Dear family,
Thanks for the pictures the emails and the updates. Looks like you all had a great week and a fun vacation to Mirror Lake. This week has been really normal for me. We had some good lessons with our investigators where we really felt the spirit. I know that they are going to get baptized but I´m not sure if I´m going to be here when that happens. None of our investigators came to church this week and they need to come three times to be baptized. So, if things don´t work out this week I don´t think that I´m going to be able to see any of my investigators be baptized. But, I´m going to keep working hard anyways.
It doesn't matter if I´m here to see them be baptized or if I´m somewhere else, what really matters is that they can make this important decision, take this step and then stay faithful so that one day we can see each other again in Heaven. Like it says in Doctrine and Covenants 130:2 The same sociality that we have here will exist there (in Heaven) only that it will be accompanied with a Celestial Glory. That´s one of the greatest promises for a missionary that serves outside of his home country. Because the probability that I see any of the people that I have taught thus far is kind of slim. Just because I don´t know if I´ll have the opportunity to come back here to Argentina to visit them.
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But, I know that if we remain faithful we WILL see each other again in Heaven. That is what makes saying goodbye less difficult. It´s still hard to say goodbye to people you love but I know that I´ll see them again one way or another our paths will cross. The other thought from this week is learning to perservere with patience and with faith. Because a lot of the time this week it has been cold and rainy. Yesterday my comp and I spent about two hours walking around in the rain trying to find somebody that would talk to us and let us visit them. We didn´t have any luck but we did have a good experience. I know that I gave it my best, I really don´t know anything else that my comp and I could have done in those hours but I am proud of what we did. We invited everybody that we saw to listen to us and we tried to visit just about everybody that we know. It was a fun day and definitely helps you to realize that God is the person that is in charge of this work, it isn´t us and it isn´t the people we visit. God has His hand in everything and everything that happens to us is to help us learn or to allow us to be the answer to somebody else´s prayer.
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I´m so grateful to be a missionary and now that I´m getting closer to the end I realize a lot more that it doesn´t matter how much or how little time you serve God He will use you as He needs you and you will ALWAYS keep learning. It´s such a wonderful thing that we can always keep progressing and learning. I love this work, I love God, I love Argentina and I am so grateful to be able to serve others. Hope you all have a great week and that all goes well for you.
Love you tons!
Michael