tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44520458999654841212024-03-13T20:06:38.720-07:00Elder Brock Hardcastle - Argentina Buenos Aires North MissionBrockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476717245286268416noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452045899965484121.post-37256071482547740172017-06-06T12:04:00.003-07:002017-06-06T12:04:56.695-07:00See You All Soon Enough<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Good afternoon from
Good Aires (haha I changed it up a bit this time)!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So our miracle
investigator got baptized yesterday! So that was the big news of the week! I am
so happy to be working in El Talar and to see miracles as we work with the ward
in the work of the Lord!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This week was super
tranquila because my companion developed some back problems and hasn't been
able to move very much. We were able to work maybe a few hours every day, but
we spent the majority of the time in the apartment. But I was able to get a lot
of things done like sewing to repair my pants, organizing and updating the area
book, a few power naps, studying Spanish and calling (and recalling) lots and
lots of old investigators. We can't slack off so close to the end! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Buuuut, I guess that
moment is getting pretty close. This will be my last letter as a missionary for
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints here in Argentina. It feels
weird to write this, and it doesn't quite seem real yet. Has it really been two
years?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Just so you know, I
love Argentina and treasure the moments I spent here. It's quite different from
Cache Valley, but still pretty darn great. And there are some STRONG members of
the church here, I really admire their dedication and efforts to live the
Gospel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I can honestly say
this is not how I thought the mission was going to be. Before heading out and
in the beginning of my mission, I thought that being a missionary would be
hard, but easy in its purpose: I would leave the apartment right on time every
day talking to everyone. I would be so motivated and obedient and have my mind
on the prize the whole time, and my companion as well. Oh, also I would learn
to speak Spanish really quick. I would have lots of success for my righteous
desires. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Reality hit me pretty
early on. Needless to say, I didn't experience the mission I thought I would.
But maybe, maybe I experienced one just a little bit better. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Through the heat, the
walking, the rejection, the exhaustion, and the problems with Spanish, people,
and many other things, I was faced with a fair share of difficulties and
tripped up a few times. I was not the perfect missionary I thought I would be.
But whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and through the trials and the failures
and the difficult moments, I learned some priceless lessons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My testimony and
conversion has grown and now reaches new dimensions. I remember leaving my home
well aware that I did not know the answers to all of my soul's questions, but
with great desires of obtaining a conviction of eternal truths I had been
taught all my life. The lord truly qualifies who He calls, and through this
marvelous experience, I have come to love my Savior, Jesus Christ. I treasure
the words John V. Pearson wrote in the hymn 'I Testify of Jesus Christ':<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have not touched His
wounded hands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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holy face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But I have felt His
love for me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And heard His gentle
voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have learned the He
truly is real. He knows us, and loves us, and knows what we need. He gave us
His gospel so that we could become better. I know that grace is real, and that
it is available to all those who chose to follow Jesus Christ. The scriptures are
the instructions to a blessed and prosperous life and eternity. We are not
perfect, not even close, but we can become <i>perfected</i> through
Him as we follow His example. He tries our patience and our faith, but it is so
we can be transformed into new creatures and reach altitudes otherwise
impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thank you for your
prayers and for your letters and for motivating me to be better! I am so
blessed to have such an awesome crew backing me up. I love you all! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">See you all soon
enough,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Elder Hardcastle=)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ward mission leader and us<span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15336219155712195470noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452045899965484121.post-50532927552129413492017-05-30T11:29:00.000-07:002017-05-30T11:29:27.767-07:00¡Falsos Profetas!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So this week consisted
of lots of work. Pretty much everything fell through, buuuuut the good thing is
that we had another lesson with the referral we received last week! We taught
her the Plan of Salvation and she told us that it really helped her know where her
husband is and we talked a lot about how she needs to be strong to not only
work towards her salvation, but also how she needs to help her husband now with
his! So that was nice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Also yesterday we met
with our miracle investigator. Since he works every day except for Sundays, we
had to cram in everything he hadn't learned yet during the lesson. But it's
cool because he just accepted everything! BUT PRAY FOR HIM GUYS. Please.
Everything is going so well with him, I know the dark side is going to try and
play some sort of trick. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This week we had interviews
with Presidente and Hermana Smith and our zone leaders. Remember how I was
working on contacting more? Yeah well it's good that I was practicing because
they told us that the mission needs to be doing more than double the contacts
that we were doing! That was Friday and then all our appointments
fell through Saturday, so we had lots of time to reach the new goal, and
we did it! So yeah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">AND THEN yesterday we
got a call from the elders in Los Polvorines (one of my old areas) and they had
a referral for us, who had a baptismal date for the 11 of June! So that's
another piece of good news! The blessings really come rolling in at the end of
the mission!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Here and some of the
fun things that have happened this week while we were contacting:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We met a man that said
God was an extraterrestrial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that she was the god over everything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I totally caught
another old lady LYING to us when she gave us her direction. But I didn't want
to drop the cane on her so I was so ''okay thanks bye''. She seemed so nice
though...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A crazy man came up to
us as we were talking to a friend of ours who sells popcorn and told us that we
were false prophets (falsos profetas). We had run into him before so I knew it
was just a lost cause, so after a brief moment of putting up with his whole
deal I was like ''yeah, no'', and just walked away. Ain't nobody got time for
that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But yeah! that was it
for the week! And then today we went to a shopping mall that was SUPER CHETO
called Nordelta. But I didn't find H&M so I'm really starting to doubt that
it I'll even find it here in Buenos Aires... BUT I DID FIND PEPPERIDGE FARMS
PRODUCTS. So I let my companion try a little bit of heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">See you all soon
enough!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15336219155712195470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452045899965484121.post-58167521634924917382017-05-25T13:38:00.000-07:002017-05-25T13:38:25.384-07:00MILAGROS<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">G'day mates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So this week was pretty
amazing. Usually there are like two or three good highlights of the week, but
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still trying to focus on sharing 30 Books of Mormon with return visits every
week. This challenge is pretty rough for me because it's not like you can just
talk with five people and hand out five Libros de Mormón, it varies on the day,
the weather, and the area. And if I focus on all the Books I still have to give
out and how many people don't want them, Élder Hardcastle can get just a tad
exhausted. But I came up with a different idea: instead of focusing on all the
books I was needing to hand out, I was going to focus on just opening my mouth
more. So, I began by setting myself a personal goal for contacts, hoping to
reach the goal of Books of Mormon. Well Tuesday I reached my goal well
before lunch, and thought, ''Well, this isn't so bad, I can keep going!'' Up to
this point I hadn't given out any books, but as I went for 'bonus contacts', we
started finding good people! And shortly after we were able to give away three!
