Photos:1-The view from our apartment. 2-Zone Conference with Elder
Cotrim.
3-We had a bird friend that entered our apartment.
Dear Family,
Another pretty good week here in
Uruguiana! We had a zone conference, which went super well, and we learned a
bunch about temple and family history work. I don’t know if you guys heard of
the change in Preach my Gospel, about how we need to teach lesson 5 (laws and ordinances)
before baptism now. This change is a great change that is helping in the work!
I feel a lot more comfortable sharing about the temple, priesthood and the
other amazing things we have in the church. Before it was a little complicated,
not wanting to share too much information and scare the investigator away, but
with the change many people are ready to receive the good news of the restored
gospel! Now we are using the temple and family history work a lot more in our proselyting.
The Zone Conference went awesome and I
was able to see my son, Elder Cotrim. He is doing awesome and it was good to
catch up with him. Elder Silveira and I gave training on Russell M. Ballard’s
talk on “Staying in the Boat.” It was
rushed but went super well!
This week we found some new
investigators and we will see how they progress. The work is very tough here. Many
people are closed off and want nothing to do with religion. If you remember how
Sâo Borja was, it is kind of like that city...But we are working hard and
trying to find the elect.
We had a great family night with
Luisa, Laticia and their family. We watched 17 Miracles and I made cookies! My
specialty! ;) The family night went great and these two young girls are planned
to be baptized in 2 weeks. They love the church and have been going to church
for a few months. Their dad is a member, but wasn´t letting them be baptized,
but now he is letting them.
We also have a lady and her son that
are very close to baptism. Her name is Ruth and her son is Gabriel and they are
both very smart. Gabriel is only 9, but is smarter than some 15 year olds here.
Ha-ha!
It is crazy to think that I may only
have one more zone conference and I will be sharing my departing testimony
there...I get sad just thinking about it, but a little happy too... :)
I hope you all are doing awesome and
are trying everyday to be a missionary!
Mom, it looks and sounds like your
trip is going awesome! :) Dad, here in Uruguiana we have a bunch of people that
pass over the bridge from Argentina and sometimes we get to talk to them. I can
almost understand everything they say! :) Oh, and don´t worry, we aren´t joking
too much with these elders. Ha-ha! Awesome to hear about Grandpa Hauck going to
Oman!! As always thanks for the mini sports update! :) Love you guys!!
Elder Hauck
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