change. Hmmm.... it'll be interesting.

Oh last week we had a visitor, Brother Gomez Paz, the Argentina MTC Coordinator (basically the MTC pres tells him what needs to get done, and Gomez Paz does it). He basically came to see the difference between MTC missionary work and mission missionary work. And to look at our spanish study habits (basically missionaries stop studying and learn VERY slowly after they get to the point of comfortably expressing what is in their head). It was pretty good, he just showed up with the ZLs and said that he was going to be with us for the afternoon. We took him to Balbi's house and put a baptismal date with Augustina's friend Julia. He had a really good experience and Pte Da Silva called me the next day to congratulate us for the work we are doing.

Oh, that reminds me... he also said that he liked my idea of doing a musical fireside in the stake and basically he is going to make it a multi-stake activity in Montevideo, and maybe do it in a couple of other zones in the interior and make it a big missionary thing. That's pretty intense. So Dad, I'll probably be having you do up an accompaniment for a song that we'll do a slideshow along with or something. We'll see. We're still on the surface of the planning stages.

Back to the subject, Hno Gomez Paz asked if I had been a DL/ZL, I told him yes, but not now. And he asked me if I had ever been assistant to the pres. HA! Of course not! He was like "Hmmm... weird, cause the president thinks really highly of you." Weird...

So... I think that's it for this week. Please be praying for the Balbi fam, that they can get married and baptized in October, and that we can find another prepared family.

Aight, love you all. Give a big hug to Tina and Emily for me!