Just a small change in my perspective was able to help me work a lot more
positively!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we went to the hospital and waited again. We thought they were going to cut
into my companion's hand to take out whatever was bothering it, but they
didn't. We had to make another appointment for the following week to take it
out. Then we took the train to get to the district meeting right after it ended
(thanks to all my extracurricular trips in the mission my knowledge of the
Buenos Aires' public transportation is quite extensive), then the bus we took
to go back to El Talar popped a tire, so we made it right in time to start
preparing for our ward activity. I was sitting at the piano playing prelude
(more piano stories later) when my companion comes running up to me and tells
me to look at his hand. He had begun to play with the infected part and applied
some pressure, and this little tiny piece of organic something a few
centimeters long shot out of his hand. It was kind of a gross strange miracle,
but hey! One less trip to the hospital this week, and more time to work!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thursday I celebrated 23 months as a missionary for the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, and we were blessed with another miracle. So a few
days before, my companion contacted a lady selling cactus and though she was
nice she wasn't interested, but we were able to obtain a referral from her of a
lady whose husband died a few months ago. We went and contacted the house but
she wasn't available. THEN on Thursday we saw the same lady selling
cactus and she asked if we were going to go talk to her referral. It wasn't in
our plans, but I said we would so a bit later we tried again and were met by a
man. We explained to him who we were and a bit of why we were there, and he
said that the referral was home, but she didn't want to receive any visits
because she wasn't doing so good. But then a few moments later she had a change
of heart and let us in. We had a really great talk with her! Her husband died
right before Christmas and she thought with time her wounded heart would heal,
but it had only been getting worse and she was in a bad place. We asked her
what she was doing to get closer to Christ and she said she wasn't doing
anything. So we shared the Book of Mormon with her and after a bit she started
doing better! She accepted the Book of Mormon and said she would keep reading
it and that she would pray and go to Church on Sunday! She told us after
that God had sent us because she was doing really bad. I love being used as an
instrument in God's hands. Especially since we never would have found her by
just contacting because she lives right next to an evangelist church! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It was probably one of the best days of my whole mission. The only really bad
part was that I had to play piano in Sacrament meeting and I really slaughtered
Jesus Once of Humble Birth. I'm definitely a two-talent piano player and not a
five-talent one. But other than that, it was glorious! Do you remember the man
that went to Church last week,? Yeah, well he went to Church again yesterday,
so that was a great start. Then I didn't have to teach Gospel Principles
because last week the ward sustained an actual teacher to teach it. Then the
bishop drove us home from church (we live only a few blocks away but still).
Then our vianda had a 600g bag of cookies and we ate them all that day, and we
were able to take a 10 minute siesta. Then later on we went over to the house
of the miracle referral we received because she didn't go to church. I was
starting to doubt her level of interest because our visit the day before
had fallen through, but wow, all that changed when we saw her. She was doing so
much better! She told us that our first visit had really changed her attitude,
and she was so grateful. She is functioning again! I think she didn't go to
church because her family came over to visit, and she hadn't been able to talk
to us on Saturday because she had to do some trámites (I still don't
know what that word is in English sorry). But she told us that she had read the
Book of Mormon, and accepted another visit. MILAGRO. And then she went to
mom-mode and asked if we were going to stay outside in the cold without coats
on, haha. But yeah, I feel really confident that she will really accept the
Gospel and see it work in her life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">AND THEN we had a
lesson with the investigator that went to church twice but with whom we never
could schedule a visit. We taught the Restoration with our ward mission leader,
and it was great. He accepted everything! and then he accepted a baptismal date
for June 3rd. Then we taught him the 10 commandments with the Word of
Wisdom and the Law of Chastity because by the way things look we may only be
able to teach him maybe once or twice a week. Once again, He accepted
everything without a problem. I am SO happy=)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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work is paying off! I love being able to serve as a missionary! It is the
hardest thing I have ever done, but I have come to know that God is truly good.
I have never been so certain of His love for me. Just do what He asks you to
do, I promise that you won't regret it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15336219155712195470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452045899965484121.post-28121956888701180082017-05-15T16:32:00.001-07:002017-05-15T16:32:49.471-07:00It's not Mother's day here.<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First off, HAPPY
MOTHER'S DAY to all you mothers out there. Mother's day doesn't come to
Argentina until October, but we can pretend, right?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this week was
pretty pleasant. We spent Tuesday 'relaxing' in the hospital. We got
there really early hoping everything would be running punctual, but it was all
quite the opposite. And so we waited and waited and then finally got in but the
doctor then sent us to a different one. Then we went to wait for the different
doctor (a plastic surgeon to be precise) to get in and for our number to show
up on the screen. And when we got in, the doctor started gouging into his hand
with tweezers. He got something out, but it seems as though there's still more
in there, soooo we'll have to go in again tomorrow!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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had Zone Conference in San Fernando! We talked about how we need to talk to
more people and the best and most direct way to do it. The conference was
complete with real-life practices, in the street. And my companion was
Presidente Smith! So that was pretty special. We were only outside for like
thirty minutes but it was pretty intense. We found some pretty cool people
though so we passed on the referrals to their respective areas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then came Thursday.
Shortly after leaving the apartment that morning we got a call from our
district leader, telling us that he had just gotten off the phone with
Presidente Smith, who had promised morning for the zone if we talked with as
many people as we could. So we were like, ''well, okay!''. We decided to go and
start contacting in the more commercial part of our area, and we just started
talking! And we shared six Books of Mormon! We had to actually finish early and
go back to the apartment and get more Books of Mormon because we used all the
ones that we were carrying! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then Sunday was
full of MILAGROS. It started by having a possible investigator going to Church
with us. He was a contact that we did a few weeks ago, but was always really
busy with work and so we never could go by to teach him. But our ward mission
leader (seriously Hno Soria is the best one I've ever had) told us to try and
talk to him again and we did and he came to church and it was a really good
experience. If he is able to change his work schedule, he is going to get
baptized. AND THEN we ate lunch with the Arce family, which is the best and
made me ñoquis because they know that I love them, and then I got to talked to
my mom and company. AND THEN later that day we were walking after an
appointment just fell through with Hno Soria when I saw a man seated by the
side walk, and I received the impression to talk to him. We went over to talk
to him and he is really cool. He is around my age and is going through some
tough things in his life right now and wants to get on the right track. And
while he was talking to us, both my companion and I felt impressed to invite
him to be baptized, and he accepted! So that was awesome. Let's just hope all
goes well from here! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well folks, That's
about it for this week. My companion and I are getting along really well, and
we are working so that we can see more progress in our area. I don't feel like
it's really getting near the end! There is still so much to do! I'll try to
keep one keeping on, don't worry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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from a few weeks ago, featuring my joggers and my alpargatas (you don't knoow
what you are missing family)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hello gang! ¿Cómo están?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interesting week here in El Talar! Elder Albanese and I are adjusting very well
to the change! He is really great and obedient and diligent, so we are
getting along quite well. The only problem is that in his first area he fell
and got some sort of organic matter wedged into his hand, but couldn't get it
out because he wasn't on the Church health plan yet. Well, now in his third
transfer, he has a small lump on his hand and when we went to the emergency room
to get it looked at, the doctor told us that he would need surgery... so now
the mission nurse is going to talk with the area doctor to figure things out.
