Monday, February 3, 2020

Hey y'all! Sorry that I don ́t email last week, I got TRANSFERRED! I'm in a tiny town called Felicano, it's in the middle of the Argentine "outback" hahaa lots of cowboy stuff, just like my first area in San Cristóbal. My companion is Elder Nuñez from San Lorenzo, Paraguay. He ́s capo! We are having a blast since he's a pretty funny guy. We are actually opening this area to missionary work, which means the church is already here but there haven't been missionaries serving in a while. So, we are starting from scratch. Little records, and the town doesn thave many directions or addresses for the members, investigators, etc. So, it's pretty tough. But we had a MIRACLE! We were walking around lost as heck, not knowing where to go really, when we hear someone whistle for us to come over. We go over and he greets us "Elders of Israel, how's it going?" So I was like " are you a member Hermano?" and it turns out he was baptized a few years ago but moved to Buenos Aires. But 2 weeks ago he moved back into Feliciano with his girlfriend and her kids (one of them named Ian!!) We set up a time to go back to his house and we taught his girlfriend (named Jimena) about the Book of Mormon and the Restoration. She started to tell us her life story and she's been through some tough stuff! But now she's looking for a new start here with Alejandro (the member boyfriend) and her kids. We walked with them to church yesterday and she said that she loved the services (we rent a house that has a fireplace in the Sacrament room haha) and wants to get baptized! Whooo!!! When we passed by last night she told us that she had been reading the Book of Mormon a lot and watched the Joseph Smith movie (without us telling her anything about this stuff btw jaja) and she was crying and it was like WHHHAATTT?!?!?! She's AWESOME!! We are going to try to help them out with some basic needs stuff since their house has practically nothing, but it's so awesome to have a miracle like this my first week opening a tough area in the mission! I also went fishing today since we are in the country so I have some pics of that. Everyone in San Martín was sad to see me go. Emmanuel got baptized! And Luca was reading the Book of Mormon when he decided to see if it was true, so he went alone in his room to pray. Nothing happened, so he went back to reading and when he opened the book to the first few pages there's a painting of Jesus. He sat there for a few minutes looking at it and felt the Spirit manifest to him that the Book of Mormon does really testify of Jesus Christ! MIRACLE!!! (Read Moroni 10:4-5 to understand why Luca got his testimony the way he did) It has been incredible serving as a missionary here in Argentina. So many miracles, amazing people. I ́m so happy to be serving here!!! 1: Emanuel´s baptism! 2: Luca and Ingrid and their baby Paz! Capppooosss 3: Elder Nuñez (my new comp) and Elder Cavaleiri being himself as always jaja 4: Fishing in Feliciano (I didn´t catch it lol) 5: What Feliciano looks like

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