June 13, 2011

Hola familia,
Sounds like everyone had a good week. Sounds like a long week of volleyball, but sounds like it was fun. That´s crazy that none of the snow in the mountains is melted still. Here, there have been lots of problems from a volcano that erupted in Chile, with the ash causing some cloud effect thing, so the Buenos Aires Airport has been closed for like a week, but it´s still getting a little colder every day, entering into winter.

This week we have still not had success in finding Zony, or appears that she could be avoiding us. We couldn´t teach María Luz either, because every appointment we had, Marta ended cancelling it for some reason or other, so it was a little bit of a frustrating week. But we were able to find a lot more new people than we have lately so that was really good. We found a college student named Rocío, that has been attending institute activities for almost 2 years, but he only received a couple of lessons from missionaries about 2 years a go. We went with another institute student from our ward, and it was really good. She feels that this is the true church, but a big problem is that she works Sunday mornings. So we hope that somehow that problem can be resolved, but we had a really good lesson. All the institute students in our ward already know her, so she´s already got friends and support in the church. We also set up an appointment this week to find her parents and her brothers, so that should be really good.

Sunday we had a special Stake Conference that was broadcast from Salt Lake for all of Argentina. Elder Zivic (from Buenos Aires, Argentina) directed and spoke. Elder Anderson of the 12 apostes spoke, and also Elder Packer and Hermana Wixon (who both had translators.) It was a really good conference, and they all spoke of their experiences that they had had in Argentina. Elder Packer said that this was his 13th time in Argentina, although he wasn´t actually here. Elder Anderson spoke about the duty that all young men have to serve missions, and the responsibities of parents and bishops to invite and push the young men to prepare and to serve honorable missions.

Time´s going by quite fast now, but I know this is the time that the Lord has given me to work in this great work, and I hope to find all those that have been prepared to be found and continue til the very end.

I´ll talk to you again family,
Love, David