He is my sixth companion that I've taken to the doctor (not counting the other
two visits I did during exchanges with other elders), so I'm pretty much an
expert and have visited all the major hospitals in Buenos Aires. They say the
mission prepares you for life but I really hope this doesn't mean lots of
visits to the doctor in my future<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this place. I am looking to go outwith a bang so we started contacting with a bang
and have been really working on talking to and finding more people. Wednesday morning
we left the apartment at 10 and seriously by the time we returned around one
o'clock in the afternoon, we were whooped. Good thing I am taking vitamins
to keep this body going! haha but while we were out knocking on doors, I saw a
man in a tree cutting down the branches on the other side of the house. I felt
the need to contact him, but I was like 'uhh that is really awkward. no.'
and I went over to contact the other house. Buuut the feeling did go away so I
let the Spirit win and got out on the pass along cards and yelled, ''Sorry to
bug you but we want to leave this with you''. And he got down from the tree to
talk to us! It turns out he talked with the missionaries ages ago! So
there you go. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of contacts but mainly we just prepared the people to accept the Gospel in the
future. We were taught once that it usually takes someone seven encounters with
the Church before they accept the Gospel. So we might as well work hard now so
others can reap the results later, haha. And this Sunday I was a bit
disappointed for the lack of results we were seeing, so I said a prayer and got
back to contacting in the rain. Lo and behold, the second person I contacted
accepted a Book of Mormon and a visit! I think a motto/motivational phrase I
could probably put on my mission would be ''Maybe this one.''. That lead me to
chase down a family the other day but in the end I think they thought I was
going to rob them, but it's all good=) Sometimes it's disappointing to not see
the success you want, but it isn't our work; it's the Lords, and He will bless
us according to His own will and pleasure. If we do our work and never lose
hope, we can at least have the satisfaction that we did our part, and the
blessing is on the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now. Oh and also last week I deep fried Oreos. Thanks for the idea, Elder
Steele!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sooo. Let's cut to the
good stuff first. Today they gave us our transfers. My very last... qué raro...
but yeah. You ready?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I'm staying in El
Talar! And my new compañero is Elder Albanese, from Uruguay! Don't ask me
anything about him yet, I didn't even know he existed until today. I think he
is just fresh out of his training, and I hope he is ready to work hard and be
obedient here because this Elder Hardcastle is an old feller now and has no
time to youthful shenanigans. haha but I'll tell you more about him next week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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report from these last few weeks... The weather has been crazy, which I guess I
should be used to by now. I had to break out my heavy coat with scarf and
everything because we have freezing rain! The good thing was that the Relief
Society president called us during our exercises to tell us to be prepared, so
that was really kind of her. But now it is super hot and sunny. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hunt for new investigators and our search has been a bit unfruitful. I can't
control how many people want to accept the message that will change their life,
but I can at least give them the opportunity to learn it! This last week
Presidente Smith asked all of us to start working more
between 10am and our lunch appointments. I actually quite like
working in the morning and doing our studies in the afternoon (we were pretty
much already doing it) and one of the tender mercies is that it's the time of
day when all the cats come out to play=) I love it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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transfer. It's weird to think about reaching the end of this marvelous
adventure, so I'm going to try to not think about it too much and just work
whatever I can. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ward activity presented by the missionary department; brain-child of the
hermanas that we share the ward with. It was a trip through the life of Jesus,
but solely through listening and touch. Things were passed around while I read
a condensed version of the life of Christ found in the scriptures (for example,
a baby doll for His birth, a backpack of hymn books for the atonement, and
fabric for the folded linen in an empty tomb, etc.). It was really cool and the
members that came really enjoyed it! <o:p></o:p></div>
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went to Benavidez for divisiones (exchanges). Elder Cortaza’s great and a
really humble leader. We went and talked with a less active lady who wants to
return to the Gospel after living many years practicing a different religion.
She was with a friend who was a bit elderly but quite entertaining, even though
she wasn't too interested in our message. As we were finishing up the visit I
gave her one of our Easter pass-along cards which has the face of our Savior on
it. Upon receiving it and observing it for a moment, she let out a joyous
''¡EPA!'', which is the Argentine equivalent of Uncle Karl's ''Yeah, buddy!''. Jesus makes us happy, what can I say? =)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Quorum of the Twelve Apostles came and talked to us today. We had to wake up a
bit early, but it was worth it. One of the things I love about being in this
mission is that we cover the headquarters of the South America south area, so
we have neat opportunities to meet some of the leaders in the Church. President
Nelson wanted to shake all of our hands and so that makes two apostles of the
Lord that I've shaken hands with! Haha and when I went up to shake his hand he
and his wife read my nametag and Sister Nelson told me, ''Great last name!''
yep. I like it too =) It was a really neat devotional; all the area presidency
(Elder Texeira, Elder Packer, and Elder Bragg) and their wives spoke to us and
the Bs As west mission. Sister Nelson gave a really good talk about how the
mission will prepare us for life, because it if full of great moment and less-
great moments. My favorite quote from her was, ''The adversary is just so
boring. He's so predictable!'' haha. And President Nelson talk a lot about our
lineage being from the house of Israel and how we were foreordained to be
missionaries and to bring the world his truth. And then after, since it was
like the first time in a year since all the mission has been all together, we
took some time to take pictures. Just some good fun for a missionary =)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Read your scriptures! See you all soon enough!<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of my favorite experiences from this week was Saturday morning.
We went to go and contact and visit old investigators in the street France.
