August 19,
2014
Qué tal
familia y amigos?!
So this last
week has been awesome, as it should be. ha ha! So
Elder Pace and I have been teaching our progressing investigator for two weeks
now and we love to teach him! He accepted
to be baptized and it was all the spirit. When we taught him about how when we
follow the teachings of the prophets (The seers that see into the future like
Harry Potter, Levi's first impression.. lol) we come closer to God. We feel his love the most when we follow the
example of Jesus Christ and we are happier. The spirit took over and Elder Pace and I went
back and forth and it was so spiritual because I saw in his eyes that he wanted
to be baptized. It was there. Some of
you may be thinking that how can that be? It's just practice and he's just acting. No it's not. Sure they may pretend that they aren't
interested or not members, but you feel the spirit when you teach truth,
whether they are a member or not. So we
are going about asking to teach other people but we only have a couple days
left until we leave!
I'm so
excited! I'm gonna get to Argentina and
not know what to do! It's gonna be
awesome! Estoy muy animado! Aye Chiwawa! We are just getting into the kitty pool right
now but we will be in the deep end on Monday! Elder Black was with us for two weeks because
his visa wasn't ready. He is one of my favorite elders here besides Gowans and
Pace. He is in the intermediate Spanish
class and is so much better than me when speaking Spanish! So last Friday we
were with Hermano Pliler and he was teaching us about how to teach the word of
Wisdom and the class next to us needed a teacher. So he taught all 22 of us in a pool house. Elder Black was being an investigator and he
asked one of the other class (they were only one week in to the mission as
beginners) Hermanas to teach first. She
did good for a beginner and then he asked me to teach. It was awesome to see how much I have improved
in just 5 weeks of Spanish! It was
awesome to teach and express why it's important to not drink, smoke, chew, take
harmful drugs, and other addictive substances in Spanish! I asked Elder Black what I could improve on
after wards and he was very helpful.
We will be
gone in 6 days! Ah! I'm so excited! The people of Argentina will hopefully like
the tall, white gringo, that can't speak Spanish missionary and hear what the
Lord wants us to say. I want anyone who
can to send pictures before Saturday this week so that I can show the people of
Argentina that I have a beautiful family and great friends and only want them
to have that same feeling of happiness the gospel and temple has given me.
Today was
probably my last day to use a temple for the entire time I'm on my mission :(
sad. But I will tell you this, I felt
the spirit there and I want you to know that the temple is the most important
place to be with your families. Sometimes we take for granted that we have so
many in the Utah valley and that we can go whenever we want, but it's important
to keep going whenever you can. It
reminded me that Families can be together forever. I see it every time in the celestial room. If you can go to the temple with friends or
family once a month do it, and see how it makes your life so much better.
El envangelio
de Jesucristo es defasil para entender a primero, pero yo se que él nos ama. Yo
amo mi familia y mi mejores amigos, y no hablo perfecto español, se que por
medio Jesucristo, todas las cosas son posible.
Amor,
Elder Burke
Elder Matacia, Sister Housley, Me, Elder Reynoso (Parkour missionary)
Elder Pace, Foy, Neilson, Ott, Hanson and Burke
Heading to Argentina Monday morning...so excited!!
"The most beautiful sunrises that I wake up to at the MTC"
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