I´m writing this email today because we had TRANSFERS! I´m still in 5 Esquinas but I have a new companion!!! Elder Stallings from California/Colorado. We both came to Argentina at the same time, and he is my best friend from my group!!! I met him on Instagram a few months before we left for our missions and we became friends, obvio jaja. We´ve always had the dream to be companions, and now we can have a taste of reality!!! YAY He is super cool and has been in other areas of the mission like I have, and is a great worker. I´m super excited to have this transfer with him!! He can play the Piano like no other, and some of our investigators want to learn. so it looks like we will have some success!!! My old companion Elder Vallejo went to a new area called Rincón, which is across the river from us in Santa Fe. It was sad to leave him, but I´m glad in our time together I helped him turn his mission around.
This week we had a blast working and doing some good ol missionary work. A solar eclipse passed over us, and we werent in total darkness here but I got a cool pic of moon over the sun. I remeber the last time I saw a solar eclipse, back in August 2017. It was a few days before I got baptized, and I was playing basketball with the missionaries that taught me. Good memories haha. We also had a couple asados this week that were suuuuuper good. I try to look for any excuse to have asado. Like today is independence day here in Argentina, so we had a big ward cookout and played soccer, basketball and all that. I saw all my friends and converts from San Agustín and it was soooo sweet! They´re mad that i left them a while ago but I think they´re gonna be ok lol. We ate chori pan and asado, and it was awesome!!! Later we went to the shopping center with the zone leaders and we ran into a big independence day festival in the mall! It was a joda lol. Alto pday
Familia Lasso from Colombia came to church again! This time with their mom. It went great! There is a family that has been helping us getting them to church and they have kinda adopted them as their own kids haha. The kids want to be missionaries and love all the activities that we do. Elder Stallings and I are going to try to invite them to be baptized for the end of the month if the Spirit directs us to do so. They are super special and will be great missionaries!
We met and taught a new family, Familia Krum. They are a young couple that have a daughter thats 5, and they are all CAPOS!! They love cartoons and anime, and their favorite is Adventure time! These are my people haha. They already know the bishop and other members, and they received a misisonary lesson before we oficially met them, and they remembered ALL of it, and want to come to church too! They are super cool and I hope we can help them find Christ and develop their relationship with Him over the next few weeks :)
Weve also been doing service for some of the members, like helping them build their houses or clean up their gardens. That is my favorite part of missionary work, is to serve others as a refelction of my love to Heavenly Father and Jesus (Mosiah 2:17). We should always be looking for ways to serve, even if its a quick message over facebook or an email to your favorite missionary in Argentina haha. As we do so, I promise you that we will make the world a better place, even when the people we try to help reject or deny our offers to love and help them.
In my mission last week I hit my 8 month mark, and I´m so happy that I´m doing the Lord´s work here. I have seen the Gospel bless individuals, FAMILIES, souls, everything. This is the covenant path that we all need to be on, especially in these latter-days. All the people I have met here are amazing sons and daughters of God, my brothers and sisters. Everyday I love this work, even when my body hurts and my mind is exhausted, when people dissapoint me, I still love this work. The passion I have for these people, this country, this culture, it makes me so happy that I acted on a propmting I had after a overnight roadtrip 2 years ago to have my dad contact the elders to learn more about this church and a peculiar blue book I had been seeing lying around the house a lot. Now, I hold the holy priesthood from God to bless lives down here and throughout my life. This Church is true, and I will always cherish the blessings that came from being true to the faith. Congrats to one of the misisonaries who taught me, he finished serving my people in the Kansas Wichita mission this week. Elder Bischoff, my boi!!! I love you so much bro!
Love you all so much!! Read the Book of Mormon and pray everyday!!!
- Élder Englebright (El Ruso)
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