While there I felt inspired to go talk to a couple who was selling chocolate Easter
eggs. It turns out that the husband is an old investigator from about seven or
eight years ago! and they want to learn more. And he makes a great chocolate
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her son (she's separated) and she is VERY evangelica, but we were able to have
a very spiritual lesson with her, and is going to read the Book of Mormon. I'm
really excited to work with her and her 19 year old son, they are very
religious and are willing to change if they feel like this is the true path! I
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Another week has come
and gone here in the great Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission. It started out
quite strange, to be honest. After finishing up Pday we were walking and we ran
across two señores who we had never met that were less actives. And they wanted
to talk so we decided to go over to the church and talk there since we were
close by. My companion thought they looked a bit shady but it all turned out
good! And then later in the day we passsed a member in the street and were able
to invite her friend to learn more! And then that day as we were walking back
to the apartment another young adult came and talked to us! So, it was probably
some of the three most eventful hours of my mission! haha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about the young guy for a second. We'll call him Miguel. He is really great!
Miguel came to church yesterday and is really eager to start coming to Christ.
He was an antiguo invesitgador so I looked up his record, and he met the missionaries
like six years ago and lots tried but with little success. But, it just
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miracle on the same note! A couple of weeks ago we met a 16 year old who showed
interest in learning more, but then afterwards we never found him at home. Then
this last Friday we found him in the street and taught him a little bit about
the Book of Mormon, and he accepted a baptismal date. Obviously, we can't go
around teaching minors and we went to talk to his dad. Sadly, the dad said that
he was not going to allow that we teach his son, that he was already teaching
him ''in his own way.'' I was kind of sad at the end but thought that all will
be okay, in a little bit more than a year he will be 18 and be able to have
more liberty in making choices. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to finish the challenge that our mission president gave a us few months ago of
reading Jesus the Christ. THAT IS A BIG BOOK. But it has helped me understand
more about my Savior and has strengthened my testimony that He really is the
Christ and this is His church. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great Easter, but don't forget the reason for the season! I love the Savior.
Read about his life, watch the videos that the Church made <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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came today. So... See you all soon enough!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So how are you all? This week we had lots of things going on
like zone conference, a baptismal interview, a baptism, and GENERAL CONFERENCE
which left us with pretty much just two full days of work. But it's all good
because Conference was full of inspiration and revelation, and this week will
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This week I learned that there is no such thing as an easy
baptism. We have been working with this wonderful little grandma named Ester.
She is the mother of a lady that got baptized about 21 years ago and is such a
dear lady. I got to El Talar and the Elders had already been teaching her and
she was so ready I thought, “This will be the easiest baptism ever!” WRONG. Trying to get everything done in the
Lord's way was hard, and even though there was quite a bit of opposition and
stress in the process, we held to our integrity and Ester was able to be
baptized before the Saturday Conference with a last minute surprise
visit from Presidente Smith to support her!<o:p></o:p></div>
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And GENERAL CONFERENCE. I love listening to the leaders of
this Church. They are truly inspired by our Father in Heaven. I especially
enjoyed the continued theme of the Godhead and listening and following the
promptings of the Holy Ghost THE FIRST TIME THEY COME. I know I am guilty of
letting the little thoughts go by justifying them and putting up excuses, but
Conference gave me a little nudge telling me that I need to work on acting
first and asking questions later. And of course, L. Whitney Clayton gave one of
my favorite talks, speaking about being obedient to the small things to see
solutions to the big problems in our life. So, I ask you guys: Are you studying
the scriptures daily? Are you keeping the Sabbath day holy or just going to
church? Are you praying every day? If you are lacking in these things, I'd like
to invite you to starting doing them=) I know that by doing these things we
come can nearer to our Savior! I know I have found lots of strength and peace
and joy as I have tried my best to do this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sweating again :( so that's a little bit of a downer,
but that's something of little importance because lots of great things happened
this week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was transferred! I am now in El Talar, with Elder Oyola
from Perú. We get along really well so far and I really enjoy the area. I have had the chance to meet with some of
the members and feel their desires to advance the missionary work in the
area. I felt a lot of the missionary spirit in Church, I think in every hour
there was some comment about how we need to share the Gospel with others! I
love that! I have had some ideas and the counselor in the bishopric who is our
mission leader shows lots of promise. I am really excited!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And we also have a
baptism this Saturday! Even though it is an older lady who will be
attending in a different ward after with her daughter, I hope it will be
another boost to their ánimo (how do you say that in English?).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week we spent lots of time in the street trying not to
get too lost and also spent some extra time cleaning. You can't feel the Spirit
so strong in a dirty apartment! also the toilet was broken and water would get
all over the floor, but it has been fixed, and after many trips to the garbage
and a few bottles of bleach later, it's starting to look pretty good! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, today we played fútbol for the first time in ages (I
was dreading this moment). The good news is that I've gotten better! the bad
news is that I'm still the worst. It's a good thing we aren't here to share
soccer to the world, or I'd be a goner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as I am! I looooooove reading the conference talks, our leaders are truly
inspired by God! So preparense bien and write down a few of your questions,
because it's going to be good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and forgot to write about some of the excitement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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start out with the Great Mosquito Massacre, Last week a big storm passed through
Baradero in the middle of the night, and our air conditioning stopped working
and just started beeping. I got up and tried turning it off, but the remote
couldn't turn it off, so I had to climb up a chair and turn off the thing (air
conditioning is weird here, I'll explain another day if you have interest).
But, in an effort to still have cool air circulating through the room, I opened
the window and let some of the cool stormy breeze in. Later that night I heard
buzzing around my head. and then again. and again. And I knew- it was mosquitos.
I ran downstairs and grabbed the mosquito killer spray we had and started
spraying it around the room. Unfortunately, it didn't work as well as hoped, or
perhaps it was too late and the damage was already done, because when I woke up
I had mosquito bites all over my arms and head and neck. It was horrible. I had
like 74 bites. And the little nasties were hiding all over the room, so I kept
the killer spray on hand (it worked really good for direct kills) and during
our morning studies I would stop every so often to kill the filthy creatures. They
were FILLED with blood. I have photo proof. The good news is that my companion
didn't wake up and had few bites, if any; I don't have dengue (yet); and I killed all
the mosquitos. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have tried just about everything possible, I called almost every person in the
Area book, we called the people in our future investigator sheets, we contacted
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we walk. I want to see how much I have walked here in Baradero. But Thursday
was an eventful day. For starters, we had six dogs follow us, and at one point
five of them at the same time! And then I found a hidden alley I hadn't even
seen before so we decided to enter and contact. I contacted a house and the man
that answered played the ''Look over there!'' game with us. Well, he got me to
look and closed the door when we weren't looking=) It was really classy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wouldn't you like to learn more about Jesus?''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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her for answering well. I like to throw in the ''Wouldn't you like to learn
about Jesus?'' question every so often, and you'd be surprised by how many
people say no! It makes me sad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with a man who couldn't accept that the Book of Mormon could have the same
value as the Bible. Even though we
shared many things and testified, he kept talking in circles bringing up the
same excuses, Oh well. I had prepared WELL for the lesson, so if nothing more I
came out with a stronger testimony of the necessity of the Book of Mormon. Go
read 2 Nephi 29 if you have any questions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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another nice testimony of the importance of our studies. We met with a less
active family from Bolivia that stopped coming to church for a few problems in
the branch. Just that afternoon in companionship study we had discussed the
importance of going to church, so it was perfect. The Hermana also told us that
she likes singing and music, so I asked if I could sing for them <i> Dónde
hallo el solaz?</i> (<i>Where Can I Turn for Peace?</i>) which we had sung
that day as well! It was a nice visit and I hope they start coming to church
because they are really great!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week. I love being a missionary! It is the greatest thing I have ever
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ALSO! So do you all remember that I was working with a family that needed to get married but needed to start the husband´s divorce first? yeah, well they finished their papers and turned them in! So now they just have to wait! The wife has received her answer and they went to church again this week, and their kids were the most reverent ones in the meeting! haha. I probably won't be here for the wedding or the baptism of the wife, but I am just so happy with their progress I am so sure that everything will turn out great!<br /><div>
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Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15336219155712195470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4452045899965484121.post-16864589539014294092017-03-11T15:53:00.000-08:002017-03-11T15:53:32.485-08:00Running Around<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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weeks have been filled with running all around the mission! We had a mission
tour with Elder Levrino from the Seventy, baptismal interviews, interviews with
President Smith, and another meeting in San Isidro, But we kept a good attitude
through it all and This last week we were able to find quite the quantity of
investigators! OPEN YOUR MOUTH haha. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was pretty cool. Elder Levrino and his wife spoke to us A LOT about obedience
and repentance. Like a lot. Much was said about the difference between the
mission rules and some mission 'traditions' that aren't in line with the rules.
Many misunderstandings were cleared up. Pte Smith is really doing his best to
make sure we are doing all that we can so that we receive lots and lots of
blessings! Personally, my favorite part of the conference was when Hna Levrino
gave an object lesson about repentance. She brought cake and I got to eat some
of it served to me by a missionary tied up! Interesting and satisfying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wonderful miracle this week. Two weeks ago when I went to do a baptismal
interview in Zárate, I managed to obtain a referral! So this last week we went
to go looking for the man (it wasn't the most specific address... complete with
a quick drawing in my planner haha). We managed to find the house, but the man
that answered us said that the person we were looking for wasn't home. He was
nice though so we decided to take advantage to the situation to invite him to
learn more, but he wasn't to interested, and we left. Well fast forward to Friday.
We were headed to the bus terminal which is like thirty blocks away from our
house so we called a remis (taxi), and guess who was our driver? The same guy
who talked to us at the door! When we got to the terminal he asked me for the
book I has showed him (el Libro de Mormón, obvio), so we arranged to visit him.
Now fast forward to the next day. We get to the house and the man really opens
up to us. He admits that he is really the man we were looking for in the first
place, and tells us that after he first met us, he saw us like the next day or
so in town, and then again when we got in his car. He decided that it could not
be a coincidence and wanted to figure out what we trying to teach him. HE told
us as well that he lost his wife about 16 years ago and since then has felt
like a part of him was empty, we testified that he will be able to see his wife
again and gave him Alma 41 to read! We are going to pass by his house again
this week, pray for the best!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and family! It's me again. Checking in from a very soupy Baradero. My poor
companion is sweating PROFUSELY. Always. But we are enjoying working together.
Elder Tolentino cracks me up, we are laughing a whole bunch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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strange because we did multidivisiones as a zone (multi-exchanges.) I stayed in
my area and helped my friend Elder Dote from Chile get to know Baradero. But
here's the kicker: we only worked from 5-9 (I sincerely hope that Dolly Pardon
just sang that in your head) because..¡SORPRESA! Buses come to our area only
once in a blue moon. But it was fun while it lasted. And the Next day we had to
go back to Zárate to finish the exchanges, and once again we got back to
Baradero just to work the late afternoon. And then the next day was Weekly
planning, o sea, three more hours in the apartment. But what we could do Friday and Saturday we
did, and we eagerly waited for Sunday because we had quite a few
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and as usual, we were met with a curve ball. The member that was going to help
us look for a family of investigators in his car slept in, making it pretty
much impossible for us to look. Our progressing investigator didn't come, and
another investigator with lots of potential didn't either. So I was sitting in
the church at peace with my efforts, because I knew I had done all that I
could, but just the tiiiiiiniest bit grumpy. Luckily one investigator came and
stayed for all the meetings. Still a bit grumpy after lunch we began to work,
which included visiting many of the people that were going to come but hadn’t. As we began to visit these people, I began to
feel a little bit more empathy. One investigator had made it to the door of the
church but got cold feet at the last minute and didn't enter. Another didn't go
because he needed to solve a problem that had occurred with another person. One
family didn't go because their phones were on silent and didn't hear the alarm,
but hadn't smoked the whole day, Which was big, big news! I've learned that we
are all imperfect. We make mistakes. Meeting with these investigators after
helped me understand their situation and know what they need to learn and do so
that we can help them change to become more fully devoted followers of
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February 20. O sea, Today two years ago I opened up my mission papers, and
found out that I was called to serve in the Argentina Buenos Aires North
Mission. If you stalk my Facebook, surely you will find video footage recording
the grand event. I can honestly say I had no idea what I was getting myself
into. ¡SORPRESA! Without a doubt this has been the hardest thing that I have
ever done in my life. But I am so grateful for all the growth this experience
has given me. I now more fully understand who I am as a human being and as a
child of God, and how the Gospel of Jesus Christ helps me become more than I
could be on my own. I know how the Gospel needs to be lived and how it can be
applied in my life to yield wonderful results. I love being a missionary!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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came and he left me for the United States of America. This is the fifth
companion I have booted off to the States. This last one stung a bit, knowing
that he would be able to go to Cafe Rio and Jamba Juice and all that jazz, but
just two transfers more after this one and I'll be headed back home. It's
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well I have been doing some brainstorming about how I can better serve and love
the people. And I was thinking and thinking, and I think that one of the
attributes of love is going out of your way to help another. Elder Uchtdorf
once said that love is spelled T. I. M. E. And I decided a would take away a
bit of my free time at night (easy now that they give us an hour and a half)
and I make cakes! I bought myself a nice little Bundt pan and was ready to get
rolling. But then I ran into a dilemma, the recipe. At first I was walking
through the chino (supermarket owned by Chinese folk) looking for a bizcuchuelo
mix (like a quick cake mix) but couldn't find any! So, I was like well, it looks
like we are going to have to do this the old fashion way. So I went over to the
flour and looked on the bags to see if they had a simple cake recipe... and
there was! Being a missionary has made me very domestic. But it was a really
basic recipe, and I wanted something jazzy-er. So I put on my thinking cap
again, and received PURE REVELATION: Stick jello mix with it. So I did some
modifying to the recipe and have come out with a winner. Thus far I have made a
strawberry cake, a pineapple cake, and vanilla pudding cake. I make them and
the we give them to our investigators. It's hard not to love someone when you
give them a cake. So far the efforts have been satisfying, and we are excited
to keep up the work and to spread the love! Today I am working on a vanilla one
with chocolate frosting courtesy of Nesquick chocolate milk powder. Elder
Mussin left it in the apartment from when he left, and we are missionaries here
on a budget. Hay que aprovechar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great family this week! They are passing through a lot of trials right now and
want to get closer to Christ! They have a lot of potential, the only problem is
going to be how to get them to church, because they live on the other side of
town... but we'll worry about that when the time comes. One thing at a
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they are making progress! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY. When you find situations
like this, your faith gets put into play. At the beginning I was like ''I don't
know if we will be able to do this,'' But through small constant efforts, they
are progressing. They have gone to church now FOUR TIMES since I've been here
in Baradero, and the wife is on page 35ish of the Book of Mormon. REPENTANCE IS
REAL! And they told us to come over Wednesday to eat with them. And
yes, we did give them a cake. =) Pray
for them so that they can get the divorce and get married please! And then the
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missionary. I love serving others. I love baking. It's fun. Well, maybe not
every moment instantaneously, but all the good we do now gets turned into a
blessing, which means fun in the future as well, and I like that. SO WAKE UP
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Wowzers, sorry for being underground. It's just that these last fews weeks have been loco crazy, so I hope to write a lot right now! Are you ready?</div>
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I am sure the majority of you all know by now the news and changes that we are going through. AND THEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY! Oh going back to the apartment is so nice now because we can just relax. But on a more spiritual note, the training was amazing, just what I needed. With the taking away of many key indicators, I feel like we can dedicate our time fully to finding people to teach the gospel to and preparing them to make important, life-saving convenants with our Heavenly Father! It has definitely helped us... we have an invesitgator pool of around 11ish people! we just need to help them keep their committments and keep repenting, and they will be golden members of the restored church!</div>
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So a couple of weeks ago we were talking with a eldery sister in Baradero who told us that she would go and sing to her aunt who is in a assisted living center. So we said we wanted to go sing! So she prepared a day and then we went one day, we were in divisions but everyone wanted to go and so we manned up a quadruplet and sang! It was a residency of just cute little grandmas, and they fell in love with us, the dears. haha We are going to have to go sing there again! And it was a fun and simple way to brighten up their day, and ours!</div>
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So I'm twenty now. hmm. That sounds more grown up in english. veinte just doens't have the same maturity attatched to it. I really didn't want to do anything on my birthday, just work. I had kept really secret, but then my companion spilled the beans to the Luquez family (one of my favorite families an Argentina) and they prepared me a little something=) and I had ice cream cake! and then last monday for pday they made us an asado. It was nice and they made me feel special=) but now the fun is over and THE WORK IS ON! Just kidding. I still try to work and have fun=)</div>
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But speaking of work, the work is, as they say here, A FUL. We have been working hard with our investigators and really trying to help them accept the Gospel, and all of them still want to learn more, and so the number just keeps building, and we have so many people to teach! Like have need to get married before they can get baptized, so we are working with that, and then the rest just need to go to church. I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS SO HARD! but we had three in the church yesterday, and San Pedro had four, so we are happy for our slow but sure progress of our district. We have a baptism scheduled for next week, my first one in this area! I am so blessed!</div>
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...So as you can see, Elder Hardcastle is doing just fine here, and loving the mission. I can't believe how much the Lord blesses me. I really don't feel like I deserve it all, but he take my sorry efforts and brings them to life. Oh how great the goodness of our God! He knows us and is mindful of us. I am so grateful for Jesus Christ and the love and grace he gives me. I know I have a far way to go to be perfect, but he helps me on my way and I just am so sure he loves me and wants me to keep going strong. He is my example. I love Him</div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So today was great.
Yesterday we had to leave church a little bit early to catch a bus to go to
Zárate to meet up with the other leaders in the zone, then later catch a bus
and train to go to San Fernando and stay the night with the asistentes,
because today bright and early we needed to be in Buenos Aires city for a special
meeting with the four missions in the Buenos Aires province and Elder Stevenson
from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. And Elder Stevens gave us time to shake
his hand! so that was awesome. And then we had the GREAT training. Oh, it was
so good. I have a tooooon of notes. We talked a lot about how obedience is a
blessing and how we gain power in promising blessings and testifying. This man
is called of God. I felt it. And then afterwards we had a mini conference as
leaders in la gran mision Buenos Aires norte which actually ended up being
quite long, which is the reason I am writing this after 8PM. =) But there is
going to be some great things coming up in the future of the mission, we can just
feel it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This last week we taught a former LDM contact. The first time I saw her, last
transfer, she was yelling at one of her kids, haha. But I felt inspired to talk
to her, y ¡hay que hacerle caso al Espíritu! A person wouldn't think that
she would be the typè of person that would have interest in learning about the
Gospel, she has tattos all around her body, smokes, co-living, etc. Buuut she
accepted that Book of Mormon and another visit. Unfortunately, the appointment
fell through the first time, but in divisiones with Elder Jensen a little while
back, we passed by her house And I felt like we needed to go look for her again
so that we could talk again. She was there and we arranged for another visit.
This last Friday we went to her house and taught her the commandments and the
blessing we get when we follow them. We figured, ''well, if she still has
interest in learning more after this, we are going to have to keep on
visiting!'' we taught really well and with love, and even though she knows now
that she has lots of thing to improve in her life, she wants to make the
changes so that she can find more peace! It was perfect! She will need of
lot of miracles in order to make the changes, but I feel like she can do it.
Repentance will qualify us for the divine grace, which will be our strength to
carry on with the change. If she can experience the blessings of obedience, she
will continue perfecting herself in Christ.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beautiful world here in Baradero! A hot world. Holy cats I seriously about died on
Friday. And then again on Saturday. It was hot. But I drank a lot of water
so don't get too scared Mom! I haven't fainted yet! haha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seriously blessing us so much. Pretty much our efforts don't do anything. But
God sees us and is like ''aww these poor elders'' and then throws us UN
MONTONAZO of blessings. He sees our efforts! This week like ALL of our plans
fell through. Buuuut do you guys remember the miracle family that went to
church a few weeks ago with Hno Salas who is a temple worker? yeah well POR FIN
we had a lesson with the parents, and they accepted a baptismal date!! Wooot.
and we are also working with a man who is inactive and his wife who isn't a
member, and they are also progressing and are amazing and just have to get
married and go to church, and then she can get baptized as well! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last week. I killed my companion (again) and am training (again)! I am also
district leader! We affectionately call ourselves the outcasts because our
district is so far away from the rest of the mission, they just stuck us and
San Pedro together and called it good. so yeah. But San Barapedro is great and
Elder Jensen and I are super great friends from the Zona Chacabuco days and are
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Mussin, from el Talar. He is waiting for his visa to come so he can leave to go
to California. El Talar is actually a part of our mission, so until the visa
comes, he's stuck with us. He already has one transfer here in the mission so I
am just finishing up his training, but he pretty much knows how to do
everything already, so we just power through everything and try to put up with
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enjoying the new year and making good goals! But I hope you biggest goal is to
be a better follower of Jesus Christ. Because he knows what's best for you! So
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this week was pretty jazzy. We finished up the Zárate
zone choir with our last concert in Lima. It has been so fun to sing these
little villancicos in our zone. Afterwards we went to the church because the
zone leader had bought us empanadas and pizza, but the delivery guy came
pretttttttty late, so we had to eat quickly and get out. And then the next
morning I had to get up early because we had our mission Christmas activity,
and there were EIGHT of us staying in the apartment of the Zárate elders
(Living far away with crazy bus schedule problems really inconveniences us and
San Pedro. But I love it) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AND I needed a haircut (In Argentina hair cutting
places don't open on Mondays (o say, Pday)... don't ask me why.), so Elder
Rumualdo cut my hair (I had to help a bit), and my companion's hair, but he
sort of messed up and cut the sides to small, and well, as he says, it looks
like an hongo. And he's going home like in two days so it's fine, jaja=). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday was FUN! We had church at 11:20 so we
stayed in and I got to do some of my studies, and we wrapped some Libros de
Mormón in wrapping paper to give away later. Well, it was POURING rain. just
about the whole day. So I was kind of
scared I wouldn't be able to hand out my Christmas present, but then after
church before our Skype call we found someone who wanted to learn more, So I
got to hand out my book! It's probably one of the best Christmas presents I've
ever given. =)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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able to be all together and being, well, HARDCASTLES. It's weird to think that
now I only have one more Skype with them. Oof. I'm getting old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well now let's talk about The whole reason we have
Christmas, Christ, for a bit. So our mission President has asked us to read
Jesus The Christ every day as part of our personal studies, and So I am reading
it about 30 minutes every day, and I love it. I am learning so much more about
my Savior. I just finished the part where it talks about his adolescence. It
amazes me. HE amazes me. Go and read chapters 9 and 10. I am so grateful for me
perfect Savior. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enough!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15: And O how beautiful upon the mountains were their feet!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16: And again, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those that are still publishing peace!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That is my missionary joke for the week. I'm pretty sure my feet have never looked less beautiful. I've got some pretty beautiful blisters, I guess. But anywho... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">¡¡¡¡Feliz Navidad!!!! I really think it needs to be cold to be Christmas, but it's whatever. This week was insane! I don't think I've ever worked this much! We saw lot's of miracles as well. This week we had divisiones again, but this time Elder Rumualdo came to Baradero! For two days! There were lots of lessons learned. When Elder Rumualdo got here, we had the mindset of just talking to everyone, and we did it! He is such a great example to me, probably one of my favorite zone leaders of all time, even if he kept complaining for all the walking he had to do on the top-quality Baradero streets, haha. In those two days we gave out 14 Books of Mormon. It was miracle after miracle, seven books each day! I was so happy, and I thought, ''We can share 30 Books of Mormon this week.'' So I tried to keep up the fire with Elder Martínez and Saturday night we handed out the thirtieth book! And then Sunday was filled with miracles in church. One of our investigators came who said she wouldn't this week, and then Hermano Salas (We think he is part of the Bs As Temple Presidency) brought a FAMILY to church! We were so happy. And the ward did a really good job fellowshipping them. They don't have their schedule quite figured out yet, but we will be meeting with them either Friday or Saturday. Pray for the best!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once again, I learned that God loves us, that He blesses us when we really try, and it's usually not in the way we were planning. Usually, what we do never turns out the way we want, but our Heavenly Father with His extensive love goes forth and brings us miracles. I love Him. I love Jesus Christ as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Go and read this https://www.lds.org/liahona/2016/12/the-divine-power-of-grace?lang=eng&_r=1&cid=HP_MO_12-12-2016_dPFD_fLHNA_xLIDyL2-4_ and then Moroni 10:33 and 34. Heavenly Father And Jesus Christ love us. As we move nearer to them, they will fill us with Their grace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas. See you all soon enough (less than six months wow)! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Atte:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elder Hardcastle =)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">This week was A LAS
CORRIDAS. That means busy. Is it already el 12 de Diciembre? My mind tells me
no, the heat tells me SIIIIIIIIIII. Today is especially toasty. We spent just
about half the week </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">in Zárate.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span></div>
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zone leaders called us and were like ''hey we want to do divisiones with you
guys tomorrow, come over,'' so we were like ''okay cool.'' We grabbed
our things and went to the bus terminal to make the hour long trek to Zárate! Then Tuesday I
was with my good new friend Elder Rumualdo, from Mexico. We are both kind of
bummed because we pretty much got to know each other this last transfer, and
he's going home at the end of this transfer. But he is a SUPER missionary. I learned a lot from him. He helped me work on being even more bold
and talking with more people. So we talked to a lot of people and shared seven
Libros de Mormón with follow-up visits! And then the next day my companion had
a leadership capacitación in San Fernando, so I was left to work with Elder
Coltrin from Idaho, while our companion's went to the meeting. And we were
filled with fire, and we shared ANOTHER seven Libros de Mormón with follow-up
visits! Woot! By this point I was filled with even more fire, So Wednesday when
we went back to Baradero to work for the day before going back to Zárate that
night and I was SO ready to talk! And so I really pushed myself to talk to a
ton a people. I am pretty sure I have never tried talking to so many people in
my mission before in one day. And we gave away zero Libros de Mormón with
follow-up visits. Woooot! jaja it was a bit of a bummer, but I finished the day
feeling bastante pleased with my efforts, thank you very much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">And if men come unto me I will show unto them
their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be
humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men
that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me,
and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we are humble and
do what Christ wants us to do, rather than what we want to do (which is NOT
easy all the time), he will help us to be able to overcome our weaknesses.
Sometimes we may be a little bit stubborn and it may take us a while, BUT WE
HAVE GOT TO DO IT! It's the only way one we can improve! It's the most
important thing we can do! So be humble. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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couple, the Anderson's to put up curtains in our house. You guys need to meet
them, they are buena gente. I took pictures with them. And they are how I want to be
when I am older. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for now. Be safe. Be humble. and I'll see you all soon enough!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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investigators would come to church. Well, those who we specifically prayed for
didn't come (JUST COME TO CHURCH), but a former investigator came! with his
less-active girlfriend. So yay! Not at all what we were expecting, but we'll
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So this week perhaps wasn't the most missionary-work heavy, because we had to spend more than two days moving all of our stuff over to the new house (NOT apartment, haha), and then Saturday was loco crazy with a huge storm in the morning and there was pretty much nobody in the street in the afternoon getting wet. menos nosotros. But now everything is settled and we are ready to have a great week this week! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We had a good experience with Abrir la Boca (open your mouth) Friday. We got a message from the zone leaders that one of the companionships of hermanas had given away seven Libros de Mormón the day before by simply opening their mouth with everyone. At first I was like ''wow that's a lot'' and then I got thinking, ''we can do that.'' Contacting is probably one of my biggest challenges in the mission that I am working through because I really, really, hate it when people don't want to read a book about our Savior, or when they're comfortable where they are, etc. and I start to lose faith in finding people. But I decided I would put forth my best effort and try to contact all the people that replied to me nicely when I said hello. My companion caught on as well and the Lord blessed us with a TON of people willing to accept this other testament of Jesus Christ! It showed me that if we try our best to act on the impressions of the Spirit, he will not fail us, we just need to open our mouths! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px;">First off, this place is sooooo beautiful. I love it But there are no buses in the city, so we are walking EVERYWHERE. I love the zone, too. There are a lot of good missionaries here and I really admire the leaders here in Zárate. We did divisiones with the Zone leaders T<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_9229018" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">uesday</span></span> and it was really good. Elder Zambrano doesn't leave a single stone unturned. We were talking the whole day to people! and Right before the day ended we were able to give out the last of our six Books of Mormon. I wasn't sure if we would do it! but we did. </span></span><br />
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The eagle has flown. That's right, Eldersito Hardcastle has left his loving Villa Soldati and has headed to the other side of the mission. But we'll get to that later.</div>
So, ¿Cómo están? This week was super great. Like SUPER great. POR FIN we had interviews and capacitación from Presidente Smith an the other leaders in the mission. It was pretty good. We talked a lot about our goal of sharing 30 Libros de Mormón every week and what is holding us back from doing it and how we can do it better. What I got out of it is that I needed to be more bold by talking to more people and being more direct when talking. And then the next day we did multidivisiones in the Zone, where all the elders do a division with another group of elders from a different area. And guess where I went? Barrio Rivadavia, which happens to be the most dangerous in the mission. So that was jazzy. I was there with Elder Castro from El Salvador, and we put in some serious work. The assistants told us we need to double our efforts in this work, and so the zone leaders told us that instead of trying to give away four LDM that day, they wanted us to give out eight. ¿¿Quééééé?? I've never done that. Luckily that Lord blessed us, and we were able to give away not only eight, but ten books! And then again <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_443251527" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> we busted our daily goal and gave out seven! And it helped me strengthen my testimony that when we are more bold and direct, the people will be more touched.</div>
One of the things we were encouraged to try is help the people see how the Book of Mormon answers the questions of our soul. So in my primer contact I've started asking the people what problems or question they have in their lives, and I will find a part in the Book of Mormon to answer it. I'm pretty sure if someone told me to open up like that- in the street, encima- I wouldn't. But guys, you would not believe how many people DO! It's really one of the most beautiful things I have seen in my mission. After talking to a person for a few minutes, these people open up to the very core, telling us how they are angry at God because He allowed their children to die, or how some people don't want to try to be good anymore because when they do everything seems to go worse, etc. And then the best part is that we get to testify that they are children of a Heavenly Father who loves them and knows what they are going through, and then we find a scripture based on their need. It makes me feel like I am really fulfilling my purpose!</div>
So yeah <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_443251528" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> was a day of miracles in Soldati. We left that day with the desire to find a family of four. Well it was about six in the afternoon and we still hadn't found one. So we decided to pray. We were on our way to a member family's house so I pretty much said, ''Heavenly Father, we really want to find a family of four today preferably before we make it to the Olmedo's house. Please help us to find them and be bold enough to contact them.'' We serious just turned the corner and BOOM. There was a family of four! And they accepted the Book of Mormon! and then a few minutes later BOOM! Another family. God really does answer our prayers when they are in line with His will. And then later on in the day we met with a lady we had given a LDM to the day before, and it was amazing. She had told us she was getting tired of trying to be good because everything was going downhill even through all her efforts. We Shared Alma 38 with her and than talked about how it is that we have the Libro de Mormón and the Restoration of the Gospel. She and two of her kids are sooo ready.</div>
And then yesterday we got transfer calls, and me tocó ser trasladado. I am now in LA GRAN ZONA ZARATE! In the area Baradero. And I love it so far. And I am here with a ton of my friends! I basically went from one side of the mission to the other. And it's pretty much the castaway zona, because it is close to nothing, just a looooooooot of fields. It reminds me of a mixture of Arizona and Idaho, without the mountains. My companion is Elder Martinez from California, who I will be killing this transfer. I have been wanting to come to Zarate since pretty much the beginning of my mission, so I am as happy as I could be! Stay tuned for some great adventures here!</div>
That's about all I got for you all this week, folks. Keep on keeping on, AND PRAY. It works. I relearned that this week. He WILL answer your prayers!</div>
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